by Soli Deo Gloria My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. James 1:2-4 (KJV) Everyone pefers to deal with someone with a vision. We can comfortably deal with people when we believe they know where they are going. Many successful people  stand on the passage " Where there is no vision the people perish " ( Proverbs 29:18 ) And this is perfectly correct when the vision belongs to you. What do you do when God has a vision for his people, and has chossen you as the vessel by which the vision will be fullfilled? Sometimes God comforts [1]  with the blessing of pain to ignite a desire in us to fullfill the vision he has for his people. God knows that without motivation, many of us would never fulfill the purposes for which God created us. Sometimes this comforting come in t...

“Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal [1] ?” Jeremiah 23: 27(Amplified) Do not forget the Name of Christ this Christmas Today I googled  searched a question “ What do you think of when you hear the word Christmas ?” and I was not even vaguely shocked when I found that only one of the sites even mentioned Christ  or Jesus  even once! ( Sites listed at the end of this post ) However I did notice that there are three four basic thoughts when the name Christmas is spoken, they are; False Gods;  those that associate Christmas with teaching of Santa Clause or other traditions that have nothing to do with Christ.   Atheism; those that are instigated to hate anger and anti-Christian communications   Pride; those that associate Christmas with memories solitude, or reading a Nancy Drew novel in front of fireplace, eggnog a...

Peculiar People For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth Deuteronomy 14:2 (KJV) The way we interact with people can often determine whether we rightly represent Christ in our everyday life or if we are just blending in as one of the multitudes.    Laughing at off-color jokes, or saying nothing during gossip, or in an immoral situation giving permission to the person telling the joke, or gossiping    that it is OK to continue in your presence. If we fail to laugh, we discourage this behavior. Asking before they start “ Is this a clean joke ? ”, or are you about to gossip? Develops future boundaries, that will be soon spread throughout the area as to the type of communication is acceptable in your presence.     However, removing yourselves from that behavior is not enough. The bible teaches th...

HARRISBURG, DAUPHIN COUNTY — As reported by Fox 43 News Five people, including four children four-years-old and younger, are killed after a fast moving fire tears apart their Harrisburg rowhome. The flames so intense, by the time firefighters could get inside, they were unable to rescue the five victims. ( see actual news broadcast)   Strength in a time of  weakness As I stood outside the Pinnacle Health Center in Harrisburg watching my mother-in-law console her granddaughter, who had just lost both her mother and her daughter to this fire,  I thought “how strong is this women, having just recently lost a daughter to cancer yet still able to console” It seemed so unfair that she would have to go through another death after she had already gone through so much, and to not just one but five family members die in a fire was a lot more than unfair. But like a mother eagle protects her chicks from the devastating winds, she pulled her granddaughters both o...

The attributes of God’s character are Love, Mercy, Kindness, Goodness, Holiness, Justice and many more, From the attributes we have come to know God. His Love for us was so Great, that in order to provide a perfect sacrifice for our sins, he took the form of man, humbled Himself and in obedience  was put to death by nailing  on the cross.  So the Love of God is not questioned by anyone that believes. However, there are times when tragedy finds its way into our lives. It hits us quickly, intensely, and painfully, and in most cases senselessly, or without explanation or evening warning. Like a coward who attacks when your back is turned tragedy hits you with the full intensity of it's force. Unprepared and unable to  brace yourself and prepare of the coming blow, it hits you with such forcefulness that it knocks you to your knees. Dazed and gasping for air, you are assaulted again while still on the ground, unable to recover form...

The Blessing of a half a grand. And what's wrong with a Prosperity Gospel For a seed offering of only $500, God will bless you out of your financial need!  This offering is for those that need to “Jump-start ” blessing from God.   As I heard these words emanating from the pulpit a lump formed in my throat. Whatever it was they were feeding me was just too hard to swallow, too hard to digest.  I could not believe these words were coming from this man of God. Had God changed gears on me?  Could I now squeeze the arm of God like a tube of toothpaste to get every last drop of blessings he had for me? Or has God now become a respecter of men that he would bless the have's and ignore the have nots? It could not be that God was justifying my blessing by my works, that would mean God had changed the rules to salvation without ever telling me [1] ?  Maybe the preacher needed the money and God is broke, so He now needs my money to help bless this pr...

The modern Doctrine of once saved always saved has been the focal point of many heated debates, not just within the denominations but even within the same house. Husband and wife, sister and brother have all taken sides in this discussion, each defending his interpretation of the scriptures. What I believe is at the center of this debate is in fact the lack of agreement in what “being saved” is.   The devil has deceived the modern ecclesiast into believing the message of “Jesus Loves You” will bring a man to Christ, that it somehow has power to convert his sinful heart to righteous. I can’t stress how wrong and biblically incorrect the practice of reciting a sinner’s prayer is, for salvation. Not even once is the sinner’s prayer taught in the bible, neither by Jesus nor any of the apostles, and for us to teach that after saying this mystical prayer, that a sinner is saved is akin to making salvation not a gift, but an act of works. However Psalm 19:7 [a] tells us tha...

The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. John 10:10 (KJV ) One way the enemy seeks to destroy us is to magnify our troubled experiences.  Circumstances may cause us to walk a mile, but it’s the enemy that put splinters in our feet alone that journey. Satan does not care how he weakens us, be it small or large, physical, emotional, or financial, as long as he can infect us with the disease of wrong thinking, as long as he can affect our experiences in such a way that it causes us to question God’s love for us, as long as he can take our joy which is our strength, Satan is happy in our suffering.  The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy His (Satan's) intent is to destroy not just our physical and spiritual but also our emotional happiness as well. But happiness comes from what happens in our life, when we p...