Wisdom for Christian Living

Do you read the Bible?

If yes, pause for a minute and think before you answer this: why do you read the Bible? Is it to tick a box on your daily to-do list, to ease your conscience, to accumulate knowledge, to prepare sermons, to find out how to be successful and blessed by God...? What is your reason?

You may be familiar with this popular little song that is usually taught in Sunday schools, "Read your Bible, pray everyday". And it goes on to say "if you want to grow".

Well, this is true. But it is only partly true. Reading the Bible is good, but if it was enough, every Christian who reads the Bible would be a spiritual giant - which we know is not the case.

Are we already in the end times?

Most Christians believe we are, but do nothing to prepare, although the Bible is full of specific, clear instructions... That is what this movie is all about. Did you know that the Lord had specific things for us to do at this time?

This documentary - made up of 10 episodes - is unlike any movie about the last days you have ever seen. First, the narrator, Nelson Walters, answers three fundamental questions from Scripture: 1- "Have the end times begun?", 2- "I'm saved, what else do I need to do?" and 3- "what are God's purposes for the end times?"

Born gay? Wrong gender? Can sexual orientation change? What is the science? What about conversion therapy? Is there hope for those who struggle?

In the midst of a perverse generation, we need answers, and these questions and others are dealt with in this very interesting 2018 documentary; as well as powerful testimonies from ex-gays and transgenders.

I have already shared about the deception we are living in, in the articles "The Virus Deception" and "To Vax or Not to Vax", which I encourage you to read if you have not, but here I want to take a different approach and dwell on the aspect of truth.

Today, most of the world has (unwittingly) assumed membership of a new religion that some have called the Covid Cult, and suppression of truth is the order of the day (see Romans 1:18). Good religious people obey the authorities and keep quiet. Heretics like me (and many others) who question the vaccine - and even the virus - are censored and dis-fellowshipped, but we persist in our willingness to speak truth and expose lies.

What is the government's role according to the Bible?
Should they mandate "cookies"?
Can we really love God and neighbour and keep quiet about the "cookies"?
Do we love our safety and comfort more than we love our neighbour?
And will we stand up for truth?

There is much truth in this sermon by Pastor Jeff Durbin about today's tyranny. Get ready to be challenged.

Where is your faith? Is it in God or Big Pharma? Here is a preacher who does not mince his words. Fasten your seatbelts and listen to the end. This video was banned from YouTube for a reason!

"But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God — having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people."
(2 timothy 3:1-5).

We are living in unprecedented times. Never in history have we seen people – sick and healthy alike – being quarantined in their homes, prohibited from going to work and forced to keep their distance from one another on such a global scale, all for the fear of an invisible virus. If we had been told even a few months ago that this would be happening soon, most probably none of us would even have believed it!

When I was praying the other day, this phrase dropped into my heart, "prayer keeps you from pride". As I was pondering on these words, I suddenly realised that the opposite is also true, "pride keeps you from prayer". [Sigh...] I know too well what that means - from experience!

This post could also have been called "the way we want others to see us" or "how we love to be seen in a good light" or something along these lines; but I thought "Show and Tell" was shorter and sweeter... It is about what we SHOW others and what we TELL others about ourselves through what we do. I was reading Matthew 6 recently and it became clear to me that it was all about that beautiful image of ourselves we like to project to other people.