On social media last week a fellow Christian said he’d come to the conclusion “…..if you are a liberal Christian you are not a fully converted Christian……..” Based on my years of gospel proclamation, perhaps a Liberal Christian is not converted at all. Human reasoning seems to be their approach to things biblical, not divine revelation. The late H. Richard Niebuhr summed …
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Think of the Lord as Reality
Nearly thirty years ago I wrote a letter to a very dear friend testifying of my new-found faith in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. Fourteen years later when we met again, he remained the same dear friend, but no mention was made of the letter. Five years after that we met again. This time he …
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 …
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The Church has a Few Lackeys
For some time I’ve been getting some mental pictures on the church and recently I saw a few people gathering together for Sunday worship services, Bible studies and mid-week home group meetings. And sadly, within these pictures there was a great lack of true joy, peace and liberty within the people. The leader talks about these and is doing his best to project such …
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 …
It’s s though They’re Doing it behind God’s Back
Lately I’ve been giving some thought to the theologies of two Christian people who, to me seem to represent the reason why Christianity is increasingly unattractive to people. One is strongly doctrine-based and the other is strongly works-based. It is as though the first person is saying, “If you don’t believe this…….then maybe you need …
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They are Upside Down Christians
Even though it has been twenty-five years since I first personally encountered the reality of the Lord Jesus Christ, I have never in all that time ceased to be fascinated at the level of degrees He has gone to in getting me to accept His truth about the freedom and liberty that now belongs to me as a result …
Tell God
Like many young boys of my era growing up, I smoked my first full cigarette at around ten years of age and I loved it. By the time I was fifteen they were very much part of my life and remained so until I was almost forty. Especially did I love them when drinking alcohol. Just a …
There’s something shallow about them
Eighteen year-old Year Twelve student Charlie was very curious to know what it was that I believed as a Christian. He told me he had lots of mates around his own age who were born again Christians and they regularly took him to a large church that held charismatic meetings. He said he saw something in them that suggested Christ was …