Our contemporary culture is teaching us that if we want to be accepted, we have to follow society's rules. In other words, we have to do something in order to receive their benefits. This thinking has spilled over into our Churches. To be precise, if you want to be saved, you have to do a host of religious rituals that have been taken from the Bible, used out of context and implemented by man as a criterion for salvation. I am convinced that such religious rules are the core problem that most Christians deal with when it comes to God's righteousness. Yet, most main stream denominations are...

Deception necessitates raw and hurtful concepts, approximating manipulative costumes in appearances to engender the impression of being somebody or something else. It dresses itself up to convince another to believe information that is not true, or not the whole truth as partially truthful or as the whole truth. The Bible tells us "Satan has many wiles." Please note the word "Wiles" means tricks. In other words, Satan's activities are nothing more than psychological mind games. Clearly then, he is using these emotional games to manipulate his victims by his own set of rules. Every game has a...

It is next to impossible for a man to reach the high calling of God if he is carrying the sin of unforgiveness in his life. Unforgiveness disrupts our spiritual man. The writer of Hebrews warns us about a root of bitterness: " See to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many" (Hebrews 12:15 NIV). When unforgiveness, is planted in our life we can be assured that it is the manure that makes the root of bitterness grow. If we fail to forgive, it sets a whole sequence of negative emotions off within us, which ultimately deprive us of...