Test-Drive Christianity

We often test-drive several new vehicles before selecting and purchasing one. How does it drive? Do I like the placement of controls? What features does it have? What features are missing? Color, make, style? While this may be fine for purchases of vehicles, it is not right to test-drive our faith in Christ. For instance, a common test-drive for single adult Christians today is regarding...

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God Always Has Something Greater in Mind!

Understanding Our Suffering Suffering is one of the hardest subjects for many Christians to understand and explain. Many Christians deny that Suffering exists. It challenges our relationships, our explanation to unbelievers, and sometimes can cause us to doubt our own beliefs. Few offer answers, other than the standard paraphrased Scriptures like “God will use all things for his God,” which is...

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Reclaiming Halloween

One of the most dreaded holidays for Christians is approaching. Halloween has developed over the centuries through pagan influences and Celtic roots. Even the early church played a part in the development of this holiday when in 609, Pope Boniface IV re-dedicated the Pantheon in Rome to "St Mary and all martyrs,"[1] and later Pope Gregory III's (731–741) founding of a public gathering in St...

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Restoration!

Restoration   Zechariah 10:1 Ask rain from the LORD in the season of the spring rain, from the LORD who makes the storm clouds, and he will give them showers of rain, to everyone the vegetation in the field.   As well noted by many and recognized publicly by Franklin Graham, the rain during the inauguration of President Donald Trump should awaken Christians everywhere that we have...

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Legislating Morality

Legislating Morality The recent win of Donald Trump as the next President of the United States is a direct result of the Evangelical voter turnout.[i] The pending and future appointments of Supreme Court Justices motivated the call to action given by many spiritual leaders, holding prayer vigils, and activating their congregants hoping to slow the moral decline and the turning of...

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