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Faith based on Lifestyle and Transparency Christians

Faith- believing in things you cannot see or cannot prove. (my definition) 

Living your faith that is based on Lifestyle is dangerous. So very dangerous for the message that Jesus Christ has entrusted his believers with. As the Apostle Paul stated in Galatians 3:3, “Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now trying to attain your goal by human effort?” It’s impossible to succeed at such a notion of living your faith out by morals. 

Now, don’t get me wrong morals are crucially important, but it seems that there is this belief that if you aren’t a Christian then you just can’t hack it. You don’t have what it takes to be holy. These types of thoughts and statements are what the new generations feel about Christianity today. Very scary and dangerous indeed. They feel repelled by Christians, but even more intriguing than that is that they don’t feel rejected by Jesus, but rejected by Christians. 

See, the mere fact is that we are fallen and we need God…everyday. That we cannot do it alone. Only one person could and he did it so well that we named the entire thing after him, but he was and will always be God. 

“There is darkness in our skin; our cover is wearing thin.” -David Crowder, from the song “Rescue is Coming”

“We should have an honest estimation of ourselves, measuring our worth by God’s purposes for our life.” -Romans 12:3

We have to as Christians be Transparent and be merely trying to act right but being honest with who we are. Yes we are believers in Jesus Christ and we believe that he is our savior. That does not exclude the fact that we are fallen and we need Him every single day of life on this earth! Without Him we are nothing. 

Let us move forward as believers in Jesus Christ and be honest with who we are. Have an open mind and realize that some of the ways that we live is not a good witness and not representative of the life that Jesus taught us to live. Thank God for what you have today. It is a gift because He is gracious and loving.  

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Senator Teddy

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Senator Ted “Teddy” Kennedy 

3rd longest-serving senator, was in his 7th full term

Ted Kennedy was a great man that lived through two of his brothers being assassinated. Teddy continued to serve in the senate representing the State of Massachusetts and representing the American people as a whole so very well. 

“For five decades, virtually every major piece of legislation to advance the civil rights, health, and economic well being of the American people bore his name and resulted from his efforts.” – President Barack Obama

Teddy definitely did make a difference in our country for the past five decades and he helped change the lives and even the world we all live in. Senator, you will be missed. 

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Onto something? No not so much

Do you ever get that feeling when your studying your bible that you are onto something? Well, I did. Yesterday. If you read my previous post about Genesis and God creating light then you know full well what I’m referring to. I was correct i think in a sense, however I would like to clear up that God did not create evil but that Adam and Eve’s choice to eat of the fruit brought sin into the world and so from then on we were a fallen people who needed a savior. When it comes to the light, yes God did create Light twice, sort of. In Genesis 1:3, God does in fact create Light by saying, “Let there be light,” and so light existed, then in Genesis 1:5 God seperates the light from the dark. And finally in Genesis 1:14-19 God gives the world the Sun to govern the light of the day and the Moon and stars to govern the night.
Point being this: God’s creation is beyond comprehension and its vast and amazing and glorious and magnificent and beautiful and overwhelming and I could go on and on. God has done an amazing work here in this world, not because he needed to but because He wanted to. God’s love for us is unquenchable. He gave us the world, to care for, and to love Him. He desires so much a personal relationship with all of us. And I do mean ALL. Genesis is a book that has been debated on for thousands of years, and we will never truly know how God did it. That doesn’t really matter anyway. He did it. End of story and end of statement. That is all that matters.
Because God is Love.

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Creation Story Thought Throwdown…

So, this week in the sunday school class i teach for the 7th graders we are talking about the Creation story in Genesis 1:1-2:4 this week and I was reading it today a couple of thoughts were running through my head so i need get some feedback on this. See what you all think.
Look at Genesis 1:5.
Done? No, seriously get a bible and look it up. Or go to www.youversion.com and look it up there. (Awesome site btw)
Now look at Genesis 1:14.
Seeing anything? In verse five this happens:
“God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day. ”
Verse 14 reads this way:
“And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years,”
God creates “light” twice. Or does he? Where do we get the “light” during the day? From what source? The sun, and what about the night, well of course its the moon. So the creating of the sun and the moon and the stars happens in verse 14, right? But in verse 5 God still creates some form of “light.”
Ok go with me on this. Could this be God creating good and evil? Because one is light and one is dark. Thoughts?
Please get back to me on this. I’m really intrigued about the responses on this one.

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Holiness and?

“The real problem comes when we recognize God’s holiness but fail to articulate the other side of his character: grace. Jesus represents truth plus grace.” -UnChristian by David Kinnamen p. 36