Ever wonder why your Christian walk seems to be erratic? Why you just can’t seem to have a stable Christian walk with God and people?

This is a complex question, but one worth investigating. Just because the question is hard doesn’t mean we should avoid it. The soul itself is often a mysterious topic, and most writers in the last 50-75 years don’t refer to the soul much at all if ever. If you go back 100 years or more there was a lot of discussion about the soul and it’s importance. Writers in the past spent their whole life trying to understand the soul and it’s function.

Today, if a writer or commentary refers to the soul they say it’s not important, only a person spirit is what’s important because they say our soul will be lost when we die and only our spirit survives. First, this is totally false as the soul and the spirit are often the same word in Hebrew as well as greek being “breath” or air. Now I am no scholar, but there is a enough passages of scripture to see that the soul and the spirit often are inseparably link to each person. Secondly, they assume the soul fades when a person dies. King David wrote about the soul a lot.

When Dr. King made this famous quote, it became a pillar in the civil rights movement and a statement that resonated with the American people.
People don’t want to be judged by others for things they can’t change, but for things they develop in their lives. Dr. King was attempting to reason with the American people that judging a person by their skin color or nationality was wrong. People should be evaluated by their character, which is the sum total of their choices.
The dictionary definition of character is also more than a person’s reputation. It is, “the complex of mental and ethical traits making up the person.” A secondary definition is, “the stable and distinctive qualities built into an individual’s ire which determines his or her response regardless of circumstances.”
Here’s the deal: Our country as a whole no longer looks at character to determine a person’s value, rather their words create our perspective of who someone is.

I think for some Christians, the idea of Good Friday seems a bit strange when it’s all about Jesus dying on the cross and such a terrible death. How could people possibly think that someone dying in such a way was good? Christians should.

As a young man without Christ, I use to think it odd that Christians “Celebrated” the death of Jesus. It wasn’t until I understood that Christ dying was to set people free from sin and shame, that I finally appreciated the day. It is something I need to remind myself of regularly, lest I take his love and sacrifice for granted, and I slip back into a destructive lifestyle.

For the past year since the election, our country has been in an all out fight over each side of congress blaming the other side of breaking the law and conducting their job unfairly. Now this is nothing new, but it has heated up more than normal. This is the first time where an elected president is being attempted to being impeached by Democrats even before he was elected.

Somehow, we have gotten so messed up on the definition of what is “Just & Fair” that we think it means, “It’s just and fair if it goes my way”.

It seems to appear that after one year of investigating President Trump for collusion that the evidence is pointing to Hilary and the Democratic Party sneaking around and using the government agencies to attack and undermine our democracy and not President Trump. They appear to have broken the laws of our country and they don’t like being held accountable.

Have you ever considered how trusting we are at times?

Take Flying for instance. If you get on a Airbus 340-500 or bigger plane, you probably never met the pilot, yet you have faith he can operate the plane safely and get you to your destination in one piece. How do you know he has enough experience flying a piece of metal that weighs 805,000 pounds? The plane can carry 372 passengers and fly over 4,000 miles on one tank of fuel. It can fly at 567 miles an hour and is 223 feet long. Wow! We seem to just accept by “Faith” that the pilot can handle it. But why do we have such faith?

People have all kinds of methods of praying. Some feel they need to fold their hands. Some feel the need to kneel or lay prostrate on the floor or ground. Some lift their hand and heads, and others bow their heads. The question is ….. is there a right or wrong way to pray?

Some years ago, I had the privilege of visiting the Middle East, in particular, the land of Israel. While in Jerusalem, I went to the Western Wall also called the wailing wall, where people from all over the world come and bring their special prayers written on small pieces of paper to be put in the cracks between the stone. This wall is special because it is all that remains of Solomon’s original temple. 

Over the last 100 years or so, our lives have been so shaped by the huge technological advancements that we can start to believe man has figured out the universe pretty well and we don’t need God anymore.

This “belief” in our own intelligence and the power of huge super computers has made our culture believe that a belief in a supernatural creator is obsolete, and only for the weak-minded amongst us. That is until you pull back the “green curtain” like in the wizard of Oz.

I grew up watching the Wizard of Oz every year. It was in color, as few movies on tv were. In the movie there seems to be this “powerful” wizard that knew everything and could do anything. The problem was, he couldn’t. He was just a smart guy with a lot of fancy gadgets the “wowed” people.