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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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,” […]
Reading Time: 16 minutes Derrick sent me the following questions in email: I have a question about God, the Bible, Faith, and/or how to be Saved I’m struggling with my faith. All of my life I’ve been told that Jesus is what I should believe and not to question it. But it’s hard to not question things with a […]
Reading Time: 9 minutes Stephen from Lusaka, Zambia asked me in email; “How can I know a true prophet from a false prophet?” Today in this internet and television connected world more than ever it is highly important to know the difference between a true prophet from a false prophet. Not knowing the difference can cause an eternity of […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes “Cursed are those who give the name of good to evil, and of evil to what is good: who make light dark, and dark light: who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter!” (Isaiah 5:20) Throughout my lifetime (+50 years) each year more people more often have been redefining definitions of institutions which for all millennia […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes George from Sierra Leone asked me a great question in email; “What are the differences between holiness and righteousness?” Holy is ontologically “separate”. Clean is ontologically “appropriate for cult”. Righteousness is “appropriate in covenant”. Uncleanness and sin remove the appropriateness for cult and covenant. Purification sacrifice recovers for holy and clean, and for humans also […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Tomiwa in email from the United Kingdom asked me, “How can I know the plan of God for my life?” This is a question many people think of yet per apathy often don’t follow through on finding out the answer. I’m glad that Tomiwa asked. Our Lord surely intends us to have, and readily to […]
Reading Time: 13 minutes @mrscientist on Twitter asked me a great question, “Do you worship the one true [G]od who lets babies suffer with bone cancer?” This great question is the type of question common among people who either want to really know God and among people who want to smear God. Since @mrscientist told me that he would […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes @Gorooble from Twitter asked the question; “How do you take Matthew 18:19 in context?” and went on and asked; “Why don’t pairs of Christians go into hospitals, pray, heal everybody?” Great questions from @Gorooble and I’ll even up the ante by asking about Matthew 18:19; “Why don’t pairs of Christians get together around the world […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Andrew from Tanzania asked me in email, “If Jesus was really God, why did He not protect Himself and allow Himself to be put on a cross and die on the cross?” The question Andrew asked is a great question because at first thought, why wouldn’t someone who is extremely more powerful than the ones […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Will I die? Everyone asks themselves at some point in their life. Surveys show that One out of every One person dies. The better question everyone should ask is; When will I die? Because everyone will die; it’s just a matter of time for you die. Your time could be up before you finish reading […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Martinho in email asked me a really great question: “If I have repented my sins, accepted Jesus as my Savior and pray that my sins will end, will I stop sinning?” You and I (and everyone else) sin. Sin is a term used in archery meaning, missing the mark. We sin when we chose to […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Everyone puts their hope in something. Whatever you put your hope in determines the trajectory of your life. Hope is an action we choose to take and believe in. Where have you placed your hope? If you don’t take heed upon where you’ve placed your hope, you will find yourself taking action based upon the […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Jinnette in email asked me; “What does salvation mean thoroughly? Such a great question and one I’m sure many other people out there want to know the answer to as well. I hope the answer below helps Jinnette and you understand what salvation means. When God created everything, He said it was good (Read Genesis […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Most atheists and some people who claim to be a Christian, insist that being a Christian is about following a set of rules. Their claim is that by religiously following a set of defined rules/laws/commandments/etc. that is what being a Christian is. Well, these people have obviously not read the Bible and what being a […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes For a few years @FlyingFree333 has been following me on Twitter. And he has asked a few good questions about God and the Bible which I’ve answered for him either in Tweets and/or here on my blog and YouTube. Yet @FlyingFree333 has taken to RT’ing some of my tweets out of context. He has even […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Current as of June 23, 2014 Mariam Ibrahim, 27, refused to renounce her Christian faith in Sudanese court in May 2014, prompting a Muslim judge to sentence her to hang for apostasy. The case became an international cause, with several U.S. lawmakers and the State Department blasting the decision as barbaric. Sudan’s national news service […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Srinivas Vangala from YouTube asked the following questions: 1) If all Sinners are sent to Hell what [is] God is going to achieve from that? A) The Bible teaches that everyone is a sinner thus everyone including you and me deserve to go to Hell. (Romans 3:23) There are only two places someone can go […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Juan asked me a great question in email; “What is the Old Nature and New Nature?” The Bible calls the ‘old nature’ sin or the flesh. The apostle Paul says that the law of sin dwells in our body (Romans 7:23) and he goes further and encourages us not to let sin control us in […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Juan, asked me in email an excellent question, “Do Christians depend upon Specified Works?” The good news everyone needs to understand is God’s great love for you provided to us Christ Jesus who did all that is needed for you and me to be with Him forever in Heaven. There is nothing at all you […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Nasim, in email asked the question, “Who is He?” I hope this helps answer Nasim’s question. Who is God? Scripture plainly states that God the Father loved the world (you and me) so much that He sent His only begotten Son as the Savior of whoever believes; and that He loved us long before we […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Juan, via email asked me a great question; “Do we just need to accept Jesus and follow His commands so to be saved and ready to receive eternal life?” The answer to Juan’s question has two parts to it; good news and bad news. I am going to let you know both the good news […]
Reading Time: 6 minutes Do I Deserve to go to Heaven? This question I ask myself almost every day and sometimes multiple times a day. As I’ve gotten older, I find myself asking it more often. The answer is always the same. The answer I know each time before I ask myself yet I continue to find myself asking; […]