(ThyBlackMan.com) The Bible makes it clear that the Christian is a happy person, and everywhere you look in the Bible, the word ‘happy’ goes hand in hand with those who love the Lord. The Bible does not always use the word ‘happy’, but it uses the word that means the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Our society today has embraced a culture of meaninglessness whereby one does what one feels like doing; it does not matter what it is, if can be done, it will be done for it means nothing anyway. Christians are not spared either and they too go by feelings and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) As Christians, we sometimes live below-average lives. Being people of God is construed by many to be sweatier, heavier and burdensome. Many are the times that people tell us that they are afraid to get saved because they do not know if they will manage to be all that ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I want to start off this writing by making a statement and saying that it is my desire to live not only with a form of Godliness but with the power that goes with it! In order to clarify, I guess I must start with what is a form ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) From the time we are born we are soon cajoled into pleasing others and it has become so natural that even as adults, displeasing others causes us untold suffering, and at times mental breakdown. At home we expect to please our parents, at school we are forced to please ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The parable of the Good Samaritan is a beautiful story superbly told by the master of story telling. One would be hard-pressed to mention story tellers comparable to Jesus Christ, although if one was compelled to, then, perhaps, the names of Aesop, Homer and Hans Christian Andersen would be ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Whatever you may think of God, and many of us have notions of God that are quite bizarre, we are apt to think, at times, that God has gone too far, he is asking too much, he wants the impossible. Tell me to love my difficult, bad-tempered, sin-loving wife ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The plain, compelling truth that registers in the mind, like a splinter of glass in the soft tissue of the brain, is that man for all his efforts cannot find God. This is shocking but should not be so. Humans have their limits, in common with all things created, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Some people never seem to have enough for although they are in possession of more than they can use in a whole lifetime yet they are never thankful. In a similar vein, it is sadly true that for many the more they have the more they want, and they ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Nearly everyone has heard of Lot. Not because of who Lot was, or anything he did, but because of the stupendous manner of the passing of his wife. As we know, she looked back on her way out of Sodom, and she turned into a pillar of salt, and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The world in which we live is not known for its consistency and this is particularly true as far as justice is concerned. Many times the way justice is applied depends on your status, or your ethnicity, or the area in which you live or your political affiliation or ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We have a popular saying that goes something like this, “Rome was not built in a day” and we all have a good understanding what that means. The truth is that I do not know how long it took to build Rome, but I know that the entire universe, ...