The Passionate Believer

God, His Sovereignty and Providence Part 1 The sovereignty of God is a subject we normally do not hear from the average pulpit because people have been taught to not like theology and to think that anyone who is a theologian cannot be spiritual but simply an academic with no personal connection to Christ. Well I hate to say it but everyone is a theologian.  The word theology is derived from the Greek word theologia and is a combination of two words meaning an account of or discourse about gods or God. In Christianity, theology is an account of or a study about our God, what we see, know, experience, about Him and what we hear from Him. The reason I say everyone is a theologian is that everyone says or claims to know something about God. Simple statements like “God have mercy on us” or “The Lord be with you”, tells something about what you have studied, experienced and known about God. The first statement tells us that you know God as someone who can be merciful and the second tells tha

Hi everyone this is the first post onto this blog and it's all about our Passion For Christ.  "Passion" to some may mean romantiscm and connected with love and even puppy love for that matter. But you see it's actually more than that. For you see the word 'Passion' comes from the Latin word 'Passio' meaning 'Suffering'. Simply put, to be passionate about anything or for something for that matter means simply that we have a suffering for it (like an addiction and the only eternal fix is Christ Himself!).  So you see friends this is exactly what we're all about. We're passionate about Jesus and his work and his people(the church). We have a Suffering, a holy want, a Godly desire for more of Christ to be made manifest through us to a world that desperately needs him. In the movie Superman Returns, Superman speaks with Lois Lane on top of the Daily Planet Building (bear in mind that superman wasn't around for 5 years, hence