Disciples Discussion Den

Today’s message is about repentance. Repentance is an act of the will to make a significant change in our lives. Repentance is not a feeling, it is an action, it is a choice. Repentance means that we recognize that we have made wrong choices in the past, that we feel sorrow for those wrong choices, and that we have set a goal to stop making those wrong choices and start making right choices. Repentance is sometimes described as a change of mind or a change of direction. The Apostle Paul found out through a letter that many people in the Corinthian church were sinning against God and against one another in many ways. Paul wrote a firm but a loving letter to them telling them specific ways in which they were at fault and needed to change. We have that letter in our Bible and it is called First Corinthians. Then Paul sent Titus to encourage them and to see how they were doing. After Titus returned Paul wrote these words in the second letter to the Corinthians: But God, who comfort...

I recently heard a disturbing statistic. The late Dr. Billy Graham said that he thinks 95% of the people who came forward in his evangelistic campaigns were never really saved. The reason he said this is because of the continuing moral decline in our country despite high numbers of people who openly confessed Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior. Jesus uttered the following disturbing words: “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’   Matt 7:21-23 It isn’t enough to just utter the words “Jesus is Lord”. If Jesus really is Lord of our lives, then we will do the things He says. We will obey His commandments. Please don’t m...

You've all heard the statistics: "98% of climate scientists believe Climate Change is real". But what does that even mean? Define "real". Please provide a peer-reviewed mathematical study to support that statistic. Who was selected in the survey? How were the questions worded? Perhaps no one can provide support for the often-quoted statistic because no true, scientific study was ever done to come up with the number. The very core of true science is skepticism. A scientist who does not doubt, and then test the data for himself, is not really practicing science. Any scientific study that is published without extensive peer-review does not pass the rigor that the scientific community requires. If 98% of scientists agree on anything it is right to question their objectivity. The idea that the speed of light is a constant and nothing can go faster than light, has been proven over and over. But that does not mean that scientists are not trying to find a way to ...