What is the one thing in this world that you truly have control of?
Is it your destiny?
Is it your path, your way?
OR
Is it simply yourself?
2 CORINTHIANS 13:5 (Amplified Bible) says;
Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves [not Christ]. Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you--unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
The bible talks a lot about this topic, about false prophets, counterfeit believers, false teaching and simple deception as a way to cheat you of your prize.
What is the prize of the true believer of Jesus Christ?
Is it the promise of heaven?
Is it a good life?
Is it satisfaction that your works met your beliefs?
OR
Is it simply, the true ability to love beyond the worldly trappings of the word love?
Consider 2 PETER 1:3-11 (New King James Version)
As His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.
For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.
Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble; for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Notice that this text assumes we have faith as the base of what we are to build upon. Giving all diligence add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.
With the end result being love is this not the path of the true believer in Jesus Christ?
Should we forget man made concepts that threaten only to control through fear?
Should we abandon them for the path of true love demonstrated by our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, when He gave His life for ours at the cross?
Martin Luther King Jr. said;
I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
May...
The Lord bless and keep you;
The Lord make His face shine upon you,
And be gracious to you;
The Lord lift up his countenance upon you,
And give you peace.
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A blog about belief in Jesus Christ that asks the question; Did God send His only Son, Jesus Christ to the earth to start a new religion called Christianity?
Monday, December 28, 2009
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
College Scholarships Search Engine...
Hey folks I get several requests per week that usually are just designed to direct traffic from my end of the internet to another vector. Most of those requests are not worth even looking at but I do anyway. I got an email from Suzane Smith asking if I would post this address for her. I said yes but let me check it out first which I did. Man, it is one awesome resource for University students if you need scholarship resources.
Education is good it is the difference between entry level positions forever and the dream job of doing what you were designed to do. If you are looking for scholarship resources this site is a mother lode of scholarship search engines. Although it is mostly for the US the difference in population alone makes sense.
“Top 45 Websites to Look for Christian Scholarships”
May...
The Lord bless and keep you;
The Lord make His face shine upon you,
And be gracious to you;
The Lord lift up his countenance upon you,
And give you peace.
Try a Bible Quiz and test your knowledge
click here ---> BIBLE QUIZ <--- click here
All posts by M.A.C. © Bruce W. Moar
Education is good it is the difference between entry level positions forever and the dream job of doing what you were designed to do. If you are looking for scholarship resources this site is a mother lode of scholarship search engines. Although it is mostly for the US the difference in population alone makes sense.
“Top 45 Websites to Look for Christian Scholarships”
May...
The Lord bless and keep you;
The Lord make His face shine upon you,
And be gracious to you;
The Lord lift up his countenance upon you,
And give you peace.
Try a Bible Quiz and test your knowledge
click here ---> BIBLE QUIZ <--- click here
All posts by M.A.C. © Bruce W. Moar
Sunday, December 13, 2009
My Testimony...
I have always been an entrepreneurial spirit with a positive mental attitude towards the projects I have done in my life. In my youth I teamed up with a Christian fellow to make a board game. I used to tease my friend about his faith daily and I used to get his goat on a regular basis. When we ran out of money and were left holding a useless proto-type. I knew we had failed miserably.
All we had left for food was a box of macaroni and cheese (Kraft Dinner) I said to my Christian friend almost as a joke that I would pray for bread and milk, even God must know you need bread and milk for Macaroni and cheese. We walked a bit and there on the ground was a bag with bread and milk in it. The milk was still cold. You should have seen the look on his face like wow you can do that! I thought someone just left it for a moment so we waited for them too come back. We waited for about 30 minutes. Nobody showed up, so away we went and enjoyed that Kraft Dinner with our new found bag of bread and milk.
At first I said coincidence but knew in my heart I had witnessed an answered prayer. Although I never accepted Christ that day I did shortly afterward. One of my brothers had accepted Christ and after him explaining how Christ came to be the redemption of sinners everywhere I decided to make Jesus my Lord and Saviour through repenting from this world and entering into His grace. After spending thirteen years in the desert of my mind trying to figure out what it meant to be a follower of Christ. Some of my colleagues who were Christian, invited me to a Promise Keepers meeting in the Edmonton. As I walked through the Colosseum and looking at all the vendors selling Christian merchandise I thought all they want is my money. I heard a voice loud and clear say "You can spend your money on much worse things than this".
As I looked around there was nobody beside me my buddies were off buying hot dogs and I was alone. Then I thought great now I'm talking to myself. Later that year I sold my business and moved back to Winnipeg and bought myself a beautiful black leather bound bible. I was reading my new bible at 2 Peter 1:5-7 that said add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness love.
I remembered in my youth an aunt that we would visit each summer in the country that was a devout believer of Jesus Christ. She would visit us in the winter and we would go there in the summer. One time when she was at our house she would retire to her room early each evening. Being curious I wanted to see what she was doing her room door was open and I peeked in and asked "What are you doing?". She was reading her bible and replied "I am meditating on the word". I asked "what word is that" and she showed me her bible and said "the word of God". The bible was huge it was bound in black leather and looked like something I wanted, but I did not know how to meditate.
When we visited her in the summer I cut her wood and carried water and did any chores that required muscle. She had what I thought were scrolls on the table that we as children used to fight over reading at meal times. I looked for this product everywhere but could not find it. So with this new scripture and my thought about the scrolls my entrepreneurial spirit thought hey you can make this product. Only one problem I am not a theologian and didn't one have to go to school for many years to understand God.
So I prayed and said God if you want me to do this I will but you must provide everything I need to make it so. No sooner did I say amen my wife walked back into the apartment after taking out the garbage and said "Bruce there is a big box by the refuse bin with all types of bibles and books about God". I went and looked and there was concordances and bibles and reference material and text books. Books about Latin, Greek and Hebrew. It looked like what a theological student would need in university.
So I invented the product called it Holy Scrolls, transliterated the words in Hebrew, Greek, Latin and English and I am not a theologian either. I will release it when I reach the final step of Love. That was nine years ago, I am still working on perseverance. This is my testimony of coming to be a believer in Jesus Christ.
May...
The Lord bless and keep you;
The Lord make His face shine upon you,
And be gracious to you;
The Lord lift up his countenance upon you,
And give you peace.
Try a Bible Quiz and test your knowledge
click here ---> BIBLE QUIZ <--- click here
All posts by M.A.C. © Bruce W. Moar
All we had left for food was a box of macaroni and cheese (Kraft Dinner) I said to my Christian friend almost as a joke that I would pray for bread and milk, even God must know you need bread and milk for Macaroni and cheese. We walked a bit and there on the ground was a bag with bread and milk in it. The milk was still cold. You should have seen the look on his face like wow you can do that! I thought someone just left it for a moment so we waited for them too come back. We waited for about 30 minutes. Nobody showed up, so away we went and enjoyed that Kraft Dinner with our new found bag of bread and milk.
At first I said coincidence but knew in my heart I had witnessed an answered prayer. Although I never accepted Christ that day I did shortly afterward. One of my brothers had accepted Christ and after him explaining how Christ came to be the redemption of sinners everywhere I decided to make Jesus my Lord and Saviour through repenting from this world and entering into His grace. After spending thirteen years in the desert of my mind trying to figure out what it meant to be a follower of Christ. Some of my colleagues who were Christian, invited me to a Promise Keepers meeting in the Edmonton. As I walked through the Colosseum and looking at all the vendors selling Christian merchandise I thought all they want is my money. I heard a voice loud and clear say "You can spend your money on much worse things than this".
As I looked around there was nobody beside me my buddies were off buying hot dogs and I was alone. Then I thought great now I'm talking to myself. Later that year I sold my business and moved back to Winnipeg and bought myself a beautiful black leather bound bible. I was reading my new bible at 2 Peter 1:5-7 that said add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness love.
I remembered in my youth an aunt that we would visit each summer in the country that was a devout believer of Jesus Christ. She would visit us in the winter and we would go there in the summer. One time when she was at our house she would retire to her room early each evening. Being curious I wanted to see what she was doing her room door was open and I peeked in and asked "What are you doing?". She was reading her bible and replied "I am meditating on the word". I asked "what word is that" and she showed me her bible and said "the word of God". The bible was huge it was bound in black leather and looked like something I wanted, but I did not know how to meditate.
When we visited her in the summer I cut her wood and carried water and did any chores that required muscle. She had what I thought were scrolls on the table that we as children used to fight over reading at meal times. I looked for this product everywhere but could not find it. So with this new scripture and my thought about the scrolls my entrepreneurial spirit thought hey you can make this product. Only one problem I am not a theologian and didn't one have to go to school for many years to understand God.
So I prayed and said God if you want me to do this I will but you must provide everything I need to make it so. No sooner did I say amen my wife walked back into the apartment after taking out the garbage and said "Bruce there is a big box by the refuse bin with all types of bibles and books about God". I went and looked and there was concordances and bibles and reference material and text books. Books about Latin, Greek and Hebrew. It looked like what a theological student would need in university.
So I invented the product called it Holy Scrolls, transliterated the words in Hebrew, Greek, Latin and English and I am not a theologian either. I will release it when I reach the final step of Love. That was nine years ago, I am still working on perseverance. This is my testimony of coming to be a believer in Jesus Christ.
May...
The Lord bless and keep you;
The Lord make His face shine upon you,
And be gracious to you;
The Lord lift up his countenance upon you,
And give you peace.
Try a Bible Quiz and test your knowledge
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All posts by M.A.C. © Bruce W. Moar
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
The Industry of Worship...
I came across this video today while searching for answers to my questions I am asking all believers everywhere;
Do you believe that God sent His only Son Jesus Christ to start a new religion called Christianity?
And if yes. Where is the text in the bible that supports the popular Christian belief that God sent His only Son Jesus Christ to start a new religion called Christianity?
It's a short video by author Brian McLaren that discusses art, propaganda, and the worship industry.
May...
The Lord bless and keep you;
The Lord make His face shine upon you,
And be gracious to you;
The Lord lift up his countenance upon you,
And give you peace.
Try a Bible Quiz and test your knowledge
click here ---> BIBLE QUIZ <--- click here
All posts by M.A.C. © Bruce W. Moar
Do you believe that God sent His only Son Jesus Christ to start a new religion called Christianity?
And if yes. Where is the text in the bible that supports the popular Christian belief that God sent His only Son Jesus Christ to start a new religion called Christianity?
It's a short video by author Brian McLaren that discusses art, propaganda, and the worship industry.
May...
The Lord bless and keep you;
The Lord make His face shine upon you,
And be gracious to you;
The Lord lift up his countenance upon you,
And give you peace.
Try a Bible Quiz and test your knowledge
click here ---> BIBLE QUIZ <--- click here
All posts by M.A.C. © Bruce W. Moar
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