November 6, 2010 by Sal Termini.

Everything in the universe is being organized into purpose and meaning. Laws that govern the creation came from the mind of God. Order is created out of chaos because there is a superintending mind that gives all things purpose, meaning, order, and beauty. The atheist mocks a belief in God because they are blind to the organizing mind behind all things. They perceive order, beauty, purpose but deny the mind that created it. Everything reflects purpose yet they decry it as a reality.

The very act of something from nothing reveals a supernatural first cause. The first cause is intelligent because order, purpose, and beauty exist. The laws by which the universe and our lives are governed prove they were not accidental. These laws are for a purpose and have intention. Our very makeup is code or language. The power to set the vast universe into motion is immense. Yet the tenderness of human nature in love and moral laws of love speak of power and personhood in a single being. A being capable of such acts we Christians call God. He is God because His power and person make Him the author, ruler and owner. A second act of supernatural power takes place and life from non-life begins. This is proof God desires friendships with His children.

The world itself is being redeemed from chaos and disorder because of sin. We suffer and experience heartache and pain because the organizing principles have been violated right to the very genetic structures and atoms of the creation. Jesus Christ came to tell us a new world order is coming. It will be superintended by the mind of God, and evil, chaos, suffering, and disorder will be driven out. There is coming a new heaven and a new earth because God has arranged and planned it to be so. We must also bring into ourselves the power of God as the organizing principle of our redemption. It is a person–the very Spirit of God. Without Him we will be destroyed by our own disorder and rendered powerless and destroyed by our own evil.

Posted in Good News Journal | No Comments »

October 27, 2010 by Sal Termini.

How do you define spirituality? How can a person best serve God? These are the questions we must ask ourselves if we are to find our true purpose in life. We can fulfill God’s will in powerful ways in our everyday life. If our life is lived purposely to glorify God we understand more than most people about spirituality. To glorify God means to remind people of God’s character and reflect it by doing the right thing in every circumstance. It is living in a way that honors God.

When a mother feeds, clothes, and cares for her family’s needs she is doing the will of God. Her actions will one day reap a spiritual reward because she acted in the natural world in a godly manner. Every day fathers and husbands go to work to bring provision home for their families they are doing God’s will. Our jobs are essentially a calling from God. Where we work is our sphere of influence and we can make the lives of others around us better. On the practical side, Apostle Paul taught, “if we don’t work we won’t eat.” He thus made work part of our spiritual life. We disconnect the secular from the sacred not realizing their interconnectedness.

It is important to become part of a faith community. In that community we will participate in prayer and serving others, and grow in spiritual truth. Our spiritual life is to be lived out in the secular world to glorify God. On the other hand, when God is of little importance or marginalized because of our secular and work life, we fail to become a complete person. A danger sign that we are becoming unbalanced is when we spend little or no time with God or our faith community.

The connected life must have the right attitude then strike a balance of time between our calling and our worship.

Posted in Good News Journal | No Comments »

October 19, 2010 by Sal Termini.

Atheism is a belief that there is no God. The new atheism, as it is presently called, is at war with any belief in God. This new virulent form of atheism is seeking to eradicate faith in God, wherever and in whomever they find it. Live and let live is not in their creed. All religions are lumped together and are believed to be dangerous delusions causing great harm in the world. The new atheists want to deconstruct the foundations of religious belief by proving that faith in God is foolish.

To these new atheists faith is only wishful thinking. Faith is seen as a sentimental unfounded hope in a future spiritual existence. The point they want to drive home is religion is used as a means of escape for humanity’s fear of death. This is a bogus argument as atheism proves we can face death without religious belief. Transcendence is not based upon fear, but the same thing science is based upon, the hunger for truth and meaning. In the same respect we can say atheism is as an escape from their fear of accountability to a holy God. The autonomous man, freed of moral restraints and God (atheism) by our fallen nature, is a rebel in need of an excuse, a doctrine and a belief to bolster their atheism.

Atheist will go to great lengths to prove God is not good, there is no moral standard, and we are cosmic accidents. Billions of years cannot take chaos and turn it to order, beauty and a creation inhabited by rational beings. What the atheist fails to understand is that the organizing principle of creation is God.

• There is not enough time to make a creation of such such splendid order and beauty
• There is not enough time to create a man that knows he’s born for sacred duty
• There is not enough time for life’s intricacies, reality, hopes, and dreams to come to be
• There not enough time in the random jumble of chance and time to create you and me
• There is not enough time to create beings so gloriously crowned with mind and love like mankind
• There is not enough time for chaos to make a creation so complex, simple, and so sublime
• The common man in common sense knows more than the atheist puffed up mind
• The atheist with his arrogant intelligence before God will one day stand at the end of time

To say religion is mere hopeful sentiment is the same as saying science is a mere hope that reality exists. Consciousness is metaphysical. Life from non-life is metaphysical. Something from nothing is metaphysical. Yet in all these matters atheists are in denial. We cannot separate reality into the natural world and the transcendent one. This is the atheists’ delusion. We cannot separate reason from hope. They are just conclusions made by choosing to believe or disbelieve certain facts. We cannot divest human nature of either reason or hope. The reasoning part of humanity is just as much a part of humanity as hope is. The natural and the transcendent are just two parts of a picture of human reality. We must not separate reason and emotion, each has their place.

We also must not separate reason from morality. Christianity answers the transcendent questions of why we exist. Science answers the empirical questions of how we exist. We must stop making them enemies. Both Christianity and science were forged from the same divine fire. God and mind are one. The Bible states, in the beginning was the divine mind spoken, (The Word) then incarnated in Christ. Therefore, discovery of both the natural world and a transcendent God are one. These human abilities are at their best when they complement one another. This alone will bring about true human wholeness. Reason is not king but must rule in a democratic harmony with morality and a transcendent God.

To have hope in any form, whether spiritual or natural, is considered a weakness by the new atheists. The brave new world is to look nihilism in the face and be courageous, knowing our end will be horrible and inevitable. The hatred for Christianity is that it has the power to give hope. In giving hope it robs atheists of their power to convince us of blind meaningless chance as the core of human existence. Christianity is not a sentimental hope based upon wishful thinking but grounded in the historical resurrection of Jesus Christ. Christianity’s understanding of death is that it is a temporary restriction upon humanity until God redeems and rescues mankind from its power. There is no reason to believe that death is the end. There is no evidence to this. If science is based upon evidence, atheists are severely lacking any.

Christianity believes materialism is an interpretation of isolated facts because of a fallen, corrupt, and limited mind. Christianity is God’s mind given to us that both the natural and spiritual realities are partners and can coexist. The arrogance of the new atheists is to strip people of their humanity which is a transcendent and natural reality. In the end we not only have hope but value because we are made in the image and likeness of God.

Posted in Good News Journal | 1 Comment »

October 15, 2010 by Sal Termini.

My son Sal just returned from Japan. He brought back with him many wonderful gifts for my wife and I. Sal went to Japan with a friend of ours named Sam Talbot. He has been on TV and partnered in events with other famous chef’s. In the summer he is the head chef at Surf Lodge, a hotel and restaurant in Montauk, NY. It is here we first met Sam who loves to surf and standup paddle board. Sam is a master chef and a fantastic young man filled with kindness, class, and mega talent. Sam went to Japan on a tour for several large Japanese companies promoting them and recipes he designed. Not only are they culinary masterpieces, they are also nutritionally sound. I have eaten his delightful recipes many times and believe me, he is a culinary genius. Sam’s friendship is a rare gift to our family and to others who know him.

When Sal came home he talked enthusiastically about how beautiful Japan is. He wanted toshare with us his experiences. He told us how he thought about us during his trip. Our communication with him was sparse but heartfelt. He was busy and communication to Japan is prohibitively expensive. Every day we waited for news from him about where he was and what he was doing. When we received the news we felt as though we were right there with him. Children sharing their life with their parents is a beautiful experience.

The gifts we received from our son were both thoughtful and practical. They reflected Japanese culture and were decorated with art and beautiful colors. We felt we knew a little more about the people of Japan. Through these physical gifts we believe we have received and even greater gift — Sal sharing his life with my his mother and I. In all the world there is no greater gift than sharing our lives with one another. The gifts from Japan meant a great deal to us because of our love and admiration for our son. We enjoy Sam apart from his gift of cooking because he is a wonderful person to be around. The meaning of life is to nurture the relationships that blossom all around us. I have found the places I visited take on a greater beauty because of the people I have met.

I was sharing the gospel with someone who was tripped up by not really understanding what God is really like. I told this person to think about the most wonderful kind of person they could think of. Imagine that person wants more than anything to share himself with you. God is that person. He created this world to give us the greatest gift imaginable. God wants to share himself with us. He wants us to share ourselves with Him. When I think of Sal and Sam what I enjoy most about them is the time we shared together.

I want to spend eternity with God. I realized my relationship with Him gives me a greater joy then anything this world can offer. I am careful to nurture that relationship, respecting who He is. I desire His love because it has made my life so much better. Behind all the burning stars, the ever expanding universes, powerful black holes, great ocean depths, glorious mountains, and magnificent sunsets is a God of infinite love. Through all these things He is sharing Himself. He is sharing His grandeur, majesty, power, love, and purposes.

One day God saw our love had grown cold towards Him. God came, Himself, in the person of Jesus Christ. To meet Christ is to love Him. Compassion, wisdom, kindness, purity, and hope are all personified in Him. He came to teach us to love God and one another again. Jesus returned back to heaven. He left love letters to us called the New Testament to remind us of His love. To those who know and love know Him, He is waiting for us to return one day to make heaven our home too. Like Sal and Sam, even though we were far apart our thoughts were always with them. We know we will one day be in the presence of God with all those we love.

Posted in Good News Journal | No Comments »

September 8, 2010 by Sal Termini.

If you have spent any time watching TV, listening to the radio, or browsing online you would have noticed a proliferation of online dating adds. They all require some kind of compatability profile. Two people must share who they are are in order to discover if they are right for each other. One company, called eHarmony, sums up the entire ideal of dating and long term relationsips in their name, “harmony.” In our busy everyday lives, finding a meaningful long-term relationship can be hard. Many people desire a deep, intimate, and loving relationship that will become a lifelong commitment. Psychology assures us those kind of people are happier, live longer, and are more content than others. One ad for online dating says, “Its about finding the love of your life.”

Dating is not about following rules or having a philosophy about love that you stringently follow. It is about growing in compatibility with someone who is important to you. When we strive for compitability, harmony between two people blossoms into love. When you find someone you truly love, you do not think about dating someone else. When you are in love you want to be around the person you love. You don’t want to be selfish, or hurt the person you love. True love is nurturing and respectful. Love desires to please the one we love. A relationship is a living thing.

People mistake Christianity for a religion which is nothing more than rule keeping. Christianity is a relationship with God. God has revealed to us who He is, and what He requires for us to have a relationship with Him. If we want to live in harmony with God we need to get to know Him. We must learn to be compatible with Him. When we do, we will most assuredly fall in love with Him. Christianity is falling in love with an unselfish God who made us and desires a relationship with us. He wants our love to be like His — faithful and unselfish.

Most of the world’s religions are rules meant to appease some god. Christianity is a relationship that seeks to love and please God. Christianity is a love-based relationship, not a religion. The things that please God are those things that are loving and kind towards Him and other people. True Christianity is a living, daily relationship with the creator of the universe. We love God deeply and want to be in harmony with Him. The New Testament is God’s compatibility profile. You have to decide if you want to spend eternity alone or with God. You have to decide if you want the “love of your life,” or to be in relationships with things that don’t matter. You have to decide if you want to be in a committed relationship with God.

Invest the time to find the most meaningful relationship of all – one with God at the center. What I have found is, for most people their love is too shallow and they are too superficial to really invest in loving and knowing God. God is the lover of your soul and no one will love you like He will.

Posted in Good News Journal | No Comments »

August 18, 2010 by Sal Termini.

How many really close friends do you have? How many acquaintances do you have?

If you’re like most people, acquaintances far outweigh your close friendships. Close friends are those you spend time with and trust. Close friends are people you love deeply and share your life with. Close friends are those you communicate with frequently and share intimate things about your life.

Acquaintances are people you like. They are people you are friendly with and see once in awhile. They are not people you can’t live without or really need to be with. You enjoy them when you see them but they are not significant to your life. While Acquaintances are nice, what we all need are close friends we can love and trust.

We were created to give love just as much as we were created to receive love. Relationships are important to all of us. Without having people in our lives who care about us life would be cold, sterile, and meaningless. Loving others and being a part of their lives is part of true human fulfillment. We all must have meaningful relationships. Parents, siblings, and close friends are those relationships that nurture us and hopefully we nurture them. We all desire to love and be loved.

What is your status in your relationship with God? Is God a friend or an acquaintance? While God does not need a relationship with us, He desires one. God does not want to be an acquaintance. To do this would break the first and greatest commandment to love God with your whole heart, soul, mind, and strength.

He is worthy of our love and friendship. To treat God as an acquaintance is like mistreating a parent, sibling or a really caring, trusted friend. A relationship with God is the ultimate relationship. To ignore that fact or to take it too lightly is a catastrophic mistake. If we mistreat God while on earth do you think we will be accepted as a close friend when we die? Begin today to put God on your friends list.

Posted in Good News Journal | No Comments »

August 10, 2010 by Sal Termini.

Lady Gaga, the newest symbol of sexual freedom, poses nude for Vanity Fair magazine. I guess the title says it all, “Vanity.” The dictionary defines vanity as conceit, narcissism, self-love, self-admiration, self-absorption, self-regard, egotism; pride, arrogance, boastfulness, cockiness, and swagger. We live with eyes wide open but see so little. The very title of the magazine is open for all to see and understand. What draws us to vanity?

Vanity is foolishness dressed up as wisdom and meaningless as importance.

Lady Gaga’s shameless self promotion mocks us all into believing there is value in her over-the-top antics. Her pictures and videos are filled with nudity. It seems talent is not enough — we need the masses gawking at us with prurient interest. The natural tendency of people is to look at the naked body when it is unclothed. The exploitation of this fact is in itself a meaningless act. Anybody can do it but too many crave the spotlight.

The unclothed body was designed by God to illicit sexual desire. The immediate visceral response is desire. Desire is the foundation of modern advertising. What we desire is sex, money, power and pleasure, all without a value system. What we get is destruction and pain. Yet we advertise by pulling on the basest human emotions. Like lemmings we fall off the cliff over and over again. The multitude of people parading around nude for attention has now reached the status of serious mental illness for our culture, obsessed with such icons. The desire for sexual freedom from repressive religious belief has now turned into a unhealthy obsession.

God is not anti-pleasure. God created pleasure. He puts pleasure in a context where it brings value to the human soul. The problem is sexual desire left unchecked becomes perversion. The more outrageous a person’s behavior, the more interest seems to be created in that person. The same old tactics are used over and over again: nudity, attraction and perversion equals wealth.

The man who created Girls Gone Wild is nothing more than a video voyeur. The same vanity, need for attention and pleasure without value lures us like moths to a flame. It is meant to draw out of us perverted prurient desires for the purpose of fame and profit. Its damage to society and people are ignored, overlooked, or rejected. Madonna, who perverted a generation of young people, is now trying to protect her child from the corruption that media produces in the younger generation. The glaring hypocrisy is missed by her hordes of adoring fans.

We tempt with evil desires to create success. The price and the cost is, we all become diminished, dehumanized, humiliated, and lessened by coarse ideals. The problem is, we are pleasure driven so we struggle to condemn many things that are evil. We like evil. We want to participate in it. In doing this we justify it, and ourselves, as normal or innocent. Standards are lowered and society is self-destructing. We keep falling for the same old thing over and over again. Nothing new, good, or creative will ever come out of seeking to elicit the lowest and basest part of our being. Who will have the courage to ignore or reject those who exploit us for their own ends. We make them rich and famous while we remain poor in spirit, character and moral truth.

Posted in Good News Journal | No Comments »

August 3, 2010 by Sal Termini.

John 4:23 - Indeed, the time is coming, and it is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. The Father is looking for people like that to worship him.

We are created to worship God. We are created to be fully engulfed in God’s love for us. The discovery of that love is the foundation of worship and a meaningful life. When we discover His love for us we will respond with rich praise and thanksgiving for who God is. Too may people are distracted by life and never seek to truly know and love God. Many fail to understand that the true significance of life is to place God at the center. Money, work, ambition, pleasures, and things cannot love us back. The things we desire and love most cannot give meaning, virtue, hope, lasting joy, or purpose to our lives. We love the temporal things that have little meaning and are passing away. We must learn to love the things that are eternal even more. The world is suffering because it has failed to worship God’s character, which reveals a love that gives us a standard to live by. If we live, loving as God loves, evil would be eradicated. All that is good in life comes from God.

Our neglect of worship for God is like a man who builds a beautiful house for his wife and she falls in love with the house and decorating it more than her husband. We fail to love and appreciate God who made us and gave us all things pertaining to life. We take for granted that we have been born, have life, exist, make choices, and can choose our destiny. All this is a gift from God. In essence we have become idolators replacing a deep intimate love and friendship with God with our natural life. Instead of living life with Him we live it without him treating him as a stranger and in some cases as an interloper.

God should be our hero – the person we want to be like and most emulate. We should want to live like God lives, holy, joyful, victorious, meaningful, truthful, loving, hopeful, eternally minded, and purposeful. We need to admire His attributes, character, and love. God is so misrepresented that He is ignored or despised. If you saw the goodness of God and understood His ultimate purpose for you, you would fall in love with Him. God’s plan is for us to spend eternity with him, reveling in His love and enjoying His creation with Him. God desires a passionate love as real and as powerful as any we can experience in this world. We are so enamored with all things of the earth that we fail to see the supremacy of a heavenly life and a spiritual love.

A recent survey asked people if they believed in God. 90-percent of those people said yes. They then were asked, how many make God an important part of their lives. Only 12 percent answered in the affirmative. If we make God a stranger while living in His earthly home we will not be invited to His heavenly one.

Posted in Good News Journal | No Comments »

July 17, 2010 by Sal Termini.

“The great masquerade of evil has played havoc with all our ethical concepts. For evil to appear disguised as light, charity, historical necessity, or social justice is quite bewildering to anyone brought up on our traditional ethical concepts, while for the Christian who bases his life on the Bible it merely confirms the fundamental wickedness of evil.”

On the American coin we read, E PLURIBUS UNIM. The phrase means out of many one. The desire of the founders was that America with all her individuality and diversity would become a people unified. Today we find ourselves in a clash of cultures. We are in a battle over philosophical ideologies. When I look at the words above I am deeply troubled as an American and as a Christian that we as a nation will never be unified again. The paragraph above was written by Dietrich Bonhoeffer while in a Nazi prison. Only the most narrow ideologues would not consider him a hero. Yet Dietrich became an enemy to many people for the sake of God and country.

The great outworking of evil, its design, and purpose is to appear as something good. In Genesis Satan tells Adam and Eve that they will become like God. Anyone who has studied the Scriptures knows that the ultimate purpose of God is for us to be like Him. His desire has always been that we become more like him in every aspect of life. Satan’s purpose was to twist the truth, implying that by doing something evil good would come of it. Betray God, disobey him, reject him, doubt him, and most of all see him as afraid and evil for withholding the best creation has to offer. In one act sin becomes personal. It is against another who is good. It is a lie acted upon. David said, “Against you and you only have I sinned.” Real evil begins its journey against God and all that has been revealed to be true and good.

Evil must reinvent ways of appearing good. Abortion is good, it is a woman’s right to choose. Deny all thoughts of murdering the unborn. Sex education with a political agenda, teach kindergarten children perversion as knowledge. Should not the youngest child understand the mechanics of sex without its morality? Is this not a good thing? Should we not push the aberration of the gay agenda, after all it is equality we are after? Partial-birth abortion is the correct thing to do when we are burdened down with consequences and responsibilities of our actions. We must make all these things appear good.

Let’s begin by rewriting American history. Let’s also begin by overthrowing American history with new forms of social engineering that have failed the world over. Let’s use the ideologies that have murdered millions. Let’s call it equal distribution of wealth. It should be up to each man’s conscience to decide how to help the least fortunate among us. Instead we will force our will and our narrow, immoral, ideology on others and call it American.

While marriage declines for heterosexuals, homosexuals are seeking its sanctity. While we as a nation are becoming more promiscuous, as couples live together, the battle rages over what is traditional marriage. The irony of such a struggle is heartbreaking. The Scriptures reveal this,”If the foundations are destroyed What can the good do.” It is the desire of evil to create anarchy. It is the desire of evil to remove truthful moral foundations and rebuild a world in its own image and likeness.

The simple temptation in Eden was far more insidious than the deceived man and woman could ever have imagined. The battle has never changed. Satan hidden, dark, evil, deceptive, murderous, and a liar, his real agenda, is to remake the world, in his image and likeness. In that beautiful story in Genesis 1 we discover God is the creator of all things. Now science with all of its knowledge tells us the infinite impossibilities against our existing without a creator are possible given enough time. The most wicked regimes in the world must erase God, or twists him into a dictator. Philosophies, ideologies, and religions are now as never before through the power of unlimited communication able to remake the world as Satan had intended in the image and likeness of evil.

Science now finds itself the enemy of religion. Islam finds itself the enemy of science. Two diametric forces that seem to oppose one another but yet are deeply unified, Their enemy, Christ and Christianity. Islam creates a God no one wants or would possibly want to serve. Science replaces God with time and chance. There is a pincer movement presently at work in the battlefield. Islam gathers the religious for a cause. Science erases the knowledge of God. In the end the showdown will come were the two ideologies compromise and kill all who oppose them. The enemy has not changed, it is still Cain and Able replayed again throughout the centuries. The ultimate showdown is where good fights evil. Jesus said, “when I return will I find faith on the earth.”

Hebrews 11:13-16 “All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth. People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. Instead, they were longing for a better countryÑa heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.”

Heb 11:35-40 “Others were tortured and refused to be released, so that they might gain a better resurrection. Some faced jeers and flogging, while still others were chained and put in prison. They were stoned; they were sawed in two; they were put to death by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreatedÑthe world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and in caves and holes in the ground. These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised. God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect.”

I tell you this wickedness must have its day, it must come to it’s full fruitfulness. There awaits for all those who believed to have triumphed in their evil to face a day of judgment.

Isaiah 5:20-21 “How horrible it will be for those who call evil good and good evil,Êwho turn darkness into light and light into darkness, who turn what is bitter into something sweet and what is sweet into something bitter. How horrible it will be for those who think they are wise and consider themselves to be clever.”

To call what is good evil, and what is evil good is both the first and last evil. It had its beginnings in Genesis and it will have its end, at God’s appointed time. Dear friend where do you find yourself? Like Dietrich Bonhoeffer I would rather be the friend of God than the friend of those who rebel against God. So dear friend what is our mission? Is it to become like them and hate? No! This is the hour to love them ever more deeply and warn them with all your heart to turn to God and to Jesus Christ who can cleanse us to the very depths of our being from every evil. Jesus said,” I have not come to condemn the world but to save it.” We all need a Savior to deliver us from the evil that so deceives us and controls us. In that day when God cleanses the universe from evil you will have chosen to be saved from evil or to serve it. The choice has always been yours. We cannot make the excuse as we revel in our weakness, when God has supplied the overcoming strength.

Posted in Good News Journal | No Comments »

June 15, 2010 by Sal Termini.

In the movie, A Few Good Men, a top military commander is being questioned in a courtroom. He is being told he must tell the truth. He answers in a now famous statement, “You can’t handle the truth.” This statement is true of every one of us. Truth is both frightening and overwhelming. To know the truth means we are now responsible to measure up. It is the purpose of life to come to grips with the truth as God has revealed it to us. We may think we are fighting philosophies, religions, ideologies, but in reality they are mechanisms to cope with the truth we don’t want to face.

Jesus said, “The truth will set you free.” We will stand before God’s court one day and we will be asked whether or not we received and obeyed the truth. Jesus said, “Light came into the world but mankind loved the darkness rather than the light.” Jesus came so we could face the truth, obey the truth, and live the truth. I know the Bible is God’s word because it is so contrary to human nature. Yet through Jesus Christ we are brought to the truth. If we surrender to it, a term the Bible calls repentance, we will be set free from theconsequences of living a lie.

I have heard many times, church is for weak people. I believe the opposite is true. To join the church takes extraordinary courage and faith. We who follow Christ have faced the truth and have overcome all excuses, weaknesses, fear, and hypocrisies to love the truth and walk in it. The church encompasses people who are noble and brave.

To walk outside the truth is to sin against God and all that is good. The truth is the highest morality and ethics.

Truth is love, lived out every day.

Truth honors God.

Truth is loving God.

Truth is loving one another as human beings.

To not walk in the truth is to be found guilty, and we will one day be held accountable. We need forgiveness because of the suffering we have caused to others, and the violence we have done to God’s kingdom and purposes. We need forgiveness because of all the people we hurt by not walking in the truth. Jesus came to bring us the forgiveness we need so we can have a fresh start, walking in the truth. Ask Him to forgive you by His death on the cross and you will be forgiven and given power through His Spirit to walk in the truth.

Posted in Good News Journal | No Comments »