New Year Resolution Ideas About 45% of all Americans will make New Year resolutions. In another study about 88% of all resolutions will fail. If these statistics are correct just over 5 percent of the total U.S. population will make a New Year’s resolution and keep it! What is to blame for such terrible results? […]
Chronologically, the fourth event that is important to church history occurred on October 31, 1517 when Martin Luther posted what would become known as the Ninety-five Theses on the door of the Castle Church. Luther’s act of nailing a dissenting opinion was the event that finally precipitated the Reformation. Luther being cognizant that God was […]
Peter Baptizes a Gentile Family Into The Church The second event occurred when the Apostle Peter baptized a Gentile named Cornelius and his family. (NIV, Acts 10, 11 and 15) The church was about to make a decision of paramount importance. In a vision Peter is commanded to visit the home of a Gentile. This […]
Sloth – running from that which is hard. The aim is sweetness and good feelings. Perhaps the opposite of this is maturity. Maturity can be defined as delayed satisfaction. Sloth is simply putting off the thing that is difficult by doing the thing that is comfortable or easy or the thing we like to do. […]
Avarice: extreme greed or need for material gain. They never have enough of anything. Their default is to compare their possessions or learning or “fill in the blank” with that of others. Their true desire is contentment and they are seeking it in all the wrong places. My Last Post In my last post I […]