Our Footsteps: A Good Investment

Thursday, March 12, 2009

A Good Investment

I have some good investment advice. Even when Wall Street isn't doing so well, you are guaranteed a good return on this investment: buy good theology books. Read them. Study them. It goes without saying, that Christians ought to be spending time reading their Bibles, but buying theologically sound material and keeping it at your fingertips is one investment that doesn't go sour. I was thinking tonight about how blessed I am with good reading material. I like to read, and it follows that I spend alot of money on books. While some people I know are complaining and fretting about their 401K's and mutual funds in an uncertain economic climate, I am collecting all the blessings of the dividends that a library of theology pays.

I am half way through the first of three volumes of a work by Puritan author William Gurnall entitled The Christian in Complete Armour. I paid $19.99 for these paperback books and I can state confidently that so far, this has been one of the best books I have ever read. The author sheds much light on the warfare we are engaged in against our enemy the devil. He teaches the reader how to wear his armor, what the enemy's tactics are, how to be assured of victory, and other valuable information in the fight. The lessons learned from a work like this far exceed the price paid for the books. Does any mutual fund or stock provide this kind of return? Hardly.

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I Believe...

1). I believe that there is one God. I believe God consists of three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
2). I believe that God is holy, righteous, loving, and just.
3). I believe that mankind is separated from God by sin; that sin entered the world through Adam and death through sin.
4). I believe that, because of sin, man is condemned. Because of God’s utter hatred for sin, there is an eternal conscious punishment in hell for all those who do not come to God on His terms, dealing with their sin.
5). I believe that confessing our sins and confessing Jesus Christ as Lord is the only way to properly deal with the sin that has infected everyone. Jesus Christ paid our sin debt on the cross; reconciliation by substitution. There is nothing we can do to add to the finished work of Christ.
6). I believe in the security of the believer, that once he is truly born-again, there is nothing that would cause him to lose his salvation.
7). I believe that upon the death of a true believer in Christ, that he is ushered immediately into the presence of the Lord, where he will live in everlasting joy in Heaven, experiencing eternal fellowship with God.
8). I believe in believer’s baptism by immersion. I don’t believe baptism is necessary for salvation, but it is a beautiful outward profession of an inward possession.
9). I believe in a literal 6-day creation where God created the heavens and the earth and then rested on the seventh day.
10). I believe that the words written in the Bible are truth. I believe that the Bible is inerrant in its parts and in its whole. I believe that the 66 books that make up the canon of scripture make the Bible complete and that God inspired the words written therein. The things that were written down in the Bible are sufficient for every need we have. Not only is God’s Word sufficient, but it is far superior to any other method of handling the problems that man faces, since He has given us all things pertaining to life and godliness.