Dan Delzell
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Are you God’s friend or enemy?
Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God” (James 4:4). This world is passing away, while the Kingdom of God will exist forever. And you and I must make a choice.
'Going to confession' must include repentance and renunciation of sin
Repentance is a “change of mind” regarding your sin. You no longer want to give into it. Renouncing sin means to turn away from it with a firm determination to head in the opposite direction. Confession of sin without repentance leaves you guilty and still in need of God’s forgiveness.
Comparing Christian good works to religious dead works
The most popular religious theory in the world posits that man can work his way to Heaven. This natural assumption reveals a huge disconnect between God and man. God’s knowledge about salvation differs greatly from human opinions.
Have you been made alive with Christ?
In the words of a well-known hymn written by John Sammis in 1887: “Trust and obey, for there’s no better way, To be happy in Jesus, than to trust and obey."
Saul of Tarsus, Martin Luther and 3 Catholic priests
What do Saul of Tarsus, Martin Luther, and three former Roman Catholic priests all have in common? These devout religious leaders all came to discover God’s righteousness.
The Book of Life and the lake of fire
The problem with trusting yourself and relying upon what is in the books is that your sins are being recorded in those books. I hope this fact alarms you because without alarm and conviction over your sin, you will fail to appreciate your need for the blood of Jesus to cleanse you.
Obsessively chasing after signs, wonders and money
But spiritual growth cannot be sustained by signs and wonders. Christians need spiritual food every single day in order to grow strong and stay on track.
When inventors, scientists and surgeons trust God
Human intellect is not the key to understanding and believing the Gospel. Belief requires humility and a willingness to accept God’s Word and embrace God’s promises.
1 sentence can change your life forever
“Wash me Jesus in your precious blood.” One sentence, spoken in faith. And if you truly believe it, then speak it again tomorrow, and the next day. There is more power in this one sentence, spoken in faith, than in millions of books filled with millions of sentences.
Dark matter and spiritual light captivate astrophysicists
Astrophysicists, regardless of their spiritual convictions, are constantly immersed in God’s book of nature. And the cosmological discoveries over the past 25 years have convinced many astrophysicists and other scientists that our universe had a highly intelligent causal agent.