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No, your beliefs. Do you justify yourself because of your beliefs? Do you know what idee fixe means?

Jesus said to call no man father. Not that there were no fathers. Not that there were no spiritual fathers. Jesus was speaking of titles like father, rabbi, pastor, bishop... Mat. 23:9 And do not call anyone on earth your father, for you have one Father, who is in heaven. 10 Neither be ye...

So is positivism...;) The truth is not just about happy faces. There are as many woes as blessings. So then balance is better. When someone posts what is good...we rejoice. When someone posts a lie that can hurt people...we correct. If that comes out sounding negative...then there is a deeper...

The common mistake is to compare our judgment with God's. God knows who will obey Him in advance. We don't. God knows those who will be faithful till the end. We don't. God knows those who will betray or forsake Him. We don't. God justified Abraham for his faith...knowing he would also do what...

The book of James is a practical application to the gospel. Jews tend to be very practical...whereas Gentiles more philosophical. So the tension is between a philosophical view and a practical view. But the truth is still the truth. The book of James is there for people to become aware whether...

Besides the Hebrew I felt invited by the Lord to celebrate Passover. We are doing a seder next week. We have been doing so the past few decades...being invited to introduce it in various churches...as well as our own fellowship. Paul says concerning Passover... 1 Cor. 5:8 Therefore let us...

Yes...prepared in advance to fail. The devil knows...once we have been spoiled with a higher inflated estimation of our place in the scheme of things....it is harder for that person, more so than for a new beginner, to go back and start again. How many times have I seen a person who was once in...

There is an easy deviation to every aspect of the Christian walk. Like forks in the road that take us nearer or farther from the presence of God. Some of us have accepted many of these deviations...and some of us a few. But all in all...we all have accepted these deviations at some time or...

We tend to go the path of least resistance...that is....unless we are convinced that it is necessary to take a harder road. But if given the choice....if all is equal...we will always choose the easier way. The devil knows our nature...well the old nature anyway...very intimately. He is the...

What does it mean to be Christian? There are definitely some very dedicated Christians in the RCC. All the sects have Christians among them. However I don't believe you can make a denomination "Christian? Did Jesus die for an organization? A country can't be Christian either. One is a...

I think what gets lost in the mix is the baptism in the Holy Spirit. A revival is when the essence of power from heaven becomes a necessity. Jesus told His disciples to "tarry until you receive power from above". So then the church vitally needs the baptism in the Spirit. I'm not speaking here...

A church is known for it's authority. Spiritual authority. Of course there are bible studies and prayer groups, which are both helpful and edifying. But until there is spiritual authority, there is no "church" per se. In a real church everyone has the opportunity to speak and to minister. The...

A very good response. :) It can be scary how people with the Hebrew inclination also take on the Jewish inclination in it. We are indeed free to observe as we see fit....without looking down on others who don't do as we do. We are free indeed. God loves for His people to be free and creative...

But there is a keeping power of God one enters into immediately when we put on Christ. This is not a maturity issue...which also exists of course....but a PURITY issue. Holiness IOW. There is an event when God visits us...just like in the book of Acts. Whereby we are clothed with HIS...

The problem is that the church of today doesn't believe that sin leads to death. They believe that grace is assurance against condemnation...like God is so powerless He cannot equip us to walk like Jesus...so He rubber stamps those who give Him lip service? Only man can come up with a scheme...

The Christianity of our time lies in theories and beliefs...which are based on opinion. So that if someone comes with something from the Lord...it is assumed that that person is coming in the same theoretical and shallow way as they. As the angel said...even if a man was raised from the dead...

So you are saying that Christ lives a sinful life through us. But Christ is not a minister of sin. You have ignored my statements based on there being no sin IN Him. You have to ignore a lot of scripture to agree with the gnostic notion that you can be sinful and without sin at the same time. A...

This is unfortunate. But unfortunate experiences help to make us who we are...they form character. As to the subject of spiritual experiences...of course there are real and deep things happening all over the world. But the mistake is to look for outward things. Outward miracles affect the...

Always the same errors over and over again... Man can kill the body...but only God can kill the soul in hell fire. We are a soul. The spirit returns to God from whence it came. The salvation of the soul is the process of sanctification by maturity in Christ. We are trying to walk by faith to...

Men and women are blind in different ways. Men look at themselves and see something better than what they really are. A woman sees herself and esteems herself less than she actually is. Of course there are exceptions....but mainly so.