We have to do everything as if we do it to the Lord (Eph. 6:5-8). This has been mentioned by many preachers and commentators in the sense that we have to do everything faithfully out of sincere heart. It is an absolutely right and valuable lesson. It is a message of the passage from an... Continue Reading →
“Doing the Will of God”
Doing the will of God includes having faith and doing what God is pleased with. The expression is comprehensive. It is not at all about outward action without sincere heart nor just intellectual faith that does not move the person to act. Doing the will of God is the most precise expression to discuss righteousness.... Continue Reading →
“Do” God’s Will
The Bible teaches us to "do" God's will. God's will is sometimes expressed by the form of laws, statutes, and commandments. As a whole, it is expressed by words, the scripture. So, we have to do the words of God. Especially, since Jesus came and taught them to humans, we have to do the words... Continue Reading →
The Community of the Way
People who are living by the Spirit of the designer build a community. If a person lives by the spirit, he or she does good to others as the Spirit of the Designer always wills. As he or she does, those, who recognize his or her goodness, love him or her. Then they would build... Continue Reading →
The Person To Be
Please, remember that all of this discussion is for us to get the idea of the life that the Designer intended for the human being to live in its life in the flesh. In other words, it is for us to get the right idea of what kind of life we have to live so... Continue Reading →
Who The Way Is
The way was with the Designer eternally in the past and will be. They cannot be separated by their nature: The way is how the Designer does good to other creatures that it is indispensable for the Designer; the way cannot and has no reason to exist without the Designer. Therefore, the way is the... Continue Reading →
The Way To Us
The way gives wisdom and truth to the human being. It is because the human being needs the standard by which it can make the right decision. It is because it is the only being of all the creatures that has free will to make decisions. Therefore, the human being needs the revelation of the... Continue Reading →
The Way
Goodness is not goodness if it does not do good. For it to be goodness, it has to be always doing good. It is like light always emits light. This assumes two significant logical facts. One, there has to be the receiver of the good that the goodness is doing. The other, there should be... Continue Reading →
How To Change The Worldview?
Now we came to the point to answer to how to change our worldview. It may not be easy not that it is necessarily difficult in and of itself, but that it is not a thing that can be done by a resolution over a night. A resolution might be the first step to take... Continue Reading →
A Literary Interpretation of 1 Corinthians 15:29
Synopsis This writing is an interpretation based on the literary principle that the literary context has to be the guide to the interpretation of each part of the text. Since the verse is very difficult to interpret, this writing gets clues from the context. The context of the passage is obvious from the rest of... Continue Reading →
What The Worldview Does To The Person
We started first talking about the blessing of the good tree. We talked about then how to be a good tree, which was about transformation of a person. We discussed that it is the goal of life as the essence one has to change for the transformation. Finally we began talking about the worldview as... Continue Reading →
The Other Worldview
It is a fact that the worldly view of the world is the one most of the people of this world are living by, regardless of whether they acknowledge the fact that they are. People prone to have it. It is natural for many reasons. One of them is that they are living in the... Continue Reading →
How To Become The Good Tree
Everything has to have the essence for it to be the thing. For example, salt has to have saltiness to be salt; A body without spirit is dead. The idea of the essence also applies to the change of a thing into another. For a thing to be changed into another, the essence has to... Continue Reading →
Be The Good Tree
A good tree always gives goodness to people. It stretches out leafy branches and gives them a cool shade from the sun. Children climb, swing, and even build their secret rooms on it. Birds make homes and grow their offsprings in it. As it gives out such goodness it also works inside to produce its... Continue Reading →
Manifest It
Humans cannot conceal their heart. If you have something joyful in it you cannot hide it. You laugh, or act jollily, or smile, or hum taking shower. It is true not only with emotions. If you have a belief (truly), you will live according to it. In this respect, a person's life is the manifest... Continue Reading →
Free of Charge
My late father used to teach us, his children, a lesson that in life there is nothing free. He must have wanted to teach us to work hard to get what are valuable in life. I thank him for the lesson among many others for it formed my life as such. Now I am about... Continue Reading →
In Person
Conversation in person involves not only words, written or spoken, but also gestures, facial expressions, and more. The non-verbal elements express beyond what words do. What may be concealed in words-only-communication may not be in in-person-conversation. It may not be so easy to notice ungenuineness if one says "I love you" or "I am sorry"... Continue Reading →
An Insight Into Life
It is uneasy to await something to be noticed. It is truer if they are very important ones to our life, such as school or job admission or test report from the hospital. Our life is a continuum of those things that we have to wait for. Not always, however, we get a positive notice.... Continue Reading →
The Drink
Many people drink coke or coffee early in the morning. Many of them do it to wake themselves up for the day. Yes! We want something to wake up our body from sleepiness, clearing our foggy mind and driving away laziness that is part of our nature. The a little bit strong drink in early... Continue Reading →
How To Be Responsible?
A dependent person relies on others not only in being responsible for something but also in being irresponsible. He or she blames someone and/or something else for what he or she has to be responsible for. That attitude not only turns him or herself to be unreliable person, but also undermines his or her relationships... Continue Reading →
The Pure Gospel 