Spiritual Christian Living

  The Ultimate Baseball Game?      Throughout the years that I have been a Christian, I have used a number of different ways to try and explain what the Christian life is like.  One of the ways that I have used to describe the Christian life, is that it is like… the most important baseball game ever!  Let me describe that game for you.     Imagine that you walk into this massive baseball stadium.  What is happening here is more important than a regular-season game, or even a playoff game, or even the World Series!  What is going on is a game that is going to determine your eternal destiny!  Whoa… I think that I got your attention now.  Though the game is about eternity, it takes place sometime while you are still on earth.  What happens in eternity in your life, is determined by what happens in this game.    Each person must go up to bat.  Each person must face his moment at the plate.  As you wait in line, you are able to see quite a large number of people face their moment.  Yo

Life Cereal and the Age of the Earth        When I was a young kid, I remember eating a lot of cereal for breakfast.  My favorite cereals at that time were Captain Crunch and Life.  As I was eating the Life cereal, I remember that on the back of the cereal boxes they would have different Anthropological and Geological topics.  As I went through Elementary, Middle School, and then on to High School I remember that all through those years there were various discussions about how old the earth was.  I remember that the estimations as to how old the earth is, went from tens of thousands of years to hundreds of thousands of years.  Today is it up to millions and even billions of years old.    It struck me as very odd that as I had grown-up about ten years of my life – the ideas of how the earth had aged had changed considerably more!       I originally motivated to write this paper because of research that I had heard about some years ago that showed scientific evidence for a very

  The Matrix & The Christian Life     Throughout the years that I have been a Christian, I have used a number of different ways to try and explain what the Christian life is like.   When I start to talk about the life that I live with Christ, most people think I have “found religion”.   I do NOT consider myself to be very religious at all, but I am very excited and enthusiastic about my having the Spirit of Christ in my life.      A few years ago I saw the movie The Matrix and I thought that it was one of the best illustrations that I have seen of the Christian life.   I would like to share that with you.    I am always viewing life through the perspective of my Christian life and when I saw this movie – I found a lot of parallels.   I am not sure if it was intentional, but the writers seem to have definitely been familiar with Biblical ideas.   The names of the characters are Biblical in nature.   The main characters are Trinity, Neo, and Morpheus.   The word “Trinity” is

  Three Questions We Should all be asking     We live in a society that keeps us remarkably busy.  We rush here and there and occupy ourselves with so many details of life.  If we are not careful, we may get so busy that we may miss the things that may be the most important of all!  We may fall into the trap of spending all of our energy on things that do not last.  If we are not careful, we may realize too late that we have not spent time discovering what was most important.     I believe that mankind has three questions that develop out of the deepest needs of the spirit of man that we should be asking.  1.       Who am I? 2.      Why am I here?  3.      What is my purpose?    This paper is written to define the impact of these questions and the great needs of mankind that these questions represent and how those needs can be met in a relationship with Jesus Christ.      The first question that we ask is “ Who am I ?”  I believe that this question relates to one