As Death was walking towards a city, a man stopped Death and asked, “What are you going to do?” Death said, “I’m going to kill 10,000 people.” The man exclaimed, “That’s horrible!” Death responded, “That’s the way it is; that’s what I do.” As the day progressed, the man warned…
Note: This is Post # 3 in the series titled “The Transformed Life” based on Romans 12. Please click here for previous posts: POST # 1, POST # 2. In Romans 12:1-2 Paul talks about the responsibility of believers to offer their bodies and minds as living sacrifices to God in the light of…
Note: This is Post # 2 in the series titled “The Transformed Life” based on Romans 12. Please click here for previous posts: POST # 1. After calling believers to offer their bodies as a living sacrifice as a result of receiving God’s mercies in Romans 12:1 [see HERE], Paul…
If you desire to be more like Christ in your day-to-day life, I invite you on a journey through Romans 12. This chapter is considered as one of the most important chapters in all of the Bible that addresses how a life transformed by Christ should look like. For the…
A young girl whose father was a chronic grumbler said to her mother, “I know what everybody in this family likes. Johnny likes hamburgers, Janie likes ice cream, Willie likes bananas, and Mommy likes chicken.” The father, irked because he hadn’t been included in the list, asked, “What about me?…
Sunday, November 4, 2018, is the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. Hebrews 13:3 commands us to pray for our brothers and sisters undergoing persecution for following Christ, “Continue to remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison, and those who are mistreated…
Marvin Rosenthal, a Jewish convert to Christianity, said that Jesus’s genealogy, as given in Matthew 1:1-17, was one of the proofs that persuaded him that Jesus is the Messiah. Coming from his experience as a US Marine who had to be accurate when it came to shooting at targets from…
This is the second and final post on the series titled “Hell—It’s Realities and Implications.” In PART 1, we saw the following 4 realities of hell: 1. Hell is a real place 2. Hell is a place of eternal conscious torment 3. Hell is a place where the utterly wicked…
Hell is not a popular subject—not even in the church. However, it is a critical subject because the Bible says much about hell. The issue is not if a topic makes us comfortable or uncomfortable. It’s about hard truths that we need to think about constantly—for our own eternal benefit!…
One of the characteristics of a life that is honoring and pleasing to the Lord is a life that is continually “growing in the knowledge of God” [Col 1:10]. And since God is knowable only through his attributes, we can grow in the knowledge of God only if we study his…
