THE TRUTH

A Newsletter of PURSUING THE TRUTH MINISTRIES
August 2003

THE VISION

Pursuing the Truth Ministries is a ministry for and to the people. We endeavor to help you establish a personal relationship with the Father through the foundation of Bible study. The Bible is God's revelation of himself to us. Therefore, it would behoove us to read and know it, which would give us a better awareness of God.

Pursuing the Truth Ministries exists to serve you. We endeavor to provide resources for your use in your own pursuit of the truth. We believe that your relationship with God transcends your church membership or religious affiliation. We believe that your relationship with God is your responsibility and not that of your church or pastor. You have to take the initiative to answer God's call for you. Our vision is just that. For you to realize your position with God through Christ. We hope that you would grasp the liberty that you have in Christ so that you would be delivered from those things that enslave you and keep you from doing what God wants. We are here to minister to you from the foundation of the Word of God.

WHAT'S HAPPENING

We are moving forward with providing ministry for our community. Here are some items that are coming up within the next few months.

1. Christianity Versus Churchianity: Who is Telling the Truth -- This is a series of teachings will expose many of the false teachings perpetuated by men and women who pawn themselves as prophets, pastors, bishops, etc. Learn what true Christianity is and how many people have been deceived by "false prophets." We are a part of the move of God in the Christian church to bring the Jesus and the Bible back to the forefront of the minds of those professing Christianity. We are part of the move to truth.
2. You Children and Education -- This will be a seminar that will alert parents as to what their children have to deal with in school. A principle of a local school will be our guest speaker. This seminar is scheduled for September 30, 2003. Stay tuned for more details in the weeks to come.
3. Computer Seminar -- We are currently in the planning stages for a computer seminar scheduled for October 11, 2003 from 1:00 to 3:00. This seminar will familiarize people with the basics of a computer system so that they would be more informed for purchasing new systems and repairs.

Pursuing the Truth Ministries is moving ahead in the effort to bring Jesus back to Church. There is so much heresy in the churches today that are perpetuated by pastors, elders, bishops, evangelists, and ministers. The men and women of the world pawn their system of secular materialism as though it was the will and purpose of God. However, there are a remnant of those who would fight for Christ and expose these false teachings. We are fighting to promote Jesus Christ and the Bible, which is the standard of the Christian faith, and not the teachings of these false prophets of the world system teaching their prosperity, and new age philosophies in the church. We will begin to have more programs and such as workshops, seminars, and classes, in addition to the Sunday morning sermons to make people aware of true Christianity. Stay tuned for more information regarding this effort.

BIBLE STUDY: Materialism and Christianity

By William R. Cunningham

PREFACE

Consider the following scripture.

Matthew 6:19-21 (NKJV) “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

The Kingdom of God is not about materialism. Christianity is not a faith that caters to wealth and riches even though many preachers would have you think so. There is the “believe you receive" and the "God will honor your faith" dogma. However, Jesus said not to lay up for ourselves treasure on earth, but to lay up for ourselves treasure in heaven. In other words, Christians are not to pursue the treasures on this earth because at best they are temporal. Consider the following scriptures.

Proverbs 23:4-5 (NKJV)  Do not overwork to be rich; Because of your own understanding, cease! Will you set your eyes on that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; They fly away like an eagle toward heaven.
 
1 Timothy 6:8-10 (NKJV) And having food and clothing, with these we shall be content. But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

The objective that we have on this earth is not to seek riches but to seek God. We are not to pursue those things that would make us materially wealthy but that which would make us spiritually rich. Do you have riches in heaven or earth? However, there are many ministers that preach to you the message of material wealth. That is not Christianity. These same ministers that preach prosperity, faith, and wealth are preaching something other than the word of God. They are preaching materialism to a large extent.

Materialism is a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters. It is being more concerned about material things than anything else, even spiritual things. When you listen to a lot of the preaching in Christian churches, conventions, revivals, and the like, you will find that an emphasis is placed on material wealth. Preachers brag about the number of cars that they have or their jet. They brag about their expensive clothing and jewelry. They make you feel as though you are lacking or deficient if you are not rich as well. They make you feel that you are living outside the will of God because you don't have an abundance of material wealth. People then begin to pursue those riches in the name of Jesus. They begin to shift their focus to worldly possessions instead of spiritual abundance. They then become deceived and then lost.

I was listening to a minister today and he said that when we were born again that wealth was written on top of our name. Can you imagine that. This statement was made at a local church and many people were cheering with joyfulness at those words. Of course there was no scripture given that supported such a false claim. In any case the people seemed to accept the statement and therefore assume that salvation means that we are to be wealthy. Salvation is being preached as a doorway to worldly riches instead of a doorway to eternal life with the Father. Salvation is being presented as a perk instead as a necessity for mankind.

Are you one of those people who have been deceived by materialism that is preached as the word of God? Are you one of those people that pursue riches instead of the truth? Have you twisted the scriptures around to make them say that you are rich and by faith you can bring those riches from the spiritual to the material realm? If so than I adjure you to repent. Repent of your idol and come back to Christ.

Christianity is not about riches and wealth. Christianity is about Jesus Christ and Him crucified and risen. Christianity is not a gateway to wealth. Christianity is the gateway to the Father if you will. Christianity is about a relationship with our heavenly father not with riches, wealth, i.e., the world. True Christianity focuses on Jesus Christ and a Christian lives according to the word of God not the words of men. So stop listening to those wolves in sheep clothing and come back to God. Repent of your deception and run to the light. Then you will be saved by faith in Jesus Christ.

BACK TO JESUS

By William R. Cunningham

There are two scriptures that I would like to share with you from the book of Revelation.

Revelation 3:20 (NKJV) Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.

Revelation 2:4 through Revelation 2:5 (NKJV) Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place—unless you repent.

I can picture Jesus standing at the outside of a church or Christian gathering desiring to come in. People are praising his name and giving shouts to His name. People are thanking Him for the man or woman of God with great thanksgiving. The only problem is that Jesus is not present. Jesus is outside knocking wanting to come in. I can also imagine a church busy doing "ministry" when in fact Jesus was left behind long ago for the sake of business. Would Jesus force himself on you? I don't think so. If so then he would simply enter and take over. Instead he sends his prophets (spokesperson) to reveal the word of God to a deceived people. Pursuing the Truth Ministries is one of those spokesperson for God. We are part of a growing move to get the church BACK TO JESUS!

That sounds strange that you would have to give a call for churches to get back to Jesus. Isn't that what church is all about? Well it depends on the church that you are referring to. The true church universal (the Body of Christ) is indeed about Jesus Christ and Jesus wouldn't have to knock for fellowship with His Body since He is already among them. Jesus said, "For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them” (Matthew 18:20). However, some if not many churches are devoid of the spirit of Christ because they are filled with the stench of man's doctrine. Many churches today have committed adultery by joining with the harlot of fals doctrine such as the "Word of Faith" movement.

Now I am not suggesting that Christianity needs to get back to Jesus because by nature of what Christianity really is it is already about and with Jesus Christ. It is the people that profess to be Christians that need to get back to Jesus. A cursory viewing of many high profile ministers today and many churches today would reveal a different gospel than Christ crucified and risen. You would hear a gospel of prosperity and faith. You would here such nonsense as faith being released by words or that you can have whatever you say in faith. The Bible does not teach us such things and those very teachings take us away from Christ, which many have discovered first hand. Many have fallen away from Christ and embrace these false teachings of men and women.

The church needs to get back to Jesus and therefore back to the Bible. How often have you studied the Bible? We should be diligent to show ourselves approved (See 2 Timothy 2:15). Instead we are diligent about using our faith to get a new car or confessing words of faith to get more money. It's not about riches and wealth. It's all about Jesus Christ, Christianity that is. Get back to Jesus. Pray to the Father in Jesus' name. Learn what Jesus taught by reading and studying your Bible. Stop blindly following the false preachers that turn your mind towards riches and away from Christ. Haven't you noticed that they get richer while you don't. Even if you do experience that great blessing every now and then, that pales in comparison to the number of cars, jewelry, houses, clothes, etc. that these heretics have. They deceive you into believing that if you continue to give to them that you would be similarly blessed. How long will it take for you to realize that they are not only lying to you, but robbing you as well?

Is Jesus outside of your life waiting and requesting to have fellowship with you? Are you pursuing riches instead of God. Are you seeking ways to get rich instead of seeking the Kingdom of God and His righteousness? Have you forsaken the word of God for the word from the pastor or prophet? Repent and I say repent. Seek God. Seek the righteousness of God and turn your life around. When have you considered righteous living? Seek righteousness not riches. Get back to Jesus!

PRAYER

By William R. Cunningham

Do you pray? I don't mean to "say grace" before you eat or to say a little prayer before you go to bed. I mean do you have quality time conversing and listening to God the Father? Do you allow God into your life through prayer? Do you pray for others? The Christian life necessitates prayer. Actually, I would say that life in general necessitates prayer. We need prayer to tell God what is going on with us. This is more confession than informing God since he already knows what's going on with you. I know from experience that there is power in confessing or just "spilling your guts" to God. It is like talking to that best friend. Actually God is the best friend that you'll ever have.

Now what are your prayers based on? Do you pray to God for things or things regarding life. Do you ask God for wisdom (James 1:5). Do you ask God to help you live more consistently with his word, his way? Do you pray that the sins in your life would be eliminated as you draw closer to him? My point here is that prayer is much more than asking God for stuff. Prayer is communicating with God and this communications should be two-way. That is, you talk and you listen to him talk to you through the Holy Spirit.

Prayer should be a normal part of your life. Just as you know to check the stove before you leave for work or check your answering machine when you come home, you should likewise be just as loyal to your prayer time. Prayer is of utmost importance and very necessary. How can we live without it and yet many do. For many prayer is a ritual that is practiced before eating or before going to bed. However, it should be more than that. Prayer should be continually in our hearts. This means that even while you are walking down the street, riding on the bus, driving in your car, sitting in the classroom, or at the office that you should have a disposition to converse with your heavenly father. Paul told the church of Colossians to, "Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving."

Make it a habit to pray to God. Don't wait for an opportunity to pray; rather, make it part of your normal everyday practice to pray. Pray for your loved ones, yourself, and others. Pray in worship and praise of the Lord. Just pray. Have a mentality and disposition to pray at any time. Select a time when you can get away in a relatively quiet place and pray. There should be limited distractions so that you would not be interrupted. Tell the kids what you are doing so that they too would learn the importance and reality of prayer. Tell your spouse that you are going to pray so that he or she would not disturb you. The important thing is that you have quality time with the Lord just as you would with yourself, your children, and spouse.

What should you pray about? Just talk to God as you would a best friend. Tell him what's on your mind and be honest. Confess your sins and be straight because there is an incredible amount of liberty and strength that goes along with confession. Know the word of God regarding any requests. Don't declare God's word about something in prayer if God did not say it. You can't make God do anything regardless of what the faith teachers say. God is sovereign and he is not concerned about his ego, which he doesn't have anyway (He is not a man). Be sure to worship God in recognizing who he is and what he means to you. Also praise him for his working in your life and for things that he has provided.

Remember always that God is always ready to talk with you. He is always ready to reveal his will for you and the purpose for your life. He is always ready to guide you into all truth and to guide your life. Allow prayer to be the channel that you would get instruction from God for your very life. Allow yourself the time to pray and talk with and listen to the creator of all the universe. That is even a reasonable thing to do.

MINISTRY OF IGNORANT CHILDREN

By William R. Cunningham

My wife had has done much work in children's ministry. She developed the children's ministry of a church that we previously attended. She was also one of the children's ministers at a church that we attended before that. She made a very interesting observation regarding the children of ministry leaders. Normally you would expect that the child of a minister (pastor, evangelist, or someone in church leadership) would have biblically astute children. In other words, you would expect the child of a church leader or minister to be more proficient in the things pertaining to the Bible and biblical topics than others. However, such was not the case. Carla discovered that the children of many pastors, ministers and church leaders were totally ignorant of biblical things. Even people who grew up in church had biblically ignorant children.

This is alarming to say the least. If those who are church leaders and have been raised in the church or are active in the church do not have biblically knowledgeable children then what would you expect of those who are not involved with ministry? If these children do not learn the things of God at a young age then why would they give credence to it later in life. Consider the following scripture.

Proverbs 22:6 (NKJV) Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.

Also we find the following instructions from the Bible.

Deuteronomy 6:6-9 (NKJV) “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

If you have children then do you teach them? I can tell you from experience that it makes a difference because I am a product of such instruction and so are my brothers. My brothers and I were talking about our parents and how they created an environment that was uncommon in our generation. They created an environment that promoted education, individuality, and trust. My parents were masters at this because it worked three times (three sons). What did they do? Above all they promoted education. We were expected to read and learn and they were always supporting such initiatives. I first learned about God at home and remember to this day asking my mother questions about Jesus. So I grew up with an awareness of God that became a part of my life.

Christianity was not a Sunday thing to my brothers and I. Christianity or the things of God were a normal part of our everyday life. Prayer was something that you do just as you have to eat every day. Reading the Bible was something that you do. Not because we were supposed to, but because it was simply in us. How much have you invested the things of God into your children?. Do you talk to them at the dinner table or does the television do the talking? Do you even eat together as a family at least once a week. What have you done for your children regarding the things of God.

Parents today are very different than when I was a boy. Discipline is something that is seemingly taboo. Giving the child a spanking is something that is considered wrong or even child abuse. How far we have come from truth. Parents today simply do not care. They would rather adhere to the latest pediatric philosophy then common sense and the Bible. The whole thing with the "time out" is one of the dumbest things that I have ever heard. What is even more disturbing is to hear a mother or father trying to reason with a two or three year old. My father once told me that if a child doesn't learn something by the time he or she is five or six then you can just about forget it. The children are ignorant because parents don't teach the children. One of the first lessons that a child must learn and one that I was determined to teach my son is to listen to mom and dad. If that child learns nothing else he will learn to respect what mom and dad says.

Do your children respect you? Did they learn to respect what you say or do they "talk back" to you disrespectfully? With today's philosophy regarding child raising then many children will think of mom and dad as a minor obstruction to their lifestyle. No. Mom and dad should be the first god in their lives so to speak. If they don't learn to respect you then why would you suppose they would respect someone that you respect, namely God? The truth is that they probably won't. Many children are ignorant of the things of God because they were never taught. Of course it is required that you know the things of God before you can teach your children.

if God is not a part of a child's life then He never becomes a part of the adult life. It then becomes increasingly different to lead a person to Jesus after his or her teenage years according to statistics. He or she remains in the same state that he or she was in as a child and that his or her parents taught him or her, namely ignorance. What my wife found was also very disturbing from another perspective. The religious leaders in these churches are either hypocritical or they are not doing what the Bible admonishes us to do or both. The ones you would expect to be knowledgeable about the Bible were just as ignorant as those who had parents that were new Christians or not Christians at all (Some unsaved parents would still send their children to church). Now you wonder why our children are in the condition they are. It's the parent's fault!

Have you ever established and maintained a lawn? Well if you did, as I recently learned, the most important part of having a healthy lawn is to establish a healthy lawn in the first place. A healthy lawn will itself resist weeds but an unhealthy lawn is more susceptible to weed infiltration. After that you have to do the normal maintenance things such as fertilizing it to keep it healthy. A healthy lawn just doesn't happen. It requires work on your part. Well to a great extent people are the same way. If you establish God fearing children and parent-fearing children from the start then your children would most likely be more healthy in mind, body, and spirit. If you don't then either they will be infiltrated by weeds and become one so to speak or they will have to be dug up and redone by someone else. That is to say, they might be rescued at an older age, which typically takes more work than if you had trained them correctly in the first place.

Now this is not to say that if you train your children the best that you can that they will be great citizens and God fearing adults. As they get older they might abandon your teaching altogether. The fact is that they know the way but chose another. Also, in such a case you have the confidence and peace of mind knowing that you did what you were supposed to do and your hands are clean so to speak, though you will still avail yourself to them since they are still your children. After all, God doesn't abandon us when we sin.

The point here is that knowledgeable children must be fed knowledge. Ignorant children are the result many times of parents that simply did not invest knowledge into their children and still expect their children to grow with character and integrity. Too many parents are ministers of ignorant children. Instead, be ministers to godly children. Be ministers to children that will grow to be God fearing adults who teach their children what you taught them. Amen.

WOMEN OF TRUTH

By Latonia Ayscue

II Corinthians 12:7 - 9:  And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above the measure.  For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. And He said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.  Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.  KJV

I was aroused out of a fitful sleep.  First I looked at the clock - 3:30 a.m.!  I closed my eyes.  The room was very still and dark. So still that I could hear when the clock’s round dials changed to 3:31, 3:32, 3:33…. The clicking sound from the clock reverberated so loud – it sounded like the crackling of a judge’s mallet on the Dais.  I groaned, opened my eyes, and gauged my surroundings.  As I looked slowly around the room, for the culprit that woke me up, I could hear my husband’s rhythmic breathing, birds chirping (probably looking for worms) and cars that paused for the light and continued on their way.   I called softly, “James, are you awake?” (Why should I have to suffer alone?) He grunted, turned over and went back to sleep.

Although I had slept all night, I felt exhausted.  I had a revelation.  Maybe God woke me up for some reason.  I thought, “it wouldn’t hurt if I just lay here until he said what he had to say” – right?  I laid there, searching the dark room, my senses pulsating for his presence.  I didn’t see or hear God but what I begin to feel was the familiar tightness in my chest resulting from shortness of breath.  That gave me the energy to raise myself out of the bed to retrieve my medicine.  As I stumbled in the dark to the bathroom, I said aloud, “Lord, why me!”  Why do I have to have allergies and asthma!”  “Why have I been cursed!”   James responded, “huh!”

In the bathroom, I retrieved my medicine, took a puff and settled on the side of the tub.  As I waited for the medicine to kick in, my sleepy eyed husband suddenly appeared in the bathroom door and I waved him off – our signal for I’m alright, you go and get some sleep.  It took a couple of puffs before my breathing was normal.  Needless to say, I was wide-awake.  I thought, while I’m up I may as well throw in a load of clothes, do this, do that – ladies you know the feeling.  But my spirit said, “whoa.”  The busy thoughts didn’t set right with me, inside, and I realized that I had plenty of time to do those things.  What I felt a pull and need to do was to spend some time with God.  I felt it was imperative that I go down to the kitchen, pray and read my Bible.  I got up, cut off the bathroom light, and plodded downstairs – knocking down this candle apparatus that I just had to have and my husband grudgingly affixed to the wall.  As the huge candle hit my toe, I thought, blinking back tears, “He’s right, this thing has got to go!”

A flick of the “on” switch instantly turned the pitch-black kitchen into a combustion of light – 100-watt bulbs – I had to blink so that I could get my bearings.   After the red, blue and black spots dissolved before my eyes, I put the kettle on, reached for my Bible, opened it and thought, “Holy Spirit, direct my reading.”  I immediately remembered that a couple of days ago, on my way home from work a bible verse came to my mind.  I didn’t know the book or verse so I used my Franklin electronic bible to find it.  The verse, I didn’t know it in its entirety, was, II Corinthians “…there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above the measure.  For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. And He said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee…”  I remembered thinking, in the car, that it was a little odd that that scripture would come into my mind (although I had just come from work). A light bulb went off in my head, even brighter than the kitchen light (if you can imagine that), and I thought could the Lord have been possibly preparing me for this night?  Probably.

As a woman in pursuit of the truth, I’ve come to realize, as I continue to grow in my faith, that as God’s children, our steps are ordered.  Because He cares for us so much, He has equipped us with tools, scripture and an innate ability to hear His voice and follow His lead.  How many times do we hit ourselves on the head, in retrospect, realizing that there was a warning that could have prevented us from something that we didn’t do quite right?  The signs were there, but we just “did our own thing.”  He poured onto us a “flesh” that operates on external stimuli.  From readings I’ve learned that the flesh that Paul refers to, in the scripture, could either simplify the body (physical), the sinful nature or the oppression: physical ailments (aches, pains, asthma, allergies); the sinful nature (temptation) or figuratively (persecution or oppression).  Most interpret Paul’s thorn as a physical ailment, possible eye trouble (Gal. 4:15); however, the scripture doesn’t say so I won’t add to it.

Paul’s proclamation indicates that he was very uncomfortable “For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.”  A thorn is small but it powerful enough to cause some serious pain. I think about a beautiful rose: delicate, fragrant, amazing to look at.  Ladies we love to receive a dozen roses, doesn’t matter what color, because it shows outwardly love and affection from the giver.  As we reach for the roses, our heart soars like a feather picked up and carried by a powerful wind.  Then it happens.  If you touch it the wrong way, a thorn pricks you.  Immediately that feather hits the ground and you feel pain, you see blood, and, you feel humiliated (by crying uncontrollably - can you tell I have a low tolerance for pain). Sometimes we see the thorns coming, sometimes not.  We are plagued with all types of things: asthma, allergies, debilitating sicknesses, etc.  That we, too, like Paul beg God to take it away from us.  But God says, “My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.”

It’s 5:30 a.m. now.  I sit and meditate on this. When believers are without strength and look to the Lord, He provides power by His grace.  Do you believe that?  God blesses us with many things, some so little that we take it for granted (air, rain, sun) and some so monumental that we can’t help but notice (a huge house, the ultimate job, prince charming – our health).  We lift the roses to smell their fragrance and a thorn pricks our hand – the fragrance, our life; the thorn, Satan’s messengers.  Satan strikes our lives with his fist.  It is natural, ladies that we would cry out and ask “why?” but it takes God in us to proclaim and believe “most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”   We can’t take pleasure in the fact that someone has it worse than we do, but, beloved, we can take pleasure in the fact that God loves us and has our back, and our front.  Have faith, that as we cry out to him and lift our hands up to him, with tears streaming down our faces, that these humiliating experiences prevent pride and brings us to a closer dependency on our Creator.  It is here that we realize that, in ourselves, we can do nothing without Him and that we are nothing without Him.  In Paul’s weakness, in our weakness, God’s power will be made more apparent to others as we boast how our infirmities are of no consequence for the end result is that the power of Christ will rest upon us.

Let us pray. Abba Father.  We praise you.  What a blessed privilege you have given us to call you Father.  Our lives rest in your hands.  You are the great I Am, all-sufficient, for you meet our every need according to your purpose for which we were created.  Touch us. May your spirit enlighten us, revive us, equip us, make us strong and give us the strength to stand on your Word, our Faith and your principles.  When we are wrought with pain with the thorns in our flesh, Father, comfort us.  Build a hedge of protection around us, our family, our friends and women, all over this planet, Who Are in Pursuit of the Truth.  Amen.

EXCITED ABOUT GOD!

By William R. Cunningham

We become excited about many things. We get excited about a new home, a new child, a new car, a new job, and many other things. I challenge you to also get excited about God. God created the universe and all that is in it. God created the world and all that is in it. Once more, God has done great things for you. If it were not for God then you would not have eternal life and there would be no hope for your life. If it weren't for God then there would be no purpose for life. Let's get excited about God.

God sent His son, Jesus Christ to die for you so that you would live with him forever. Now think about this. God created the flowers, the fields, the oceans, the sky, the planet, the solar system, and the galaxy, and beyond. That in itself is enough to be excited about. Why? Because the God that created all of these things loves you. God loves you and sent his son to die for you so be excited! You're blessed!

Pursuing the Truth Ministries is dedicated to promoting the truth of God's word. We are determined to present true Christianity to the unsaved and to those who are bound by false religions within the church. Feel free to contact us at any time at question@pursuingthetruth.org if you want to comment on something or prayer@pursuingthetruth.org for prayer request. God bless you always.

- Pastor Bill