Category: Salvation

Grateful thanksgiving


The Bible tells us to be thankful in our lives, even during hard times. It is something that we find hard to do because you can’t understand why. Why do I have to be thankful for the hard times in my life? Consider the grace that we have been given by God. We don’t deserve it, but He has given it to us because He loves us.

Grace and being grateful go together because you can’t have one without the other. God gives us grace through faith in Jesus Christ and as we live as Christians we become so used to having grace in our lives…we take it for granted. Be thankful for God and His love for us because He loved all of us many years before we were born.

Being thankful every day because you woke up this morning. Be grateful for today because God has given it to you and He wants you to tell someone about Jesus and what He has done for you. He loves you and has provided a way for you to gain entrance into Heaven one day and that door is Jesus Christ. Ask Him to come into your heart and change your old heart into a newborn heart that is loving, grateful and thankful for every blessing that you have received from His hand.

Because one day, Jesus is coming in the clouds for His Bride and when He does, the world will see Him and they will see that the Church is gone. The news that day will be terrifying because the Holy Spirit is gone too and the evil in the world will now have nothing to hold it back. Make sure that you have given your life to Jesus and that your heart has been changed today. Because, life will be so much sweeter and everlasting when you are in Heaven with Him one day.

God really is love…


Bound in the magnificent, holy and wonderful Being that we can’t even imagine. He is the Creator, Savior and the Maintainer of the Universe and His love is the Light of Heaven. Seek to know Him so you will be able to meet Him one day. So you won’t have to live through the Tribulation, if you can. It will be hell on Earth for seven years, I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.

Jesus took all of our sins


Jesus Christ took all of the sins of the world, from the past and the present and the future. Many people can’t make sense of the actions that took place on the cross. God planned for the world’s sins to be forgiven if we only believe that Jesus did this for each of us. Seek Jesus to be your Savior today because He loves you more than you can know.

Endure through the hard times


The world is going through some hard times today. How we get through them is not only our responsibility but it is also our witness to others who know us and our beliefs. Christians have a Savior to lend a hand with our trials. We can lean on Jesus and His teachings when our lives get a bit rough during illness or family troubles or financial troubles. Most of the world does not have that. Many people in America and around the world only have their family or themselves to get them through troubled times, regardless of the severity of the trouble may be.

Those who find themselves in a real fire-fight like during war or during tribal problems have to rely on their wits and their neighbors to get through these times and very often it isn’t enough. Sometimes it takes more faith than we can imagine to get through even one night of ideological skirmishes and attacks. God is close to all who have faith in Him and in Jesus and the joy that comes with that is something that most people can’t understand. Especially during physical attacks and war because faith in God gives us comfort for our eternal life but it doesn’t take away the fear and anxiety of today or tonight.

Comfort from God comes from the strength we get from our faith in Him regardless of our circumstances right now. Seek to know Him as your Savior and your King because one day He will appear to take His Bride, the church, home to be with Him. The true joy that we have in Jesus is knowing that as long as we are His in our hearts and live like we are ready to die to be with Him, there is nothing in this world that can take that away from us.

If…


If God doesn’t exist? Really?! How can you possibly believe that there isn’t a God? Life in the universe, or even the possibility of it, wouldn’t have been possible if He didn’t!

There are many things in science, particularly regarding the universe, that prove His existence without a doubt. The position of Earth from the Sun, for one. If the Earth were just a few miles closer, it would be too hot for life to be here. If our Sun was just a little bigger, there wouldn’t be life here. There are so many other details about the constants in the universe that would’ve caused our universe to just be full of hydrogen if it was just a tiny bit different. All of these are out there on the Internet to find, I can’t list all of them.

My point is, God’s influence in our universe is necessary for just our planet to be able to support life as we know it. He created all of it, but He put us here and made many of us smart enough to build and use telescopes so we could ask these questions. So that we would wonder about how all of this was put together and why. 

God allows us to ask questions about His existence because He made us that way. Some of us will believe in Him and His plan for our salvation and some of us will not…and that’s okay. He already knew which one we would choose. But He gives us that choice. Why? Because He loves each of us. You can’t force someone to love you or to depend on you, but when they see the reason behind your love for them and read it in the Bible, many people will walk down the aisle and accept Jesus as their Savior by faith.

A relationship that is built on love and compassion is one that will grow deeper as time goes on. A relationship that is forced is one that will grow bitter with hatred not love. God doesn’t force anyone to serve Him or do as He asks. Angels even have the free will to love Him or not, but many of them do. We have free will to love Him and there are many in our world who do and they know that He loves them. If God did not exist then our culture and the people on Earth would’ve destroyed each other long ago. Most of the prophecies in the Bible have come true already. If you are looking for a Savior, seek to know Jesus Christ. If a “man in white” has told you He loves you in a dream, seek out someone who can tell you about Him. Don’t turn away from a life with Him as your Savior.

The entire Bible is a love letter written by men who were being used by God to tell others about Himself.

Where will you be?


In our society today, where do we see ourselves in five years or even ten? With all of the advancements in artificial intelligence in the past two or three years…will there even be a human race left in a decade and if so, how will our society look at that time?

God is still in control, regardless of the advance of technology and how swiftly it is moving to supplant humans and our own cognitive ability by dumbing us down when we rely on some AI bot to teach us and inspire us and in some cases “be our friend”. Society will change rapidly and in the wrong direction if we allow AI to become our counselor.

What will become of humanity in the next decade? Only God knows for sure. According to some pundits, AI will either bring unrivaled health and advances in medicine or it will be used against us, maybe not in a militaristic way, but just as our replacement in the job market. Then how will we live?

It is a question that was part of the book 1984 and it is scary and humbling in the extreme. The best and most anticipated event for me is the calling of the church to go to heaven. Yes, it is called the rapture but that word isn’t found in the Bible. The wording in the Bible refers to snatching away or in some chapters it is “taken to the third heaven”. Either way, I’m looking forward to that most of all.

God loves us regardless of our intent of embracing technology more than we do His Son. I pray that many of you will seek Jesus as your Savior soon because the world will get more dangerous after the Holy Spirit is taken to heaven with the church. Please, don’t wait. We are not guaranteed to have tomorrow so make sure you know Jesus as your Savior.

That I am a Christian


What’s the first impression you want to give people?

This is my goal at least, sometimes it is not easy to do. I do pray for those around me that cut me off in traffic because it’s the best way to respond in traffic. Most people won’t know I’m doing it but I do. In a restaurant I bless my food and other people will see that, but I don’t do it just for that reason.

A comedian


Who is the most famous or infamous person you have ever met?

I met Jerry Clower once going into a hospital in Jackson Mississippi. He was a big man. I had never seen him up close before but he looked like he was about 6 feet 10 inches tall and at least as wide as some doors. When he played football for Mississippi State, I wouldn’t have wanted him tackling me.

How can we rejoice with thanksgiving?


1 Thessalonians 5:16–18: “Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”

I know that the Thanksgiving holiday is coming up soon…like in a couple of weeks, but how can we be thankful in the climate that is against Christians in America and around the world? First…don’t question God about your situation. You are there in that place for a reason. Good or bad, it will be a blessing for you and you will give glory to Him for it.

Why do I say this? Because my life was a mess while I was growing up. If you don’t want to read a portion of my life story, stop reading now. My parents divorced when I was five. My Dad brought us home to my grandparent’s place, parked the trailer there that we had been living in with him and left. From that point on through the seventies and eighties my emotions were all over the place.

I thought that nobody wanted me and that’s the way I lived from day to day. From the first grade on through high school I pretty much kept to myself. I made friends but I didn’t join any “groups” in my class or participate in sports. I didn’t like school…period. I started drinking when I was in the ninth grade because there was a place in town that you could get whiskey as long as you had the money. So, every Friday night I told my mother that I was going to the football game. I did actually go but I wasn’t there for the game, I came to get drunk. Most of the time I slowly drove home and I was not caught being drunk until I wrecked my Mom’s car one night.

To make a long, boring story short, my teenage years weren’t much fun. After I graduated, I worked for the first summer with my Dad in Florida while Irby was putting power lines through the Everglades. Hot and sticky doesn’t describe how those swamps felt during the summer of ’79. I did attempt to go to a junior college that fall but I drank more than I studied, so I quit after the first semester and joined the Air Force. Still looking for a place to fit in.

I won’t bore you with life after all of this because it was up and down for many years until I got married to a wonderful girl and a few years after that we had a baby boy. That is when God got my attention. I had given my life to Jesus a few years before my son was born but I didn’t know how to be an example for him and that is the “job” that God wanted me to take on. I began studying the Bible and praying about being a good example. Of course, the answer was to be more like Jesus.

Why have I written this way today? Because, the young people in America and around the world need to know Jesus. They need to see grown-ups living out their faith. Yes, there have been revivals since Charlie Kirk was killed and there will likely be many more because young people are hungry for Someone real to follow and Jesus can fill that empty space that I felt years ago and that many feel today. Your life can have an impact on someone. Make sure that your impact is one that Jesus would approve of. Make your life into a discipleship of following Jesus so that others will want to follow Him too.

My brief testimony about the lonely life I had due to a broken home shouldn’t impress anyone and I doubt that it will, but I pray that anyone who reads this would seek to know Jesus as their Savior. He is the One who can bring joy to each of us in the good times and during bad times too. God loves us and sent Jesus to pay for our sins so that we might be forgiven if we only place our faith in Jesus for our salvation. It requires nothing on our part except for belief in Him for our salvation. Begin your new life with Him today so that you will be in His family for eternity.

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What was your favorite subject in school?

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