Whenever my kids wake up in the morning, I ask them “How was your sleep?” I often get a generic “Good” and nothing more. Sometimes they have a crappy sleep. Maybe they are sick, had a bad dream or just didn’t sleep long enough and were woken up by a sibling. A bad sleep should never ruin your...
Judgement: Healthy o...
posted by Ryan
Some people are good at seeing the best in people. My wife was always good at this, but that was not me. Though it wasn’t usually an outward thing, I was always judging people based on what I thought their motives were. I had high standards of religious duty and I held everyone else who...
How Do You Know Your Repentance Worked?
posted by Ryan
I used to “repent” and feel so bad when I messed up, asking God to forgive me. I used to think that He would end up coming back the moment that I just sinned and without enough time to repent and ask for forgiveness, I would go to hell. I had very little knowledge of the scripture. When I came to understand repentance, things changed. I used to feel bad, beat myself up, cry, use emotion and promise that I would never do it again lest I fall into “false repentance”. All these ideas I believed were far from the Truth. My ideas were mostly derived from Old Covenant history, rather than New Covenant reality. The word...
Does God Want Holine...
posted by Ryan
It was the most powerful time I can remember in Bible college. We started the morning with worship and prayer as any other normal day, but today was different. As we worshipped and focussed on God, the teacher began to speak prophetic words over each of the students. As he made his way, one...
What if Fred Phelps ...
posted by Ryan
I just heard about the passing of Fred Phelps, the leader of the Westboro Baptist Church, a church that promotes hate of gays, lesbians, etc. Being the curious person that I am, I wanted to know more about the cause of his death. In the top few search results there are articles about people...
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