Happy Hanukkah and Merry Christmas – the Symbolic Similarities.  (Dec. 13, 2015)

Today (December 13^th, 2015) is the 7^th day of the festival Hanukkah (Chanukah).  There are many similarities and deep meaning between these two special days within the Jewish and Christian Community. 

I want to start by defining what this Jewish holiday means.  The Jewish holiday…

CLERGY CODE OF ETHICS FOR AOCI CREDENTIALS

Serving G-d as an ordained clergy with the Association of Clergy International – A.O.C.I. is not a right but a privilege that requires certain responsibilities, standards of conduct, lifestyle, and servant attitudes.

1. AOCI Clergy will ensure that their conduct at all times reflects the fact that they are in the service to our LORD and His people (Gal 5:22-26) (Phil 4:8) (Phil 2:3-8).
2. AOCI Clergy will not…

 In 2014 Ferguson Missouri had it's chaos.

And of course all of the other stuff that transpired

since, and it looks like things are not getting better

but on the other hand are getting out of control.

Jesus tells us that people will even harm us

just for His name's sake.

Some of us realize that the train is coming

down the track and are getting off of it before

the train shows up.

Just a few of us are …

Apologetics exists as a field of Christian study to aide the believer in understanding his beliefs, why critics refuse to ascent to these eternal truths, and how these beliefs apply to broader intellectual concerns. Upon hearing of these applications of the discipline, those unfamiliar with such studies might conclude the field to be a subject preoccupied with trivial, esoteric arguments divorced from more pressing issues arising in the course of everyday life.

However, Apologetics…

Let us take a look at the World in (John 2;15 ). The

Bible says, ''Love not the world ...''What is the meaning

of ''the world'' here? It means the attractive things of the

world which Satan uses to draw us away from God

The second great enemy of the Christian is ''the flesh.

''What is ''the flesh''? The flesh is our sinful human nature.

Another name for''the flesh is SELF . It is what we inside.

Befor I…

Just as in the days of Joshua, God still offers his love and the

opportunity to serve him, but he will not force it on anyone.

You may recall God once before offered the tribes of Israel

the land across the Jordan. They refused this blessing out of

fear of the people who lived there. Because they fefused this

blessing, they were left to wander in the desert for forty years

until Joshua finally led them to…