Papal Visit! One.

What is Expected?

Many people in Ireland are hoping that during this Papal visit the first since 1979, the new Pope will apologise for all the hurt and pain of what Nuns, monks and priests have done over the years in the various sexual scandals to have rocked the country?

But if one knows the Roman Catholic Church, one should know that everything moves very slowly and it is unlikely this Pope like any other will not have much to say!

People in Ireland have moved on into what is described as a modern society, but the reality for the many who believe the nation is now on the verge of paganism and hostile to the Christian faith?

Salvation only comes through faith in Jesus as the Son of God who died once for our failures, priest, man, pope cannot save us! Only by confession, repentance and faith in the death and resurrection of Jesus will we have the full assurance of Eternal Life!

Job 30:25,  Proverbs 23:29,   Jeremiah 8:6,   Malachi 3:14,   Mark 3:5,   Luke 5:32,  Romans 2:4.

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Faith always wins Through!

Over Traditionalism?

We hear much about the Christian religion in the media, but we don’t get to hear of the good things that are happening around the world and all over the place?

New things, God moving changing lives, wars ending, people talking, trying to make peace, new schools, hospitals, pumps for water in deserts and much more!

What God really wants is for His believers to keep living by faith and not caught up in the deadness of ritualism and traditions!

Psalm 36:3,   Acts 10:38,   Ephesians 6:7,   1 Peter 2:15,   20,   3:6.

Orangeism! Two

Will it ever End?

As long as humanity has existed man has devised plans for exclusiveness, so that they can get one better over the other? What orangeism is about is a hoax interpretation of historical facts and biblical truths twisted to meet their needs!

But here is the dilemma that effects most religious systems, Roman Catholicism has its own secret organisations within business and the Priesthood that has a much if not more influences?

Basically to be a real Christian believer is to avoid anything that gets in the way between us and our personal relationship with Jesus! We have to learn to keep to the straight and narrow, our eyes fixed on Him and allow nothing else to stop us from reaching our eternal prize!

Psalm 119:6,  123:2,  Acts 17:31,  Romans 8:6,  12:17,  Philippians 2:8-11,  Titus 2:13,  Hebrews 3:1,  12:2.

A Selfish Society! Two.

Regretting? 

Time will tell for the many nations who today call themselves advanced? One has to wonder what this advancement might mean, as to kill others to join in the unions and alliances of mass genocide in the names of science and advancement?

God will soon make His Judgement on the world, when Jesus returns to take His Ekklesia to meet Him in the sky! But between now and that great day, there is still time for us to repent and seek God, confessing our failure and seeing Jesus, who died for us forgive our failings!

1 Thessalonians 4:17,   1 Corinthians 15:52,   Mark 14:62,   Acts 26:18,   Philippians 1:19,  2 Timothy 4:4.

Fruit and Fire!

Only for Born-Again Believers?

When we are saved, knowing that God has forgiven our past sins, because we believed that Jesus died on the cross and rose again on the third day making that one and final atonement for sins, we will have received the Holy Spirit as both a guarantee and seal of our Salvation!

The Holy Spirit is that flame or fire of passion that burns within us, wanting to share the Good News message with the world around us, friends and family! He gives us a passion and compassion for others, while also the gifts become available for us to develop in Love!

But last of all we are given the free choices to go with God’s flow or to refuse to do so and so we must face the consequences of these choices at the End of the Age?

Songs of Solomon 8:7,   Joel 2:28-32,   Acts 2:3,   1 Corinthians chapters 12,  13,  14,  Galatians 5:22,   1 Thessalonians 5:19,   1 Peter 1:7.

‘I Patrick a Sinner! Two.

Witnesses?

You need many witnesses to prove seeing something, wither it is an event, a issue to trial or a testimony? Today our world around us is full of liars and false witnesses, people gang up on you to say something that never happened and get others into serious trouble!

We have the two accounts of Saint Patrick that have been verified over the centuries, as one of the best accounts ever recorded by a Christian of Celtic Ireland! What he saw and experienced before his conversion and after on his return as a missionary and the founding father of the vision for Kells and Iona!

Our media is full of fake news, lies, unverified reporting and government propaganda! Meanwhile we are told to believe their events of a story and there is a serious lack of witnesses to that suspected event?

Many people who discount the Christian faith try to say it was Jesus Disciples and those few woman around Him who made up a story? But they do not realise that over five-hundred people saw Jesus alive bearing the marks of the Cross/Stake/Tree on His body for forty-days between His rising from the grave and His return to Heaven!

Deuteronomy 19:19,   Matthew 18:16,   John 8:17,   1 Corinthians 15:6,   2 Corinthians 13:1, 1 Thessalonians 2:10,   Revelation 21:8.

Crossroads. Two.

Living in the power of the Resurrection?

There are some people who believe or claim a faith in Jesus, but they fail to fathom the rising of Jesus the man from the grave?

This a serious flaw in the Christian faith, like that of denying that a loving God would send people to Hell! But without faith in the resurrection of Jesus, we cannot enter into the promised New Life!

All who witnessed Jesus rising from the dead where changed people, their faith was made full and they were empowered to press on believing, applying Jesus teaching and serving God!

John 11:24-24,  Acts 1:22,  4:33,  Romans 1:4,  6:5,  1 Corinthians 15:12-13,  Colossians 1:13, 1 Peter 1:23.