by admin | Sep 9, 2010 | Blog, Mere Religion
“And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is my disciple, I tell you the truth, he will certainly not lose his reward.” Matthew 10:42 (NIV) Everyone fancy themselves as a born preacher and I am no exception. My recent...
by admin | Sep 7, 2010 | Blog, Mere Religion
“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” James 1:27 (NIV) The word oxymoron implies a contradiction in terms which combines two...
by admin | Sep 6, 2010 | Blog, Mere Religion
“These people draw near Me with their mouths and honour Me with their lips, but their hearts hold off and are far away from Me. Uselessly do they worship Me, for they teach as doctrines the commands of men.” Matt 15:8 (Amplified) The writer of Proverbs 30:8-9 said...
by admin | Sep 4, 2010 | Blog, Mere Religion
“And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.” Leviticus 10:1 (KJV) 1 Peter 2:9 is to my knowledge one of the most often...
by admin | Sep 3, 2010 | Blog, Mere Religion
“Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God–this is your spiritual act of worship.” Romans 12:1 (NIV) A commentator who was alluding to the scripture passage above once...
by admin | Sep 1, 2010 | Blog, Mere Religion
“But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. 1 John 1:7 (NIV) (Amplified) It was Karl Marx, the political thinker, who said ‘Religion is the opiate of the people.’...
