Faith is on the move....
I am starting a new chapter in my life. In order for it to be easier to blog, I have moved my blogging here... http://cpk3.wordpress.com/
Over the next few weeks.. I will moving old post from here to there.
Come on over and follow me as I continue my journey of Faith in our Loving God, and follow his Son, Christ my Savior.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Monday, April 14, 2008
Christ is truth.
Christ gave us the command: Love the Lord with all your heart, your entire mind and, all your soul. What is True in the heart, must be true in the mind, and true in the soul.
John’s Gospel is of said to be the one that proclaims and proves Christ’s divinity. John uses the word for true 13 times in his Gospel, more than the other 3 Gospels combined.
Alethes http://biblestudytools.com/Lexicons/Greek/grk.cgi?number=227&version=nas – tell the truth is from the original A (the first Greek letter) or Alpha. http://biblestudytools.com/Lexicons/Greek/grk.cgi?number=1&version=nas
So John proves that Christ is God, and thus Christ being the Alpha… The truth is derived through Christ, and He is our example of how to live.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Time Time Time... See what has become of me?
OK... This is crazy...Time that is. We were talking about it some today in DC. And I was in a real box on this one. So I asked the class for help.
The conclusion I came to is that all of time to God exists all at one time. (Hard to comprehend in our finite mind.)
Eternity=forever...
Not Eternity = Salvation
Salvation = Heaven
But we are not promised eternity either way until we chose Christ or don't chose Christ.
What I am saying is that we think that eternity of our Soul is the goal...When it is actually salvation of our soul...
Once we chose to Follow Christ or not, that is when we chose if the eternity will be with him, or in hell.
Eternal Salvation...
My point being, we do not put enough emphasis on the ETERNAL part.. That once that choice is made, when you die there is no turning back... No second chance. So with everything going on in the word, if this really is the end of time as we know it. How comforting is it to know that we still have eternity to live if we live as Christ.
Act 1: 21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
The ultimate Win-Win is to chose Christ.
Here is my new perspective on time...
Stand in any spot, and think about all the stuff that has happened in that spot since the beginning of time, and all of the stuff happening in that spot now, and all the stuff to happen. Now picture it all happing at the same time in that spot. Past Present and Future all happening at the same time.
I am not saying that is 100% the answer, but put it in perspective. If God walked with Adam and Eve in the garden. Then that means he walks with us now. That the bite of the apple, was the point in time God removed his physical presence from our time, but because of time existing in all forms now, he still walks with us.
In the existence of life, we bump into him everyday... Do we ignore him, and bite the apple and separate ourselves from him, or do we take his hand and let him lead us?
P.S. Leave a comment if you know the song the title of this post came from.
The conclusion I came to is that all of time to God exists all at one time. (Hard to comprehend in our finite mind.)
Eternity=forever...
Not Eternity = Salvation
Salvation = Heaven
But we are not promised eternity either way until we chose Christ or don't chose Christ.
What I am saying is that we think that eternity of our Soul is the goal...When it is actually salvation of our soul...
Once we chose to Follow Christ or not, that is when we chose if the eternity will be with him, or in hell.
Eternal Salvation...
My point being, we do not put enough emphasis on the ETERNAL part.. That once that choice is made, when you die there is no turning back... No second chance. So with everything going on in the word, if this really is the end of time as we know it. How comforting is it to know that we still have eternity to live if we live as Christ.
Act 1: 21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
The ultimate Win-Win is to chose Christ.
Here is my new perspective on time...
Stand in any spot, and think about all the stuff that has happened in that spot since the beginning of time, and all of the stuff happening in that spot now, and all the stuff to happen. Now picture it all happing at the same time in that spot. Past Present and Future all happening at the same time.
I am not saying that is 100% the answer, but put it in perspective. If God walked with Adam and Eve in the garden. Then that means he walks with us now. That the bite of the apple, was the point in time God removed his physical presence from our time, but because of time existing in all forms now, he still walks with us.
In the existence of life, we bump into him everyday... Do we ignore him, and bite the apple and separate ourselves from him, or do we take his hand and let him lead us?
P.S. Leave a comment if you know the song the title of this post came from.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
God works...
I am back...
I haven't posted in awhile, and God obviously had a reason.
I love to write. I love putting words on paper and building a story, or relaying a message. Plus I have always wanted to try writing a book, but never got over the hump of just doing it.
Well for the past 4-5 months the words in my brain dried up. I just couldn't put fingers to keyboard so to speak and get coherent thoughts out. It was frustrating.
God was pushing me. He was forcing me (and this is a whole other post for a later time) to communicate in a different way in an area of my life, that I had been neglecting.
And...
He was setting me up for were I am going now with my writing. Although far from being 100% committed to the project, God has opened doors for me to begin exploring the possibilities of writing a book.
The cool thing is, and I love God for this, he shut down my favorite way to communicate, because he knew the importance of me taking care of the other area of my life (My Marriage) first. As God has pushed me along to fix that, and things have improved, the words are flowing again, and I may get to live out one of my Dreams.
This 4-5 month trial in my life has added to the evidence of my Faith in Christ.
The evidence of how my life has changed since allowing Christ to fill my heart with his Spirit, and the lives of others proves to me there is a God.
Absolute Faith and reliance on something unseen, and seeing results can prove a lot of things to a person that has Faith.
I know it is not easy for people to understand, heck sometimes I don't understand how God can love me without condition. He just does. But as I said the evidence of Faith is the change in my life. I would not have that evidence if I did not believe in my Christ, he is the one that changed me.
I haven't posted in awhile, and God obviously had a reason.
I love to write. I love putting words on paper and building a story, or relaying a message. Plus I have always wanted to try writing a book, but never got over the hump of just doing it.
Well for the past 4-5 months the words in my brain dried up. I just couldn't put fingers to keyboard so to speak and get coherent thoughts out. It was frustrating.
God was pushing me. He was forcing me (and this is a whole other post for a later time) to communicate in a different way in an area of my life, that I had been neglecting.
And...
He was setting me up for were I am going now with my writing. Although far from being 100% committed to the project, God has opened doors for me to begin exploring the possibilities of writing a book.
The cool thing is, and I love God for this, he shut down my favorite way to communicate, because he knew the importance of me taking care of the other area of my life (My Marriage) first. As God has pushed me along to fix that, and things have improved, the words are flowing again, and I may get to live out one of my Dreams.
This 4-5 month trial in my life has added to the evidence of my Faith in Christ.
The evidence of how my life has changed since allowing Christ to fill my heart with his Spirit, and the lives of others proves to me there is a God.
Absolute Faith and reliance on something unseen, and seeing results can prove a lot of things to a person that has Faith.
I know it is not easy for people to understand, heck sometimes I don't understand how God can love me without condition. He just does. But as I said the evidence of Faith is the change in my life. I would not have that evidence if I did not believe in my Christ, he is the one that changed me.
Monday, December 24, 2007
Saturday, December 22, 2007
A Baby into this world, Why?
3 Different Stories of Christ's birth.
The Prophesy:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%209:6-7;&version=31;
What we all know:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%202;&version=31;
One most don't know:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2012:%2013-17;&version=31;
So have you ever wondered what God was thinking when he sent his Son into this world? Why in his world would God send his Son into the world full of sin? From the first sin of Man to the sin of Israel that lead to it’s destruction at the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, even the sin in the world today. What was God’s plan with a Baby Boy that came into this world in the most unassuming way?
You see God is a jealous God, and his jealously makes him want to rise up in anger against that which separates us from him. That is sin. Our sinful nature is what provokes this jealous anger.
If you read through the Old Testament God’s jealously rises up against the sins of Israel to the point that he wants to beat the sin out of the world. Now think about that. He was so jealous of the sin in the world he destroyed it by flood, Sodom and Gomorra destroyed, Israel conquered by Babylon, all because they refused to listen to the prophets, and heed God’s warning.
What was a Jealous God to do to restore the relationship with the Man he created? Well he sent a little Baby, His Son to save us. II Cor 5:21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. To be sin… That is a powerful statement. What was God thinking? He wanted to rise up and destroy sin, to beat it out of this world. So why would he make his Son be that sin for us?
See, the baby that came into this world in an unassuming way, was beaten and crucified so that the sin that was laid upon him would be destroyed. God used the life and death of this baby to restore the relationship with his people by rising up with out stretched arms on a cross.
This Christmas as we celebrate the Joy that is Christ’s birth, let us not for get the ultimate sacrifice he made for us to restore our relationship with his Father.
Ex 34:14 14 Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
Jealous: Qanna' - jealous (only of God)
jealous: Qana - to envy, be jealous, be envious, be zealous
a (Piel)
to be jealous of
to be envious of
to be zealous for
to excite to jealous anger
b (Hiphil) to provoke to jealous anger, cause jealousy
The Prophesy:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%209:6-7;&version=31;
What we all know:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%202;&version=31;
One most don't know:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2012:%2013-17;&version=31;
So have you ever wondered what God was thinking when he sent his Son into this world? Why in his world would God send his Son into the world full of sin? From the first sin of Man to the sin of Israel that lead to it’s destruction at the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, even the sin in the world today. What was God’s plan with a Baby Boy that came into this world in the most unassuming way?
You see God is a jealous God, and his jealously makes him want to rise up in anger against that which separates us from him. That is sin. Our sinful nature is what provokes this jealous anger.
If you read through the Old Testament God’s jealously rises up against the sins of Israel to the point that he wants to beat the sin out of the world. Now think about that. He was so jealous of the sin in the world he destroyed it by flood, Sodom and Gomorra destroyed, Israel conquered by Babylon, all because they refused to listen to the prophets, and heed God’s warning.
What was a Jealous God to do to restore the relationship with the Man he created? Well he sent a little Baby, His Son to save us. II Cor 5:21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. To be sin… That is a powerful statement. What was God thinking? He wanted to rise up and destroy sin, to beat it out of this world. So why would he make his Son be that sin for us?
See, the baby that came into this world in an unassuming way, was beaten and crucified so that the sin that was laid upon him would be destroyed. God used the life and death of this baby to restore the relationship with his people by rising up with out stretched arms on a cross.
This Christmas as we celebrate the Joy that is Christ’s birth, let us not for get the ultimate sacrifice he made for us to restore our relationship with his Father.
Ex 34:14 14 Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
Jealous: Qanna' - jealous (only of God)
jealous: Qana - to envy, be jealous, be envious, be zealous
a (Piel)
to be jealous of
to be envious of
to be zealous for
to excite to jealous anger
b (Hiphil) to provoke to jealous anger, cause jealousy
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