JESUS TALK

Can you imagine living in a world in which God is silent, and all the questions about life go unanswered? Why am I here? Do I have a purpose in life? How can I understand a world filled with such beauty, yet, filled with such evil? What will happen when I die? Is there any hope for me after I’m gone or is this it? Thank God, he is not silent, and he has not left us alone with unanswered questions. God has in fact, revealed himself to us throughout history and has graciously made himself known to us. God desires a relationship with his creation God revealed himself to the Israelites in the Old Testament as part of the kind and enduring bond he established with them through his covenants with Abraham, Moses, and David. God described himself as "merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness" In the New Testament, the culmination of God's revelation is his Son, Jesus. God no longer speaks to us through prophets but through his son. (H...

Fear is one of the primary tools the enemy employs to harm us. Fear, anxiety, and worry can paralyze us with a heavy shadow of despair, dictating our every action and choice. With all the things happening around us today, wars, conflicts, persecution, violence, crime, natural disasters, economic uncertainty, unemployment, disease, and even death, no wonder it brings worries. Yet, reality tells us that all the time we spend on worrying nothing ever seems to change. Many are living under the weight of the "what if's" I believe that in order to understand fear and to overcome fears, we must first identify what they are. Fear is a tool Satan uses against us to keep our focus off God and ultimately destroy our lives. He studies our thought patterns and stirs up emotions within us that can control us. Sometimes, it is so strong that we can even make wrong choices. For years, I’ve struggled with fear but through time, as I’ve grown spiritually I realized that focusing more on th...

  In Christian theology, every Christian will admit that the doctrine of The Holy Trinity is one of the most controversial doctrines that attract a heated debate either within Christendom or from other religions. This subject is undoubtedly complex and challenging to convey, even for many Bible preachers and professors. Someone once remarked that you needed a divine intellect if you wanted to mentally comprehend the Holy Trinity. The most challenging aspect of the Christian concept of the Trinity is that there is no way to fully comprehend it. The Trinity is a concept that no human being can entirely comprehend, let alone explain. Because God is immeasurably greater than we are, we should not hope to fully comprehend Him. According to the Bible. The Father is God, Jesus is God, and the Holy Spirit is God. In addition, the Bible teaches that there is only one God. Though we can understand some facts regarding the relationship of the Trinity's various Persons to one ano...

Many Christians today live a life like a roller coaster—up one minute, down the next. Instead of growing spiritually, we find ourselves at a stalemate, living a stagnated life. Until we realize this hope is through intimacy with Christ, we will continue to live a stagnated life. The true is the world is full of uncertainty, doubt, pain and sorrow. Some Christians believe that living the Christian life requires only attending church, reading the Bible, praying, and serving. While this is good, we must remember that we have the holy, sovereign God within us. The power we need to live the Christian life isn’t given from on high, but rather, from within you, as a result of Christ's indwelling presence. Our helper is the holy spirit, whom Jesus promised will always be with us. The Lord understands our human frailties and limited power and that we are unqualified to live the Christian life on our own. So, it is his goal to accomplish this through us, by the power of the holy spirit...

John 15: 1-3 – “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the words that I have spoken to you.    Many people take verses about the fruitless branches being cut off and burned as indication that salvation might be lost. The misinterpretation of scriptures is that a person who was once in Christ may later cease to "abide in Christ" and become useless; that person is then severed and burned up. If the parable of the vine and the branches were the only chapter that addressed the subject of eternal security, we might have reason to be concerned that salvation could be lost. However, this is not the only chapter in Scripture that concerns security and confidence, nor is it the only verse in John that tackles these issues.  There are various passage...

The ascension of Jesus Christ into heaven is one of the most significant events recorded in the New Testament. Despite its importance in the Bible, many believers focus little attention on it We usually concentrate more on the crucifixion and the resurrection. However, the ascension is crucial, particularly in the Gospels of Luke Luke wrote a two-part chronicle of Christianity's beginnings. The first volume is the gospel that bears his name. The second volume contains the book of Acts. And the ascension was so essential to Luke that he finished volume one with it (Luke 24:50-51), began volume two with it (Acts 1:9-11), and then reference it multiple times throughout the book of Acts. For one thing, the ascension explains why Jesus' appearances throughout the forty days following his resurrection halted. The ascension also foretold the culminating event in the history of salvation: Jesus' personal, corporeal, and magnificent return. “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking ...

As children of God, our goal in life is to glorify and exalt God, and to enjoy God forever. We are to honor him wholeheartedly as we communicate our true emotions to him, we adore him above all things as we walk in obedience. Ephesians 1:11-12  - In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, in order that we, who were the first to put our hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory. Another way to describe our life’s goal is to become more like Christ and this only happen as we submit ourselves to God. It is God’s plan for each of us to be conformed to the likeness of Jesus and by cooperating with the Holy Spirit we are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory. Romans 8:29 - For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 2 Corinthians 3:18 - An...