Take Up Your Cross

Take Up Your Cross

As a sinner a person makes decisions to do wrong and he lives with the consequences of those decisions. When he becomes a Christian, he makes decisions to do right and he has to live with what others think about his decision. Jesus warned that every Christian will be...

Dangers Without and Within

It is easy to see some things coming that can hurt or even kill us. We are usually able to protect ourselves from lightning and tornadoes because we can see the danger signs. We have seen the damage these forces can cause and we can prepare as the threat of them...

Love Your Enemies

In an earlier article, which was published here on the “Ring Out the Message” website, I elaborated on the fact that faithful Christians will have enemies.  The Bible makes this point completely clear as I showed in that earlier article.  The Bible is also clear that...

Christ and His Followers Have Enemies

In this life, it is the case that we will have enemies.  I was once told by a man that Christians should not have any enemies.  This man was himself a brother in Christ.  He seemingly indicated to me that if a Christian had enemies, this was not the way things were to...