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True faith vs. False professions

True faith vs. False professions

"Not everyone who calls out to me, 'Lord! Lord!' will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Only those who actually do the will of my Father in heaven will enter. On judgement day many will say to me, 'Lord! Lord! We prophesied in your name and cast out demons in your name and performed many miracles in your name.' .

  • Unlocking the power: are you hearing it?

    What do you expect when someone gives the Bible message at church? Are you unlocking the true power of these messages? Did you know your answer reflects your view on the Bible?

  • Church drop out – Because you haven't read enough about this already

    If you happen to be a human that has been connected to wifi life support over the last few weeks you would have unavoidably noticed renewed interest in the issue of young people leaving the church. Surprise everyone, it happens.

  • Breaking up with busy

    \'No one ever wants to hear how stressed out anyone else is, because most of the time everyone is stressed out. Going on and on in detail about how stressed out I am isn\'t conversation. It\'ll never lead anywhere. No one is going to say, \"Wow, Mindy, you really have it especially bad. I have heard some stories of stress, but this just takes the cake.\"' – Mindy Kaling

  • Three mind blowing things about the End

    The Bible has been the book which has been super-effective in consistently blowing my mind ever since I began to read it seriously. I\'ve not only discovered profound implications for my own life, but have also begun to realise the cosmic implications within its pages.

  • Family: The weirdly wonderful

    You can choose your friends but you cannot choose your family. This is fact and surely everyone will agree that having a family is a blessing, although its members may sometimes cause a little inconvenience or grievance. I am lucky that when I moved to Australia my sister was already settled in here to show me the ropes. Shortly after my arrival, my brother came to Sydney as well bringing his wife and daughter along with him.

  • Thanksgiving with Lindsay Lohan

    To this day, one of my favorite movies is Tina Fey's Mean Girls. In one of the final scenes of the movie, Lindsay Lohan's character is facing another female mathlete in the championship interscholastic mathematics bowl. After a long and self- absorbed soliloquy in the midst of the final calculus problem of the competition, the answer to the problem suddenly occurs to Lohan as she exclaims, "The limit does not exist!"

  • Bullying - A Mother's Story

    I recently had a mother discuss with me her worry over her 9 year old son- a "middle child".

  • Is there equality in sport?

    Why is it that when you open a newspaper and flick to the sports section, you mainly see men sprawled across the pages? Is sports considered manly? Should it be considered manly? When it comes to the treatment of women in sports, they're treated with obvious inequality.

  • What are you waiting for?!

    What are you waiting for?! If you're anything like me you doubtless have numerous ideas, things you'd like to do that would be genuinely great to get done.

  • SPARC notes - Creativity, Christianity and Culture

    Jeff Crabtree is someone with an intense dislike for the conventional wisdom. He is far too curious for that. But don't be the one to tell him that curiosity killed the cat. "The biggest element in someone being able to create something, is curiosity," he says. If it ain't broke don't fix it? His answer is "If it isn't broke, nobody's tried to break it yet".

  • The House with no windows – bad boundaries

    Personal case study. Three friends text, call, arranging, organising. My things and my time scheduled for the day gone out of the window, and instead a full schedule, with the rest of the day now designated to driving around town trying to meet their needs and requests and demands.