Many years ago I was chatting with a neighbor across the street who had recently had the front of his home sand-blasted so as to remove years-old paint from the bricks. The age of the home was around one hundred years and with the finishing touches he was putting to it, I mentioned to him that all was looking …
Yearly Archives: 2011
His Total Love for the Total Man
A lady informed me recently that she had been visiting with an old couple and being friends for many years, the 88 year-old man asked her to write his obituary. Both people are professional horse trainers, but she is also a Christian, a popular writer and author. She attends church with the old man’s wife and had always …
The Natural is Out the Supernatural is In
Over the years since becoming a Christian, more than once have I heard a fellow believer speak in glowing terms over the personality and talents, gifts or abilities of certain unbelieving people and then say something like, “It’s such a pity that he (or she) is not in Christ. He (or she) would make a lovely Christian.” When asked why, the responses …
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UnScriptural Religious Traditions & Church Programs
A pastor of a church privately shared that God had shown him his “black heart.” He left it at that. He was asked what he was going to do about it and he replied that it was so horrible he wasn’t going to do anything about it. He was advised that if he didn’t, then eventually it …
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Twice-A-Year Christians
I was speaking with a couple of people who told me, “we make sure we go to church twice a year … at Christmas time and Easter.” They had a proud kind of, “waddya-think-of-that?”-type look on their faces, so I responded with, “Big deal. It sounds to me like you believe you’re doing God a favor.” Each gave no …
You Have a Wrong Spirit
A little over a couple of years ago a minister of a church accused me of having, “a wrong spirit.” He made the statement after reading a testimony of my experiences within his church. Added to this, he said of the testimony, “It is rubbish.” An elder of a church that I was a member of (at the time), told me …
But these are Lovely People….
A few years ago I cautioned a young person on the dangers of blindly accepting all preaching and teaching from the pulpit of the church and mid-week home group studies as being that from God. I spoke of the definite need to remain in prayer and to ask and wait for the Holy Spirit to bring guidance and …
I Wanted to Know the Subtle Differences
About ten years ago I asked the Lord in prayer to show me what was on His heart about the church. I wanted to know the subtle differences between the true and the false. Not only did I ask Him to show me these differences but I also asked Him to reveal what He wanted me …
A Great Curse of Society
What is it about a person who thinks nothing of swearing and blaspheming the name of Jesus Christ in the company of born again Christians but who wouldn’t dare do so in the company of a priest or a nun? I have experienced this many times over the years since turning to the Lord. In …