Tag Archives: Church planter

Like the former Christian minister, writer, musician says “You can lead a horse to water, but sometimes you just have to drown them.” (or something like that) we should remember that it is important how we want to use our mind and find or bring logic and reason to the forefront of the place where we live and in our conversations with those around us.

Facing the difficulties in life we are always surrounded with many questions and most of us are looking for what we call”the Truth“.

In that quest for Truth most people are also confronted with religions and with ministers who work for certain denominations. Their attitude, their response to the many questions, often shall take the questioning person to take his or her next steps and shall bring on an attitude for the future.

We can not deny that probably “every single pastor (and pastor’s wife), every evangelist, every church planter and self described theologian” that has come certain persons their way over the past few years may have “slithered away like a de-fanged, de-rattled snake, back into the night where they came from.” Is that not a shame?

Have those ministers or priests had to go in the darkness again because they could not explain what really happened in the garden of Eden? Was it not because they could not show the writer of this reblogged text that there is not such thing as “a child murdering, rape endorsing, slavery promoting deity”?

God is a god of love. Out of love He has given the right for the people who took adversary on Him to rule the world and to arrange the things themselves. Though now they want to blame Him because He does not play the dictator and interferes, making everything like He wants it to be.

We may not forget that it is not God who is the cause of all those diseases and disasters which hit the world. He is not ruling this world. It are the adversaries of God (Satan) who are ruling this world now.

We just have to be patient enough until the third World War and the thousand years afterwards. Only then, after Jesus his return and the fulfilment of the promise of the Great Reality of the renewed Israel and the handing over by Jesus of the Kingdom of God to God, those who had their faith in this hope of Unity and Peace and did everything to live according to the Laws of Christ and the Law of God, shall be able to enter that Kingdom of God and enjoy a world without pain and without difficulties.

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Preceding: Cancerous Black Holes

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Please do find also to read:

1. Our way of life
2. Pain and Suffering is inevitable but Misery is optional
3. From pain to purpose
4. The blessing of a broken leg
5. Partakers of the sufferings
6. Foreword to Suffering
7. Suffering (Cd art)
8. Suffering – through the apparent silence of God
9. Suffering continues
10. Suffering leading to joy
11. Seems no future in suffering
12. Learning from suffering
13. Facing disaster fatigue
14. The soul has no rainbow if the eyes have no tears
15. Character is built
16. Your struggles develop your strengths
17. Reacting to Disasters
18. Dying or not
19. Frank risks taking
20. Remember there’s a light in the next day
21. If your difficulties are longstanding, try kneeling
22. Even in tough times remembering the blessings
23. Words from God about suffering
24. Self inflicted misery #1 The root by man
25. Self inflicted misery #2 Weakness of human race
26. Self inflicted misery #7 Good news to our suffering
27. Self inflicted misery #9 Subject to worldly things
28. Welfare state and Poverty in Flanders #3 Right to Human dignity
29. Science, belief, denial and visibility 2
30. Faith and trial
31. A Living Faith #4 Effort
32. Fragments from the Book of Job #1: chapters 1-12
33. Fragments from the Book of Job #2: chapters 12-20
34. Fragments from the Book of Job #3: chapters 21-26
35. Fragments from the Book of Job #4: chapters 27-31
36. Fragments from the Book of Job #5: chapters 32-37
37. Fragments from the Book of Job #6: chapters 38-42
38. Fragments from the Book of Job #7 Epilogue
39. Bad things no punishment from God
40. Profitable disasters
41. Salvation, trust and action in Jesus #1 Suffering covered by Peace Offering
42. Miracles in our time of suffering
43. Offer in our suffering
44. Patient waiting (Cd art)
45. Be like a tree planted by streams of water
46. Suffering produces perseverance
47. Moving mountains
48. Rejoice even though bound to grieve
49. Suffering redemptive because Jesus redeemed us from sin
50. Surprised by joy
51. Surprised by time in joys & sufferings
52. Destination of the earth
53. Expiatory sacrifice
54. Crucifixion for suffering
55. From pain to purpose
56. Old age
57. Temptation and its conquest
58. Pain and Suffering is inevitable but Misery is optional
59. Light within
60. To be chained by love for another one
61. When the wind blows hard on a tree
62. Your struggles develop your strengths
63. The inspiring divine spark
64. Disappointed with God
65. Not sure there exist a God
66. Seeing or not seeing and willingness to find God
67. Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #15 Exposition before the Creator
68. God’s Comfort
69. Only one God
70. Some one or something to fear #6 Faith in the Most High
71. Commit your self to the trustworthy creator
72. Getting out of the dark corners of this world
73. God should be your hope
74. Our relationship with God, Jesus and eachother
75. Nuturing a close relationship with God
76. Give your worries to God
77. Let us recognise how great God is
78. God is the strength of my heart
79. God Helper and Deliverer
80. God is positive
81. God’s design in the creation of the world
82. God’s instruction about joy and suffering
83. God’s promises
84. God His measure not our measure
85. God’s non answer
86. God’s promises to us in our suffering
87. Gods hope and our hope
88. God’s salvation (Cd art)
89. You God hold the future
90. Hope (Cd art)
91. Hope for the future
92. Importuning for suffering hearts
93. Incomplete without the mind of God
94. Is God hiding His face when He is seemingly silent
95. Jehovah my strenght
96. Kingdom of God what will it be like
97. God His reward
98. Chrystalised harmonious thinking
99. Epitome of the one faith
100. Life with God
101. Meaning of life
102. Some important differences
103. True hope
104. Working of the hope (Cd art)
105. A love not exempting us from trials
106. Songs in the night Worship God only
107. Gospel = Good tidings, good news, a good message
108. That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us
109. Preaching to an unbelieving world
110. To Live Gratitude
111. For those who make other choices
112. A concrete picture of what is to come in the future
113. Greatest single cause of atheism
114. Change

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