A Drive to Fight Abortion
March 10, 2010
By KATE LINTHICUM – Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES — Last year Dave Wilkinson asked God for guidance. He wanted to know what he could do to better fight abortion.Wilkinson, an evangelical pastor, runs three Ventura County, Calif., pregnancy clinics that encourage women to choose alternatives to the procedure. He believes the prevalence of abortion is the biggest test Christians face. “It’s probably one of the things that American Christians are going to have to stand before God and answer for,” Wilkinson said. “He will say, ‘You, as Americans, what did you do to fight abortion?’”
Wilkinson, a 55-year-old Simi Valley resident with a gray beard and a calm manner, said God answered his prayers with a directive to “go where the battle is.”
So last September, he brought his work to Watts.
Every Tuesday since then, Wilkinson and a handful of like-minded Christians have driven into the city in a donated motor home equipped with an ultrasound machine and parked it near the Imperial Courts housing project.
They come here because Watts is one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods, and abortion rates tend to be higher in low-income areas, according to the nonprofit Guttmacher Institute, a leading authority on sexual health issues. For four hours, Wilkinson’s group offers free pregnancy tests, using the ultrasound to show women images of their fetuses and leading prayer-filled counseling sessions in which they urge the women to keep their unborn babies.
Many of the women promise to go through with the pregnancy, Wilkinson said, but some say they’re going to get abortions. In those “sad cases,” Wilkinson said, he and his colleagues pray for the woman and the fetus and offer a phone number for post-abortion counseling.
Frequently, the encounter becomes a religious experience, Wilkinson said.
“It can be a real catalyst for people finding God, or refinding God,” he said. “Because of the crisis they’re in, they’re more open – and that’s when we introduce God.”
The bright purple motor home is hard to miss. It’s covered with stickers, including a large one that says, “All services are free!”
Last week, the first visitor was Briana Lares, a high school student who decided to stop in with her boyfriend after passing the RV on her way to her Imperial Courts apartment.
Briana knew she was pregnant – her sparkly purple shirt was stretched snugly over her curved belly – and had come for the free ultrasound. She sat down on a soft couch across from Joyce Sexaur, 55, one of the counselors at Wilkinson’s Community Pregnancy Clinics.
Briana, who turned 17 that day, said she had an abortion last year because her boyfriend was in jail at the time and she worried she wouldn’t be able to support a child alone. The abortion had angered him, Briana said, and this time she was going to keep the child.
“I’m so happy you’re making this decision,” Sexaur told her. “Now, do you have faith?”
“I don’t really know what I am,” Briana said. “But I have accepted God in my heart.”
“Good,” Sexaur said. “Briana, that’s going to really help. Because life can be really hard, but God will be there for you, and Briana, I believe God has a plan and a purpose not only for you but for your baby too.”
Sexaur and the others who work at the mobile pregnancy clinic share a world view centered on one basic idea: that life starts at conception and is a gift from God.
“This is spiritual warfare,” Wilkinson said. “It’s a good versus evil thing. Jesus came to give life, and the devil takes it.”
His passion on this front was sparked in 1975, when his San Fernando Valley church screened a film by Francis Schaeffer, an evangelical pastor who was one of the first antiabortion activists. He was further inspired several years later when some of his classmates at a seminary in St. Louis staged protests and other acts of civil disobedience at a local abortion clinic.
While Wilkinson admired the brazenness of their work, it didn’t suit his disposition. In two decades as a pastor at various Simi Valley churches – including Sonrise Christian Fellowship and the Bridge Community Church – he always preferred one-on-one counseling to standing before an audience and preaching.
He believes the pregnancy clinics are a more compassionate way to urge women to see abortions as he does. In January, Wilkinson’s operation expanded. The mobile pregnancy clinic now makes weekly stops near L.A.’s MacArthur Park and in Oxnard, Ventura and Mission Hills.
In the RV, the emphasis is on birth.
“We want to educate them so they can see for themselves the miracle that this is,” said Stephanie Loring, a 22-year-old home care nurse from Westlake Village who volunteers two days a week at the clinic.
“It’s a way that I can serve the Lord,” she said.
On Tuesday, Loring patted the medical chair in the back room of the clinic and instructed Briana to hop up.
Then she lifted up Briana’s shirt and moved the ultrasound sensor to her stomach. Briana’s boyfriend, 17-year-old David Flores, looked on nervously.
An image appeared on a large flat-screen television, which had been donated by New Hope Christian Fellowship in Simi Valley. Most of the $40,000 for the ultrasound equipment came from Focus on the Family, a conservative Christian group based in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Amid blurry gray and white splotches, the outline of the fetus appeared. Briana and David both brought their hands to their faces.
“Do you see the heart beating, David?” one of the nurses asked.
“Yeah.”
“Do you see the fists?” Loring said, pointing at the screen on which tiny hands appeared to be clasped. “It looks like it’s praying,” she said.
While the couple watched the screen in the back, Toni Dennis, 22, stepped up the RV’s front stairs.
A single mother raising a 2-year-old son, Dennis had missed her period and feared she was pregnant. She said she had an abortion last year because “I felt I couldn’t handle any more.
“I know it was wrong,” Dennis said. “I went to the altar. He wasn’t OK with it, but he is a forgiving God.”
“You do it once and you ask for forgiveness, you can’t do it again,” said Pamela Lineberry, 51, of Moorpark, who volunteers with the clinic as a counselor.
Together, the women waited through four tense minutes for the results of the pregnancy test. Dennis closed her eyes and muttered prayers.
A nurse came into the room. The test was negative.
“Thank you God,” Dennis exclaimed, lifting her eyes to the sky. “Thank you Jesus!”
Are You Running from “Why”?
March 2, 2010
by John ImlerJohn is an RVchurchesUSA Ambassor and author of It’s Never Too Late (Read John’s first article in this series answering the question “Why”) Don’t let the whys in your life cause you to run from God. We have all struggled to find answers to why we were going through certain circumstances. Sometimes we run because we don’t see any good reason for them and we feel that we are being treated unfairly by life. Sometimes we run because we don’t like the answers we are getting.
On the streets are countless individuals who for one or more reasons are on the run from God. Some are just aimlessly wandering about as ships tossed by the violent winds of each new set of circumstances. They wander without employment, food, shelter, family, or friends. But worst of all they wander without hope or God.
On those same streets are other individuals who are running from their circumstances and filling their lives with endless activities of every kind. They do not see God in those circumstances nor are they even asking God
WHY. They see their circumstances as meaningless coincidences without any reason or purpose.
While God speaks to us through Bible study and prayer, I firmly believe that He also guides and teaches us through the circumstances that He allows or sometimes causes which we experience daily. But we must first ask of Him the reason and then listen for His voice.
We must learn to run to God and not from God in our search for the answers to the whys of our lives.
My book Its Never Too Late is a story that clearly illustrates the total futility of one who ran from God. As a stiff necked and wayward former pastor, it took me too long to realize the truth that one cannot hide from God (Psalms 139:7-12).
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Ever Ask “Why”?
February 23, 2010
by John ImlerJohn is an RVchurchesUSA Ambassor and author of It’s Never Too Late I have, and I still do. As we travel the Christian journey we are
going to experience circumstances that we do not understand. Being human, it is natural that we want to know why our loving God allows or perhaps even causes them.
Job’s trials were not caused by God but by the devil in an effort to get him to turn away from God. In an effort to understand the whys of our own trials, we must recognize that the battle between the forces of good and evil have been going on since the Garden of Eden and that it is being fought all around us today (Eph. 6:12).
We must seek God’s wisdom (James 1:5) to recognize the true cause of our trials. Remember, “in all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrong doing” (Job 1:22).
It is amazing that those with no faith in God seldom blame Him for their troubles but that those who believe often ask, “Why did God allow this to happen to me?” While we are on this earth, our physical and spiritual lives are not disconnected, but totally interconnected. It is in our circumstances (physical lives) where the spiritual warfare takes place.
When we become believers and followers of Jesus Christ, we are volunteering to become soldiers and to participant in a spiritual battle. We can expect victories but also battles that try our soul, our spirit, and our faith. It is even quite possible that the more we seek to please Him, the more we will be aware of that spiritual battle.
In studying the Bible we become aware that Jesus and His disciples were constantly waging the battle against the devil and his evilness. Who could have experienced this battle more than our own Savior in His ministry, in the Garden, before Pilot, and on the cross? He promised that in this world we would have trouble but He also encouraged us to “take heart! I have overcome the world” (John 16:33).
I will be praying this week for each one who reads these words and ask that you also pray for me as I sort out the whys in my own life. May we together live as Peter admonished us in 1 Peter 5:6-10.
As always I welcome your questions or comments.
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Got Any Throwaways?
February 17, 2010
by John ImlerJohn is an RVchurchesUSA Ambassor and author of It’s Never Too Late It was like a dagger through my heart. The call was from my daughter who informed me that my oldest granddaughter
was in jail on drug charges. This was not the first time—it was just another time. How many times would there be? I had never visited her when she was in jail before and didn’t intend to this time either.
In response, I almost screamed into the phone, “I think it is time for some tough love. Let her sit it out. It will maybe do her some good. Give her time to think for a change.” My daughter’s response surprised me and made me think. “Dad, I don’t have any throwaway children!”
I would later come to realize that my daughter’s reaction was also God’s reaction when Adam and Eve disobeyed Him in the Garden of Eden and partook of the forbidden fruit at the serpent’s suggestion. God could have just returned them to dust from which they were made. But He did not set that example for us to follow. He had given them the ability to choose to follow His directions or that of the serpent. But when they failed, He continued to love them and even made clothing for them to cover their nakedness.
Although He did punish Adam and Eve and send them from their paradise, God still loved them and sat out to bring them home to Him again. He spared no effort or time in doing so either. Throughout the Old Testament God constantly worked to get mankind to follow His commandments. He finally sent His own Son, Jesus Christ, to provide the ultimate sacrifice for all of mankind.
Sometimes it would be so much easier to just throw some individuals away than to suffer the disappointment and heartache that God’s way provides. So as I pondered my own earthly father’s reaction to my behavior as a young man, I realized that there were times when perhaps I could have been thrown away, disinherited, disowned or written off as hopeless. But my earthly father continued to love me and provide for me.
So it was with my heavenly Father. Hadn’t I once been a servant of God but listened to Satan’s lies and turned my back on Him. Hadn’t I disobeyed God many times, yet God had never given up hope and sent the Good Shepherd to rescue me.
Now I realize that God’s way was the way to deal with my wayward granddaughter. Although the way has not been easy, today she is gainfully employed, has two beautiful sons, and is drug free.
Do you have any “throwaways”? Have you given up hope? Although continuing to give love to a wayward child is difficult, it is amazing what God’s way can do with prayer and faith. Jesus Himself challenges us to provide that special love that comes from Him in John 14:32-36. Tough love is really loving when it is tough to do.
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The Purpose of Bible Study
February 9, 2010
by John ImlerJohn is an RVchurchesUSA Ambassor and author of It’s Never Too Late Recently I read that the goal of studying the Bible is personal application. I could not agree more;
however, it is so easy just to read the words without concentrating on how to apply them in our own lives.
The Purpose of Bible StudyIt is of questionable value to just read the Bible if we are not going to apply its teachings to our lives. I Corinthians 10:11 says that “These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us.” It would seem then that we should seek to apply what has been written to our daily lives.
After we have repented of our sins, accepted Jesus Christ as our Savior, and confessed Him with our mouths (Rom 10:9), we should make the study of the Bible a regular part of our lives. Only as we apply its teachings and allow Christ to live out His life in us are we able to do as Jesus commanded. “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another” (John 13:34, 35). In John 14:15 He gives further instruction as to the importance of applying His teachings to our daily lives.
No matter which book of the Bible you choose to start studying, perhaps you may want to join a Bible study group near you. I can assure you that you will find it beneficial to your growth as a Christian.
One of my favorite books is Proverbs. I find it chuck full of wisdom that still needs to be applied to our daily lives in this 21st century. Its principles were echoed by Christ himself throughout the gospels. Its words are often like a two edged sword; however, there are also many nuggets of humor to lighten it so that it is not too heavy. Proverbs 30:33 is an excellent example of this humor.
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Billy Graham – Most Influential Preacher
February 9, 2010
By LifeWay Christian Resources NASHVILLE, Tenn. – He has preached the gospel to more than 200 million people in 185 lands and, at 91, still maintains that his one purpose in life is "to help people find a personal relationship with God, which, I believe, comes through knowing Christ
The Rev. Billy Graham, crusading Evangelist, climaxed his tour of New England with a mass rally on historic Boston Common on April 23, 1950. Some 50,000 persons attended the event."
Billy Graham, whose crusade in Los Angeles in 1949 vaulted him into the public square, is far and away the top living preacher that has most influenced Protestant pastors, according to a recent survey by LifeWay Research.
In telephone interviews conducted in November 2009, Protestant pastors were asked to “name the top three living Christian preachers that most influence you.” Twenty-one percent of pastors surveyed said Graham – that’s nearly three times the number who named Charles R. Swindoll, prominent pastor, author and host of the radio Bible-teaching ministry Insight for Living.
Graham, who served as pastor early in his ministry, has led major evangelistic campaigns around the world, authored 27 books and counseled many U.S. presidents. His appeal to both religious and secular audiences is evidenced by the wide range of organizations that have honored him, including the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and the George Washington Carver Memorial Institute.
While Graham’s position at the top may have been expected, the list as a whole was a bit surprising for its lack of diversity, according to Ed Stetzer, director of LifeWay Research. “Considering our sample includes liberal and conservative, all races and ethnicities, mainline and evangelical, we were surprised that the list looked like mainstream Christian radio and publishing and was not more representative,” he said. “Of course, the majority who answer drive the final numbers, but I was expecting more diversity in the responses.”
Rounding out the top 10, after Graham and Swindoll, were:
- Charles Stanley, senior pastor of First Baptist Church, Atlanta, and founder of In Touch Ministries.
- Rick Warren, senior pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., and author of the best-selling book, “The Purpose-Driven Life.”
- John MacArthur, pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, Calif., and president and featured teacher of the Grace to You ministry.
- Barbara Brown Taylor, religion teacher at Piedmont College in northeast Georgia and author of 12 books including “An Altar in the World.”
- David Jeremiah, founder of Turning Point Radio and Television Ministries and senior pastor of Shadow Mountain Community Church in San Diego County, Calif.
- Max Lucado, minister of writing and preaching at the Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas, and the recipient of three Christian Book of the Year awards.
- John Piper, pastor for preaching at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis and author of more than 30 books, including “Desiring God.”
- Andy Stanley, senior pastor of North Point Community Church, Buckhead Church, and Browns Bridge Community Church – all in the Atlanta area – and founder of North Point Ministries.
“Studies like these can help us see who is shaping the thinking of Protestant pastors today,” said Stetzer. “Since survey participants are not picking from a predetermined list, the people named must be widely known. Knowing who is shaping Protestant thinking shows us what type of direction to expect from the nation’s pastors.”
Participants in the survey also were asked to “name the top three living Christian leaders that most influence you.” Graham again topped the list, but other names emerged as well, including James Dobson and Desmond Tutu. For complete results, and for more information on the survey, visit LifeWayResearch.com.
LifeWay Research conducted a telephone survey among a random sample of 1,002 Protestant pastors Nov. 5-12, 2009. The sample provides 95 percent confidence that the sampling error does not exceed +3.1 percent. Usable responses to the open- ended question about Christian preachers were received from 868 pastors. Usable responses to the open-ended question about Christian leaders were received from 765 pastors.
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Share Jesus Without Fear
February 8, 2010
from Lifeway
Biblical Solutions for Life
sparked a faith-sharing movement that continues to gain momentum.
It began with the jaw-dropping story of William Fay, once a money-driven businessman with Mafia ties who ran a house of prostitution until it was raided by police. Facing the threat of jail time, Fay turned to Jesus Christ for redemption and ever since has been turning others to Him as well.
Now featuring a fresh new cover design, Share Jesus without Fear relays Fay’s passionate, effective instructions on how to share the love of Christ with anyone–without feeling intimidated on either side of the conversation. Bold and joyful, the outreach movement continues without fear.
You can order a copy of this book here
Choosing Our Destination
February 2, 2010
by John ImlerJohn is an RVchurchesUSA Ambassor and author of It’s Never Too Late While many would rather not consider the question of their final destination, our Guidebook (the Bible) indicates that the choice is being made every day of our journey (Matthew 6:24).
As soon as we begin to make our own decisions, we are choosing our final destination. At that point we decide which of two roads we are going to travel. One of those roads may offer more earthly excitement but it is the way of the foolish and leads to destruction (Proverbs 12:15; Matt. 7:13). The other road is more difficult (Matthew 7:14), but it offers the luxury of a personal Guide, Jesus Christ (John 14:6), and leads to eternal life.
We must seriously consider our decision—making sure that it is really a decision not just a temporary consideration of the two options. In Luke 8:11-15, Jesus tells of those who considered the choices, yet made different decisions. The Apostle Paul warns about those who hear the Bible message yet do not arrive at the right destination (Heb. 4:2).
Webster defines “decide” as “to conclude or settle.” He further says that this definition is the least specific and that a more complete definitions can be found in the meaning of the word “settle” which “stresses finality of decision” and/or “resolve – implying formal deliberation and finality of decision or determination.” It is this resolve that Christ spoke of in Luke 8:15.
Perhaps we should look at the time of our death as just a stopover on our way to our final eternal destination. We could look at it as a time when we go through a check point or appear before a customs official to see that our names are written in God’s Book of Life. Remember, we will be taking nothing with us on this last leg of the trip (1 Tim. 6:7).
These two destinations – commonly referred to as Heaven and Hell – are totally opposite in what they offer. The Bible describes one as the place without God (2 Thessalonians 1:9) and the other as a place where God dwells (Acts 7:48-49). Since God is the source of all that we know as “good” (James 1:17), it would seem wise that we make the decision to assure that His dwelling place is our home for eternity.
However, that is a choice each of us must make. John 3:16-19 invites you to choose your destination today.
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Resurrection of Christ Movie
February 1, 2010
By Josh Kimball
as appeared on The Christian Post, January 19, 2001
And now, Easter 2011 looks to be when Jesus’ rise from the dead will be witnessed by people across America. (International release dates for “The Resurrection of the Christ,” meanwhile, are still waiting in the wings.)
According to weekly entertainment-trade magazine Variety, shooting for “The Resurrection of the Christ” is set to start in July with indie filmmaker Billy McKay producing, Jonas McCord directing, and Dan Gordon penning the screenplay, which is expected to focus on the power, greed and ambition of those involved in the crucifixion – Pontius Pilate, Herod, Caiaphas and Judas.
“It’s as much about the key players as it is about Jesus,” McKay told Variety. “We want to bring in the ‘Gladiator’ dimension of the first century against the political milieu of the time.”
McKay, who was one of three producers behind “Billy: The Early Years,” which told the story of evangelist Billy Graham’s rise to prominence, also said “Resurrection” will remain faithful to biblical and historical records.
The film is set to shoot in Israel, Morocco and Europe and will be distributed domestically through Samuel Goldwyn Films, which has been behind faith-based favorites such as “Amazing Grace” and “Fireproof” as well as upcoming movie “To Save a Life,” which hits theaters this Friday.
Notably, while Mel Gibson’s “Passion of the Christ” chalked up over $611 million worldwide in 2004, “Nativity Story” only picked up $46 million after its December 2006 release.
A production budget of $20 million has so far been planned for “Resurrection” – significantly less than was reported for “Passion” ($30 million) and “Nativity Story” ($35 million).
Easter next year falls on Apr. 24.
Using the “Guide Book”
January 24, 2010
by John ImlerJohn is an RVchurchesUSA Ambassor and author of It’s Never Too Late In 2007 my wife Ruth and I made plans to venture to Alaska in our RV. We knew it would need to be well planned, as we would go over roadways
that we had never traveled I obtained an up-to-date road atlas so I could choose each road through the several states and provinces. We researched sites we wanted to see and accommodations available.
Others who had taken a similar trip told of a book that would be a big help in our final plans, although it would require a lot of study. They said it was a must read, if I were to be adequately prepared for some of the difficulties we might face. It had everything the atlas had and much more. It was called The Milepost and took me milepost by milepost along each road I had selected warning me of every possible hazard to be encountered.
Other books are available on Alaska that would give opinions on what to see and the best road to take. However, The Milepost was written by those who had driven every mile. It was available to me if I wanted to take the time to not only just read it but study it. Once I read it I could take the word of someone who had driven the road or disregard their advice. It was my choice.
The Bible is like that. We can just read it or we can study it. We can take its advice about the journey called our “lifetime’ or we can disregard its advice. It is always our choice. Granted it is easier to just disregard it and travel whatever roadway unfolds before us, assuming that God has no interest in us and that whatever will be will be. However, there is One who has traveled this journey before us, and He invites us to allow Him to provide a mile by mile description of every roadway that lies ahead.
It is my recommendation that you not just own this Book but that you take the time to read it and study it. You will want to memorize some of it (Psalms 119:11). So on your journey, don’t be tempted to travel without consulting the Guidebook of life, for though “there is a way that seems right to man” it leads to the wrong destination (Proverbs 14:12). God’s way is the perfect way (2 Samuel 22:31). He has offered to “show you the way you should go” (Deut. 1:33); however, the decision as to taking His advice is up to you.
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The Journey
January 18, 2010
by John ImlerJohn is an RVchurchesUSA Ambassor and author of It’s Never Too Late We are each on a journey that started at our birth. This journey will continue over an indefinite period that we call our “lifetime.” At some point unknown to any of us, it will come to an end.
Journey is defined as “travel from one place to another; a trip.” When our lives end, we will have traveled from one place to another, from one world to another.
Before we take a trip we carefully plan for months or even years. Only the most adventurous set out without a definite destination in mind. We may even change our plans one or more times, but we will know our starting point and usually our destination.
Before we are born, others planned for us. Our first years are planned and directed by our parents and are pretty much shaped by the travel map they are using. They usually plan our journey through school, college, a story book marriage, and into a successful career.
But somewhere along your own journey we discover that the planning for the balance of our lives has been turned over to us. We soon realize that the time for the end of our journey has been pre-determined (Ecc 3:1-2. Heb. 9:27).
Each person’s journey will be different. During my journey I have observed those of others that have been much shorter than mine. I reveal several of these in my book, It’s Never Too Late (available at www.faithrescued.com).
At this moment, you are on your journey. The decision as to where you are going may be up in the air. As far as I have been able to determine, there aren’t a lot of options available. While some seem to think that if they believe the end in nothing more than a long sleep that will make it true. If that were true, then all of our lives would be meaningless and of no more value than the life span of the mosquito (1 Cor.15:32).
God has provided a Guidebook or Map to help each of us determine where you are going after this journey ends. The story of our Creator’s efforts to preserve this Book for us is truly amazing.
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Seize the Opportunity
January 13, 2010
by John ImlerJohn is an RVchurchesUSA Ambassor and author of It’s Never Too Late We have all wished for the opportunity to do things over, feeling assured that we would do them differently or get them right the next time. Life can get frustrating with all of its challenges and required decisions.
Perhaps you have felt like the writer of Ecclesiastes, just as I have, 
when he penned the words, “Everything is meaningless” (Ecc. 1:2).
We are at the beginning of another year on the calendar. It is a time when many of us will make resolutions to change certain aspects of our lives or, in a sense, to start over.
As I consider the new year, it seems to me that my number one resolution should be to daily become more conscious of my Creator. After expressing the same questions and frustrations most of us experience, the writer of Ecclesiastes summarizes it all in chapter 12:13-14: “Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil.”
Jesus Himself declared this same truth in Luke 10:27: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and, love your neighbor as yourself.”
There is within all of us a God given sense of right and wrong and when we are conscious of God in our daily lives, the Holy Spirit will, as Christ promised, “teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you” (John 14:26).
So seize the opportunity for a new beginning. 2010 is the first year of the rest of your life. May you have a new consciousness of your Creator in your daily life.
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.” (Proverbs 3:5-6).
Remember, how much of the Bible we read is not as important as how much of its truths and principles we remember to practice in our daily lives (Luke 8:11-15).
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