Become a Better Christian in 1 Easy Step

Pick up your cup of coffee. That's it. It's that easy.

CBS News reports that holding a warm object (namely, a cup of coffee) makes you a happier, more generous, trusting, and favourable person. What do Christians like more than to have coffee, especially in church? And now science has finally seen the light -- having that cup of coffee (you don't even have to drink it!) makes you a better Christian!

Don't believe me? Read my entire post Warm Hands, Warm Heart on Nick the Geek's blog.

Something Wrong?

Is there something wrong when:

I witness with trepidation because I can't point to a group of people and say "You see those people? They're Christians. They have the same fantastic life and God-given power that I just told you about. On sunday, let me pick you up, and we'll go to their meeting and you can hear them tell about what God has done in their lives and see for yourself what Christians are like and what they believe."

Is there something wrong when:

Every sunday, like clockwork, I go to another meeting where everyone just sits in their pew and the pastor gets up in the pulpit and talks about who-knows-what for 45 minutes and then I wonder if I should have done more than just sit there and look slightly interested.

Is there something wrong when:

I even consider standing up and telling the next pastor that has the gall to say "Nobody can live a holy life until they get to heaven" that he has no right to stand up there and pass himself off as a man of God who is teaching what God wants to be taught, and that unless he is going to teach that we must be holy even as He is holy just as the holy men of God taught and wrote as the Holy Spirit inspired them to teach and write in the holy scriptures, then he should stop calling himself a preacher of God's word.

Is there something wrong when:

It makes me sick to think that all those people are just soaking up this teaching that sin is a necessary, though unwanted, component of a Christian life -- and hardly anybody knows enough to even realize that there's something wrong with that picture; or if they do, they either don't care enough to say something or they aren't brave enough to speak out against it.

Is there something wrong here?

Health...Harmony...Happiness...No...Holiness. Holiness of Heart.

"We are to live in holiness, a strict inward conformity to the mind of Christ -- and righteousness, a full outward conformity to the precepts of the Gospel.
This is to be done before God, under the continual influence and support of His grace, and with a constant evidence of His presence and approbation."

"True happiness is found in hearing the glad tidings of salvation by Christ Jesus, and keeping them in a holy heart, and practicing them in an unblameable life."

--Adam Clarke

"A Christian is one who continually obeys the commandments of Christ. Wholehearted obedience is to be regarded as the proper sign of genuine, personal faith: 'Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.' [Matt. 7:19-21]. The Christian comes out and separates himself from whatever is impure and unholy in the conduct and habits of the world. The Christian brings forth the fruit of righteousness to the praise and the glory of Christ -- virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, and charity. All these are to be in him and abound. He sets his affections of things above, not on things on the earth. He makes public confession of his love and attachment to Christ, and dedicates his all -- spirit, soul, body, talents, and opportunity -- to the diffusion of the cause and glory of the Redeemer in the world."

--R. W. Wooten
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These are just some thoughts that continue to help me keep my focus on Jesus Christ, my Lord, my Saviour, and my only Hope and Rock of salvation.