Lesser Things

You can have them. 
 
Like trying to make yourself look better in the eyes of the Living God. (you can only make yourself look worse)
 
Like worrying about how obedient to God you are. (you’re not very)
 
Like jumping through a bunch of stupid “religious” hoops to keep in good stead with God or you church. (that is [...]

Time to get busy

Are you really sure that you belong to God?
Your baptism was ok (it’s just a symbol of your commitment to God)…but don’t you know that you must do some things to be a Christian?
You need to walk the walk, not just talk the talk.
You need to really work at not sinning. Where there is sin in [...]

Ephesians 2:1-10

And you he made alive, when you were dead through the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience. 
  Among these we all once lived in the passions of [...]

Working towards those “good fruits”

This post is courtesy of our friend Larry Hughes in Kentucky. It is actually a comment he made in our discussion of Mormonism.
 He touched upon something that I have oft noticed myself, the similarities in many Evangelicals, Catholics,  Mormons, Lutherans,  and others with respect to the desire to prove their metal.
 Fasten your seatbelts:
 
    Those zealous for working [...]

The two spheres of the Christian Blogesphere

In my travels in the Christian blogesphere, I have noticed two distinct spheres of thought.
One sphere is focused mainly on the self.  All the things that we should, or shouldn’t be doing . All the things that we should or shouldn’t be thinking, or feeling…lest we ‘do it wrong’.
A person on one blog was railing about how [...]

You can just tell..that’s all.

“We walk by faith and not by sight.”
“Judge not, lest you be judged.”
“For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is NOT OF YOUR OWN DOING , IT IS THE GIFT OF GOD – NOT BECAUSE OF WORKS, LEST ANYONE SHOULD BOAST.”    Ephesians 2:8,9
HELLO!  Could you all hear that ok?
“Well yes [...]

Are You ‘up to it’?

     Is anyone really “up to it”?
 Personally, if I was honest about it (which I am on my better days), I’d have to say that I am not quite up to it.
The task of going out into the world (or just here on the net) and bringing the name of the Lord to a world that is starving for it…I’m [...]

The ‘fruit’ of the “fruit inspectors”

I’ve been working on the NAMM (International Association of Music Merchants) trade show in Anaheim, CA for about a week now. I work this one show a year and I have a good time, for the most part, and I make a few dollars, which never hurts.  I also get to see a lot of old friends and (ex)co-workers. [...]

What if you can’t?

The New Year is a time for resolutions.
Resolutions of all kinds. Things to do. Things to stop doing.
But what if you can’t stop doing something that has been harmful to you, and or others?
What if there is a sinful habit, a bad habit, an unhealthy habit or quirk (sin) that you’ve tried to [...]

Maybe it’s something in the water…?

I don’t know what it is, but whatever it is it must be acting up again.
The ‘doers’ are out… again(as if they’ve ever left…ha!)… coming on strong.
“Well, it says right here in 2nd Macedonians 12, that Jesus tells us that we are to keep His commandments if we really love Him.”
OK……….then maybe that ought to [...]