Series: Restored: When Broken People Meet the Restoring Christ Week 1 Message: Jacob: When Your Past Chases You Have you ever stopped and looked at your own life and wondered, "How did I become this person?" Not because you intended to. Very few people wake up one morning planning to become dishonest, bitter, controlling, distant, or someone they no longer recognize. More often, it happens slowly. One compromise becomes a habit. One lie requires another. One selfish decision becomes a pattern. Before long, what we once excused has quietly become part of who we believe we are. The greatest tragedy is not simply that we have sinned. Is that our sin begins to define us. We start believing that our worst decisions are our identity. We assume our past has already written our future, and that the person we've become is the person we'll always be. But the Bible tells a different story. Throughout Scripture, God meets people whose pasts seem impossible to escape. He doesn...

If you are kind enough to read this post, please leave a comment, give your opinion challenge my thoughts , or just give a thumbs up. Let me know that you have read this and that what I'm writing is not a waste of time.  However,  if you really like it,  or if you really hate it! Please tell a friend . As I was driving home from work listening to a Christian apologetic radio show a caller called to ask about something called the “Serpent Seed Doctrine/Heresy” I did not know what it was at the time, but by virtue of its name I was drawn into wanting to know more about it. It’s not my nature to believe anything I hear, form those I don’t personally know, when it comes to doctrine of the Bible.   Because for the most part there are many perverted teachers masquerading as honest men and women of God.   All with personal and often times hidden agenda. As the host of the show began to address the teaching of the serpent seed doctrine, I knew I had investig...

  (Philippians 4:13) I have been inspired to address something near and dear to my heart, which is sound doctrine. Now don’t get me wrong I’m not Bible Doctrine Scholar, I stumble over many difficult teachings in the Bible, but I open myself to teacher that are more knowledgeable and better studied then I for the wisdom of what the words of God says.   So when I come and say that I have a problem with someone’s doctrine I’m not talking about seminary level doctrine, I’m talking about the basic understanding of the faith that separates a true Christians from an occultist, or a member of a sect.   I’m talking about the minimal amount of Bible knowledge we need to know before we can even worship Him in Spirit and Truth.  But, error in doctrine is just as poisonous to the knowledge of God as no doctrine at all. We can’t manipulate scripture to say what we want, and we should not reiterate scripture if we have no knowledge of what is says or mean. Which l...