Encouragement

A Christian! What is a Christian? There are all kinds of churches out there that claim to be the one and only true church. That everyone else is missing the mark, except them. Well, I kind of fit right in there with the rest of them I guess. Let me explain:
The scriptures teach that if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord than you will be saved. They also say that the Lord is going to say “be gone I never knew you”. So what is going on here? The difference between a true Christian ...

The Oldest Tree
A bristle cone pine is approximately 4,300 years old—dated via tree rings. The method may not be perfect, but it is the best we have for dating trees.

The Oldest Reef
The Great Barrier Reef is less than 4,200 years old—dated via measuring the growth rate for 20 years.

Even though both are estimated at no more than 4,300 years old, they are the two oldest living organisms on earth.

Why aren’t there older trees or more ancient ...

Are you proud of who you are? Does the color of your skin make you happy? Do you have the righteous parents? Are your friends the envy of everyone else? Are you cool or what?

Most humans rather like the way they are, or else they would stop being that way. Unless it is something that we can’t change, we like the way we are. In most cases it is the way others are, that we often don’t like.

This is a very difficult topic because there are so many different ways to approach ...

People tell me that the goats at the judgment throne of Christ are unsaved sinners. So the other day I started doing research through the Word to see if I could find some back up in scripture. I could not so I wondered where this idea came from. So after doing some more research about goats it then came to me that goats are the old testament sin atonement. And since the goats failed the judgment for the new sin atonement they were cast into the fire.

Why were they cast into the fire? ...

I went to another church today with a friend. The preacher preached a good sermon. He told a story as part of the sermon. He said that his house is located next to a cemetery. He said that one day he started noticing this man, in his 70s, sitting next to a grave. He said that he figured out that it was his wife's grave. Everyday when he would leave for work, the man was there. Everyday he come home from work, the man was there. if it was raining, he would have an umbrella. If it was cold, he would ...