Tag Archives: Jesus

Leap of Faith

I was recently at a busi­ness func­tion at a local swim­ming pool; the same that I used to swim in as a child. While there I took notice of the div­ing boards that I remem­bered jump­ing off of. There are two div­ing boards, a low one and a high one. …

August 30, 2010 – 12:23 pm | By Anthony | Posted in Christian Living | Tagged , , | Comments (2)

Paradise Hopelessness

A typ­i­cal pre­sen­ta­tion used in the door to door min­istry of Jehovah’s Wit­nesses starts with “Have you ever wanted to live in a par­adise on earth? A world of beauty, with plenty of good food to eat, no pol­lu­tion, and abun­dant hous­ing for all?” When we found a hear­ing ear we pre­sented a …

April 11, 2010 – 8:09 pm | By Anthony | Posted in Jehovah's Witnesses | Tagged , , | Comments (6)

Forbidden to Pray? Jehovah’s Witnesses and Prayer

I was sit­ting in front of a reli­gious tri­bunal that was ren­der­ing their ver­dict against me.  They stated their deci­sion to dis­fel­low­ship me from the con­gre­ga­tion on the grounds of apos­tasy, or devi­a­tion from offi­cial doc­trine of the Watch­tower reli­gion. Their deci­sion meant that I would be shunned, com­pletely cut off from my friends and …

March 21, 2010 – 4:07 pm | By Anthony | Posted in Jehovah's Witnesses | Tagged , , , , | Comments (4)

Suffering as a Christian — Part 3

The final part of a three part series look­ing how Chris­tians are called to suf­fer on behalf of Jesus Christ. The final part to this series con­sid­ers what daily cross-carrying can mean. In con­clu­sion it exam­ines the impor­tant rea­sons we are called to suf­fer as Christians.

March 7, 2010 – 2:30 pm | By Anthony | Posted in Christian Living, Series Article | Tagged , , , | Comments (3)