By: Kristen Davis

One of our friends wrote in with a question. He says:

“I'm a Corrections Officer, and alot of the inmates know I'm a Christian. They ask me questions about the Bible, and I try to answer them the best that I can. I don't have a problem talking to them about Jesus. Majority of the inmates on the yard are in for drugs, however there are inmates that are in for more vile crimes such as child molestation etc. Am I suppose to witness to them also? Can they be forgiven for these kinds of crimes? Thank You for your answer...God Bless You...”

By: Kristen Davis

This week’s post comes out of response to my class reading. We were reading a section on the mediatorial office of Christ in a book by William Shedd. In reading this reading I found inspiration for my own walk with Christ and my struggle with submission. Hope you enjoy!

The mediator between God and man cannot be God alone for by definition a mediator is one who can empathize with both parties and bring about a common good. He must be capable of intervening between the two parties and as God alone, Christ would not have been able to intervene for the opposing side, having only relation to the one side, the divine side. Thus the dual natures of Christ are a necessity for the position of intercessor or mediator.

By: Kristen Davis

People like to believe that they are “good” people. When confronted with the argument 
for the rationality of hell or God‟s judgment, they typically argue that they are “good” people, 
they never hurt others on purpose and they do not understand why God would be so cruel as to 
punish those that “do not do anything really wrong.” Ironically, these statements are typically 
followed up with, “well I know I do not go to church as much as I should,” or “I am not a „slut‟,” 
or “I do not lie very often,” or any number of other justifications for the sin that is in their life, 
but does not seem “too bad.” Comparisons of God to a cruel abusive father, who seeks pleasure 
out of punishing one child to satisfy His wrath against another, have even been made. The 
hypocrisy of it all is that most of these people spout that they know that sin is what gets one into 
hell and sin is what Jesus came to take care of, but they do not actually think they sin. Sin is that 
dirty word reserved for murderers or rapists or any of the people that commit those 
“unforgivable” sins, but never is it something that “I do!” That is where people are wrong. 

Evil exists in the work because God gave us the gift of free will. He allows us to choose the life we want and many times the result of those choices is sin. How real is sin? To understand the reality of sin, check this out...

Are we really sinful?