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Can I Hang Out with Unbelievers and be a Good Witness of Christ?

So you’re a Christian. Most likely, you have people around you: in your family, at your workplace, at your neighborhood, who are non-Christian yet. Now here’s a dilemma. You want to hang out with these people. With all your good motives, you want to win them for the Kingdom of God. Unfortunately, it’s not that easy as you are faced and challenged with compromising your faith. We read from the Bible that Jesus was around sitting, eating, and talking with sinners. Has he set a boundary for us to follow? What is the best way to handle this? Watch this video of Dr. Charles Stanley answering this very important question of our Christian faith.

Can I Hang Out with Unbelievers?

  • He who walks with wise men will be wise,
    But the companion of fools will be destroyed. – Proverbs 13:20
  • The righteous should choose his friends carefully,
    For the way of the wicked leads them astray. – Proverbs 12:26
  • Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers.For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness?And what communion has light with darkness? – 2 Cor 6:14

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Knowing a Holy God | Dr. David Jeremiah

As christians, we need to know our God deeply and personally. God is love. God is all knowing. God is powerful. God is sovereign. God is Holy. These are some of the attributes of God.  Dr. David Jeremiah preached a Knowing a Holy God for us to know more of our God. Be blessed as you watch this preaching.

Knowing a Holy God | Dr. David Jeremiah

Dr. David Jeremiah is the senior pastor of Shadow Mountain Community Church in El Cajon, California. Dr. Jeremiah is the author of numerous books, including the best-selling, Captured by Grace. His award-winning international radio and television ministry, Turning Point, reaches tens of millions of people around the globe, and reflects his commitment to the truth of the Bible and to helping people understand how to apply biblical principles to everyday life. His dynamic teaching ministry is world-renowned for delivering a strong message of truth that impacts culture today.

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All About Faith Series: Part 1 (The Faith of Abraham Confirmed)

Christian Life Today will be featuring a Faith Series starting today. It will be a journey of finding Scriptures from both the Old Testament and the New Testament that has something to do with the subject of Faith. This particular topic envisions that every reader, us included, to take into a journey of discovering and strengthening our Christian faith. It also serves as a journal where anyone who is interested in sharing their thoughts and revelations can use the comment portion below to share God’s revelation as you read the Word of God.

Abraham’s Faith Confirmed

Genesis 22:1-14 New King James Version (NKJV)

1 Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!”
And he said, “Here I am.”
2 Then He said, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”
3 So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he split the wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him. 4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted his eyes and saw the place afar off. 5 And Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; the lad[a] and I will go yonder and worship, and we will come back to you.”
6 So Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife, and the two of them went together. 7 But Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, “My father!”
And he said, “Here I am, my son.”
Then he said, “Look, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”
8 And Abraham said, “My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering.” So the two of them went together.
9 Then they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built an altar there and placed the wood in order; and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, upon the wood. 10 And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.
11 But the Angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!”
So he said, “Here I am.”
12 And He said, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”
13 Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son. 14 And Abraham called the name of the place, The-LORD-Will-Provide;[b] as it is said to this day, “In the Mount of the LORD it shall be provided.”

 

When we listen to God, nothing can go wrong. Abraham clearly heard from God and got God’s clear message. Because Abraham feared God, he had to obey to the point of sacrificing his Son, Isaac, whom he loved so much.  Abraham just trusted God and he would do all what it takes just to please Him! He didn’t even argue with God or beg God to spare his son.

Faith requires us to listen clearly to what God is saying to us. I envy Abraham, because God spoke to him directly like a man to man conversation. But for us in the modern times, God communicates with us through the Holy Spirit, and more often, by reading and meditating the very Word of God, the Bible. Thus, it’s a vital requirement for every Christian to read the Bible and ask the Holy Spirit for revelations, wisdom, and instructions. We need to tune in to God and expect that He will communicate with us even through His still small voice as mentioned in 1 Kings 19:11-13.

If God is saying to us that we have to let go of this and that, give this or that, or go for it or not,  that we have to obey. Like the faith of Abraham, we are assured that God’s thoughts and plans are much better than we ought to know as He can see the bigger picture that is ahead of us.

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Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death

Even though i walk through the valley of shadow of death, i fear no evil
“Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
Your perfect love is casting out fear
And even when I’m caught in the middle of the storms of this life
I won’t turn back
I know you are near

And I will fear no evil

For my God is with me
And if my God is with me
Whom then shall I fear?
Whom then shall I fear?”
– Matt Redman, “You Never Let Go” Lyrics

Enjoy this Video uploaded by LesDudis at Youtube. Matt Redman leading his song You Never Let Go with Chris Tomlin’s band, featuring Alex Nifong, at Passion 2006 (Nashville, Tennessee). Listen to this song on Passion’s Everything Glorious album or on Matt Redman’s album, Beautiful News.


 

For I am the Lord, your God, who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you. (Isaiah 41:13)

 
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Daily Devotional: Divine Forgiveness

Daily Devotional: Divine Forgiveness
Divine Forgiveness

By Dr. James R. Miller

“Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.” – Luke 23:34

“This was the first word spoken by our Lord on his cross. It was uttered just when the soldiers were in the act of crucifying him — driving the terrible nails through his hands and feet. It was a moment of excruciating, inconceivable anguish. Yet he uttered no cry of pain, no word of execration upon those who were causing him such suffering, but calmly prayed for his brutal, pitiless murderers — “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.”

The moment the sacred blood began to flow the intercession for sinners began. The pleading was first for the ignorant heathen soldiers who were acting as executioners; but it was not for these alone. It certainly widened out, and took in all who had been concerned in the condemnation and crucifixion of Jesus. It was for the Jewish rulers and people who had rejected their Messiah. May we not believe that many of those who on the day of Pentecost and afterward were brought to repentance were forgiven and saved because on his cross Jesus made intercession for them? Then the prayer went out beyond the people who had a direct part in the crucifixion. From his cross Jesus saw the lost world down to the end, and prayed for all men. We know, too, that that word of prayer was but the beginning of an intercession that is going on yet inside heaven, where Jesus pleads the merits of his own sacrifice for the salvation of sinners.

This word of Jesus teaches us a great lesson on Christian forgiveness. He prayed for his murderers. We should pray for those who injure us. There are some fragrant trees which bathe in perfume the axe that gashes them. So should it be with Christ’s people. Instead of resentment and injury for injury, we should show only sweet, tender love to those who harm us.”

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