R.S. Helms Commentary

Just Stopped By…   BY:  R.S. Helms   I just stopped by , while passing through this old world on my way to glory.  I am just a sojourner traveling through this old world, headed to a new place, a kingdom, which we really cannot conceive of its wonder.   True, I am for a while, a citizen of this once great nation; and great it can be again, if we invite the right leadership to influence our ways.   Unfortunately, most of the leadership at this point is under a strong delusion, an evil delusion, and although two powers have different means to get where they are going, where they are going is the same.   That same end that falls under an even stronger, more evil delusion and one that will bring devastation to our nation as a free republic one nation under God.   With three generations gently pushed toward believing that Satan does not exist, nor does hell, and if there really is a God, he is a God of love, and will not allow any to parish.   They have been taug

Teach us to pray… D uring one of the many times that I truly examine my relationship with the Lord, I often find that I am not measuring up to what I preach.  What I preach is, the necessity of a consistent maintenance of that relationship, what I find is my life and actions are not hitting the mark, the prize that is laid before me seems unattainable.  Too often the sin of omission overtakes us while we journey through this world.  It is too easy to get away from being Christ centered and slip to the world, and our human nature.  Point is without the intimacy in our relationship with God it will become an estranged relationship.  It is in times like these that when we ask, and don’t receive, it is because we ask amiss; ask over a broken connection.  Sin, can be either in action, or in apathy; that does not change the fact that sin is sin and alienates us from the intimate love relationship with Jesus. Now t

Christian Persecution Being a dinner for a lion The gospel of Mark was penned AD 64, after a fire destroyed most of the city. Four districts were untouched, three completely reduced to ash, leaving seven in some sort of destruction, which brought about rumors that the emperor was behind it. This was countered by blame being leveled at the Christians. Of course Christians became the focus of government persecution, many was arrested and tortured then put to death, most was sentenced to death. This led to the climate of uncertainty for the Christian, as an invitation to make several choices: 1) Deny the Lordship of Jesus, and affirm the pagan gods and loyalty to the emperor. Thinking in the weakness of their faith, that God was unable to defend them. 2) They could become as the chameleon and change, only not color but gods, and just melt away into the mass of humanity. 3) They could fall into a state of apathy waiting to be found out, draining their spirits and stre