There are a lot of us, especially those of us who had bad fathers, who think God is just an angry judge waiting for us to mess up so he can punish us, but that is the opposite of the truth. God loves us and wants the best for us, which was evidenced my the death of Jesus on the cross.
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Often times when decided whether or not to follow God, or whether or not to believe in God, people look for a sign and then ignore the sign or signs when they see them because they are not telling them what they want to hear or because they are not ready to change their life.
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When things get hard it is easy to give up, especially when it doesn’t appear as if your efforts are making a difference, but in the end you will se it was worth it.
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This week’s podcast episode is an answer to a question that was sent as a comment to an earlier podcast/blog called Why Does God Hate Me? The message that this episode is attempting to address is, “Holy Spirit left me because I was so dejected I said the Bible wasn't true. Even though I do believe it's TRUE I was told he left me. I felt Him leave even though He said He would never leave me or forsake me. He left me behind as all my female friends and ex's got married. My life is like being on a hamster wheel. Never changing, always unhappy while everyone else moved on. God hates me.”
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Though I initially did not think I would talk about the subject, this is my take on what is going on lately with all of the protests and riots. Basically, police should not be killing unarmed civilians, and there should be more accountability in law enforcement, and also, rioting does not accomplish anything and instead hurts people, including the people the rioters are claiming they are helping.
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While this is not part of the series I did on my mission, it is about my mission, In this episode I discuss some recent thoughts I had about my two year LDS Mission.
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This episode is the second in the series of things I learned while driving a bus. This episode is about the summer I spent taking a group of ultra-orthodox Jewish girls camping in the national parks, which was the longest summer of my life.
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Part one of a series in life lessons I learned while driving a bus. I drove a bus for a lot of years, and by the time I left the industry I had driven a bus for a third of my life, not just a third of my adult life, a third of my entire life.
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Christians should do all they can to conserve precious resources and to respect and protect the great things God gave us, including the wildlife, the air and water and the planet, we should not get caught up in climate hysteria and we should only look to the God of the universe as our God and should nor worship the earth.
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There are times when the world is in a bad place, or at least our world is, and we are asked to do things that, from our perspective, don’t seam to make any sense, but if we are patient and wait we will see that God had our back all the time. This was the lesson the soldiers in Joshua’s army had to learn after seemingly marching around Jericho for days for no reason at all.
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The term “That dog don’t hunt” originates from the Southern United States and compares bad ideas to a dog that doesn’t hunt and both are believed to be equally useless. When Christianity mixes with culture a lot of misinformation and bad theology emerges, and this episode is about some of the bad ideas that are believed to be true about Christianity and the Bible, but are not.
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Things are a little rough right now for practically every person in the world, but we will get through this together, we just need to be kind to one another and have a some faith in God. This episode is some random thoughts I had this week about life, the Bible and COVID 19.
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Sometimes we ask for things we think we want and insist we get, but as the people of Israel learned when they demanded a king, what we think we want is often not what we want at all.
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Everything is crazy and uncertain right now, but it is never a mistake to trust an uncertain future to a certain God, a God who will never abandon or forsake us.
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With practically the entire world panicking and freaking out, how Christians should respond to our current crisis is this week’s topic.
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Do we choose God or does he choose us, and does it matter? In this discussion on predestination and free will I will make a Biblical case for us not being able to choose God until he first chooses us.
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A lot of people, when invited to church, say they can’t go into a church building or else the walls would fall down around them or the place would catch fire, but that is just a way of saying, “I am not living like church people do and I don’t want to attend church.”
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Rob Sivulka became interested in Mormonism when he went on a short-term high school mission trip to Utah in 1982. Rob fell in love with Mormons and trying to convert them to traditional Christianity, and he also fell in love with Utah, its scenery and outdoor activities.That trip became quite defining for the rest of Rob’s life and he would spend varying amounts of time each summer ministering in Utah with the Utah Gospel Mission (Kurt Van Gorden, director). Rob also spent part of a summer ministering in Brooklyn, NY reaching out to Jehovah's Witnesses via Van Gorden's Brooklyn Gospel Mission. Rob’s passion directed his education in wanting to get a good biblical and philosophical foundation, so he entered Biola University, which is where he, along with Russ East (now director of Utah Partnerships for Christ), founded the Biola Spring Break Mission to Utah in 1993 (first trip was 1994). Four degrees later (one through San Diego State University), Rob finally ended up moving to Utah in 1996. Rob later became a professional missionary, and began doctoral studies in philosophy at the University of Utah.
Rob Sivulka is currently the president of Courageous Christians United--a ministry that reaches out to cults, false religions, and philosophies. Rob’s mission work has primarily been street preaching and he also carry a sign with him to advertise his web sites and passes out literature and DVDs out, and of course, he also engage in dialogue. In addition, Rob lectures at various churches and schools, host various short-term mission teams that come to his home (see "Mission Trips"), and host Meet the Ex-Mormons Fellowship of Salt Lake City.Rob is married to a beautiful ex-Mormon, Tara, and they reside in West Jordan, UT with their beautiful daughters Charis Sophia and Zoe Joy.
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Faithful members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints often ask me why I can’t just leave the Church alone now that I have left it and accuse me of being “anti Mormon,” but I don’t have any ill will towards LDS people, and in fact I love them, and that is why I want to do my part to bring them to Jesus and to true Christianity.
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