Try This!

Try This!
Brad Reiches
Apr 12 2007 01:14PM

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Thursday, April 12, 2007

GodThoughtsWired!

"Try This..."

Seek God.  -Jeremiah 29:13

Seek God's kingdom.  -Matthew 6:33

Seek God's righteousness.  -Matthew 6:33

Commit you works to God.  -Proverbs 16:3

Delight yourself in God.  -Psalm 37:4

Put God first in everything.  Colossians 1:18

If I'm reading it right the results should be:

You'll find God.

All of your needs will be abundantly met.

Your plans will be established and you will fulfill God's purpose for your life.

The desires of your heart will be fulfilled, and you will become all that God intended for you to be.

How does it read to you?

Understanding Today's America 4

Understanding Today's America 4
Brad Reiches
Apr 11 2007 02:33AM

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Wednesday, April 11, 2007
GodThoughtsWired!

"Understanding Today's America"

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"They did not receive the love of truth...

For this reason God will send upon them

a deluding influence so that they will believe

what is false." 

2 Thessalonians 2:10-11

Massachusetts:  A federal judge has ordered the "gay" agenda taught to Christians who attend a public school in Massachusetts, finding that they need the teachings to be "engaged and productive citizens."   U.S. District Judge Mark L. Wolf recently dismissed a civil rights lawsuit brought by David Parker, ordering that it is reasonable, indeed there is an obligation, for public schools to teach young children to accept and endorse homosexuality.

In April 2006 the same school presented the book "King and King," about homosexual romances and marriage, to second-graders without any prior notification to parents (Bob Unruh © 2007 WorldNetDaily.com, bold mine).

And the Bible says,

"It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck

 and he were thrown into the sea,

than that he would cause one of these little ones to stumble."

Luke 17:2

He who has an ear to hear, let him hear what God is saying to the United States of America in this twenty-first century.

Understanding Today's America 3

Understanding Today's America 3
Brad Reiches
Apr 10 2007 10:15AM

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Tuesday, April 10, 2007
GodThoughtsWired!

"Understanding Today's America"

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"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge..."

Hosea 4:6a

In his third "Law of Motion," Sir Isaac Newton stated that "for every action (force) in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction."*  In other words, every action has a consequence.  Newton identified the universal principle of "sowing and reaping" (see Galatians 6:7) in the natural world.

Well, the 3rd Law of Motion, or the principle of "sowing and reaping" applies to the spritual world as well.  In other words, there are spiritual or "supernatural" consequences that are set in motion determined by how we respond to the laws of God.  In 1963, Abington v. Shempp, the United States Supreme Court ruled that voluntary reading of the Bible in public schools was "unconstitutional."  They said,

"If portions of the New Testament were read without explanation,

they could be and have been psychologically harmful to the child."

What was once considered a vital part of the healthy develeopment of every american child since the founding of the country (see GodThoughtsWired!, March 21, 2007) had suddenly become "psychologically harmful."  Tragically, now more than 40 years since, the subtle slide of Christianity away from the public square has become a spiritual avalanche.

The Bible says, "You will know them by their fruit" (Matthew 7:20).  So, what's the fruit?  According to last week's TIME magazine:

"Only half of U.S. adults know the title of even one Gospel.  Most can't
name the Bible's first book.  The trend extends even to Evangelicals, only
44% of whose teens could identify a particular quote as coming from the
Sermon on the Mount."

-April 2, 2007

"We have become "a nation of biblical illiterates." -George Gallup

"Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children."  -God

*Principia Mathematica Philosophiae Naturalis, 1686.

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Easter Vandalism!

Easter Vandalism!
Brad Reiches
Apr 4 2007 10:44AM

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Wenesday, April 4, 2007
GodThoughtsWired!

"Easter Vandalism"

"Do the work of an evangelist."

2 Timothy 4:5

It was another classic moment in the Reiches (that's my last name) household.  It was Tuesday night at the dinner table, and with Easter coming up, we're talking about "evangelism."  "Jen," I said.  "How would you define 'evangelism.'"  She paused for a moment (Jennifer is ten years old, a fifth grader), and then the pastor's daughter said, "Evangelism?  Isn't that some kind of graffiti?"

She was dead serious, but my wife and I couldn't help it.  The dinner table had turned into a comedy club.  My wife and I, along with our oldest daughter Ali (twelve) were all in stitches.  All the while poor Jen not getting what was so funny.

We later discovered that our youngest had confused "evangelism" with "vandalism." Like I said, another classic moment in the Reiches home.

Devils in the Pulpit?

Devils in the Pulpit?
Brad Reiches
Apr 3 2007 10:35AM

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Tuesday, April 3, 2007
GodThoughtsWired!

"Devils in the Pulpit?"

"You say, 'I am rich, and have become wealthy,

and have need of nothing,' and you do not know

that you are wretched and miserable and poor

and blind and naked."

Revelation 3:17

Jesus speaks this to the church, but who in this church could possibly hear?  How is it possible to be "blind and naked" and not be aware of it?

"The church of Laodicea has prepared the way for the great apostasy. 

It has kept Christ out of the Church and from His people. 

It has stood for nothing for so long  that it has little effect on society,

while at the same time it has allowed anything contrary to Christ’s teachings to come in.  

This Church became lukewarm, seeking unity with everyone,

showing tolerance for any doctrinal aberration and interpreting it as love." 

A.W. Tozer

"Many will say to Me on that day..." (see Matthew 7:21-23).  The Bible says that "many" think they are going to Heaven but are not.  These "many," the Bible says, ARE IN THE CHURCH!  They do not know...   

"The apostasy of professing Christianity has increased with a momentum

that is stunning to those watching its growth. It has gone off the Richter scale. 

In the absence of the lampstand ( the presence of Christ),

devils have stepped in and taken over in many churches."

A.W. Tozer

That's not a very nice thing to say...