My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. (Hosea 4:6)  Part 3 of a 3 part series  My People are Destroyed for Lack of Knowledge. Part 1 Who snatched them from my Father's Hand? Part 2  A knife to a Gun Fight For years the assumed program for children's Sunday school  was to tell an  story about someone in the Bible and give candy to whomever  among the children that was able to answer the question posed about the Sunday school teacher.  As the kids got older Sunday school would include some memorizing of verses and even a quarterly play put on by the kids.   However this only motivated the kids ( and even young adults)  to participate in the activities of the church, not the worship of Christ making them social church goers, not Christians (followers of C...

They  are darkened in their understanding,  alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to  their hardness of heart. ( Ephesians 4:18 ) Part 2 of a 3 part series  A knife to a Gun fight! In the last blog we addressed the fact that the church was dwindling in size, most visibly the size of members from age 18-35. We looked at four reasons that those that once attended church gave for no longer attending, or converting to another religion.   They were;      ( 1 )What the Bible says about slavery;    ( 2 ) Their imagined intellectual integrity;    ( 3 )As Christians we have a low intellectual view of ourselves, and the God which gives us knowledge and wisdom . ( 4 ) We have perpetuated ignorance of the Bible doctrine. In this blog we will address what we did to get ourselves in this predicament. And in the last installment I’ll address what we need to do to fix what is broken....

  For   as many as are the promises of God,   in Him they are yes; therefore also through Him is   our Amen to the glory of God through us . 2 Cor 1:20 NASB I was asked in Bible study does God ever answer prayers “NO” and though this may seem contrary to what you’ve been told, the answer is no. To the question. But God’s answer is always yes.   To proper prayer. So what is proper prayer?   Simply it is praying according to His promises and His will. There are two ways we identify God’s promises, first through reading the Bible, and second when God speaks to us individually concerning some event or desire. But on many occasions we confuse that desire that we have with God’s promise for our Life. So there are two passages that helps us to discern the difference between His promises with my desires as it concern my prayers   Isaiah 42:8 “ I am Yahweh; that is my name; my glory I give to no other,     nor my praise id...