The Number One Problem in Marriages—Strife
Harmony at home is one of the greatest blessings in life. It’s also one of the easiest blessings to lose if we don’t make a decision to do all we can to nurture our marriage relationship.
This past Sunday at church, when the children were called forward for their special time, everyone in the congregation watched with joy as the little ones tripped down the aisles in their dresses and bows, sweaters and ties, their little feet moving excitedly to reach the front of the sanctuary.
Today we have more resources, more technology, more forms of communication, and more options at our fingertips to help spread the Gospel than ever before. But right now, there are also more unsaved people living on the earth than at any other time in history. At least 2/3 of the population does not know Jesus Christ as their Savior. That’s more than 4 billion people.
Four billion who would not go to heaven if they died today. Four billion who need to be told the truth about Jesus Christ and His love for them. The question is, who’s going to tell them?
In the church today, we frequently speak of needing “revival.” That’s good, but perhaps we have drifted so far from the true heart of God that reviving what exists won’t get the job done. I believe we need more….
I believe we need a Love Revolution. A revolution doesn’t just try to stir up what’s already there…a revolution brings complete change. Read the rest of this entry »
Must face every moment of your life, declare it as positive for the future and finally resume the path towards the promises of the Lord.Must face every moment of your life, declare it as positive for the future and finally resume the path towards the promises of the Lord.
In life there are moments we want to perpetuate and others who would like to forget. Every moment we must live it and make it with faith, then take the right direction. Do not evade your moments. When a baby is born, we should celebrate it, just as we must mourn when someone dies. A divorce is not desirable, but inevitable if we must overcome. It is useless to deny reality, you must learn to live, no matter how difficult. Read the rest of this entry »
The third council, no sound as such, rather it was a recurring question that Juan Carlos I did every time they visited the Cathedral.
- You did the list of people you’re willing to fail?
That question was a stimulating, disturbing. Nobody likes to fail, much less a leader. That is not the question that somebody really wants to hear. We want to know how to be successful, but we do not care to know who is going to go wrong.
- Why should fail? “I asked incredulous.
Because if you do not choose with whom you will go wrong, it’s likely you’re a hybrid you are done pleasing to everyone and never manage to leave a mark on history. I decided that I would fail with the religious, I am aware of that until I have a list of who they are and it does not hurt me. On the contrary, it makes me good for my emotional and spiritual health. Do not fail them because I did something wrong, or even because they have identified. It’s my own decision. Read the rest of this entry »
For some years, I was fortunate that I was invited to preach in some meetings of the Sunday service Hispanic Crystal Cathedral in Los Angeles. There he met his host, the genial Pastor Juan Carlos Ortiz. Perhaps the best preacher who has given much time in Latin America. His wisdom is intact, the gift of people remains the main adjective. His messages are so profound and devastating as they were in the tumultuous seventies, whose tapes were wanted as gold and copied in bulk rope, despite being proscribed by the traditional church of the time.
“Why do you not know how to interpret the present time?” -Luke 12:56
Easter weekend is hardly the time to write commentaries on Obama’s relationship with his pastor, or progress in Iraq, or the financial meltdown in America’s economy - there will be plenty of time for that sort of thing later. This is the special time in the Christian calendar year when we Christians need to focus on the crucifixion and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, and hear what God is saying to us about those world-changing events.
For the last 35 or 40 years I have read Oswald Chambers’ classic devotional My Utmost for His Highest every morning before I get out of bed. This year Good Friday happened to fall on the day when the book offers some of Chambers’ thoughts on the Apostle Paul’s inspired statement of union with the Savior: “I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me (Galatians 2:20). It struck me that this was as appropriate a reading for Good Friday as one could hope to find, and the more I pondered it and prayed over it the more it seemed that I should write this week’s commentary on it, for in this one Bible verse the Holy Spirit gives us the essence of how we Christians should view our relationships with Jesus. Read the rest of this entry »
