What Can You Believe? - Videos

Are you walking in uncertainty in your life--unsure of which way to turn? The only way you'll come into order and peace is to find some absolute authority completely outside of yourself.

Do you have too many personal cares and concerns in your life that you cannot see the truth of life, i.e. what you were put on this earth to do?

Seeing life and the universe from the Owner's viewpoint helps us feel there is some meaning to our lives. It transforms our home, school or office when others sense we really want the best for them. It brings a real unity and purpose to our lives.

A lot of what we call love is tinged with self-reproduction, self-defense or projecting yourself into another person. But real love is putting ourself in the other's place so they can be free. It's not just giving what we're comfortable with.

How can we know whether God's existence is fact or fantasy? By our senses, by public witness, acts performed continuously and concisely, these acts should be same year after year in history. Legal system is based on Mosaic law handed down

The fact of Israel's history up to our day illustrates how history and fantasy differ. Fundamental criteria for truth demonstrate what is real and what is not.

What does it mean to be the son of someone? Does it mean we have to have a close relationship with that person and because of that we want what they want for our lives to show our love for them?

Do you ever wish to get rid or change some of the personality traits you have inherited from your parents or siblings? How can this change come about?

How can we know of God's existence in our world? Are there traditions and observances which have been passed down through history which exist still? Is there a modern proof of God today?

Ever made a deal with God? Was it sincerely made and executed yet you felt God did not keep his end of bargain? Why do you think this is?

If you are sick, you need a remedy to 'cure' it. How can we know we are 'ill'. What are the symptoms of a personality sickness-greed, mean to others, jealousy and selfishness? Is there a cure?

Where does our sense of right and wrong come from? What is a conscience and how does it work? Do biblical laws still exist in our civil society? Why?

Is worship just something we do on a Sunday? Or is it living day to day in a relationship with God who can guides us daily.

Do you have anything in your life that is a shadow or burden which you wouldn't want anyone to know about? Do you know what is right to do in every situation? Is there anyone who we can put our complete trust in?

Is it right to manipulate people and circumstances to get what I want? Is there another way to live?

Are we concerned about our reputation or what others think? Do we try to prove ourselves (worthiness) by being at all the services or religious meetings?

Do you feel you are reading the right books or going to the right church, yet you don't have a real peace? Or you get angry at your spouse or friend and speak sharply to them to hurt them, is this what a Christian would do?

Do you do all the right things, go to church, attend all the right meetings yet are disappointed in God? Why is that?

Do you feel inside you jealousy and selfishness rising up? Do you think of yourself as a 'good' monster who wants your own way for a purpose?

What is the beginning of wisdom? Is it self realization or self justification? Can we make ourselves unselfish or loving?

Do you know you have a choice about your vocation in life? How do you find what it is? Should it give you security, significance or happiness?

What is the purpose of our jobs? Is there more to it than earning money, pleasing the boss or getting satisfaction for a job well done?

Why are you here on this earth? Is there a vocation that only you can do? The job you have now--do you do it with your whole heart? If not, why?

Are you at peace with your life at present? How about the circumstances of your life? Do they keep you awake at night? Do you experience a vague strain because you wish things were different than they are?

Is it fair and just when you experience circumstances you don't understand? Is there an absolute standard you can use to judge what is fair?

Can you change yourself or your nature? Do you attempt one minute but then find you have failed the next? Is there a way to make changes in our natures real once and forever?

Can God control the way other lives affect your life, when those other lives are not under His control? Has God sovereignty over the circumstances in your life that depend upon actions of others?

Is it not true that you give commands are given to people who are free to obey or disobey them? Do we not have a managing attitude towards our own spiritual experience such as God's approval and His forgiveness no matter how we live our lives?

Are you accountable for your own actions? Can we be responsible for our actions or are we like Pavlov's dog who governed by reflex responses? Isn't it true we can choose to be loving, kind and understanding? Why don't we always?

Can we know by intuition what is our vocation in life? Are you given abilities, interests and aptitudes for a reason? Can our conscience be a key to our finding out?

Do you feel your life is determined and you are powerless to change it? Is there a more peaceful and stress less way to live our lives?

Do evil events in our lives make us question who really is in control of our lives? Would you eve consider that your Maker has a plan for your life-a plan that uses evil events for your good?

Does God allow evil in the world for any reason? Universally evil proves that there is free will and a need for supernatural help in those times of trouble.

Is sickness the worst evil? Is poverty? Is loneliness? If there is one thing that is the most evil in the world, what is its purpose? How can it be remedied? Is there a better way to live?

Are you an individual who lives completely what he believes is right and good? Do you love those are nice to you AND those who are mean to you? Why not?

People say they believe in God- that He has saved them. Even using the phrase -God is their Father -yet actions taken in day to day living never refers, or defers to God being there at all. Sonship is a choice of looking to God rather than oneself.

Asking the question - Do we love God? We find it means considerably more - the older we get. We think many things are vital, God reveals that no thing is vital aside from our relationship with Him. We learn this by the subtraction of the unnecessary.

There was a man who had 2 sons. He asked the one to do something, who said yes, but didn't do it. The other said no, but then did what was asked. Both responded- it matters what you do- not what you say. God judges the confession by the action.

Most of us feel if you do something wrong-you pay the price. Strangely, in heavens' economy-God has paid the price. We can't understand that. We're glad we don't have to pay the ultimate price. Why has God kept us back from the brink of destruction?

Often where there is tension and strain we are trying to bring things about ourselves. How do we come into a right relationship with others that brings freedom from tension?

Are you preoccupied with doing the right thing or not doing the right thing rather than being right with your Maker?

Many of us live in misery and sadness, trying to prove to ourselves that we are worthy of heaven and yet refusing to enter into the miracle already wrought for us making us fit.

All of us want a life that is free and that loves God and that trusts Him. It's not just wanting---it's are you willing? There is only one way to enter in and that is to "fall in"! How do you do that?

Do you want for your friends just whatever they want? Wishing them happiness, good jobs, good marriages, is that how you love your friends?

Why is it not enough to be sincere? The real question is are you sincerely right or sincerely wrong? Most sincerity methods assume that we are basically OK. That attitude was the cause of mankind's break with God at the beginning.

Surely guilt comes from doing what you know is wrong, but if we have less things now that we think are wrong than ever before how come we feel more guilty? How can we be freed from guilt?

It is a real strain when inside we know that we are not nice but outside we are trying to make ourselves nice. Or feeling that we are not worth much but a desire to try to make ourselves worth something to our friends. Why do we do that?

Have you experienced the essence of liberty and freedom in your life? Free from all restraints, free from all limitations that you are constantly in a sense of being free and being able to do whatever you need to do?

Are you in a vicious cycle of idealistic striving to improve yourself? Stop! It is possible to stop the endless striving and begin realistic living.

Do you find yourself preoccupied with pessimistic introspection with the thing that gets you down day after day after day? Stop getting depressed about your own moral impotence. There is a way out that you can act upon today.

All of us seem to have a built in sense that we should feel right about things, we are meant to feel good about things, we are meant to have a sense of rightness in life. How do you find and live that "right way"?

You may believe that God is taking care of you. But when you don't have a lot of money or friends, you may worry about it. Why do you do that?

You can believe there is a cure for what ails you. For your healing, it's important you're confident there's a cure. But this confidence doesn't make you well. To be made well, you actually have to take the cure.

God has a plan for your life. It includes you having confidence as you think about death. What do you think about God's plan? Can you be confident as your death approaches, or will you have a sense of shame then?

Do you feel you're not in touch with the real you? Are you imprisoned in a personality that has become enslaved to doing what people expect it to do?

Do you depend too much on other people's praise? There's a cure for this addiction to others' praise.

The world doesn't need more missionaries and preachers. It needs ordinary people living in ordinary houses, doing ordinary jobs, being children of a Creator who loves us. Withdrawing from the world as an ascetic doesn't change the world or help others.

The world needs to see God's love in practical ways. India doesn't need paid professional missionaries - it needs people who will live and work alongside them in the midst of that chaos so that they see love in action and that somebody really cares.

What causes pain in our lives isn't the desire for things we'd like but the uncertainty about whether we'll get them.

Are you already doing all that you sense God would have you do and yet sensing the need for new direction?

Jesus entered the dungeon of our selfish, perverted lives, broke our chains, unlocked the door, and said to get up and walk free. There are only 2 responses to such good news. We either believe and obey or we don't believe and disobey.

Often in a talk or sermon there comes a point where the speaker fades away and we are left listening to Christ. We respond with either faith (that leads to obedience) or sin (that leaves us in unbelief and disobedience). Which will you choose?

How often have you found yourself in a situation where you realized you were willing to destroy everything else to get what you wanted at that moment?

We run our lives on the belief the sun will rise each day that night will come, that seasons will change, yet we wonder if we can trust God.

Is the norm for you life to manipulate people and circumstances in order to reach your own short term gains regardless of the outcome for them?

Is your life a religious chess game? That is are you preoccupied with trying to make the right religious moves or reading about the 'proper' techniques of prayer rather than getting to know God Himself?

Only those who have free will are able to love; you cannot love unless you have a free will to choose or to reject.

We will never be 'good enough' to earn the approval of God. There is only one way He will ever accept us.

Are you anxious about your life? Are you worried about how you'll pay our bills or if you'll keep your job? Where do you turn for answers?

Do you look at the possibilities the risen life of Christ can bring into a situation or peoples lives or do you look at all the negative things in circumstances and people in your life?

Who of us have not stepped into that fantasy world, where you are so filled with self-pity, so preoccupied with yourself and with what men can do to you that everything becomes blank darkness and despair? How do you step out of self-pity?

There are many of us who thought that the tightness of our money in our lives and the uptightness that we felt in our circumstances, would only last as long as it took to get ourselves on our feet. Yet vaguely life seems to be leaking away.

If a friend with 500 million dollars promised to help if you ever lost your job or needed a new car, would that change the strain in your life?

Why do I get worried and anxious about my job, about paying bills, about things that go wrong with my car?

What determines whether I'll be part of God's remnant or become part of the mass of those who fade away and become lost?

Throughout the centuries real Christians were identified by their behavior. Why is it that society today is almost unaffected by Christians? This talk helps us distinguish between the heresy of cheap grace and real grace.

You're not a pawn-not a means to achieve some other end. God made you because He wants to know you and enjoy a relationship with you.

A community can't know God. God doesn't love 'it's' or communities-He has relationships with individuals. How does He do this?

Friendship concerns a person's will towards you and it's the same in you're relationship to God. So--what is His will toward you?

Many of us sense there's something not right in our relationships today, yet we sense there's meant to be real love in these relationships. How is that possible?

Are you walking in your life avoiding every warning sign placed in your path to tell you you're going the wrong way?

If you don't want to spend our life trying to defend your position every hour of every day will you consider doing things a different way?

It was because of the choices made by the Jewish nation that the possibility of a relationship with God through Christ opened to the rest of the world.

When someone preaches the true gospel, this person's ministry is magnified, but he himself is not.

Many Jewish scriptural prophesies about the coming Messiah were fulfilled in Jesus' life.

This talk is a response to public criticism that Bible teaching from Romans 11 expressed anti-Semitic attitudes. Pastor O'Neill takes us through a survey of the Roman 11 studies to clarify the issue.

If the Jewish nation has been regarded by God as his chosen people, how does one make sense of all the evil done to the Jews over the centuries? This talk helps us understand God's word on these matters especially as we think about the Holocaust.

What is the difference between the physical nation of Israel and the spiritual Israel composed of individuals that trust and obey God? Which one is the true Israel? This talk will help you sort out God's word on these matters.

Do you try to just "get by" with God so you can get about your real life? The principle of the first fruit offering is explained in this talk and how the offering of ourselves to God include those things that seem to be our rights.

There are only two strains of people: those who do the will of their Creator and those who live independent of Him. We can tell the holy from the unholy by looking at the fruit of their lives. If the apples are rotten then the tree is diseased.

God gives his life force to anyone that chooses to walk by faith and not by sight. We see this illustrated in Abraham and through the nation of Israel. What is the key to living this life of faith?

Living by faith is an inner heart attitude that concentrates on God's will and depends on him for all that is needed to do it. Most of us live by sight which is the opposite. What is the necessary element needed to live a life of faith?

If everyone of us is unique why do we often feel so empty, so anonymous and just another one of the masses? Find out how we become alive to the real self God meant each of us to be and how we can know the unique job God has that only we can fulfill.

Do we trust our own abilities or in God's resources? One is a life of faith and the other of anxious self-management. God is a kindly father but will sever connections with those who will not trust Him. Which life will you choose?

It is only by God's power in our lives that there is a way to overcome. If you aren't living by God's supernatural power you will eventually live in a narrow, dark, self-controlled life that knows nothing of the grand life of faith.

We either live trusting in our own abilities or trusting in God. The one is a life of faith and the other of anxious self-management. God is a kindly father but he will sever connections with those who will not trust Him. Which life will you choose?

When men live without faith in Jesus as the vital power behind this world life will only deteriorate. This talk will show the three considerations necessary for Jesus to continue to develop this world the way he originally intended.

We have two choices how to live our lives. We can be opportunists, putting faith in ourselves and situations -- or we can be honest men and women, tapping into the real energy behind this world.

When clear truth is presented to us, one choice we have is to reject it. This creates a hardening process in our hearts, in our personalities and in our reactions. We miss-out on the happiness that comes when we allow our wills to obey our conscience.

Every person has one great concern and preoccupation that rules their whole life. Do we have a free will that allows us to choose where we place our trust? A life of peace and purity is ours if we want it.

Our personalities are bred to depend on itself and others, resulting in self-assertion, pride, resentment and anger. We were made for love and can choose to live a different way. In a moment, we can face life with security, peace, joy and exhilaration.

Abraham believed that God was going to use his descendants to show His faithfulness and love to all people throughout the world. We see that there are different attitudes in the Jewish nation and in all of us. What is our response today to His love?

What is my personal calling and purpose in life? There is dignity in my vocation and the specific free, unconditional gifts that I possess are irrevocable. Once we realize this, there comes great liberty and stability in our lives.

When we do wrong, it is possible to be forgiven. The question is, "Can we accept this forgiveness"? When we do wrong, we are being destroyed spiritually and emotionally. There is a better way to live. We can learn a lot about wrath and mercy when we s

We often feel that we can't do everything on our own. It's possible to have the attitude that we can trust our Father and live naturally in His arms. Our lives can be wonderfully molded by Him if we put our own uppity determination aside.

Are we still trying to persuade ourselves that we are self-existent beings, having the weight of our lives on ourselves --thinking that there isn't any being who is looking after every event? Living in reality is depending on and trusting in God, our Fa

Have you ever thought about how difficult it would be to make a person who could love you by their own free will? We are privileged people in that we can make a choice between our current personality and the fresh new one that we can have by faith in Go

Sorrow and anxiety come into our lives when we try to be God. We often carry things that we aren't meant to carry and live in the future. We develop our own standard of fairness- right and wrong - instead of trusting in the wisdom and justice of God.

Do we see that our salvation - our very sanity in life - the very order of our lives - depends on our recognizing that there is an authority in this universe that has the right to tell us what to do or what not to do -- whether we understand why or not?

Is it possible to live as free as the swallows that soar through the air? Is it possible to experience the simplicity and trustfulness of children again? Is it possible to experience the cleanness and freshness of the waves on the beach in your life?

Is it possible to live as free as the birds, to have the simplicity and trust of children again?

What will you sell your left arm for? Okay your kidney? How much did you pay for them- I'll give you more. Nothing? They were all free? When you begin to add up how much someone would have to pay you for what you received free you begin to see how much

As rational creatures we are governed by the principle that we believe certain things to be real. Therefore we act in a certain way because of it. How can we know what is true?

Why were we put here on earth, and what should we do to please our creator? God alone can see what man's greatest problem is because He alone is not part of the problem.

Sin is thinking of yourself as the centre of the universe. Many of us have a shallow experience of God because we like to pretend that death isn't the remedy for sin. Jonathan Edwards' famous sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, explains this.

Consecration or giving yourself to God means a carefully considered presentation of an ordered life to God. It is our response to God's action. The desperation prayer sees only a temporary lifting in the life, because God will not destroy free will.

Our economic, social and educational systems are based on a conformity that is destroying something real inside our own lives. We trade up our jobs until we get into the job we can't do and don't enjoy. Can we live above these controlling influences?

When you cease to act and do what you really think and believe, you lose the free, fresh spirit of what you were when you were five. That is the world's conformity and where the death begins. Where can we find our sense of self-worth and self-esteem?

The mind directs our life in the light of what it believes is reality. We need to have renewed minds that see life in reality. A lot of our insecurity comes from our need to know that whoever made the world does care about us and does value us.

Our minds have been trained to fear and please man in our jobs. We were never meant to get acknowledgment or recognition or a sense of importance from our work. What attitude should we have? To enjoy it - and use it to bring more order into the world.

John Hinckley believed that his self-worth was established by other people when he shot President Reagan. But self-worth doesn't come by getting everybody else to respect you. It comes from knowing that the God who made you loves you.

A well known Cambridge scholar said that there is no historic incident better supported than the resurrection of Christ. You are alive not simply because there is a principle of life within you but because there is a Person of life within you.

There are forces in society that pressure us to act in certain ways so we'll fit in or can get what we want. But we feel like robots - empty inside. Many of us have an identify problem. How can we be truly happy in this kind of life?

If there is a Maker in the universe, shouldn't we live to please the Person who has absolute control of us, both before we came alive and when we die? When our personal life is a mess, how can we see real change versus getting a band-aid treatment?

A lot of us have uncertainty in our lives because we aren't doing things we know we should. Or we can look good on the outside but inside there is still lust, irritability, and criticism. God says we can have pure water flowing from inside our hearts.

How do you find out why the Creator put us here? By doing the things he has already told us plainly to do. We feel responsible and therefore anxious about our jobs, finances, families and futures. But either God is God or you are god.

Soul power is misusing our minds and emotions to try to bring about something by our own power. It's an independence of God; an inner confidence that we can do it without His help. It destroys marriages and families as we're determined to fix each other.

Anger, jealousy, bitterness and worry show that we are trying to control things and people to BE God, instead of trusting God. This creates uncertainty in our faith and keeps us from the joyful, carefree life God meant for us. How can we change?

It is as wrong to think of yourself as lower than everybody else as to think of yourself as better than anybody because of some natural ability. You are valuable because your Creator sees you as invaluable. You are dear to God.

You are unique. Nobody is exactly like you. There is some beauty, some facet of the creator's life that is going to come through you that can come from no one else. It doesn't matter what the rest of us think of you. You have an original poem to live.

A lot of us are spoiling our lives by trying to be like everyone else. God expects you to be you. We experience unity when we do the thing Jesus wants to do through us. It is not sinking into nothingness or passivity as in Hinduism or Buddhism.

You have a gift not because you are just a human being, but you have a gift because you are part of your Creator. You are able to do something here that none of the rest of us can. You are precious beyond anything else in the universe.

You each a gift, and you will have them as long as you are on this earth - it is irrevocable. Whether you use it to glorify and satisfy your own self-centered nature or to fulfill the plan your Creator had in mind for you. You have a choice.

A gift is something that is natural to you. You have a unique gift whether it is teaching, serving, hospitality, preaching or other gifts. God can show you what your unique gift is, and it's important to Him that you express it to others in this world.

An encourager is one who comes alongside one who is depressed or despairing and feels completely what they feel; who enables them to see things as they really are. It is something you do inside them, putting yourself into their heart.

When we look at the world around us we see that God is generous, and he gives generously without trying to control us by his gifts. That same nature is inside of us as we give generously to others. There is nothing we have that we have not received.

Our society dies not so much from lack of food or from people willing to do good deeds, but from the lack of feeling that somebody else cares about us. We need to feel with the other person, not in some institutionalized way but with tenderness, empathy.

Francis Schaeffer said as the world drew to a close humanity would have to choose between chaos and totalitarianism. Leadership is the gift that stands between us and that moment. True leadership is not based on our superiority but is a gift God gives.

The gift of leadership holds back the tide of chaos in our world. If you don't exercise that leadership in love, they are sheep without a shepherd. A leader's first job is to put the welfare and security of those who follow him in place of himself.

We each have certain gifts that we can use to bring the world into order, but unless they are governed by love, they will bring only coldness to other people. Often we find our lives governed by paranoia, competitiveness or insecurity, but not love.

Love must be genuine. It is what makes life work and the cement that holds all of us together. Love is to be the basic attitude governing our lives.

The only attitude that makes sense of life is to have genuine love. That is why we have real trouble in our families, marriages and relationships: we're not really loving. The freedom of perfect love is forgetting yourself and putting others first.

C.S. Lewis says no human being, however uncivilized they are, believes that selfishness is right. Genuine love is not selfish. Everything we see around us are all acts of love from a Creator to us. So the basis of our whole life is actually love.

Love your neighbor means putting them first-find out what their interests and goals are and helping them achieve those. It means being concerned about their security and safety in their lives apart from our interests, safety and security.

Genuine love gives oneself for the other person to help the other person to be the best they can-to be like Jesus.

Don't aim for the highest love, be love to others through his gift as his son or daughter. He gives freedom to love because he has been poured into our hearts. He will take care of all of our needs as we allow his love to flow through us to others.

What lasts in this world? What is real in this world? How can love be genuine?

Is brotherly affection possible? Am I experiencing it in my life? Why not?

Where can I get the significance and security in this world of other unique people? Honor comes from us doing what we were made to do on this earth.

Are you full of intentions at the beginning of the day but then at the end find you have done none of them? On the important decisions in your life, do you have clear direction or do you find you just fall into whatever comes along?

What motivates your life? What attitudes drive your life? Is there a release from them? Can we be the unique people we are without those motivations and attitudes?

Does your life run you or do you run your life? We all have a unique purpose to our lives but it isn't easy to find that purpose. Is there a way? Is there someone outside of us who can give guidance and direction for our lives?

You have a dear position in this world doing something for your Creator that he wants done and that he has fitted you to do, and to the extent that you're doing that you're serving him as much as anybody else that we think are religious people.

There is a dear Person who knows the way things are going to turn out. That's the difference between human hope and divine hope. Hope in a dear Father gives us a reason to rejoice and have complete confidence that He is going to do what He promised.

To rejoice is a command of God and not an option. The difference between human hope and God's hope.

Is it possible to live in this world with an attitude of joy? God never gives us a command we cannot fulfill.

Even when we experience bad situations, we can have the confidence and belief that we are being trained somehow. Jesus sees every trial that we face and makes it possible for us to patiently endure them and not be crushed by them.

God saw all of the things that you are facing in your life -- even before they ever came anywhere near you. He has a solution for them and is able to utterly change and align them with His solution if you will begin to know what He is about.

What is prayer? Prayer is talking with God, not talking at God. Do you have trouble with sensing reality in prayer because you think that it doesn't really matter much what you do? Why not begin your prayers thinking of the person you're speaking to.

The normal state of a child of God is that he lives above sin. He allows the Holy Spirit to remain in him and govern every action of his life. Relief comes when you are honest and confess what you know you are doing wrong and then stop doing it.

A child of God prays to His Father not to persuade Him to do things for him but to find out what the Father has planned for his life. Prayer is a normal part of his everyday life that he needs as food for his heart, soul, spirit, emotions and mind.

Getting close to one another allows you know what God is doing in the other person's heart. Only then will we stand a chance of getting from Him His advice or direction on the material or financial help that we are going to give to each other.

There's only One that owns anything in this universe, and that's the One who made it. We can talk as if we own it but all we have is a kind of stewardship of it. Even in a recession, God can show us that we can do without a little less.

Have you ever been interested in what another person is experiencing and concerned about what their lives are like -- anxious to feel what they are feeling? Hospitality is laying all your resources at their disposal -- you regard your things as theirs.

Those who persecute you, or who want evil to happen to you, are the servants of Satan -- but God has transformed them into his unknowing servants. The things that He is allowing them to do to you will draw you deeper into His own heart and into Himself.

Do we sincerely weep when others weep -- and rejoice when others rejoice? Or are we more concerned with our own interests? God has taken care of our lives so much that we can afford to take care of others -- in happiness and sorrow.

How far have we strayed from showing real love? Real love is loving God and loving your neighbor in place of yourself. It's regarding yourself as finished with, and your neighbor as the only person who matters, and giving all your attention to them.

You are not important to this world. It can go on after you leave it. However, the Creator who made you has pleasure to get from you doing and being what you are that He can get from none of the rest of us. That's how important you are.

Every evil, every trial is a signal from God that he has a grace of life to give you that is new and that you have not received within yourself before. He has a new place of closeness to himself to bring you into that you have not been in before.

Our society is short on patience. However, God wants us all to experience peace with the people we live with at home, school or at work. There are practical guidelines that can prevent strife and tension.

If you leave exacting justice to God and simply love other people -- whatever they do to you -- God will protect you from the actions that they are engaged in -- and from their consequences. It's like having an invisible shield is around you.

Who is my real enemy? The person doing me harm? God is able to bring blessing when I endure those who oppose me. Because they are my neighbors, I love them and treat them as if they had no attitude but love towards me. How is this possible?

Someone blabs what you told them in confidence. Your co-worker tells the boss a half truth about you to get you in trouble. People let you down. What can you do about the trouble they cause you? Where does the evil come from? Do you just have to suffer?

Civil authorities like government are necessary to preserve order in our society. We are a lost generation without roots and often have trouble with self-identity because we have no concept of authority.

Why does the Bible say to submit to rulers? Isn't that just what Karl Marx accuses religion of? Doesn't it just excuse rulers to be unjust and corrupt? Aren't there laws which are unjust? Aren't there court rulings that go against our beliefs?

Is withdrawing from civil society and living in isolated communities better than living under a government which we disagree with? Should we try to force the government to make laws that agree with the Christian world view? How should we deal with civil

What ought we expect from government? Could a law make us love? Would government be better if it tried to make us all kind to one another? Or is there a better chance for some real love and kindness if the government sticks to restraining evil.

Are the Declaration of Independence or the constitution of the United States inspired by God? Does the Bible have the same attitude to authority as the American constitution? Ought we to pressure the government to make laws that agree with our views?

Presidents or prime ministers who don't believe in God, are they God's servants for my good? What about when government seems to be going the wrong way? What about when I get a speeding ticket or my car gets towed?

We don't question that man has brought a lot of chaos and evil into this world. Paradise didn't last very long. But is our "kindness" undoing any of that? Is life in prison for a murderer kindness? What is the heart of the problem? Can we fix it?

Why do we feel glad when the clerk returns some money and says "That's on sale today"? Something inside rises to that. Why do we feel guilty when we write a wrong figure on our tax form? We are part of a world of generosity. Conscience knows that.

Why should we pay taxes? Why honor those in power? How can a Christian affect the direction of rulers and laws? Can civil disobedience change authority? Should we refuse to pay taxes that go for, for example, abortion?

Are you sometimes happy at work and sometimes anxious? Does bad news about the economy cause you to fear and worry about your job? What do you depend on for security? What is the purpose of work? Is it getting what we need by the sweat of our brow?

Why don't we feel loved? What is real love? What is the relationship between love and faith? Can we afford to spend ourselves only for others? Who will look after us if we don't look after ourselves? Would having a millionaire uncle make a difference?

Is love a feeling? Is love making sure I am OK first? Did the soldiers who died in war think that way? Is having an affair love? Is scheming to get as much for myself as I can love? But who will take care of me if I only put myself out for others?

What is the essential meaning of life and the universe? Where did you get your hand? Someone gave it to you because of love. It's different than love we talk so lightly of. Only a few people are doing it, but reality is laying yourself out for others.

When we say, "I don't feel love for friends at work!" What has that got to do with it? We insist love is a feeling. But others don't benefit from our feelings. Our boss is much happier if we show up for work than any of our wonderful feelings for him.

What do we know about the time we have left? Do we have 60 years or do we have only today? Do we ever get to the things we put off for tomorrow? Is it going to get easier to decide sometime later? Or are we already deciding by not deciding now?

What if you could edit out all the bad parts of your life? Wouldn't it be nice to cut out all your mistakes, retract all the acts you wish you hadn't done, delete all the unkind words spoken and then replay only the good edited version of your life?

We can all talk about how we should live, how society should behave, how we should treat each other. But what can we do to get beyond all our talking and philosophizing? How do we start really living? How do we ?be??

Step into daylight. Walk every moment of your day as if God can see everything. Live that way. It takes a great burden and weight off your heart.

How many of us have said every January that passes, ?This is the beginning of a new year, I'm going to make a change in my life now. I am going to clean up my life, get my life in order so that when I die I will be ready.?

How many of us try to run our lives virtually without God's intervention and without the expression of much faith until we really need help? Faith is not just believing the right things about God, it's action that makes sense only if God comes through.

What is the difference between faith and belief? Belief is acceptance of certain concepts as being true, but faith is committing yourself in action, on the basis of those beliefs. Faith is not just belief plus action, but faith is personal trust in God.

Many of us don't know why Christianity doesn't work for us. We believe all the things we're supposed to and we've done all the things we are supposed to and yet our faith doesn't seem real to us. Why is that true for some of us?

What is the difference between authentic faith, which marries belief with action, and counterfeit faith that has a set of beliefs and a set of actions that we observe because we want to try to make ourselves consistent with our belief?

What is being weak in faith? Is there a difference between weak faith and no faith? How do we make our faith strong? Do we need more teaching? Do we need to read more books? What does our faith do and what does God do?

Is our faith weak? Is it getting any stronger or is it much the same as when we started? What makes some others seem so alive? What makes all our trying to get into it so futile? Why does our faith create so little change in the dynamics of our life?

Are we trying to obey the law? Why did the Old Testament law prescribe death for disobedience? Was it because God was angry? Was it just to scare us into obedience? Could our trying to obey keep us from God's real cure? What was Jesus' death about?

Ought all Christians to think the same about abortion? Why are we a little uncomfortable with someone whose view is different than ours? Have we been pressured into a shift in the basis of our faith? What guides us in our Christian life?

What is it that imprisons us? What is it that destroys our happiness and freedom? Why is it that we always have to be right? Why is it we are always setting people straight? How can we have a free loving others without judging them?

Are we hoping that things will get better? Are we hoping that if we get the right laws passed somehow we'll get back to a more moral society? How can we live that will make a difference in our friends' lives? Have we started majoring in the minors?

Are all Christians meant to live the same way? Should a sprinter train the same way as a shot putter? Does everyone have the ability to become a marathon runner? Is God's plan for each of us the same? How do we know what we are meant to be?

How can we know which way our life is meant to go? How do we miss hearing God's direction? Are we meant to listen to the voices of all the people around us? Why do we get more confused? What keeps our relationships with those around us right?

What is happening when our conscience warns us something is wrong? Why does Murphy's law hold so often? Is there some basic reality showing through? Why, on the other hand, are we hopeful in hopeless situations? Is there a reality there for us also?

Where do we look for guidance? When we were children we looked to our dads and moms. But do any of those we look up to really know enough? Are they going to be able to help us about what lies beyond death? Is there anyone who knows?

Do we find ourselves thinking we have to tell somebody where they are wrong? Do we find ourselves questioning another's relationship with God? Do we carry a load of trying to make everyone else right? What is our responsibility for each other?

Why does God allow wars? Why does he allow evil men to torture and destroy innocent lives? Why does he allow mass murderers to blast away the lives of innocent little people? Why do things go from bad to worse? Is he there? Does he know?

What will it be like at the end of this life? What will we experience when we see God? What will become of the things we have done? The attitudes we have carried? The words we have spoken? Will God see a faith that was real?

Where does condemnation come from? Why do we sometimes feel condemned? What ought we to say or do about the wrongs in others lives? How will they change if we don't tell them? What would happen if we just shut up and loved them?

How can we know what is correct to do with the decisions of life, i.e., joby, marriage, where to live? Is there a place to go for guidance besides counseling, reading 'how to' books or self-realization therapy? Where?

How can I know what I believe is real? Is there another reality over and above this one, such as explanations given to us by quantum physics? How do I get there?

Can we transform our lives by what we believe or do? Is it a permanent transformation? Does it bring peace for our past and our future?

What stream of reality are you in? Do you try to change your day to bring you happiness? Or do you know who really is in control of your life-you maker-and allow him to give you deep joy within that cannot be explained?

Have you ever asked yourself, am I free to do what I want only to realize there are things that constrain you from it? Why is that?

Do you believe what you see and hear? Or do you live your beliefs? If so, why are you anxious about the next mortgage payment? Our maker's love lifts us into a world of faith, a world where he works all things for his good.

Why is it that just because the car wouldn't start and the jumper cables were not where they were suppose to be - why do we let that destroy our happiness and our loved one's happiness? How do we stop that anger from rising within us?

The greatest achievement of hatred is to destroy while it professes to strengthen, to build yourself up while you actually succeed in eliminating somebody else completely.

Moms are an example of living for other people, of living to enable other people to be born, to prosper, and to be successful in the world - that's what we're here to do. Society encourages us to so what suits us, that's not reality, that's savagery.

What is the correspondence of your will in your day to day activity and behavior with what God has shown you in your conscience - what you ought to be doing or ought not to be doing? Are you walking in the integrity of that light or in schizophrenia?

The whole purpose of our lives is not to judge each other and decide, "This man's right" or "This man's wrong", the purpose of our lives is to draw each other into a place where we do what God is guiding us to do.

You are responsible to the voice of God within you, which is your conscience and that conscience is a sure guide. You have within yourself a gyrocompass that is set for the course that God planned for your life.

Do you often find that when you are repenting your heart is not ready to leave it behind? God knows it! He ties His presence in your life to such practical things as stopping being irritable or stopping swearing. He is disgustingly down-to-earth.

This vague feeling of fear and apprehension in your life is an accumulation of worries and anxieties about all kinds of different unresolved things in your life. It is possible to walk free from all those fears and apprehensions in delight and joy.

We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not please ourselves. Do we simply do the best we can and put up with each other, or is it possible to express loving patience and kindness toward each other?

As our society crumbles we get more judgmental towards each other. We become more self righteous and find it easy to tell each other where to get off! Something inside tells us, surely there is a higher way to Discover the answer today!

We are all in the same boat, we all have our miserable weaknesses. The fact is, we have been supernaturally changed by our Maker. We can be free liberated men and women.

Our generation wants everything right now. The truth is, with instant things you only get an imitation of the original. Without knowing it, we slowly lose the things we used to relish and enjoy and gradually we settle for second best.

Even if we are faithless, He remains faithful. The only thing that can steal heaven from us is our believing that we are hopeless, helpless and cannot be changed. The moment we see that God has already changed us, then we begin to really live.

Many of us have a misconception about life. Our educational system has taught us that, with the aid of education and willpower, we can handle everything life throws at us, and if we fail, we are less then mature adults. This is far from the truth.

Where does fear come from? Fear comes from trying to calculate, how on earth are we going to meet all our needs and get through life, secured and safe with all the uncertainties of this world around us?` It is possible to live free of this deadly fear.

I allow disasters to occur, not so that you will suffer, but rather so that you will experience my power and learn to trust in Me. Yes, God has to deliver us from the disaster. The whole reason for the disaster is so that He can deliver us.

How many times have you felt that your life was a mess? All the plans that you had, they just are not going anywhere. You feel, your life is a disaster, so you've just decided to settle down and get through the best I can. What else can you do?

What is the point of life? Is there any reason for living? Is there any hope for us? Could it be that we were made for another world where we are freed from our selfishness and self-centeredness, a world of life, activity and achievement?

Many of us get discouraged because we live in the lie of "What might have been". We live in a tiny world where all we can do is look back to a life of dashed hopes and unfulfilled ambitions. Is it possible that all of this could be no more then a lie a

In our world there seems to be implanted a spirit of life and rejuvenation and vitality that is always lifting us up and yet on the other side there seems to be this dark spirit of discouragement and depression that can hit us.

We all go into our professions, our business relationships and indeed our marriages believing idealistically that there will be harmony and peace and that everything will work out. Why then do we so often end up in failure?

What is your response to someone you don't agree with? Are you living in the realm of grace or the principle of law? One tears life apart and destroys both of you. The other brings a little spark faith towards life.

If you are a father or mother, teacher, boss or policeman, you are in a position where you can administer a rebuke or reprove. Is it possible to do this without a judgmental attitude in it or feeling that the other person is worse then you?

When someone you know acts unkindly towards you, your first response it to make sure you never open yourself up to let them do it again. But-the right response is to treat them as a perfect person, perfectly remade by God.

You can judge things will turn out right for you, based on how you read developing circumstances. That's human hope. But human hope doesn't satisfy our deep inner needs. Is there another kind of hope?

Why didn't God stop Hitler from murdering millions? Why doesn't he stop a man who rapes a child? Is it he is unable? Is it he is not concerned?

Do we regard evil as a necessary interruption of God's otherwise flawless plan for us? Is that why we get irked when someone messes up our plans?

Is the worst evil pain? Is the worst evil sickness? Is the worst evil poverty? Are they the evils we need to be delivered from?

You do not have all the resources you need, you do not have all the patience you need, nor all the love you need. Where will you get them?