Creating Thought

Why have I started writing in the blog again?   Because I have been given a burden.  Because I envision that the culture of our country, which has always been in a state of change, is making a significant pivot away from morality and toward a standard of godlessness. What once governed our laws and the judgments of our courts is being washed away and replaced with a worldly standard that does not include God's precepts.  Because those who confess to be Christian are being tested.  This testing will prove some to be false confessors and others to be true confessors. When it comes time to stand up and lose what we have, some will stand up and lose and others will keep what they have and remain seated, adopting the accepted standard that is being implemented.  Because each day there is evidence that the enemies of the cross of Christ are gaining strength and momentum. They are being enabled by the courts which have rejected God and His word as the basis of soun...

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us. Romans 8:18 This is just one. There are so many passages which should give us a heads up about what it really takes to live as a Christian. It is a given, "the sufferings of this present time" statement can be compared to so many others that talk as if suffering was a common occurrence in the lives of those who were the recipients of the letters from the Apostles, Paul, Peter, John, James and the author of Hebrews.  It was not a rare thing.  Declaring to be a believer of Jesus Christ and a follower of His word had a price that included loss.  It also had great rewards. But in the American Church today, and as it has been for a long time, trials and sufferings because of what we believe have been pretty much non-existent with a few exceptions.  Yes, there has always been times, even in the United States where believers suffered because...

For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ (2 Corinthians 1:5) What do you know about suffering? Do you think about it very much?  It's not really a subject of choice - especially for those of us who are called according to His purpose in this country.  Oh sure, we know that people suffer because of war, poverty, various tragedies of weather and what is generally called "acts of God."  A friend is suffering because her close friends were in a very bad traffic accident and although the occupants of the car are alive, they are in critical and serious condition in the hospital. So the four passengers are suffering physical trauma and psychological trauma and my friend is suffering from the concern for them.  Another friend is suffering from the effects of chemo-therapy.  Actually two friends are experiencing that. Chemicals that kill the cancer cells also kill the healthy cells leaving little to r...