Would you take a bullet for Jesus?

I am against its abuse which is as a result of misconceptions and misunderstandings across the world. I don’t know who I’d be, but I’d be very different, for sure. In fact, you can be removed at a moment’s notice. If you have substantial mental health issues, DUI problems, seizures, visual difficulties that can’t be corrected – then you don’t need to drive a vehicle. If you are hot-headed person with a hair-trigger temper, you don’t need one. In any case, the possibility of capture and the threat of imprisonment has yet to discourage daylight robbery in the kingdoms of men. They would also steal.

Noah was not only a boat builder but also a preacher of righteousness, until God closed the door of the Ark. Jesus provides a cryptic answer. Having this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who though He was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant being born in the likeness of men. His words read like a job description for a pastor.

He was preparing them for his death and their future (John 13-17). It is because it is in Him, that each blessing of this life is a little sweeter – and even Heaven itself is brighter, because it is in Jesus our beloved “in whom” we have obtained all. Is the Holy Spirit identified to them as God down here? We recognize that we are strangers and pilgrims in the world.

Scientific achievements, that brought us the Internet, have produced an explosion of information about Christianity and the Bible that has deepened our understanding. God has not only spoken to me about my immediate needs, but He immediately started with a promise for my future-I was not looking for God to do that, but He chose to give me a hope for my remaining life before I die: one day I’m going to have a happy marriage. (Colossians 3:2-3). “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it”. Timothy had two women who greatly influenced his Faith in God Almighty, his Mother, Eunice, and his Maternal Grandmother, Lois. As Christian faith has declined in the public sphere in America, so has the restraint and sense of accountability to transcendent authority. When we make an effort to do this we are moved to respond in a merciful way. Are we promoting the cause of Christ and challenging people to think in new ways with our communications? And of course that is exactly what we get with Jesus. Yet they prayed throughout their ordeal. They searched for him frantically for three days and finally found him in the temple discussing with the teachers of the law.

From alcoholism. She was full of fear, and needed to know Jesus. All gold in heaven could not buy man. 1 Peter 1:18-19 “knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb without spot, the blood of Christ”.

I suggest you bring Psalm 139:23-24 into your active prayer life: “Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts”.

We were chosen for a objective. We do this by who we are and not by what we have. That’s how much You have formed and shaped me.

“… The White House would have come out aggressively if the shooter asked if any of the people there were gay and then proceeded to execute them – or if any of those who were killed said that they were Muslim”, states the ministry leader.

And the way God loves us, according to the Christian faith, is in a specific mode: self-gift. On the other hand, the Moslems’ god, Allah, is of the wicked one, and he is a god of hate.

What do you do when God asks the impossible? Up until this time, Jesus was teaching and leading his disciples through a few important lessons. My friend if you have never bumped in to the devil it could be because you are traveling in the same direction.

Similar to Degrassi, I find myself contemplating the preciousness of life. “For your sake, my beloved Son, I set them free”.

Believers are not called to showcase the glories of this world. We can be merciful because God is merciful. It is deficient in love, joy and peace. And the message is simple: “The kingdom of God has arrived”.

“No nation has ever come into possession of such power for good or ill, for freedom or tyranny, for friendship or enmity among the peoples of the world, and…no nation in history has used those powers, by and large, with greater vision, restraint, responsibility and courage.” [1].