Is the Christian Church Practicing a Defiled Religion?

Is the Christian Church Practicing a Defiled Religion?

Nov 16

Christians have a propensity toward religiosity. God addresses this folly with his command to, "take care of the fatherless and widowed" in our midst. When coupled with the fact that the fatherless and widowed are in every facet of our culture already, the church is hard pressed to explain its own lack of response toward alleviating their pain and suffering.

Christian Identity – Part VI – The Believers Power

Christian Identity – Part VI – The Believers Power

Nov 02

Indeed, those promises involve “all things that pertain to life and godliness.” We see the results of the power of God in our lives when our characters reflect “all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness” (Colossians 1:11).

Reader’s Choice Top 30 Articles on codybateman.org

Reader’s Choice Top 30 Articles on codybateman.org

Jun 02

As is often the case, there are not enough sidebar widgets to effectively locate a favorite article from the past – especially when the number of articles published is in the hundreds. Such is the case with codybateman.org.

The Tracks of Our Tears

The Tracks of Our Tears

May 21

Tears form a track through life that leads the willing from grief to God. While some people get bitter instead of better, others allow difficulties to reveal their need for God.

The Holy Spirit and Remembrance

The Holy Spirit and Remembrance

May 11

"But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you" (John 14:26). John wrote his detailed discourses of Jesus (almost half of the verses in John's gospel consist of His words) approximately fifty years after Christ spoke them, yet John was able to report them verbatim because of the supernatural memory of them brought back by the Holy Spirit. The same must have been true for the other Biblical writers as they recalled words and events of years before.