I recently heard a sermon that apparently was given around Father’s Day. I have to tell you that, while there were some good points brought up, overall the sermon seemed a little self-serving. Hopefully, I can avoid sounding that way, as I myself am a father. Fatherhood is important. Dr…
Sometimes, life can just seem somewhat meaningless. You create things, only for them to fall apart again. You buy something, and it goes bad. Even your very life is temporary and comes to an end. We have the hope that comes with the knowledge that it will not always be…
Everything that has happened in your life has led up to this point in time. Every experience and every relationship has prepared you for this very moment. I wish I could remember who said that. However, it sometimes strikes me as odd when several seemingly unrelated events coalesce into a…
Mainstream Christianity and critics of the Churches of God like to criticize the Church for teaching that we human beings were designed to follow the steps of our Elder Brother Jesus and literally become gods. Yet, the COG is not the only one that calls itself “Christian” and teaches that…
I just cannot help it. I had to postpone today’s post in order to write this. Yesterday, I metaphorically swam in the toxic waste. The poison that ran through the piece was amazing in the amount of bitterness vomited out from the person’s keyboard. I hope it was cathartic for…
Many know the Book of Job as a book about suffering. Many sermons about how a Christian should endure suffering have been written, based in part upon this book. The story didn’t start out that way, of course. In fact, there is something very telling in the beginning of the…
I don’t normally write about celebrities, but this is too bizarre to pass up. It is also coincidental that the series on happiness and fulfillment was being written when the whole scandal began to break. In fact, the car crash occurred on Black Friday, and I began posting the series…
On the heels of last week’s series on the selfish pursuits of happiness and fulfillment, I want to point out Mike Bennett of UCG posted on Forward to the Kingdom! an article on “3 Bible Tips: Avoiding Materialism”. I think it dovetails in quite nicely. Technorati Tags: cog,church of god,bennette,forward…
I want to tidy up some loose ends on this pursuit of happiness bit. Without a doubt, the notion that we are here on earth to pursue our desires, our fulfillment, our … anything, actually… is centered on “I” and “me”. Christians are called instead to be Christ-centered. Christ had…
OK, so we have a desire to fill our lives with something. That is actually a craving for God. Yet, people try to fill this void with all sorts of things. Some pursue “happiness”, which has come to mean many things. Same with fulfillment. However, a God-oriented person will understand…