Why is it that many people get into religion when they’re down on their luck and not when they’re happy and enjoying life?

Posted on November 24, 2012 by Steve Husting

People are more readily predisposed to get help when they have been devastated by some physical or emotional loss and are unsure of how to help themselves. In many cases, they will try to cope with their problem with drugs, a sexual relationship, a gang, or the occult. Others get involved in community activities to get their minds off their troubles and help them cope with life. Continue reading →

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You defend your religion because you’re biased, right?

Posted on November 24, 2012 by Steve Husting

A bias is the same as having a particular view of the world. Everyone has a bias. The atheist’s religious bias is that there is no God. A Christian’s religious bias is that there is a God and he created all things. People possess varying amounts of religious biases, political biases, racial biases, class biases, and so on. Continue reading →

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How can you be hungry for God?

Posted on August 16, 2012 by Steve Husting

How do you stay hungry for God? That’s easy to answer. Never be satisfied with the world, the flesh, or the devil, and always strive for something beyond what you can attain on your own. As long as you are content and satisfied with the many things you can do, you’ll always be a step away from God. Continue reading →

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Seeing through “The Woman in Black”

Posted on June 4, 2012 by Steve Husting

I recently watched the movie starring Daniel Radcliffe of Harry Potter fame, The Woman in Black. This was a ghost story, complete with haunted house. When it was all over, I found it odd that the incidents in the haunted house were not really explained. For instance, how did the toys start up on their own? Was it normal for people to hear footsteps in the upper room, but upon investigating, see no one? Several times the lead character saw a hand or face on the other side of a window, but looking again, found no one there. Looking out of window to the grounds below, he could see a woman in black in a cemetery, but looking again, found her mysteriously gone. Continue reading →

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Was the mark of Cain God’s curse on him?

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Steve Husting

Here is the passage in question. As we see, Cain kills his brother, God confronts him with it, then the mark is applied:

And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother?

And he said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper? Continue reading →

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How can I be sure I’m really believing by faith?

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Steve Husting

One of the reasons you are confused about faith is because it has been ruthlessly redefined beyond recognition. Some people in religion have defined it as a power, while secularists have mocked it as believing contrary to proof. Both are wrong. We develop faith in God and his doctrines in the same way we develop faith in the non-religious aspects of our life.

A member of an atheist group has just as much faith as a Christian attending church services. Just consider this: when a member of an atheist group hears other members mocking God and the Bible and just nods in agreement, he is believing by faith. We know this because he does not point a finger at the speaker and say, “Prove it! What evidence do you have?” He just accepts what he hears; he does what he accuses the Christians of doing: believing apart form seeking facts; “stepping out into the darkness.” Continue reading →

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How could you love a God who told father Abraham to kill his son?

Posted on May 26, 2012 by Steve Husting

Here is the passage referred to:

And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of (Genesis 22:1-2).

This concern is troubling on a number of levels. First, it’s horrendous to think of parents killing their own children. Second, it raises the disquieting thought: What if God tells me or anyone else to do it today? Continue reading →

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If the punishment for sin is eternal punishment, then how could Jesus’ 3 days in the grave be enough?

Posted on May 20, 2012 by Steve Husting

Some question whether Christ suffered enough for our sins. After all, He was on the cross for only a few hours, and less than four days in Hell. So how could that be punishment enough for the sins of the world?

Simple. Christ “died” for our sins (1 Cor. 15:3). The punishment the law required for our sins was not the whippings on His back or Hell, but death. Jesus’ substitutionary death perfectly fulfilled the offerings of the OT. Continue reading →

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Why do atheists and agnostics twist my words around?

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Steve Husting

Remember that atheists (and agnostics) do not have an experience with the spiritual, supernatural, or metaphysical spheres. As I remember in my days before Christ, when I did not understand these things nor comprehend their power, I reconciled them with my world by believing that they were psychological in nature. That is. . .

a. the people were brainwashed.
b. they believe in a God because they want comfort (yeah, like we believe in a God who could potentially @#!*% us all to @#!*% forever — surely you can make a better argument than that, mister!).
c. they’re young and foolish, or naive (yet many mature, distinguished scientists worship their Creator).
d. they’re crazy.

. . . you get the idea. Psychology.  Continue reading →

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What does the Bible mean when it says that we are a new creation in Christ?

Posted on December 26, 2011 by Steve Husting

Here is the verse:

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new (2 Cor. 5:17). Continue reading →

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