Knowing and Doing

A Fox Sports News Writer wrote this about Kurt Warner's Belief: Actually, the issue isn't really religion. It's faith. I don't care what or whom a ballplayer believes in: Jesus, Moses, Buddha, L. Ron Hubbard. I don't care what his position is on stem cell research, abortion, gay rights. But a system of belief — any system, really — that stills the mind and quells doubt is of obvious benefit, particularly if you're an athlete. However, Kurt Warner is working on faith. "It's an advantage for any individual, when you have faith and believe in something," Warner told our Greg Boeck Thursday after the Cardinals broke practice. "In my case, it's the power of Jesus ..." "I walk by faith and not by sight. I walk according to what I believe, and what I believe the power of God is, as opposed to what the world tells us, or what circumstances appear to be." Put another way, belief can liberate you. You need not dwell on the long odds...

I am committed to blog more in 2009. There is so much to write about and I need to be more committed to sharing biblical things from my heart. So if you will read, then I will write. I don't want to bore you, but my intention is to challenge you with things the church should be thinking, praying, and pursuing. WHY THE CHURCH MUST TEACH TODAY...Part III The church instructs in Christian doctrine. The church teaches the basic truths of the Christian faith. It guides Christians in understanding significant beliefs. It opens the Scriptures to determine those doctrinal ideals upon which the church is founded. It guides faithful Christians to maturity so that its members may not be “no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; 15 but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ," Eph 4:14-15 (NASB95) Most C...