Monday, November 7, 2011

GOD WITHOUT RELIGION (PART 3 OF 3)


This is going to be a long blog so I hope you can stay with me on this one. So this is the third blog in the (GOD WITHOUT RELIGION SERIES). If you missed the first two I will put the links at the bottom. We are answering the question, "Can it be this simple?" being this simple to live with God without religion. I pray that this series has reached your heart.



In this short story the author takes us back to the time that he was a teenager. When the  author Andrew was a teenager he was like most teenagers a speeder. Well he and his dad went to Indianapolis Motor Speedway some time after he was a teenager for the Richard Petty Driving Experience. Where they were at on the Indy 500 track they said they can go as fast as they can. No tickets, no limits. He was driving and he thought to himself that he should be careful, and he should play it safe and have a good time. The fastest speed that day was over 160mph. His fastest was 132mph. Andrew the author said, "That was slower than a lot of the other drivers. And ironically, it was slower than same speeds I'd reached as a teenager out on America's highways!" The point is when we have strict laws in place and rules. We often find ourselves wanting to push the limits and break them. He saids, "Laws and rules actually cause sin to increase, not decrease." God saids, "You are not under the law, but under grace."(Rom. 8:14) If you have not read Roman 8, I highly, highly, recommend that chap. When sky's the limit, we discover what we really want. So God made the choice to let us get out of the law and be under grace. That choice changes the way I live my life and how many other Christians live theirs.



So through this book it has changed the way that I view religion. Those stories are just practical easy ways that we can have God without religion, downhill slopes, rats, and the law. So the question asked, "Can it really be this simple?" I say yes, it really can be this simple we as Christians,  just go out and live it!!
On another blog talks about Holy Living. Click link to check it out.



If you want to read this book, I will let you borrow it, just send me a text. Phone number is below.



If you have any questions or comments, or you want to give me a topic or a verse to write about. Contact me: jman1424@gmail.com or on Facebook, Twitter @JonSAdams, by phone/text: (770) 533-2582



God Without Religion (1) --->GOD WUTOUT RELIGION 1 <-----



God Without Religion (2) ---> GOD WITHOUT RELIGON 2 <-----

Thursday, November 3, 2011

GOD WITHOUT RELIGION (PART 2 OF 3)


This is the second blog of the "God Without Religion Series." We are trying to answer the question that the author asked me at the beginning at the book. Can it really be this simple?  This simple to live God without having religion? Here is a story that is about sinful nature. (If you missed the 1st here's the link, ---> GOD WITHOUT RELIGION (PART 1 OF 3)<---


In this story the author draws a picture of sinful nature as a rat in you house. He talks about how the rat destroys stuff in your house, like wires or pipes just anything you can think a rat can do to your house. You get things fix in your house but you don't know where it is coming from. Just like us there is sin in our life's that we don't know where it is coming from and we don't know how to fix it. The sinful nature is not us but it is us all. We have the choice to let our sinful nature get the best of us or have the mind of Christ (1 Cor. 2:16). God wants us to think of ourselves as a new creation and we have the Holy Spirit living in us. The more we trust in God and see that he is all that we need we will become Spirit lead our thoughts.


The two things that are in my house is worrying and staying humble. If you have the same troubles I would check out (WORRYING) and (BEING HUMBLE)


If you want to read this book, I will let you borrow it, just send me a text. Phone number is below.


If you have any questions or comments, or you want to give me a topic or a verse to write about. Contact me: jman1424@gmail.com or on Facebook, Twitter @JonSAdams, by phone/text: (770) 533-2582

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

GOD WITHOUT RELIGION (PART 1 OF 3)



This is the 1st blog in the "God Without Religion Series." This series will take parts of the book God Without Religion - Andrew Farly, and I will break it down and show you how blessed we really are.

There are a lot of choices that we can make. The question the author asked the reader is this, "Can it really really be this simple?" This question is asking can we have God without religion. He points points out how we can have God without religion and he shows how simple this really is. In this book there are a lot of short stories and how some choices are going to change our life.

This is the first short story and it is placed in Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympics. In this story the author points out how we are all on the downhill slalom. He saids that it is a rocky road down the hill. But instead of us on the starting line, Jesus is. He doesn't just go down the hill and make it, but he goes down the hill perfectly. Jesus will earn the medal, set an Olympic record, and then he will turn to us the people that would crash, and fail. Not even making it down the hill. Jesus would say, "This is your medal, your record." We should thank Jesus for taking our place on the mountain as he took our place on the cross. The author said, "We should respect the mountain, but have no business trying to survive its treacherous slopes."

If you have any questions or comments, or you want to give me a topic or a verse to write about. Contact me: jman1424@gmail.com or on Facebook, Twitter @JonSAdams, by phone/text: (770) 533-2582