The Holy Spirit and This Time

Jesus said to the Apostles right before He ascended into Heaven, “do not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father about which you have heard Me speak; for John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.” Acts 1:4. Read more…

The Gift of the Holy Spirit – Fear

There are different motives for climbing the stairway to Heaven. The first incentive to begin to climb up from the sickness and vomit of sin – is fear. This kind of fear – slavish fear – is the fear of punishment or of suffering.

Pope Benedict Declares Year of the Priest

Each year the Catholic Church dedicates an entire year to a certain cause or focus. The intent of this special focus is to foster attention, prayer, and to ask God for grace and help in this particular area.

Peace Be With You

Peace. What is this glorious thing called peace? Why does the Virgin Mary, throughout her many messages call for peace?

In the Spirit, Confession – May God Grant You Pardon and Peace

From time to time, God allows us to see or feel things “in the spirit,” and we see, understand or experience spiritual realities in a clearer light. These experiences are gifts from God and through them, the Holy Spirit teaches us a new mode of perception, a new awareness, a deeper grasp of the reality, that we may understand the things given freely to us by God (1 Cor 2.12).

Joyful Confidence

It is said that if you want to improve your IQ — improve your vocabulary. It is also said there is a direct relationship between your vocabulary and your success in life. This is because the more words you know, the more ideas you understand and the more you are capable of perceiving, processing and communicating.

Octopus Paul, World Cup and the Bible

The 2010 FIFA World Cup has come and gone, but one issue that will sure continue to dominate and maybe influence activities and decisions in Germany, Europe and some other parts of the world is the role of Octopus Paul of Germany. An octopus is a sea animal with soft body and eight arms. And this particular one is believed to have some divination powers.

The Wordless Book Game – A Super Free Bible Activity For Learning the Wordless Book Colors

If you’ve taught the Wordless Book to your kids, they will love this super free Bible activity to help them learn what each color means. Through true or false questions, they will be more knowledgeable about God’s wonderful plan for their lives…

Life Incomprehensible!

Who are we that we can pretend to understand you Lord? Under which circumstances are we given the power to become gods that we can argue with you? Are we not so insignificant that the simple blow of the wind can take us down?

Preaching an ‘Acceptable’ Message

Human sin and personal accountability are at the very core of the constructs of our faith. When pastors and preachers turn from this formula – convicting, challenging, urging and encouraging at the personally-relevant level – focusing mainly on peripherals like “corrupt societal influences” or “church growth,” for instance, to the exclusion of the cross, they forget that our faith must always be cross-centred.

Not Women

The first thing to notice about Paul’s admonition against women taking leadership in worship is that it limits or clarifies what Paul just said about all Christians prophesying (clarifying and explaining Scripture). Here he says that women should keep silent at church during worship. (This may be at odds with 1 Corinthians 11:5, which implies that women may pray or prophesy as long as their heads are covered.

God’s Expression of Love to Man – Do We Return the Favor?

The committed love shown to us through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ should be our testament to a dying world in serving a loving God (Romans 8:31-34). We should be thankful to our heavenly Father for His perfect expression of love for us and be committed to loving others.