Muscular Christianity

According to the book of Romans, if you don't have the Spirit of Christ, you don't belong to Him. That's the bottom line: The Spirit of God living in you. That's what it means to be born again!

Young people have the capacity to do far more than our culture gives them credit for, although that wasn't always the case. A brief rehearsal of history and Scripture reveals not only what a young person is truly capable of, but also provides a motivating incentive to dig in a little deeper and sieze the opportunities and challenges that lie before you, regardless of your age.

I had just read "Team Of Rivals" and a buddy of mine reponded by insisting that my understanding of history and Abraham Lincoln was severely flawed. I determined to refer to some other resources in order to better understand what I believed to be the case and in so doing, uncovered some Biblical principals that constitute a lesson that can be learned not only from a national viewpoint, but a personal one as well.

Three categories of "to do's," all three of them warrant a plan. But you want that plan to be subordinate to God's design for you. Only then are you guaranteed a life and not just an existence.

John 4 represents a great template to use when confronted with either the opportunity or the obligation to tell someone that they're wrong. Popping open the hood of that Scripture reveals Jesus deploying an approach

Allow yourself the opportunity to experience whatever represents a healthy, emotional response to your situation but don't stay there. Bring the defense in and get that offense on to the field and start moving forward based on who you are in Christ.

While we can easily point out the historical discrepancies represented by asserting "the separation of church and state" as being a comprehensive description of the scope and intent of the First Amendment, it's the fact that was as believers have separated the church from our everyday state of affairs that we're having to deal with this issue to begin with.

It's not so much that people don't believe in God, as much as they have a hard time understanding / accepting His actions and apparent motives. There's more to this conversation than just, "Does He exist?" We're swimming in a dirty pool and we as human beings are the ones that have made it that way. But God offers an alternative and it's the fact that He's even willing to give us an option reveals Him as a God that is worth reconsidering.

How do you know that what you believe is true? Is the Bible the Word of God? Did Jesus really rise from the grave? This series looks answers those questions.