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Category: FAITH

  • The Difference between Religion and Christianity

    Here is a simple way to describe the difference between religion and Christianity. Religion is man’s way to reach God. Christianity is God’s way to reach man. Religion’s three words are: “Get to Work.” Christianity’s three words are “It is Finished.” Religion is spelled DO. Christianity is spelled DONE. Religion is under law. Christianity is…

  • Hyper Spiritual

    All of us have encountered hyper-spiritual people. Some of them has freaked us out while for some of us we must admit we are hyper spiritual. Hyper spirituality happens when we (usually implicitly) think that obedience to God and giving glory to God is about payback. We turn astonishment over the gospel into fuel for…

  • And the Moral of the Story is…

    Aren’t we all tempted to end with the moral of the story. We grew up with that practice. In every story there is a moral lesson. Whether it’s Aesop’s Fables or our Sunday School class, it needs to end with the moral story or else it won’t be a good story. But the gospel story…

  • Gospel without Love Stinks

    “If we are Christians and do not have upon us the calling to respond to the lostness of the lost and a compassion for those of our kind, our orthodoxy is ugly and it stinks.  And it not only stinks in the presence of the hippie, it stinks in the presence of anybody who’s an…

  • Fellowship and Communion: What is the Connection?

    Before we can Christ-centered meaningful relationships, we must understand that Christianity is two dimensional. Christian fellowship is two-dimensional, and it has to be vertical before it can be horizontal. We must know the reality of fellowship with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ before we can know the reality of fellowship with each…