Overcoming Adversity A Spiritual Guide.

In today's world there are a lot of signs that indicate we are in the last days. For those individuals who don't know Christ this can be a disturbing conversation. Even for those of us who claim to be saved and know the Lord for ourselves there is something unsettling about this topic as well. One of the most prominent reasons is that most of us don't know enough about Gods word or truth on the subject to make an informed decision. As our society has advanced and become more informed or as knowledge has increased, we have become more and more separated from the truth which is Gods word. In the book of Daniel it says specifically that, "But that ole Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase." It has become quite evident that knowledge has increased dramatically in the last 40 years. The Internet and other technologies has made access to information something unthought of bef...

I live in the good ole state of Iowa and we are fortunate to be able to experience the changing of the four seasons here. I happen to love it even though each particular season presents its own unique set of challenges. There are four of them to be exact, winter, summer, spring and fall. I like them all but to me there is something nostalgic about fall, when the weather changes from summer time heat to cooler temperatures and then finally winter brrrrr cold. What i like most about fall is the changing of the colors in the leaves, there is nothing more breath taking than beautiful fall colors in Iowa. The human life experience is comparable to the four seasons in this way. There are four basic time frames to the human time spent here on earth. There is childhood, there is a adulthood, there is middle age and finally old age. Each age range presents its own unique set of challenges for the human experience as well. But like the changing of the four seasons the human life experie...

This is a post from 2015 but the content is still relevant and its five years later. I was watching meet the press this Sunday morning as I always do, David Gregory the moderator who replaced Tim Russet was having his usual round table discussion with different journalist who's views generally represent both the right and left wing of politics. They were discussing the political atmosphere in our country right now, of course our current President Barrack Obama was central to the discussion. Representatives from the republican party were as usual making deceptive comments about the president that could be misconstrued or interpreted in a negative fashion. For example Newt Gingrich who currently holds no political office but is positioning himself for a run at the white house in 2012, which I might add has been unsuccessful since Mitt Romney all but has locked up the nomination. Mr. Gingrich always has a host of skewed statements about the left that he likes to toss out as politi...

This post was written on the date indicated which is June 30th 2010 there was not a rain cloud in the sky. But for most of the early summer here in Des monies Iowa it has been raining cats and dogs as they like to say. Its has rained so frequently in recent weeks that there is now concern here in Iowa for major flooding in the main tributaries of the Des monies river basin. It is reminiscent of the floods of 1993 and 2008 that happened here in the Midwest. The 1993 flood was considered a 100 year flood. The flood in 2008 was bad, but not as bad as 1993. The fact is these were very adverse circumstances that the communities who suffered them had to overcome. Water in the form of a flood is a very powerful and destructive force. There are not alot of resources available to mankind to combat this force when God decides to unleash it as he sometimes does. The analogy I would like to make today is that our life's are sometimes faced with flood like problems, and often times when we...

Overcoming Adversity A Spiritual Guide.: Contentment : To be content means to be satisfied with our present circumstance in spite of what we might be facing as challenges in our life, and for ...

Most people have never even considered that the Bible and its content were one fourth prophetic at the time of its writing. It contains approximately 1000 prophecies concerning mankind and world events of which half or about 500 have been fulfilled with stunning accuracy. The historical events surrounding Kemet, Egypt and the mythological Greek Gods of ISIS', Orsiris and Horus in no way invalidate the Bible and its dire predictions for the status of our wicked world. In the book of Daniel the king Nebuchadnezzar has a dream about a statue which looked like this. It was a dream of a great statue with a head of gold, arms and chest of silver, belly and thighs of bronze, legs of iron, and feet of mingled iron and clay. A great stone, not cut by human hands, fell on the feet of the statue and destroyed it, and the rock became a mountain that filled the whole world. This part is important. The statue represents the time frame of powerful empires or kingdoms that have existed on eart...

  Spirituality is a common termed used to denote a deeper connection to our world, to our fellow human beings and ultimately God if we believe in a Divine creator. Spirituality is not something we can see or touch, but yet is something that we often times sense and frequently emotionally feel. Its like faith to a christian. Its is the substance of things hoped for but the evidence of things not seen. By definition spirituality is defined as, "the concept of an alleged immaterial reality, an inner path enabling a person to discover the essence of his/her being, or the deepest values by which people live.   Every human being on the planet has the ability to be a spiritual person, but I don't believe it just naturally happens. It is possible for it to just naturally happen? Perhaps, but we must at some point in our lives define ourselves as having this possibility then seek it with every ounce of our being. For me spirituality allows me to experience my life outsid...