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Is Christianity and Socialism compatible? Many refer, in recent threads on social media that I have read, how the early church in its community shared its property and goods to give to those in need and the poor. Acts 4:32 “All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they had.” No question this was the case, but is this the type of socialism being…

Have you ever had a question about life and someone responded, “just have faith”? In the angst of having a question it can be quite discouraging when someone gives you such a pat answer. So what does it mean to have faith?   There are two types of faith that we can discuss: Blind Faith & Evidential Faith. Blind faith is how many describe their faith. Sadly, many believers, give this definition which is having no reason to believe something,…

So let’s begin with a few questions…What or who is guiding your life today in this very moment? Who are you taking advice from? Are they qualified to give advice? Who should we turn to for help? As a person going through life there are many things that compete to guide our lives. The problem is that only One Person is qualified and that is not even ourselves. It is the Holy Spirit of God. God knows our lives from…

C.S. Lewis in his book The Four Loves speaks on friendship: In a circle of true Friends each man is simply what he is: stands for nothing but himself. No one cares two pence about anyone else’s family, profession, class, income, race, or previous history. Of course you will get to know about most of these in the end. But casually. They will come out bit by bit, to furnish an illustration or an analogy, to serve as pegs for…

With all that is going on in the world fear can rise up within us. The two ingredients for fear are “unknowns” and “lack of control” because these two push on our control needs. As we see the events unfold before us on the nightly news regarding politics, COVID, and all the rioting in would easily provoke fear to rise up within us. How do we deal with this? Jesus said, “Come to me all who are weary and heavy…

Psalm 46:10 – Be still, and know that I am God; When I was young my mother used to tell me I had “Ants in my Pants” because I wouldn’t sit still much as I was always into something. Sadly, we have become an “Ants in your Pants” society because most of us hate being still. How many people constantly stay on their phone nowadays? We are a culture of little busy-bodies! Over time this kind of approach to life…

With all that is going on it is hard to believe what is true anymore, would you agree? It’s hard to find what actually is the truth in regards to so much that it taking place within our society. I can watch the news and find it very tempting to get spun up in a narrative that in the end I don’t know how much is actually right or not, or how much is for political gain or not, or…

This week our country has a birthday. We are celebrating its 243rd birthday if I’ve done my math correct. The 4th of July has come to represent one main word, Freedom. The sad observance today is that we are losing a sense of what freedom actually means. Freedom doesn’t mean one can do anything one wants. If that were the case there would be no need for any laws to govern the people, and without laws to govern the people…

“Do you know Jesus?” Or “Have you found Jesus?” These type of lead in questions in sharing our faith can be so confusing for folks. Heck, I’m a pastor and much of the Christian jargon that is used is confusing to me because many Christians don’t use Biblical phrases but rather “churchy” phrases. Many folks are simply turned off of this kind of talk. What Christians need to do more than anything to have an effective witness to the world…

This weekend we celebrate Father’s day. For many this will be a time to celebrate, for others, a time to mourn either the loss of their father no longer here or that lack of a father they longed to have but never received. For many this is why the idea of a Heavenly Father is a big pill to swallow because they don’t have a good picture of earthly father in mind. Our Heavenly Father came to be for us…