sin

Millions of people – perhaps billions – believe they can win God’s approval and earn eternal life by “being good” – even if they’ve “been bad” in the past. Their…

To the first Adam God said, “Obey Me about the Tree and I will bless you” – and Adam didn’t do it. But to the second Adam He says, “Obey…

You don’t think the Devil can talk you into Hell? He talked angels out of Heaven!

Many of us look back on our youth and acknowledge a few regrets here and there. Toni Braxton, the award winning R&B singer, also has a few regrets from her…

Growing up in the intense spotlight of fame took its toll on pop star, Demi Lovato, causing the talented young singer to cope with her highly public life through alcohol and drug abuse. After multiple close calls, she now curbs her addictions through a lifestyle she calls “California sober.”

But…what does that mean, exactly?

“Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.”

“People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.”

“We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”

“Teaching is like a mirror. It can show you if your face is dirty, but the mirror will not wash your face.”

Like any other nation, the UK has had its fair share of violent crime. In response, governmental leaders have enacted major gun control measures in 1937, 1968, 1988, and 1997 rendering London (and its country) one of the most firearm-restricted places in the world.

But that hasn’t stopped violent crime….