Teach – Inspire – Empower
Wrecked by division, not united in Love! A franchise is a business whereby the owner, the franchisor, licenses its operations — along with its products, branding and knowledge — to another business owner, the franchisee, in exchange for a franchise fee. (expanded Investopedia definition) Christianity is big business. Before you argue that Christianity isn’t a...Continue reading
The only way power-hungry people can control others is by creating some form of uniformity. For example, soldiers have to wear the same uniform and march in step. Any soldier who doesn’t comply with the army’s dress code or marches out of step is easy to spot and discipline. The same is true with respect...Continue reading
Go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit; and teach them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” (Matthew 28:19-20) Pentecost. The Holy Spirit added...Continue reading
In this article, I want to point out that the apostles were people just like us; they weren’t perfect, they made mistakes and their mistakes had disastrous consequences for Christianity and the true Church of Jesus Christ. People like us. It is a fact that, although born again and Spirit-filled, disciples of Jesus Christ are...Continue reading
This is a short overview of my journey from atheism, to my conversion to Christianity in 1978 and ultimately leaving Christianity in 2005 to become an ordinary human being and a Spirit-filled disciple of Jesus Christ. A Challenge to God. At fifteen, I was a militant, anti-Christian atheist. I was sick and tired of the...
As I see it, the following three things are a curse on any religion; at least the ones I have studied but I am sure it applies to all. These things also tend to appear in the sequence below. 1. The next generation, the bureaucrats. Lacking the spiritual power of the first generation, the following...Continue reading
Why are we here and what is the purpose of our human experience? After a life-long search for the answer to that question, I boiled it down to a simple choice; are we here to get something or to give something? Are we here to be Consumers or Contributors? Everywhere I look, I find religious...Continue reading
Maybe we can begin with a simple idea of a loving, all-powerful God NOT allowing bad things to happen and let’s see how that works out. Joe loves chocolate cake. Joe loves chocolate cake so much that he wants to eat a huge chocolate cake every day. But if Joe eats a huge cake every...Continue reading
As a teenager I was a card-carrying, anti-Christian atheist. Although rabidly anti-Christian, I was open-minded and presented God with a challenge, “If God could prove, in black and white, that he existed, I would become a Christian.” Seven years later, in my early twenties, I got what I considered ‘black and white evidence’ that God...Continue reading
“Let us make humans in our image.” (Genesis 1.26) Using this text as a starting point, I wondered “What about our human image reflects the image and nature of GOD?” Side note: Although I quote exclusively from the Bible in this article, I am not a Christian; I simply respect the ancient wisdom of the...Continue reading