The Nothing Blog

So far, Americans can still speak the name of Jesus in public. It would be difficult, I think, to find an American who has never heard of the LORD Jesus Christ. Why? We have churches on many streetcorners, several Bibles in countless homes, bookstores across the country have innumerable versions of the Word of God on their bookshelves, and America has its own missionaries giving out free Bibles in parking lots and at ball games.  The message of the Bible is still the same: Jesus saves sinners. Jesus fills your empty soul. But it seems like Americans (as a whole) are still so hungry for something else to fill their empty souls and are now finding drive-thru worship services to hopefully and finally satisfy their famine. It's a cure that ends as fast as we can gulp down the meal and rush off to our next activity. I recently read an newspaper story about the trend of churches in America already shortening their worship services because we (busy, materialistic, self-cent...

“..the truth will set you free” John 8:32   Hey Sistas, does any of this sound familiar? She has a major case of battle fatigue from believing lies from her dark enemy. She’s been absorbing these lifelong lies about herself: that she’s worthless, good-for-nothing, and unforgiveable. She is truth hungry! Sometimes it’s so hard for her to feed herself the truth of God’s word because she’s exhausted from trying to resist the deceitful voices screaming in her head. Sometimes she gives into the lies and then clothes herself in guilt, shame, fear and anxiety. Her weariness wakes up her old belief system and it creates sleepless nights. Even her daylight hours seem to drag on and on. However, since she’s a Christ-follower, this doesn’t happen to her every day, it’s just when she doesn’t put on the spiritual armor of God (Ephesians 6:10-18).   “If you hold onto my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free” (John 8:32). The blo...