Clever Free Methodist

  It wouldn’t be surprising if many of us confessed that it is challenging, if not, downright hard to always eat right, exercise, and watch our weight. That seems to be rather common for most of life’s important requirements. It is no different for our faith. Christianity is not for the faint of heart. Our faith requires radical obedience, trust, sacrifice, self-control, and unwavering resolve…just to name a few characteristics. The sin-abrasive challenge we will always face is to become complacent, calloused, lethargic and distracted. Let’s face it…our adversary, the devil, does not want us to grow deeper in faith nor glorify God in any way. We must make a concerted effort to be a faith-filled, radically obedient people. We see the words of Paul to Timothy on one way of accomplishing that growth. 1 Timothy 4:7 , “Have nothing to do with godless myths and old wives’ tales; rather, train yourself to be godly.” I like that last part… train yourself to be godly. One translatio...

Just a bit of trivia….it was January 31, 1933, on radio and September 15, 1949, on television that the “Lone Ranger” galloped into the hearts of the American public to eventually become an icon of our culture. Still today, the term “lone ranger” is used as reference to those who “go at it alone” in life. We pray that is not so of any Christian. In fact, John Wesley , once wrote, “There is nothing more unchristian than a solitary Christian.” We pray that we do not have fellow brothers and sisters isolating themselves from fellowship or struggling and feeling more like “Spiritual Lone Rangers” trying to make it in life all alone because they’ve had no one to turn to in their troubles nor ever had anyone recognize their talents or abilities before. I believe this is why it is so critical for us to be looking out for each other. We find this type of concern and love for one another in Acts 4:32 , “All the believers were united in heart and mind. And they felt that what they owned was ...