The Social Porcupine

Found on Pinterest  Pinterest is a great place to find quotes. That's about all I do on there ;) There are always so many! Great ones and not so great ones. But the majority of what I find are like this one: they sound great but deep down... they  really aren't that great. Let me explain... To an extent, this is a great quote. It's not the best thing to gossip about people. I mean... the Bibe talks against it. And talking about the weather or the last party you went to is rather pointless. But is it true that ideas are the epitome of great minds?  Let's dig into this idea and see... The greatest person that ever lived was Yeshua (Jesus). His mind is the one we should imitate. His ways are the way we should walk. His words should reflect from our conversation. What was the mind of Yeshua like?  To do His father's will To sacrifice himself for us (people)   To love everyone To warn us of consequences (events)  Y...

I recently came across this book titled Christ the Healer by F. F Bosworth. It was very… interesting, I must say. Now I don't normally tear books apart, but this topic has been on my mind for several months now ever since I met this guy who believed it was his calling to preach divine healing and that, if you had enough faith, God never said 'No'. Don't get me wrong, I still think God can and will do miracles. But I think this whole belief of God healing us unconditionally has some flaws. And I think this belief is a very dangerous belief for the Christian person's relationship with God. Here is a poem from the book; Death comes, and then we blame our God. And weakly say, “Thy will be done”; But never underneath the sod Has God imprisoned any one. God does not send disease, or crime, Or carelessness, of fighting clans; And when we die before our time The fault is man's He is God of life, not death; He is one that gives us birth...

This last Sunday, August 21, I was baptized along with one of my brothers and one of my sisters. I had believed in Yeshua quite a few years ago, but was uncertain for a long time about what I believed about baptism. Was is necessary to do? Is it part of being saved? Must one be baptized to be saved? And what does baptism mean? For a long while I thought baptism unnecessary, that we were now baptized through the Holy Spirit and Fire (Matt 3:12). But then I started a Bible correspondence study called Lamp and Light Bible. Some verses they brought up showed that this was totally true... When Jesus gave the great commission, he included baptism. (Mark 16:15-16) He, Himself was baptized - though this could be argued that this was for the purpose of fulfilling the old law. But what most convinced me was of the examples afterwards, of His followers baptizing people in His name. If it wasn't right and good why would they still be doing it? (Acts 2:38, Acts 22:11-16) ...

“Obedience just isn't always the most convenient. In fact, most of the time it's unrealistic for my life.” Let's just be realistic here for a second. Obedience is very helpful, and very convenient at times. And I'm not talking about the times when we are the ones being obeyed. I'm talking about those nasty times when you are told to do something, yet you do not want to do it. When basically not doing it would be called disobeying. Oh, yeah, those times. What lovely times. But seriously, we all will have to admit at some point: Obedience is a necessary part of life, rules are the only strategy we have to stop full-out chaos. You may not want to stop at those red lights. But in the end it will be the most convenient thing to do to stop from dying in an immediate car crash. It may seem pretty fun as a little kid to do what ever you want, “forget” half the rules, but even a kid finds obeying the rules will eventually let them get aw...