Teachings Tagged "Christian"

It is exciting as a new believer coming into Christianity, you are awash with new feelings and everything is exciting. You are full of energy and everything is new to you, you love praying and talking to God as an infant does when they learn to talk. You delve into the scripture, busy to know more about the God you have just given your life to. Life is pretty exciting in these days.

I would say this marries with anything new that we start, whether it is like a new hobby or project or career, at the beginning it is all interesting and fun and we gain so much from it. But what happens down the line is, we can become bored or things just seem monotonous, that we feel like we aren't getting anywhere. This is where we slip and can slide backwards in our journeys.

What is Forgiveness, why is it so important that we forgive one another in this world? Do we even have to forgive?

Some tough questions for anyone that has been hurt or going through pain at this time. The reason forgiveness is so tough is simply because it demands action from us, it is not something you can sit back on and let happen, or something you let others do for you, it is something you must do yourself. Forgiveness comes in different levels based on the level someone has hurt you and when someone has really hurt you, it demands a bigger response from you.

Hello, I just wanted to take the time to provide you with details of what we have done with the money that was donated on our feed the poor appeal. During 2020 we have seen many people included ourselves impacted by the global pandemic of Covid-19. This pandemic has brought lockdown restrictions and changes to way of life in majority of countries around the world. For some this isn't an issue as they have been able to work from home and maintained their ability to earn their usual income, in other areas people haven't been as lucky and have had a period where they have stopped working.

If you give a man a fish you feed him for a day, if you teach a man to fish then he will feed himself for a lifetime. So the message of part 2 is all about the importance of having your own relationship with God. We all hear it time and time again to pray, pray without ceasing, talk to God. But if that's all we do, then what are we doing?

The devil, Lucifer, the enemy, Satan, the anti-Christ is someone we hear a lot about in Christianity simply because he is trying to disrupt the work of God and His relationship with His people. But why is this? Well simply put, it is because Lucifer is jealous of God and wants what he has. We can tell this from the early parts of the story, God ruled over all of Heaven and Lucifer was the top angel in charge of running the whole Kingdom (that's right, even above Michael and Gabriel). At one point Lucifer started to succumb to pride and think more of himself than of God. This isn't always hard to believe as history is littered with similar examples of people thinking they are better than their masters or rulers and deposing them. Lucifer was/is no different, he didn't understand why he wasn't in charge of everything seen as he practically was as he ran the whole kingdom.

The star, I have been think a lot about the star that sits at the top of the Christmas tree, the star that first made its significance to the wise men who first saw it in the west and travelled east to see what great phenomenon it was guiding them towards.

This post is a little later than I had intended, it was meant to be ready and posted by Christmas to keep in with a festive theme and help peak your interest. However it doesn't particularly matter when this is posted because the theme and focus of the post is not about Christmas at all, but about Jesus. If we think about it the wise men (Magi) would have had to see the star months in advance to the birth of Christ if they were to arrive just after He was born, similarly they still would have seen the star for months if the star arrived at the birth of Christ and it took them 2 years to reach our infant Lord (scripture isn't particularly clear on which it was).

I like the word "focus" and its meaning. I was going to name the website focus because of what it represents and as I want to help people focus on Jesus. When we look at the word, the word focus means "the centre of interest or activity" or "the state or quality of having or producing clear visual distinction" and this is just the definition as a noun but when you looked at the word as a verb you see again the great meaning of the word.