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Churches have enshrined marriage as a sacrament, a covenant, a spiritual union and all kinds of other things - which are true but do not solve anything. Really a marriage is about how Harry gets on with Sally and if they don't get on it's all over. So what does the Bible really say about marriage, divorce and even remarriage? Have we been missing the point?

If God has only ever done anything out of love why did He make the first people Adam and Eve knowing that they would sin and cause all mankind to fall? If God looked into the future and saw all the suffering of so many people why did He still create everything? Read on and find out that God has never wanted even a single tear to ever be shed.

There's no love inherent within right and wrong. Some people think the more you do right the more you love God, the more you do wrong the less you love Him. This is not true. The more you love, the more everything you do is right. God is love. Everything He does is right. So what tree are you eating from?

Many of the world's greatest states people, gifted leaders and anointed preachers have been confined to teaching in school rooms and serving tea. Their great potential was lost. Problems went unsolved, wars were lost and converts were not made. Why? What precluded these people from serving their fellow man? The problem? They were women...

Did God Know?

The Calamity of Job

The Truth About Eve

Healing Scriptures

Jesus said “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.” God's Word must abide in our hearts for it to bring results. This is why we have to meditate it, literally speak it continually to ourselves. When we do this, sooner or later the Word begins to abide in our hearts, and healing naturally follows.

Job got plastered by the devil and he didn't know why. It's often the same with many people today, just going along, being as nice as they can and then suddenly: Bam! Like Job, they are hit with an inexplicable series of tragedies. Theologians say, God decided let the devil loose on Job to prove something profound. Did He really?