Just a few days before he killed himself, mad Adolf Hitler said to some of his generals, “Everyone has lied to me, everyone has deceived me, no one has told me the truth.” Hitler loved lies; some twenty-five years earlier he made the decision to base his entire life and mission on them. Karl Marx did the same, as did/do his disciples. Here’s what I’ve discovered about truth … if you choose it, embrace it, learn it, love it, honor it and proclaim it, it will reciprocate in kind. But if you reject it, fight it, change it, mock it, sneer at it, stomp on it, hate it and dishonor it, it will come back to bite you! Truth wins in the end and every hell-dwelling Continue reading “Will You Let Truth Bless You or Bite You?”
These Three Lies
The truth-speaking Pastor told his people, “The generation to whom the lie is told will never believe the truth. Truth speakers will never be given an opportunity to be heard.” This man tells the truth about his race and his race hates him for it. He tells the truth about the church and the church hates him for it. He tells the truth about certain people in his nation’s State and Federal governments and they too hate him for it as do their supporters. The truth or the lie, which is it? It’s not difficult to discover if one believes the Bible to be the sole source of truth. The way to test which is which Continue reading “These Three Lies”
It’s God’s Way Not Your Way
I watched a TV program the other night about a man they called the Face Doctor. He is a jaw and face reconstructive surgeon whose patients are mostly young victims of drunken violence. Asked how often was he putting people’s faces back together again because of violence, he said, “Every single week. It just goes on and on and on.” He’s been doing this work for seventeen years so far. The interviewer described the surgery as, “a human smash repairs” and because the Face Doctor sees between 45 Continue reading “It’s God’s Way Not Your Way”
The Classical God
One of our best known and highly respected TV journalists died of cancer a few days ago. In response to a question about mortality he said, “I believe very strongly in the classical God and Jesus Christ. I went to a Anglican boarding school who came very close to driving any concern or respect for religion out of me but fortunately I survived it. It was bad. It’s left me with a deeper and singular faith. It’s a very private faith. I don’t need to go to church but I do need to pray … it helps, believe me it helps.” Five years earlier in Continue reading “The Classical God”
This Make You Mad?
Reading some quotes of English writer Aldous Huxley on the Internet recently, this one grabbed my attention, “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.” Amen! Since becoming a Christian in 1985, multitudes of times I have found Mr Huxley’s statement to be every bit as true as Jesus’ statement, You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free John 8:32. The late writer is reported to have been an atheist, but I don’t believe it. Based on that statement, “God-denier” would be a more accurate description of what he was. There are no Continue reading “This Make You Mad?”
There’s No Other Road to Happiness and Fulfillment
I was in the company of two unhappy, unfulfilled women recently, one in her late sixties and the other in her early twenties. The older woman hates the Jews, the younger one dishonors her mother. As a result, both women are giving witness to the truth declared in the Bible that they are under a curse. I will bless those who bless you and I will curse him (her) who curses you Genesis 12:3 applies to the first and, Cursed is the one who treats his father or his mother with contempt (dishonor)Deuteronomy 27:16 applies to the second. In the past I’ve spoken to the older woman about that curse but she Continue reading “There’s No Other Road to Happiness and Fulfillment”
Jesus Can Deliver the Depraved From their Depravity
And the end of a movie on TV the other night I flicked through the channels to see what else might be of interest. I stopped at one channel and instead of dismissing it immediately it was seven or eight seconds before I did so. Depravity was the only word to come to mind; not of an explicit sexual nature, at least not in that short time, but rather, gluttony and gross obesity. Although, having had ministry experience among the gluttonous and the grossly obese, perverted sex of some kind was possibly part of it as well. Wherever the spirits Continue reading “Jesus Can Deliver the Depraved From their Depravity”
God never Speaks like Satan but Satan Speaks like God!
A Christian woman came out of the prayer room one Sunday; she sighed and said, “Sometimes I feel so inadequate in God.” In a telephone conversation, the Christian man said, “I ask forgiveness for my sins every night.” That’s a grand thing to ask if one sins every day, but he was asking for that too which he’d confessed when he first turned to the Lord years ago! Another man told me he felt so distant from God at times that he doubted whether he had been truly accepted by Him in the first place. One can never know what’s Continue reading “God never Speaks like Satan but Satan Speaks like God!”
That’s Why Jesus Christ Is Savior!
In reference to signs of the end times, the first sign Jesus told His disciples to look for was that of religious deception. Take heed that you be not deceived…….. Luke 21:8. Perhaps for the generations that were not able to hold a Bible in their hands, they can be excused for their ignorance of the Romanist popes and their false form of Christianity taking hold. But what about us today? To my mind that is the command most ignored, rejected and disobeyed of all the Lord’s commands by the church. It is a test of how much we honestly value truth with the results seemingly speaking for themselves – not much! If Continue reading “That’s Why Jesus Christ Is Savior!”
That’s Why the “church” Is Not the Church
Leaders of Christian churches were asked in a survey how they determined whether or not a church was successful. Overwhelmingly the answer was four-fold: size, money, church programs and buildings. None of them mentioned anything about transformation of people’s lives through preaching and teaching with truth and love. My immediate thought was that these men don’t have the mind of Christ; therefore, they’d be better off Continue reading “That’s Why the “church” Is Not the Church”