How Do You Renovate a Soul?

Renovation: the act of renewing or restoring something; the process of improving a broken, damaged, or outdated structure.  We are all broken to some extent, all damaged. It's a result of living in a fallen world that has wandered far from its creator. No sooner were we born than a series of messages, some positive, some negative, began to be imprinted on our innocent souls. By the time we were two our Adamic natures began to assert themselves, and we started to war against authority. With

Everything Has A Beginning

It’s a law of the universe. Everything has a beginning, and it continues until another force acts upon it to bring it to an end. Everything you are today, all of your thoughts, actions and circumstances are rooted in your past. Are you fearful? Sometime, under some circumstances in your past, you learned to fear. Are you in a circumstance that you feel powerless to change? Sometime, under some circumstance in your past you first began to believe that you are powerless. Are you arrogant, or

Two Loves, One Word, and What It Means to You

In English we have a word, and that word is love. We use that word for many purposes – I love my husband, I love my cat, I love chocolate, I love that blouse, I love Jesus, etc. Is my love for Jesus on the same level as my love for chocolate? Certainly not, but that one word, “love” does not express any differences. Rather sloppy word usage, don’t you agree? New Testament Greek is a more precise language. When Jesus used the word epithumeo, He meant lust, or covet, which means “to set the

Identity - Are You a Prince or a Pauper?

Who are you, really? You have all manner of scenarios defining you, as if you are an actor in multiple plays at the same time. In one script your skills define you - a hard worker, a mechanic, a teacher, a clerk, a doctor, a lawyer, a waitress, unemployed. In another script you are a loser - rejected, isolated, abandoned, refused, alone, unwanted, a failure. In yet another script you are defined by your physical appearance (the good, the bad and the ugly), and in another you are defined by the

Preparing for Eternity, Who are You Becoming?

As Christians we accept that the Bible is a revelation of God's truth to us about many matters, especially matters that involve our relationship with Him, and how we are to structure our beliefs about what is acceptable behavior, what constitutes sin, what is important to God, our position in reference to God, our position in reference to the world, and especially our position in reference to eternity. This last one is not understood by a lot of Christians. In terms of eternity, they think only

Do You Owe God an Apology?

I’ve apologized to the Father many times; mainly for treating Him as if He is just like us – untrustworthy, unmerciful, selfish, uncaring. In psychology it’s called transference. That means I transfer the emotions I am feeling to someone else who had nothing to do with causing those emotions. So, for instance, if you learn as a child that people can’t be trusted, and that people will hurt you if you do trust them, you might transfer that to your relationship with God, especially your