I don't know about you but I never understood what the Apostle Paul meant when he said “For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.” Luckily we have a lot of Biblical Scholars today that have studied the Bible. Now I understand because I've heard it explained in a way I can understand. "In this statement, the apostle Paul is saying that everything he has tried to be, everything he is, and everything he looked forward to being pointed to Christ. From the time of Paul’s c

Something I realized after believing in Jesus was realizing that God's Promises were real and eternal. God never intended to leave us alone after creating us. Evil was created from our rejection of God's Will. In the garden of Eden, when we disobeyed God's rule and ate the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil we broke God's law. This Sin in the garden created a separation from God and something needed to correct it.

Although fasting in Scripture is almost always a fasting from food, there are other ways to fast. Anything given up temporarily...