FAITH LIFE SAINTS

What’s the difference between Christians and non-Christians? Christ demands the best from us. Non-Christians run through life not even knowing the difference between heaven bound and a box in the ground. My life in high school included lots of religious debate, mainly with pseudo-Christians, pseudo-Buddhists, and pseudo-Jews. Obviously the reason I preface everything with pseudo is because kids would usually say, “Yeah, my parents drag me to services, but I’m not really into it.” Then they would proceed to talk about their car, girlfriend, or the latest hot movie. Why is this a problem? Kids don’t take benchmarks seriously, unless it revolves around a tangible reward. Heaven is a very non-tangible reward....to kids. They can see it, but their understanding of it is usually weak, and if challenged, they cannot really explain what it is. Why is this a problem? Its the carrot. You guys have heard me talk about the carrot before. Heaven is the carrot that Christianity holds in front ...

Your thoughts are forced along the same pattern every day. Your weekly routine is the same every week. If you have kids, you go through similar trials every day. If you are married or with someone, you notice how each year becomes a little less interesting than before. When you hit somewhere around forty years of age or so...you realize that you are an energy unit! You are being processed, you’ve always been processed, and once you leave this life....yep, more processing. Would you like some control? That would be refreshing, don’t you think? Taking the bull by the horns can be hard. In fact, the reason you have not been able to do it so far is because you STUDY Jesus, but you do not WALK ON WATER like He does! What does it take to pull that trick off? How about an open mind, to start with! Did you ever take a minute to realize that maybe some of the Christian lessons you received over the years were just plain boring and unnecessary? Some of them are not only engineered to KEEP ...

It gets lots of attention in comedy shows and movies. The angel on one should, the demon on the other. Is there truth to it? Yep. He can shove himself into your head as easily as you can overlook him. Thoughts that you have classified as normally were really just his suggestions. Have you ever heard one of those stories where a killer says, "The devil made me do it!" Not far from the truth. You are the one in control, but the suggestions never stop. If you think you will reach a point where they don't come up at all, you are PROBABLY wrong. Why is it like this? How do you stop it? You slow down. The evil thoughts play out in easier fashion when you are rushing your life and not monitoring your thoughts so much. So be at peace, examine your mind routinely, and then clean out what seems to be evil. Yes, some of you will have trouble with this. That is because he provides simple suggestions sometimes, like "One more drink won't hurt." After you have al...

...any guesses? Its beliefs, but not quite in the sense that you might be referencing it. The key to the kingdom is wrapped up in a conversation that my daughter and I had today. She is five years old, three months from six. Maddy: Daddy, how do you talk to God? Shay: He is a friend of mine. Don’t you talk to friends? Maddy: Yeah, but I see my friends. I never see God. Shay: That’s the best thing about Jesus. Ever since He started walking with me, I see Him all the time. When I get up, when I drive, when I work, when I play....He’s always around. Maddy: Even though you can’t see Him? Shay: Once you’re good friends with Him, you’ll see Him too. Maddy: When will that happen? Shay: In the future. Maddy: Third grade? My daughter is so awesome. She treats everyone very well and works at helping the world as best she can. She’s in a private Christian school. They discuss faith-based topics in class. She often comes home with questions about faith. I look at it as a great...

What strikes your fancy? Do you want to stop wars? Do you want to heal the terminally ill? How about helping your friends and family through ordeals they might be facing? You have more power than you think you have. You can travel in amazing ways. You can create in miraculous fashion. You can heal like a disciple of Christ would heal. You can do the impossible! My little five year old daughter is always asking questions. I tell her about Jesus and praying. Every now and then she catches me talking about deeper subjects, but usually her questions are something like, "Do you help people, Daddy?" or "Dad, how do YOU work with God?" Deep questions really. I want to answer them truthfully, but at five she really wouldn't understand. You see, my work is off the charts, and yours can be too. Right now you are probably locked into your present state of growth. The fact is that there is much more that you could be doing. Through the Holy Spirit you can move in inc...

Have you ever sat down in church and wondered if you were even in the right place? Did you spend an hour or two hours listening to readings and talks, but feel like your time would have been better spent somewhere else? Well, if you haven't, I have. Ministers and pastors have to put a lot of work into doing their jobs. They work with people all week, they handle the administration of the church, and some pastors are also married. What do you think that means from week to week? It means that the true message, the powerful information, sometimes gets mucked up in the normal grind of life. I'm not here to go on and on in a criticism of full-time pastors, but I do believe in this: If a pastor does not produce a quality message on a regular basis...reconsider where you are spending your time. After doing church for years and years, I took some time off. I did a lot of reading, I created lots of projects, and when I was ready to come back, I did. Now, I was 18, and I would never...

          Since 2006, when the FLS was established, it had nothing to call its own. All microphones, singing instruments and working materials; we just borrow. After the collection of our offerings, we pay for them. During big meetings, crusades and seminars, if we have no any offering collected, we have to miss those instruments of use. The same, we don't have enough Bibles and working materials for use. Sometimes, we share. This is because, the cost of Bibles and working materials, we do not afford, for everyone of his own.           Housing problems, when it rains, our programmes stop. Sometimes, we carry them out in one of our partners' huts. Perhaps, we have no enough chairs for everyone to sit on. Perhaps, those huts are temporary. We get affected with jiggers - earthen insects.           Lack of School fees, makes children miss school les...