Since gambling is not specifically named in the Bible, some would excuse it. However, it violates several Bible principles. Accepting gambling as legitimate and Christian takes down a trail that logically ends in accepting a worldly society's cultural practices and values.
The Bible says all nations are made of one blood, one race—the human race. God created the first two humans, Adam and Eve, and gave them a huge variety of genetic information. At the Tower of Babel that gene pool was scattered across the earth, and each group began to take on distinct traits.
Day after day, people rush from project to project, responsibility to responsibility, obligation to obligation. Christ still says, “Come; I will give you rest." This invitation is from our Savior. Yet, as He walked among men, He was one who knew little rest. So how can this be?
The Holy Spirit has given different gifts to different Christians to be used in building God's Kingdom. Do you know what all the spiritual gifts include?
Most believers who have confessed that Jesus Christ is Lord have probably prayed that God would be glorified in their lives. So how is God glorified in the life of a Christian?
Despite persistent efforts to eradicate God from the world that He created for Himself, man has a God-sized void in the center of his being that cannot be filled and until he makes peace with his God.
Christians acknowledge that the trinitarian nature of God is a mystery that no amount of illustrating and explaining will ever be able to unravel. Rather than apologize for this, we view it as further evidence that God is indeed the kind of God we need: a God who is greater than we can comprehend.
There is no need to wander through life, aimlessly and alone. Reach out and take His hand! He will lead you to His eternal home to live with Him forever!
We will never understand everything in this life. If we knew and understood the "WHY" behind life's perplexities and pain, we wouldn't need God, or faith. Sometimes God allows us to experience hard things so He can reveal His power and love to us. Then the glory will go to Him, not us.
Is there a genuine cure for the alcoholic who longs to be free from his uncontrollable addiction? Any hope left for the one who has tried any and every remedy offered, and still finds himself a slave to the demon drink?? YES! The Great Physician is waiting to be asked for His help in the case.
"Let me die—lest I die!" These words, written centuries ago by an early church writer, seem to be a contradiction or a paradox. The Christian life has a number of such paradoxes. Here are some examples.
Human beings come and go, in one hundred years most of the people alive today will be gone and largely forgotten. Only God remains the same. Every generation finds Him the as the generation before had found Him—unchanged, and still worthy of our confidence and hope.
Psalm 91 is a psalm of trust and is especially meaningful to those who are exposed to danger and hardship. The words are a source of comfort and security and protection in times of sore need and deep distress.
