You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. ~ John 15:14

When one reads the end of the 4 Gospels and then the Book of Acts, of the organized persecutions against John the Baptist, Jesus & His Church, searching for them, chasing them down and killing them, one realizes that the ancient authorities in Jerusalem regarded Jesus and His followers (the Church) as much a threat to their…

The contact point between God and man is not: Cathedrals Statues the Pastor relics The contact point between God and man is the Word of God, specifically, obedience to the Word of God.

THE PARENTS’ RIGHT TO CHOOSE WHO WILL EDUCATE THEIR CHILDREN I appreciate the current focus on education in this nation. I feel I have received from the honors program at my alma mater one of the finest educations America's public schools have to offer. And I am grateful. Years have passed since then, but my…

I think its interesting that God fixates on water so much from the very Beginning.  Water is also the main thing that scientists fixate upon to find possible locations for biological life beyond Earth's. (That's why they got so excited when they found unmistakeable evidence of water on Mars of late via the robotic surveyors…

In http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PretCosmos/message/17900 , Stephen <stephenwj@…> wrote: Preterism is correct, we are in the new heavens and new earth, and  mankind will exist (biologically) forever. If that is true, then  certain things follow.   1) Our ideas about stellar physics are wrong and the sun will shine  forever. In that case, man could occupy the Earth…

Matthew 23:12 Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. NIV Perhaps it is by a morbid curiosity that we are drawn to recognise how many celebrities come to such strange and tragic ends.  How is it that such a disproportionate number of persons who seemed to "have it all" end up becoming the objects of…

John 6:53-58  53Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. 55For my flesh…

Give us this day our daily bread – Jesus taught us to ask for the bare, essential minimum, (just what you need to survive today, food) of the lowest cost variety, (bread).     Luke 11:1-4 (also Matthew 6:9-13) One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said…

John 17:1-13 Jesus Prays for Himself These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: 2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou…

  We are probably all familiar with the passage that tells us to put on the whole armor of God. The Apostle Paul adds something on to the end, though, that I’d like to remind us about: Ephesians 6:10-20 10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.…