Becoming Gods Ready Writer
What does your writing day look like? Lots of good intentions and blank screens, or lots of discipline and productivity? As Christians called to write for Jesus, we need the fruit of the Spirit – especially self control – because the Lord knows that we need His help to do His work. There are so […]
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How do you define yourself? In the world we can be defined by race, nationality, politics, sexuality, occupation, economic status, gender, age, species, religion and 1001 other ways. Most of us have multiple ways of defining ourselves depending on who we are with. As children, the circumstances of our lives and the behavior of those […]
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Here is the third reason to get to work and write for Jesus. 3. Whatever you Write, Write to the Glory of God. I encourage and exhort you – as a Christian writer – to start listening to God, making time to study and practice the Scriptures, and be open to the Holy Spirit who […]
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Here is the second of three reasons to get to work and write for Jesus 2. Follow the direction your heart and your gift points you to. Romans 12:6-8 says, “Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to […]
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Here is the first of three reasons to get to work and write for Jesus. 1. Be all that God means you to be How amazing is it to think that the Creator God, who spoke the universe into existence, has written a poem about you and me, that explains who we are, and what […]
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I never excelled at school and my writing was never more than average, but the pen was always my close companion. Things changed after I became a Christian and discovered the Bible. Ezra 7:10 summarizes what God has been doing in my life ever since, “For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law […]
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When an angel told Mary that she had been chosen to become pregnant by the Holy Spirit, and give birth to the Messiah, in simple faith she accepted the call. Even though becoming pregnant out of wedlock was problematic, she believed God had everything under control and would take care of her. She might not […]
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The Apostles Creed is one of the earliest statements of faith circulated in the early Church. It focuses on the essentials teachings of the faith, without getting into the deeper philosophical meanings associated with the Nicene Creed – which Arianism and other heretical teachings made necessary. Both creeds seek to summarize what the teachings of […]
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Reciprocity is a key value in our western culture, as it was in the days of Jesus. But, the idea that people would repay a kindness or return a favour is not the problem – the problem is when we make giving or getting a return obligatory in all our dealings with people. That’s why […]
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In the year 325 AD – after the Romans stopped persecuting Christians – a group of about 300 Bishops and church leaders came together from all over the empire, to write a statement of faith. Every one of these early church leaders had willingly suffered for their faith because they really believed that Jesus was […]
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