The information in this article was taken directly from the official website of president-elect Barack Obama on Tuesday, November 11, 2008. This allows readers to easily verify all quotes for themselves.
The site allows the visitor to navigate to a section entitled, “People” with a subsection entitled, “People of Faith”. It is here where the visitor reads, “Barack Obama is a committed Christian.” The visitor may also download the file ObamaonFaith.pdf which highlights “key values in Barack Obama’s public statements on faith and politics.”
Why is it so hard to get your prayers answered, while others seem to have little or no problem? Overcoming faith is comprised of 7 basic elements that are crucial to a victorious outcome.
Just as it shouldn’t be assumed that Caucasians who didn’t vote for Obama rejected the idea of a Black president; likewise, it should not be assumed that all minorities voted for him. Each side had its reasons for why it did or didn’t support Mr. Obama. Christian minorities figure on both of those sides.
Most people intelligent enough to assess someone based on character and not ethnicity, would agree with that; unfortunately, not much intelligence was employed by some Americans during this election.
James A. Wilson establishes that reconciliation must be the prime component of a ministry in “The Holy Spirit and the End Times.” The book is filled with awe inspiring stories, exciting experiences, and miraculous events that are happening in every day circumstances to ordinary people.
These stories illustrate prophetic acts: “The prophetic act and its impact are demonstrable and documentable – and so clearly identifiable as a miraculous intervention of God that there are simply no circumstantial ways to explain it away.”
Building Your Personal House of Prayer offers the reader a plan for an extreme makeover of their prayer life. Larry Krieder has used the Lord’s Prayer as the model and basis for the twelve lessons presented in the book. Krieder helps the reader build their own house of prayer by using twelve rooms as his model. He begins with a courtyard, which represents the entryway into the 12 rooms or elements included in the Lord’s Prayer.
Coming into the courtyard of praise and thanksgiving, I felt the presence of the Lord Jesus as I offered up thanksgiving and praise. Moving on to the family room I felt secure in the Father’s love, and turning my attention to silently listening to him as I meditated on His Word.
Have you followed the 10 commandments? The question may seem odd. Who thinks about the ten commandments anymore, right? Aren’t we free from being under that law? Doesn’t being a Christian mean you go to church and then God forgives you for all your sins and then you go to heaven when you die? Well, no it really doesn’t mean that.
Being a Christian means you have repented of your sin and you follow Christ. So how do we know if we’ve sinned in the first place? Oh, yeah, back to that law. So let’s look a little closer at the 10 commandments and see which ones we have kept.
In the Christian faith, spiritual abuse is often thought of as great periods of religious persecution against masses of people. What is spiritual abuse? Does it exist today?
