Meet Nathan Kotylak from Maple Ridge, BC! Nathan, while not lighting cop cars on fire in downtown Vancouver, is a player who attends the University of Calgary on a scholarship. He's the son of Dr. Greg Kotylak, and an Olympic hopeful.
I wonder who many so-called decent young men, got caught up in the Vancouver riots? Said I don't know what happened, one minute I was a spectator and the other I was a part of the riot. How many young men that go to church, were also rioters?
Someone who knows God (Jesus) and is full of the Holy Spirit, will run from sin.
Yesterday the sermon in church was on the important things that we must do for Christ, Number one was to Praise and Glorify God, there were many Amen's and Halleluiahs.
The last point was that we must evangelize, there was silence, I had given my testimony the previous week, so this was a confirmation. I feel frustrated when I am available to help and train Christians and because of some human emotion, they would not admit that they need help is this area, so I begun signing up individuals for the Gospel of John and will be beginning a home fellowship and training for those who has a hunger to be a doer for our Lord.
Many Christians claim, "Christ is first in my life," and then put Him up there on a shelf along with everything else.
Jesus said, "If you claim to love Me, but the love you have for Me is not unrivaled, you can't be My disciple." Do the affections of your heart reflect Jesus Christ in this manner?
Jesus has already made the standard so high that it is out of reach of everybody except by the power of God. Yet, He doesn't stop with unrivaled love. He continued by saying, "Whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. … And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me" (Luke 14:27; Matthew 10:38
However, if we are not careful, fear and logic can be the great killers of the Holy Spirit's influence upon us -- fearfulness because it blocks the Holy Spirit's voice; and logic because sometimes the Spirit's instruction will defy reason. Will you allow the Lord to do a great work through you? And when faced with difficult circumstances faithfully listen for the Spirit's voice?