To Be or Not To Be Seduced: Taking Responsibility For Our Own Choice To Sin

Yes, there are many who yearn to lead us into sin. BUT, let us NOT deceive ourselves into thinking that there is no penalty for choosing to allow ourselves to be seduced.

Lust & Destruction, or Wisdom & Peace

This flesh that we humans occupy will try to betray God and us in all sorts of ways. That is our own sin nature trying to assert itself over God's calling to our own spirit. If you're feeling an urge to have intimate relations (sex) with anyone other than your husband or wife, then consider what King Solomon wrote after all his vast experimentation.

Open Letter To CT Politicians: 20150921: State Police Training Facility

I have lived in Northeast CT, for 41 years, including Ashford, Coventry, Columbia, Willimantic, Windham, Willington, and Union. Like most of the people with whom I speak, we like the woodsy atmosphere, rather than city life. I’m, also, a gun owner and shooter. I’m a retiree, a combat veteran, and a very concerned citizen. I, very much, enjoy our healthy Northeast CT environment. That said, let’s look at the gun range fracas that has some folks in Willington so upset.

What does God Say About...?

A lot of people want to know what God thinks and says about a host of topics. Here's a link to a growing collection of recorded sermons delivered at Galilean Baptist Church in Stafford Springs, CT, on a variety of subjects. I hope that you find the topic for which you are searching and that these messages are a life changing encouragement to you, as they have encouraged me in my own walk with Jesus Christ. Most of these messages are geared toward people who have already trusted Christ for salvation, that we might grow in our relationship with God. This information is meant to build godly men, women, and children. This is a challenging and very refreshing alternative to the worldly, people-pleasing hype that you find in a lot of places these days. If you can't find the sermon topic you want, you can ask in the comments section of this blog, or contact the pastor of Galilean Baptist Church via the church website.

If you want a real relationship with God and you want to grow in that relationship, then this is the right place for you and me to meet, around the Word of God. Galilean Baptist Church is a Christian fellowship in which we can each take an active part to learn, work, and grow in our relationship with Jesus Christ, INSTEAD of waiting to be entertained, pacified, self-satisfied, or coddled.

What Happens To Sinful Societies?

If you want to see a prime example of what happens to sinful societies, look at the ongoing disobedience of the nation of Israel whenever they rebelled against God (even as our nation rebels against God today). Throughout history, God repeatedly warns them and they occasionally repent. Yet, Israel is the only nation in history to survive continually throughout the ages, even as God has promised. Shall we continue to mimic their sins and thereby choose to receive similar punishments, or shall we emulate Israel's times of repentance toward God, that we might receive God's blessings?

Jeremiah 14

So, what can I do to help fix this sinful situation? Here's God's solution.

The Bible or The Bayonet

"Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled, either by a power within them, or by a power without them; either by the word of God, or by the strong arm of man; either by the Bible, or by the bayonet."

Robert Charles Winthrop

The Eyes Of The Only Self-Existant God

Proverbs 15:3:
³  The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

Jeremiah 13:22-27a:

²² And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare.
²³  Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
²⁴  Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.
²⁵  This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
²⁶  Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.
^27a  I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields.