It is said that” the message can not change but our methods must change.” Can it be more true today?  In a time where technology is increasing by leaps and bounds, almost by the day it seems, and our world is filled with more things to occupy our time, it seems obvious that we must adapt to the culture of change in our society or die. Death is apparent if one looks closely at the modern church today.  With statistics showing our church’sare plateaued or even in decline, we are in serious danger. Did you know that 80% of our teenagers that are … Read More »

One question that can change our view on a lot of issues about God.  If only this book were not in the Bible we could hang our hat on some viewpoints about God.  God always protects his children.  If you do what is right you will be rewarded.  All good theories, but hardly the truth in the case of Job.  The Bible states about Job in the opening chapter, “This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil.”  With that opening statement one would think that God would have Job’s back.  Well, he did until one day when … Read More »

12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For we were all baptized by[c] one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. 14 Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many. 1 Corinthians 12:12-14

The Apostle Paul had been discussing in previous verses about the importance of the different gifts that the Holy Spirit imparts and now he is relating the different gifts of the … Read More »