Samosas are too Christian?
Seriously - Samosas are banned in at least one country because they are too Christian ...
Be careful what you ask for
What some of us may have a hard time realizing is that people with attitudes like this can actually reach a point where they’re quite “happy and content” with life as they know it. Notice - I put quotes around “Happy and content” - because it’s happiness and contentment as ...
Who knows the creator?
One last note - to myself - and to you - yes, we all need encouragement. One other thing we all need is to remember that we need encouragement. Then, after remembering, we need to actually go and get that encouragement ...
Protected from the Bible – is this your church?
The Book of Malachi is shocking. ... As I read this, I can't help but feel the similarities to us - here - today. Now! Not surprising when so many generations have wanted it - all of it - and right NOW! ...
Protected from the Bible – too much reality?
Ro 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
I received this from biblegateway.com today as the ...
Is God really on your side?
OK - the passage does say if God is for us. However, does that mean God is on our side? I'd say - far from it. ... If you really have a need to be "on God's side" - maybe do it by believing in the One He sent - ...
People shouldn’t be protected from the Bible
It's no different now that it was before. Going all the way back to Genesis. God says one thing - people want to believe another. We say times have changed. We say people have changed. We say God has changed. Truth is - Qoheleth (aka The Teacher, Solomon) was right ...
Our story will end well. (If we really want it to.)
I feel like the quote above is a bit "dangerous". There's a condition built into the quote. But the conditional word is absent. It's implied. And it's too easy to think that it's not even there ...
God wants a personal relationship with us. True or False?
So maybe the friend thing is made up? Wishful thinking by some people - putting intentions where they don't belong? But then ...
Jesus, water, storms and …
Often, people think the Bible tells us that God will never give us more than we can bear. Context - that's not really what it says. Jesus' own disciples, except one, died horrible deaths. ... No - what the Bible really teaches us is that with God, all things are ...
