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| Christian standards comprise the roof that protects the foundations and walls of personal faith. |
What role does lifestyle play in the ideology? And, conversely, what role does ideology play in the lifestyle? Another question: What eventually happens to a person who professes a certain ideology but whose lifestyle isn't consistent with what it teaches? Bring this down to... Read More |
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| If things continue as they are, the Sabbath could soon be at risk among Seventh-day Adventists. |
We are forgetting how to prepare for the Sabbath. We used to clean the house on Friday, prepare the Sabbath food, polish our shoes, press our Sabbath clothes, put away secular reading, turn off the radio and TV, have sundown worship. And of course on Sabbath morning we would go to... Read More |
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| Jesus taught us how to pray so that God will always answer Yes. |
Jesus prioritized our prayers by saying that we are to seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness (Matthew 6:33). The point is clear that the priority of prayer is not to GET but to BE. When we pray to be and not to get, the answer is always Yes.
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| Only about 10 percent of your life will be composed of what happens to you; 90 percent will come from lhow you respond to what happens to you. |
An old adage goes something like this: "You can't keep the birds from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair." With the passing of years, one thing has become increasingly clear to me: Although I can't always be responsible for what happens to me, I am... Read More |
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| People who follow the New Age movement are often more committed to healthful living than are many Seventh-day Adventists. |
Since we've discovered that we aren't saved by what we eat or don't eat, many seem to have thrown in the towel as far as diet is concerned and are, in some cases, even washing down their pork with wine. Discovering that we are saved by grace through faith shouldn't make us discard the... Read More |
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| People won't be saved because they pray, but they can't be saved unless they pray. |
Prayer is the breath of the soul. It is as necessary for a newborn Christian to pray as it is for a newborn baby to breathe. When a person is born into the kingdom of God by grace through faith, one of that person's first acts of faith will be to pray. When the Lord came to the... Read More |
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| Television as watched by the average Christian leads directly away from everything the Holy Spirit is trying to do in our lives. |
One of the rules of driving is that we travel in the direction toward which we are looking. In other words, we become like what we look at. We can't have it both ways. "What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness?" (2... Read More |
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| The active ingredients of the Christian life are repentance and forgiveness. |
The Christian life has two active ingredients. One is repentance (1 John 1:9), and the other is forgiveness--I don't mean asking others for forgiveness but granting forgiveness to those who have wronged us (Matthew 6:14, 15).
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| The issue is not whether we will do good on the Sabbath but whether we will keep it holy. |
Increasingly, people are interpreting Sabbath keeping to mean doing anything that is good. They use Mark 3:4 to affirm this perspective. Some also think that eating out on Sabbath is more in keeping with the spirit of the Sabbath than is serving a meal at home. Others say the... Read More |
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| The most difficult place to be a Christian is at home. |
Although you can fool the people at church part of the time, and you can fool yourself all of the time, you can't fool members of the family any time. The base unit of society is the home. It is logical, then, that living the Christian life must first and foremost be done at the... Read More |
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| The two institutions that God established at Creation--the Sabbath and marriage--are under serious attack. |
The Sabbath was to remind us forever that He is our Creator. Marriage and family--the closest of human relationships--would serve both to propagate the race and to illustrate god's relationship with His church. According to one of the officers at my bank, the percent of their home... Read More |
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| The uniform soldiers wear isn't a moral issue. However, it is a life-and-death issue, because it indicates which side they're on. |
I pose two questions: The first: Is modesty a principle? and the second: Is it reasonable to consider that God might expect those who serve Him to look different from those who don't? Soldiers and police wear uniforms, as do many other professions. The message seems... Read More |
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| There appears to be an almost systematic attack on anything that smacks of holy living. |
Ephesians 2:8 is clear that we are saved by grace through faith and that salvation is a gift of God. The issue that seems to be under debate and that we must understand correctly is, How do people who have salvation live?
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| There are two kinds of prayer. One kind seeks to do the will of God and to glorify His name. The other kind seeks to exploit God and impose our will on Him. |
The purpose of prayer is not to persuade God to do our will. Rather, we go to Him with what appears to us to be our symptoms so that, through His Word and divine providence, we may learn what the problem really is and be willing to do what He has revealed. Do you really believe you... Read More |
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| We owe it to those who love us to live a healthy life. |
In matters that have to do with our health, our lives are not ours to do with as we please. People who say it's their life, they'll live it the way they wish, are dead wrong. Protecting my health is something I owe God, who made me. It is also an obligation I have toward those... Read More |
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