Building or God’s house?

During the time that I pastored a church, I would go and study God’s Word there during the week. There was no one there except me, God, and the Bible that I was studying from. The building was quiet and sometimes cold but the difference always came on Sunday morning when the people came and they sang the songs and worshiped God. I could feel God’s Spirit fill the space that was empty and cold before.

The next day, on Monday, I would come to study some more of God’s Word to prepare for the next sermon. The building was lifeless again except for me, God, and my Bible. The life of the church is not the music or the sermon. The life of the church is the people who come to worship God and who come to have their lives changed by Him. Without the people a church is just a building, the Church is the Bride of Jesus Christ and that is every believer and even those who are still searching for their Savior. Come to His house so that one day He will take you to His house and yours in Heaven.

I wait for my Savior

We don’t know what is waiting for us but…

God cares for you in everything

Show your faith by your actions

God is forgiving

I pray that many of you will seek Him to be your Savior. God bless you all.

Love others like Jesus did

The time is evil

We are living in the time that Jesus spoke about in Matthew 24. Daniel also spoke of this time and Ezekiel did as well. This is why so many are preaching about prophecy these days. God’s prophets spoke about this time and we are seeing it come to pass on the news and other media outlets every day.

God has told us of this time and it is an evil time with people rejecting the Word of God and many of the prophecies contained in it. Yet many people are seeking their Savior in Jesus Christ. So many have heard of Him and the salvation offered through belief in Him yet some are finding their Savior and some are still rejecting His grace and mercy. Time is running out for those who want to be included in the church to be taken up when the Trumpet sounds.

I’m not saying that you can’t accept Jesus during the Tribulation but it will be difficult and dangerous. Christians will not be accepted and will be hunted during this time. If you choose Jesus as your Savior and refuse to take the “mark”, you won’t be able to buy or sell and if you are caught you will be killed. Make sure that you find your Savior soon…before the Trumpet sounds.

All of us have trouble

The trap…

The trap that most of us live in is created by Satan when we are young. We live in the “cell” that is our life and it becomes comfortable. I’m not saying that we worship Satan but before we can decide about following Jesus, he can come in and tempt us with a comfortable existence that we don’t want to leave. Many people, especially in the South, fall into this trap and they don’t even know it. They’ve been taken to church since they were in diapers, so the idea of going to church is planted early in life. This isn’t a bad thing but for those who have grown up in this culture, it can be deceiving.

When you ask someone if they are a member of this church and they tell you that they’ve been going to this church ever since they were a baby, that is a clear expression of a “cultural Christian”. Going to church, reading the Bible, listening to sermons every week at church, and even teaching Sunday School are all wonderful things to do but these become habitual. Some would ask me “What’s wrong with having a habit of going to church?”. Nothing is wrong with it BUT if you believe that you are a Christian because of your attendance record then you’re missing the point.

Being a follower of and a believer in Jesus doesn’t automatically happen just because you are in church or are a member of a church. Belief in Jesus comes from hearing the Word of God preached and being convicted by the Holy Spirit that you NEED Jesus as your Savior! No amount of work on your part or anything in this world will help you become a Christian. God sent Jesus to do what was necessary to save all of mankind and He did. All we have to do is believe in our hearts that He did and accept Him as our Savior.