Some time ago a friend asked me to write an article about the minimum a person must know and believe to become a Christian. I agreed, thinking, “That should not take too long.” But the more I thought about it the more difficult it has become, it took a long blog to explain the minimum a person needs to know to become Christian. The following is a summary of the blog, the details are below. Continue reading Minimum Knowledge to Become Christian
Tag: eternal life
The Gospel (Good News)
In this day and age with all of our wars, pain, refugees, and on and on, it’s always nice to have some Good News. But, there can’t be any Good News without the bad news.
The bad news really isn’t news, it’s normal life. We see evil and the evidence of evil all around us, we watch it on the nightly news, we listen to it conveyed in our songs, and Continue reading The Gospel (Good News)
Without A Cause
My heart is burning with excitement, joy, and peace, the kind that words cannot convey. I am completely satisfied in God’s love for us. Continue reading Without A Cause
My Burger King Surprise
On Monday, October 13, 2014 Phyllis and I were replacing our furniture and ‘stuff’ because the carpet cleaner had cleaned three rooms of our house the Friday before.
I left the house at 11:30 for a lunch run. I made a stop at the hardware store, another at the auto parts store, and then went to the Burger King drive through for two Whopper Juniors. Continue reading My Burger King Surprise
How Shall I go to God?
Horatius Bonar (1808-1889) is the author of “How Shall I go to God” and my heart is lifted each time I read it. Mr. Bonar was a minister in the Free Church of Scotland, and a prolific writer (even without a computer).
The Abundant Life – Living on Food Stamps – Part 1
The Abundant Life, it’s the American dream.
“The Abundant Life”, just the words have a nice ring to them. If the abundant life is within my grasp, I want it! Continue reading The Abundant Life – Living on Food Stamps – Part 1
We Live In The Foyer Of Life
A foyer, I needed some help defining the word so it was Google to the rescue:
- A foyer, pronounced (foy-err) or (foy-ay), is the first room you walk into, the front room Continue reading We Live In The Foyer Of Life
If You Can Find a Better Deal, Take It!
Someone mentioned Christianity on television recently and liberals reacted with their usual howls of rage and blinking incomprehension.
On a Fox News panel discussing Tiger Woods, Brit Hume said, perfectly accurately:
“The extent to which he can recover, it seems to me, depends on his faith. He is said to be a Buddhist. I don’t think that faith offers the kind of forgiveness and redemption that
Salvation From Wrath
I learned a new truth recently. Learning new significant truth is always thrilling.
I was listening to a tape
The Value of Life
On Friday June 2, 1995 Scott O’Grady was the flying wing position as the two F16 Fighting Falcons executed their sortie over northern Bosnia, enforcing the United Nations no-fly zone.