Reading Time: 3 minutes Jeanne from Rwanda emailed and asked me a question which personally affects me, “How can I Forgive Someone Who Has Wronged Me?” Forgiving our enemies Jeanne, is difficult for all Christians (even me) and it is in our sinful nature to not forgive and to want to get back and have our revenge. Yet as […]

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Alissou, a Christian from Lagos Nigeria asked; “Is it good to pray against enemies?” What a terrific yet direct question, Alissou asked. The answer to this question directly affects every Christian… even me. To put it more distinctly: Should Christians pray against those persons (people) who say and declare that they are Christians enemies (i.e., […]

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Reading Time: 12 minutes On Easter day (Sunday, March 27, 2016) I felt led to help people who want to understand how the Bible portrays the differences between religion and true Christianity (Matthew 16:24; Mark 8:34; Luke 9:23). So on that day I started writing this post. I hope that what I’ve written helps you who want to understand […]

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Bisi from the Nigerian state of Lagos asked a wonderful question; “What is God’s favor?” Earning God’s Favor To many people, receiving God’s favor is something that they think must be earned by them. These people believe that they have to do something in order to receive God’s favor… that they have to do lots […]

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Presley from Douala, Cameroon asked me via email this great question; “How can one worship God with all his heart and really know that he has done so?” First let’s put Presley’s question in context with the Bible: Matthew 22:34-40 A Pharisee who was an expert in the law, tested Jesus with this question: “Teacher, […]

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Reading Time: 8 minutes @AsmodeusDemon in Twitter tweeted to me concerning my article; “Did Jesus die for our Sins or did He just Die?” the following: “He didn’t do either given he knew he’d be resurrected. And also because he simply never existed.” Most likely is that @AsmodeusDemon didn’t even read the article I wrote which he/she replied. If […]

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Romans 1:20-22 shows us examples of proof of God’s existence: For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks […]

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Stephen via email asked me a great question; “Why should we forgive people?” In short, the Bible instructs us to forgive as the Lord forgave us: Colossians 3:13 Longer answer: God helps us grow in maturity and wisdom and heals us when we forgive. When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong (when you forgive […]

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Muragwa from Rwanda in email asked me to explain God’s forgiveness to him. God forgiving us, comes through His love for us and is by His amazing mercy and grace! All sin (our knowingly choosing to do something we shouldn’t do and our knowingly choosing not doing something we should do), no matter how “small,” […]

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