Victoria’s brief Christian testimony demonstrates that without God, our lives are meaningless.
Victoria’s Christian Testimony
Without God, live means nothing. Victoria discovered that—I hope you do too.
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Rock
Are you an amchair Christian or do you live every moment for Jesus? ROCK—a poem by Mike.
This poem from Mike reminds us that our lives need refining. God is never through working on us. We can be armchair Christians, enjoying our holiness on Sunday morning, or we can live every waking moment for Christ.
A Life-Changing Experience
God’s miracles can change our lives. But if we seek miracles to strengthen our faith, we’ll likely be disappointed.
Sometimes God catches our attention with a crazy, life-changing miracle. But such miracles . . .
. . . are almost never repeated. If we seek for the same experience, we will spend our lives in fruitless wandering and we will be disappointed. God’s path for us is a journey. He generally does not revisit past experiences (those we tuck away in our memories of faith) but He leads us forward into a life of faith where we cling to His promises and seek His Son, Jesus Christ. And as we seek Him, we will have future experiences that are equally faith-building. But life is not most lived in these experiences; it is most lived in the in-between times.
Cheryl’s Christian Testimony
Imagine if you had financial troubles, marriage problems, children on drugs—would you still trust God? Cheryl’s story.
Cheryl has been put through the fire. God’s saints often experience such trials. Cheryl dealt with financial difficulties; God brought her through. She suffered through severe marital challenges; God healed her marriage. She watched her son get strung out on drugs and stay on them for twenty years; God healed him of his addictions. Cheryl is still praising God through all of it. Amazing. Let’s hope we have such strong faith when faced with life’s trials—trials that are guaranteed to come.
Overcoming Hate
Controlling your thoughts may seem difficult, but it can be done.
Sometimes it’s really easy to hate someone. Sometimes everything a person does or says really ticks us off. Sometimes it’s hard to find anything at all lovable about someone. If that’s the case, it’s not a problem with the other person—it’s a problem with us.
We need to learn to control our minds. We need to learn to take every thought into captivity, focusing our minds on the Word of God and meditating on it. Hate can be beaten, as can other invading thoughts.
Marijuana’s Not that Bad
Marijuana is not all that bad. You can function on it. It’s got lots of great uses. It’s natural.
Marijuana has never even killed one person. Hemp has all sorts of wonderful uses. It is possible to function on cannabis.
Hmmmmm. I’d have to say, as a former (heavy) user of marijuana, that is is possible to function on cannabis. At a much lower cognitive level. My memory was shot when I smoked on a daily basis. My motivation level tanked. I went from job to job. When I stopped using, depression set it. I was addicted, if not physically, then psychologically. I went out of my way to get it, even when I was broke. When I wasn’t broke, all my money went to it. Ten grand from a automobile accident settlement—gone in four months—up in smoke. So yes, you can function on cannabis, but not at a high level.
Hemp does have many positive uses. It’s impossible to argue that point.
And now—get ready for it—one of the lamest but most common excuses people make for marijuana—it’s never killed anyone. It almost killed me. I was high as a kite and I rear-ended a Lincoln Continental that was at a dead stand-still. I was going 40 miles per hour and I broke my windshield with my head. As I was strapped to the gurney and carted off to the hospital all that was going through my mind was, “How am I alive?”
Marijuana is addictive. Marijuana is expensive. Marijuana is illegal. Marijuana ruins relationships. Marijuana use is correlated with depression. Marijuana kills. Believe that one or not. But think about it (use common sense) before you go around saying, “Marijuana has never killed anyone.”
And how about another lame argument? Here it is—hemp is natural; God created it; it’s a plant for crying out loud! Hmmm. Hemlock’s a plant. Why don’t you try cooking up some hemlock cookies?
Regardless, none of that is the point of the following article. The point is this: does your life revolve around trying to convince people that cannabis is good? Or does your life revolve around sharing the good new of the Jesus of the Bible? What’s your focus? Marijuana? Getting high? Or Jesus? Can you get through the day without your pot? Can you get through the day without reading your Bible? What do you buy with your expendable income? Is Jesus the answer to your life’s problems? Or is smoking a joint the answer?
Marijuana won’t give your life meaning. It won’t provide peace or fulfillment. Meaning, peace, fulfillment—these things come from one source: Jesus Christ.
Laudia’s Christian Testimony
Continue to seek God even when times are tough—He will hear your prayers. Check out Laudia’s testimony.
Sometimes it feels as if we’re alone in this world. But as Laudia points out, God honors our prayers when we sincerely seek Him. We can all learn Laudia’s example. Even when times are tough, even when we don’t know why things seem to be going poorly—even then—we need to continue to pray, seek, and ask God for His help. He will be faithful.
Bullies Molding
People can make us feel like crap. Fortunately, God always accepts us for who we are. A poem about being a child of God.
People have a tendency to be cruel. People can make us feel like we’re nobody. People can ridicule us, tease us, bully us, walk all over us . . . but we have someone who always sees us for who we really are—Jesus Christ. He loves us and He shows no partiality. Rachel’s poem reminds us that it’s only God’s view of us that really matters.
Sarah’s Christian Testimony
Sarah partied, did drugs, broke the law . . . until the Jesus of the Bible changed her life forever.
Sarah lived for herself for a time. She partied, did drugs, broke the law—until she met someone who changed her life forever—Jesus Christ.
Mary’s Anointing of Jesus
Scripture records different anointings of Jesus by Mary. They seem to be different. Why the discrepancy?
In Matthew and Mark, we see that Mary anointed Jesus two days before the Passover. Then, in John, we read that Mary anointed Jesus six days before the Passover. This seems like an obvious discrepancy. Is it?