Posts by Brianna Greene

Written by: Catherine Petersen ARE THERE LEVELS of faith? When my friends join me for Thai food, we order our entrée and specify the heat level.  I enjoy the flavor of chicken pad Thai but prefer a mild heat level.  Say, number one.  My friends punch it up – asking for a 5 or 6…

Written by: Rick Greene How do you express love to those you most cherish? One of the most important aspects to any intentional and meaningful relationship is the value of loving our significant other. And not only loving them, but loving them in a way that they will uniquely value and appreciate. Will they appreciate…

Written by: George Greene WHAT IS THE TRUTH? No generation of Christianity has more greatly questioned the reality of Hell. Is there such a place? Will there be a final judgment and punishment for our sins? Does God care who we are and what we do with our lives? Does God exist? To search for…

Written by: Alejandra Carranza At the very basis of the Christian faith is grace, that is, the unmerited favor of God. We have all sinned against the Lord, which causes spiritual death and separates us from Him, yet He gives us a way back to Him. Ephesians 2 is clear in telling us that it…

Written by: Rick Greene When Jesus commissioned His disciples, He didn’t commission only the pastors, evangelists, and such. He commissioned all the disciples in every walk of the kingdom life. And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all the…

Written by: Andrew Greene As disciples of Christ, we oftentimes will be challenged by atheists with the rhetorical question: “If God is a loving, and merciful God, then why does He allow so much suffering?  Why doesn’t He stop evil from prevailing?” In those moments, when our faith is tested by others, who are trying to use…

Written by: Mario Carranza “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word…

Written by: Richard Greene “‘As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up; so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but…

Written by: George Greene The letter to the Galatians stands apart from the Apostle Paul’s other writings due to a number of distinctions, but the most prominent may be the detectable anger in which the letter is written. Not only does he proceed to call them fools (Galatians 3:1) and state that he wishes those…

Written by: James Greene David Brainard once said, “It is impossible for any rational creature to be happy without acting all for God. God Himself could not make him happy any other way…There is nothing in the world worth living for but doing good and finishing God’s work. Doing the work that Christ did. I…