Fool for Christ

  When We Focus on Others and Not Ourselves Liz King     Many of us spend more time focusing on others' problems than we do on ourselves. It reminds me of the scripture about removing the plank from your own eye, before you try to remove the plank from others. When we are busy focusing, criticizing and pointing out the flaws of others, we lose sight of our own spiritual life and lose focus.  How can we look where God is leading us if we are busy looking at everyone else's lives and actions?       There are times where God does put people in our path to help point them back to him and encourage and exhort them. We are to point out things we see to those who are believers when they are going against God's word and are living in a life of sin.    Ther is a problem when we hyper focus on their sin or faults and we lose our focus on God.  I believe we all have been guilty of this.  We sometimes believe we ar...

Why is the Rainbow so Important? By Liz King     Why is the rainbow so important to those of us who follow Jesus?  Why is the rainbow used to promote a movement that goes against the nature of God? Why does it have to be the rainbow? Is it intolerant that Christians object to the rainbow being used as a symbol of the pride movement?  As I was in prayer I felt very led to write about this and to explain why the rainbow is so important not only to Christians but to God himself.       What is the rainbow?  The rainbow first makes its appearance in the scripture in Genesis  9.  God had destroyed the earth because man had become so corrupted, even God’s creation became corrupted. They defied themselves and his creation.  They defiled it by perverting it.  Fallen angels had slept with women and animals and corrupted God's creation, making an unholy creation that was not ordained by him.  People's hearts were wicked and live...