Messages with tag - Cremation

Are you wallowing around in the cesspool of the world system or are you focusing on the Word of God and growing spiritually? Listen to this message to learn you have the choice to either pattern your thinking after the trends of this world and get sucked into pagan values or to spend your time aligning your choices with God's will, remembering that as a Christian your citizenship is in Heaven.

Our scene is in Antioch in a well-established, conservative congregation, about 15 years after Pentecost. Antioch thrives with commerce and the decadent culture of the times. It also has a large Jewish population, within which are Christians, viewed as a sect of Judaism. Teachers and prophets gather to minister to the Lord and fast. What does it mean to minister to the Lord? What does fasting accomplish? Today a fast can be an initiation into a weight-loss program, a systemic purge, a social protest or a mystical manipulation of God. What was fasting about as it was practiced scripture? Is it a prescribed ritual for us? Is Biblical fasting an anachronistic term in our modern culture. Should we fast?