Evolving in Christ

As we run the endurance race of faith, we should be evolving.

Not only should our spiritual man should be getting stronger, but our understanding of God and doctrine should be getting deeper.

If we are not seeing this type of change, at the very least, year to year, we can be sure that something is wrong.

Hebrews 5:11-13
Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.

For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.

For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.

For those who are following Christ, there is an expectancy of spiritual growth.

One of the things that contributes to our healthy growth is the bible.

1 Peter 2:2-3
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: if so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

The word of God greatly contributes to our spiritual growth.

Because of that, all throughtout the bible we are encouraged and commanded to do three things... read, study, and meditate on God's word.

It's sad, but many believers today are not spiritually healthy due to a lack of doing those things.

Many are malnurished. Many have stunted growth.

And although we like to lay the blame at the feet of the, often times, imcompetant leaders of the local church, they are not where the blame should be laid.

In reality, it's our own fault. Instead of reading, studying, and meditating on the words ourselves, we set aside the brain that God gave us and just accept whatever we're told.

We know that the bible says to test all things, but we don't.

We know that the bible says we should be convinced in our own minds about what ww believe, but we can't be bothered.

When this bad habit is prolonged over time, of course we won't grow.

How can we expect to speak and expound on the wonderful treasures of God which we have inherited when we won't take the time to understand it?

Let us seek to read, study, and meditate on the word of God.

Why settle for walking in the dark when we have in our hand... the light to our path... the lamb to our feet...

F.Y.I. (update)

I've managed to get a new hard drive, so my blog posts should be starting to be a bit more regular.

I am working on the next book, and i'm hoping to publish it by the end of this year.... perhaps around christmas... but we'll see how it goes.

If you watch my twitter feed, you'll see that i've joined a podcast called The Reformed Pub (http://reformedpubcast.com/). It is very interesting. Check it out.

I'm hoping to start doing some short videos sooner or later, but we'll see how that goes.

There are so many things that i've been wanting to blog about. Can't wait to get back up and running.

Your Average Christian

Looking Young For My Age

At this moment, there is a debate that is raging in the church... well... the portion og the church that is located in the states.

What's being debated?

The age of the earth.

On one side, you have the young earth creationists (YEC)... and on the other side are the atheists, agnostics, anti-Christs, christians...

That's right. Christians have sided with those who are unashamedly anti-Christ to go against their brethren.

The are known as old age creationists (OAC).

Ultimately though, as these things typically go, the argument is not really about the age of earth... but the authority of the scriptures.

You see, the YECs teach that if you start from the bible, you will see that the earth... indeed the universe as we know it, is relatively young.

In the YEC camp are scientists and inventors who back up their claim with scientific results.

The OECs on the other hand believe that not only does the bible not teach a young universe, but the findings of the anti-Christ scientists are actually true... regardless of whether or not their scientific results contradict the scriptures.

The response from the YECs is that the anti-Christ's results are not just false, but are made up but promoted as though they had sound scientific proof when they clearly do not when scientifically scrutinised... and they give the theory of evolution as proof of this.

The YECs say that the OECs actually hurt the credibility of christianity with their... not only unscientific but unbiblical stance.

And although the OECs have rejected that thought, the anti-Christs have gone on record to agree with the YECs on this point.

The anti-Christs believe that thei scientific findings completely undermine the entire bible and reduces it to the level of imaginary tales by Dr. Seuss.

Whether or not you understand the evidence provided by both sides or not...

Whether you believe the earth is billions of years or not...

If you are a Christian, then you are someone whose primary goal is to obey the word of the Lord... to live by every word that proceeds from God.

A christian must believe that the bible is true... everything in it is true... else the very salvation they claim to have is false... or at the very least... suspect.

Jesus sums it up for us...

John 17:17 
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

If the word of God is not true... then it is not the word of God.