Category: Christian Living

What Products Contain Leavening?

During Unleavened Bread we are to have no leaven or leavened products in our home (Exodus:12:15; Exodus:12:19; Exodus:13:7).

Leaven is a food additive, which causes bread or bread products to rise. The apostle Paul used this property of leaven to teach Christians that a “puffed up” attitude is sin (compare 1 Corinthians:5:2 with 1 Corinthians:5:6-7).…

In mainstream Christianity, most people think that the Sabbath command (#4 of 10) is done away with, despite both a clear scriptural teaching on this being an everlasting commandment, and a lack of evidence that it was done away with.  Still, those who wish to acknowledge “the spirit of the law” feel that “any day can be the Sabbath” now, based on Romans 14:5-6:

One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike.

I recently obtained my first speeding ticket. After 12 years or so of driving, I figured I was finally due for the awesome feeling of violating local laws. (The only other ticket I’ve received was turning right on red where it was apparently prohibited.)…

Despite the technological advances in computer graphics, and stunningly realistic gaming engines, one very popular video game currently is Minecraft – which has the graphical quality of a 1980’s Nintendo console game.

Since the early 1990’s, there have been very successful games that place the user in control of building, maintaining, and controlling virtually everything.…

“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard.

About nine in the morning he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. He

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” -Mother Teresa

Have you ever felt the desire to do something great? Have you desired to do something that mattered on a large scale?…

I believe in the sun even when it’s not shining
I believe in love even when I don’t feel it
And I believe in God even when He is silent
And I, I believe

This chorus of a song entitled “I Believe in Love” sung by BarlowGirl was taken from a poem written on the wall of a cellar, by a Jew in the Cologne concentration camp during WW2.…

How often in our lives have we uttered the phrase “what are the odds of that?” Life is often filled with these situations. Some call it coincidence, some say luck, and other attribute them to ordinary everyday miracles. Time and chance happen to us all, but perhaps we are too quick to dismiss some ordinary miracles in our lives as simple ‘luck.’…