A Christian Life

So far in this series this is one of my favorite responses. Have a listen let me know what you think. Blessings. Our special guest Dr. Erwin Lutzer tells us how he responds to an atheist by giving them a 21 day challenge. Will you take the challenge today? For more info please visit erwinlutzer.com

"Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted." Matthew 5:4 Again we have a paradox, mourning and blessing seem so far from each other at opposite ends of the spectrum, it hopefully gets us to start asking questions what is the Lord saying to us? Maybe a good question is do we mourn enough? Have we ever mourned? The words of Christ come on the heals of poorness of spirit it follows then that this verse is referring to our sinful state, which we should be mourning, not because it is something we long for as people mourn for those who have died but rather because of how terrible a state we are in. The Gospel however is one of hope and of peace with God and so our Lord starts by saying we are blessed if we are unhappy about the state of our souls, sorry for what we have done, having a truly repentant heart, for in the midst of this type of sorrow we will be comforted. This comfort is not of the sort of worldly comforts but that which renews the relationship with Go...

Dear Brothers and Sisters, I thought this a wonderful message to start the year ahead building on my previous post about building a house how the Lord is transforming us let us not put aside the call to use our intellect for God's purpose and for our intellect to be enriched by and transformed to conform to Godly principles, may His Spirit guide us have a listen let me know what you think.  God Bless.

“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of – throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.” ― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

I hope everyone has had sometime to remember the stories that lead up to the birth of Christ, for many years I have enjoyed sharing a flash mob video of a choir singing the Hallelujah chorus in a food court nothing has topped it yet but this comes a close second, enjoy. "16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so tha...

Often times we go through some hard times and when we get through it we don;t always know ho we did, but it always leaves behind a sense that we are better or it is over, and, we realize that it wasn't too much and we have grown and can handle more in future. As the Apostle said perseverance builds character. Silver is refined through fire made purer and more precious.

"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. " Matt 5:3 An interesting extract one might come away thinking how can poorness in spirit be good for us. Jesus is speaking to people and asking them to inspect their own status and to realize their need. Many are the people who go around thinking they are perfect/well balanced/in need of nothing either not interested in their spiritual lives or arrogantly thinking they have it covered. However Jesus is saying those who realize or who are honest with themselves and with God are blessed, the woman who touched Jesus knew she needed healing and reached out in desperation, the sinner on the cross reached out and was saved. Our sin is often times glossed over or compared to others to make us feel better about ourselves, you know look how terrible such and such is "I'm better than they are" we lie to ourselves as if a lie can save us, but the blessing is for those who need it much like medici...

I thought it a good idea to post both of these as both seem counter cultural, perhaps a little controversial topics, in a sense folks want you not to vote as a Christian but rather as a secularist for the day and tolerance today has become a word used as a weapon to force someone with a different view to accept yours as true.  So have a listen and share your thoughts if you would like and hopefully we can see our world with Christian eyes   Special Guest Dinesh D'Souza answers the question "How does a Christian enter the voting booth appropriately?" For more information, visit dineshdsouza.com.   Special guest Josh McDowell shares the evils and dangers of being tolerant in our society. For more information visit josh.org. .

38 Coming up to them at that very moment, she gave thanks to God and spoke about the child to all who were looking forward to the redemption of Jerusalem. 19 And he directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people. 15 One of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud voice. 16 He threw himself at Jesus' feet and thanked him--and he was a Samaritan. 26 While they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying, "Take and eat; this is my body." 27 Then he took the cup, gave thanks and offered it to them, saying, "Drink from it, all of you. 34 Now I urge you to take some food. You need it to survive. Not one of you will lose a single hair from his head." 35 After he said this, he took some bread and gave thanks to Go...

 "Come, follow me," Jesus said, "and I will make you fishers of men." Matt 4:19 Those which take this verse lightly, forget what happened to the Apostles. To stand for truth while being persecuted is not easy, many come to churches to have titles, positions and to boast about their knowledge and "gifts", they chase wealth, health and prosperity but let us see how many of them would face walking from town to town, beatings, stoning, hunger, cold, rain, thirst, being boiled alive and sickness all just to tell someone else one story, very few that I have laid my eyes upon would do that for people they love but no-one for those who do not deserve it, no-one for their enemy. Come and follow me they left everything, they were chosen and given to Jesus for His ministry, and for the Gospel, their message would be taken to the whole world, but here we see Jesus' calls to follow Him in both senses, to learn from Him while abiding with Him and to follow late...

Our guest Sean McDowell from Worldview Ministries gives us 4 reasons why we should look to Christianity first when starting a religious quest. For more info about our guest, visit seanmcdowell.org.

Thou hast prompted him(man), that he should delight to praise thee, for thou hast made us for thyself and restless is our heart until it comes to rest in thee. Confessions - Book 1 St. Augustine

Our guest Sean McDowell from Worldview Ministries answers the question "Is God a Human Invention?"

Matt 4:17 From that time on Jesus began to preach, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near." John has been imprisoned his voice now silenced but Jesus shows complete agreement with John's message and a continuation "Repent" turn for the kingdom of heaven is near, Jesus is calling those who hear to turn to God to turn toward the kingdom of heaven which is where God is. The word repent here means - to change one's mind or purpose - I repent, change my mind, change the inner man (particularly with reference to acceptance of the will of God). - Jesus is calling people to think on Godly/heavenly things and to turn toward those things. The call is still the same today as it was then to make the things of the Lord important to keep them sacred and to follow the Godly way to turn away from the worldly activities which reap only worldly benefits. BUT then our Lord says "for the kingdom of heaven is near" this could be an encouragement to some or sc...

“There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.” “The Great Divorce” (1945) C.S.Lewis

Special Guest Alex McFarland leads us through Objection 8 from his book "The 10 Most Common Objections to Christianity". - No such thing as sin, people are basically good?

Jesus said to him, "Away from me, Satan! For it is written: 'Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.' " Matt 4:10 Amazing the temptation of Jesus, have you noticed what was missing during the temptations and what was included. Satan wasn't telling Jesus what God was saying he didn't remind Jesus of God's words for God's sake, then when he realized that Jesus knew God's word he tried to twist scripture to suit his own goal when this failed he tries the subtle approach with just all the world's empires up for grabs. If any human had been placed under those temptations we would have thought nothing of it had they accepted it, using your "gifts" for your needs but wait are we supposed to use our gifts for God's glory? Then you're such valuable person God will save you he says so right, then hey I can give you so much and so much comfort just give me your vote. As the character playing Satan said in the1997 movie Devil...

Is this the results of an anthropology devoid of Godly roots and purpose? Is the Gospel no longer effective or no longer effectively and boldly proclaimed in the public space?

Special Guest Alex McFarland leads us through Objection 7 from his book "The 10 Most Common Objections to Christianity". - "A loving God would not send people to hell"