jennifer_bloom

I believe Christians are supposed to pity those who require and need pity by showing compassion and care on three fronts: physical compassion over financial poverty, emotional compassion over social poverty, spiritual compassion over moral poverty. I also believe Christians are meant to empower...

There are Five Qualities that define a religious Christian from in inactive one or a misguided one. They are: 1. Consciousness: The ability to sense and empathize with others and the ability to conceptualize what is just and fair for others not based on abstract teaching or dialogue but based on...

I used this image because the devil is chained to the tree by a snake and in the same way the hypocrite is chained to a lifestyle of bitterness and hate by the foils of deception. The issue I am stressing today is the idea of entanglement and entrapment. I believe that God wants us to choose...

You have to have faith. When I first returned to university after a hiatus, I was 6 years older than the other students and had a 1.0 cumulative GPA and people laughed at me when I said I wanted to be a professor. But I took my school as seriously as your average Harvard surgeon takes his job...

I believe that an immature believer who has not yet learned humility cannot accept God’s law and will refute those who try to teach God’s law I also believe that a biased spirit does not have the emotional or psychological capacity to contain God’s goodness and love, and will become enraged and...

This is an image of a money tree because there was a time in my life where I honestly thought I could talk my way into money and respectability and marriage and jobs. But it did not fly. I learned that God expects humility and sacrifice as the payment for progress and you can’t talk your way...

1. Venting to Insightful Non Participants I remember complaining to a woman saying our friend was evil because he yelled at me and her response was, maybe he was having a bad day and you just happened to be around when he wanted to release tension, I never thought of that but it made sense....

My experience with evil people who say or do or think or contemplate or plan or suggest evil is that in these cases, evil is almost always about power and control. People want to feel powerful so they hurt others. People want to feel powerful so they try to control others. People don’t forgive...

There are three statements that Jesus made about large groups of people 1. The majority will choose the path of ignorance and self destruction because it has the least resistance and lowest life standards and smoothest comfort levels, so the majority is ignorant and the few are knowledgeable. 2....

The first thing I learned is that you have to become clean before you canbecome responsible because if you marry or build a family with a corrupt heart, you will abuse your husband or wife and you will abuse your children. Both actions will damn you to hell. Until you develop a stable character...

There are multiple ideological systems that pervade throughout scripture, one being the binary of acceptance and rejection, the binary of humility vs. self promotion, the binary of modesty vs excessive self disclosure, or of charitableness and greed. Today I will talk about the binary of honour...

Not everything that is religious is spiritual and not everything that is spiritual is religious. Compassion and kindness are spiritual ideas that come directly from God but they don’t always involve direct worship or acts of religious sobriety. Religious ritual and worship is not always...

In the same way that a rainbow is composed of different colours so we have unique and very significant functions in this life. You might not be able to do what they can do but neither can they do what you can do. We all have the same capacity for growth and self-improvement and this is just as...

I had a crises of doubt when I first discovered the gospel of God and one of the reasons I struggled with doubt is that I grew up in a secular family where we believed every creation had to be calculated and materialized d explained based on organic manner in the physical world. Because I did...

The way I see it is that God does not punish most of the people who go to hell, instead the hell bound person destroys himself when karma catches up to him for his evil deed and the victim is rewarded not when he earns his reward but when God compensates him for the loss he experienced at the...

People expect their opponents to compensate them for the wrong they suffered. But you do not need compensation from your enemy. Because God will compensate you for what you went through. Either in this life or in the next. And usually in both. In India a lot of religious people do not regret...

The first is that you have to purify your heart before binding your soul to God’s principles because your spirit must match the spirit that God’s principles are built around and if you bind an angry and hateful and corrupt heart to God’s principles you will become more angry and more hateful and...

The serpent that tempted Eve in the garden of Eden told Eve that she would not die if she ate from the forbidden tree. But you see there was a second lie that Eve believed beyond the belief she would not die: She believed that knowing good and evil would make Adam and Eve like God. If you do...

This is a photo of Viktor Frankl, the psychotherapist who invented a new form of psychology once he left the Nazi death camp as a freed prisoner of war. He said that boredom is caused by a lack of moral fibre and grounding and today I found myself bored because I had no purpose remaining after...

1. Learn from Others Viktor Frank was a Jewish Holocaust survivor who had the option of escaping the Holocaust and relocating to America prior to his imprisonment but decided to risk his life in the camps because he could not imagine abandoning his parents and not giving them a chance to be...