GOING THEIR OWN WAY

          There seem to be two things that have become fashionable nowadays: 1) announcing that your gay and 2) announcing that you are an atheist.  It all comes down to what I have said all along, man wants his autonomy.  They don’t want what my chiropractor stated rather emphatically in a recent visit, “I don’t want anyone telling me what to do!”  He wasn’t speaking of God at the time, but he might as well have been.  The basic hedonistic premise of “as long as it hurts no one, do it” seems to be in play in society today.  Even Christians are falling into this trap.  The scriptures I read don’t tell me homosexuality is okay now, that being prohibitive was for another time.  Where is that in the Bible?  People are exercising their right to choose and that is a good thing.  Man has been given a free will and that cannot be breached.  If they end up being wrong it will have been their own choice.  God doesn’t send people to hell, they elect to go there based on the decisions they make in life.  Ignore God’s gift of forgiveness for all your sins?  No problem that is your right as a created being.  But don’t complain if things turn out exactly as scripture depicts it, because that was your warning and you chose to ignore it and go your own way. rlkeller

MY BLOG CLOSES IN ON THE CENTURY MARK

As I approach the 100,000th hit on my devo blog I am humbled by the thought that someone somewhere has been touched in a positive way by something I have written. To God be all the glory, honor and praise for he is the source of my writing. There is nothing I could ever write that could match what he places in my heart. I am thankful to the Lord for choosing to use me in this small way. May his kingdom grow and may I continue to have a part in it. rlkeller

The whole world is watching ...

     People say and do things thinking they cannot be seen or heard, but trust me, the whole world is listening and watching us very intently to find the littlest of flaws. Especially if they know you’re a Christian. It is critical for us to stay focused and connected thru the Holy Spirit and the Lord will see you thru your troubling times. rlkeller

A look at 2 Corinthians 5:16-17

"So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. How differently we know him now! This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!"

     "Paul emphasizes spiritual judgment and spiritual insight into people’s lives and situations. Our experience of Christ’s love moves us to stop viewing others according to worldly standards and to learn how to view them from the standpoint of God’s great act of salvation in Jesus Christ. When Christ was regarded from a worldly point of view, men rejected and crucified Him as a blasphemer and troublemaker. But from the divine viewpoint, Christ is the Messiah and Son of God, in whom the new creation and reconciliation with God is given."

Resource: The footnote for verse 16 in The Life Application Study Bible.

AN INVITE TO MEET ST NICHOLAS & READ THE HISTORY OF THE CHRISTMAS TREE

https://rlkeller4291.wixsite.com/mysite ... go to my ministry website for a history of St. Nicholas & of the Christmas Tree. Once on the website, you can simply click on the web address to the right of the colorful St. Nicholas banner and click on the menu tab titled History of the Christmas Tree to go to page 2 of my website to read the tree's history courtesy of DeLong's Farm of Nova Scotia.

Don't wait because it will be taken down once the new year comes.

FLAWED!

"We're flawed - broken - a total mess -- instead of looking for restoration we spend valuable time creating alteregos and facades to conceal our brokenness." - rlkeller

Hell

I liken hell to several things: 1) Hell is like being in an endless free fall in total darkness and you never, ever land; 2) Hell is like having every lustful pleasure you have ever fantasized just out of arms reach. You can see it but never touch it. It calls to you, but you can never go to it; 3) Hell is like being in a maze that goes around and around with no end and no beginning. No matter what direction you go in your end up in the same, exact place you started ... forever.

Think about that when you say there is no God. You better be real sure. As Brad Stine puts it: "If we all die & there is no God, then it's just eternal unconsciousness, you'll never know, but if you're wrong, you're know forever." Think about that ... rlkeller.