Ariel Castro: " I'm not a monster "!

The Bible teaches that we're all sinners and surely, God's Holy Spirit in the world restrains the world from monsters like Ariel Castro taking over.  But he's an example of what the world look like if God's restraining power wouldn't be on earth as well as Hitler, Stalin, Dhamer, Gasey, etc.

People who do not understand or refuse to accept the Biblical doctrine of forgiveness and salvation have a hard time even hearing that God's saving grace can extend to people like these.   But this forgiveness is something that will always be underestimated even by the most devout believers.

The Bible states that "Salvation is of the Lord" and that only by the Holy Spirit can a life be transformed and regenerated.   So it takes a lot more than pity, remorse, regret or tears to be forgiven by God.  And only God knows the heart of man.  As humans we only think we know what's within our own hearts but the Bible states  "The heart is evil and desperately wicked, who can know it".   Only God can know what is in a human heart.

People often stumble at the account of the "thief on the cross" when they read that Christ forgave him but the miraculous power of the Holy Spirit was at work at that moment, and far be it from us to exactly understand how that heart was transformed.     It's a miracle of God just like the miracle of birth, conversion or even the creation of the world.

Drugs in Puerto Rico:

.Que viva Puerto Rico... Porque esta de muerte'!



How sad.  The demons are having a field day in the island formally thought of as a paradise of beauty.  But today, it's rotting from the core unto it's surface.   The youth, the culture, the people... dying and being killed left and right.   I don't believe for a minute our govt. is impotent in doing anything about this in PR or anywhere else. 

But drugs is a demon unleashed on the world and consuming the world from the high school boy smoking pot in his room to the govt. official on the down-low.    God have mercy on us.

Watch 180movie.com -

Every one person of "good" conscience should watch this short film. 

Pep-talk or Truth, which would you have?

The Bible is clear that outside of Christ, in our own human nature, and without Him, we are nothing, and we can do nothing.   We're "unprofitable for any good work" until we are called and saved by His grace.    But people continue to give pep-talk of a supposed human strength and inner "goodness" that humans have within us, and this is another lie from the pit of hell.

The Bible states that if there is ANY boasting to be done, let it be done only in Christ's work but not in our own human strength or self worth.

Humans are in need of salvation.  We are in need to "deny" and humble ourselves every day.   Before Christ we are defeated and in need of a savior.   We don't have any power or strength to do ANY good outside of Christ.  

Quite the contrary to this, is the pep-talk that teaches people that there is a human power of goodness within us that we can elevate, tap into or acknowledge.

People who get trapped into this thinking have a problem understanding God's holiness and what "Good" really is.  They fall for the temptation of self-pride which is what brought Lucifer down from glory.  It's the oldest sin in the book.   

The Christian message is about humility and self-sacrifice; being last in order to be first; goodness through Christ and denying self, etc.  But it can never be accomplished through our own strength or inner-power unless we're okay with handing down what Christ called "Filthy rags"!  


So lets leave the pep-talk of "inner-power" and "inner-goodness" for Joel Osteen and Oprah. As Christians, lets abide in Christ and His Word so we can understand true goodness and true power through Christ and Christ alone.    Any pep-talk or message that fails to acknowledge or mention the work of the Holy Spirit in empowering and regenerating us is lifting human power and potential above God, and it's blasphemy.

Emotional woman confronts open-air preacher.

This is what you get when relativism meets someone who refuses to read their Bible.

Do Catholics Worship Mary?

Preacher arrested in London for hate speech:

An open-air evangelist, Tony Miano was arrested in London for breaking a law instituted in the UK that supposedly prevents people groups from being offended by public speech that is likely to cause distress.  In this case, that people group is homosexuals and Miano was simply asserting his faith in God and that the Bible condemns homosexuality, which it clearly does.  Those that deny this Biblical truth are performing a magic trick gone bad.

So my question as a Christian is how can someone be arrested for simply stating the ever-so-clear doctrines of the Biblical text which everyone knows has been around for centuries and  in a country that supposedly has "free speech" like the UK?   

It's because history repeats itself and we're witnessing this in the intolerance of Christ's Truth just like at the start of the church.   The further away from God any culture gets, the less tolerance for the TRUE Christian message even though that message is proclaimed in pure love and Christ-like honesty. 

Even in extreme political conservative corners we're seeing the compromising of absolute morality and seeing more and more conservatives buckling and folding on issues of abortion, homosexual marriage, etc.   

On the Bill O'Reilly show, he blasted the freedom of speech that allows Christians to proclaim God's Word of repentance ignorantly not understanding that this method of proclamation was the way The Christian message has been spread throughout the world.  Furthermore, it's how America has known its blessings as provided by God even today!

But even more ignorant and arrogantly, he stated that Christ nor the early Christians did not preach repentance in public.  In his research to write his book, "Killing Jesus", he obviously hop-scotched over the Bible, God's Word Itself.  So how well researched can his work be?  

I guess I won't be picking up that read anytime soon.  

The Word of God is a stumbling block against all manner of sin, and light is an offense to darkness.   Jesus said He came to give sight to the blind and to save that which is lost.  And today that continues through His Word.  If His Word isn't proclaimed, the rocks might start shouting!   

Preach on!