This is my first blog post in over a year, and quite a few things have been happened in my life over that short span of twelve + months, but if I were to elaborate in detail this blog would become far longer than you care to read.  However, I will say this; I am blessed.  In the last year I have become a father, and it is one of the most amazing experience of my life.  As I begin to post more in the coming months I am sure you will hear more about it.  Now onto today's post.

"Men [and] brethren, what shall we do?" No words have ever cried out so desperately for an answer.  But what could have made these men so convicted (the bible states in Acts 2:37 that "they were cut to the heart") that they would seek after an answer with such hunger?  What message was preached that day that demanded such a response?  Jesus Christ and Him crucified.  Nothing fancy, nothing flashy, just Jesus Christ.  Peter stood up with the eleven and preached the only message that will bring conviction and salvation, the only message that will bring joy and peace; the message of Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

I think in the day and age we live in we are more concerned about the presentation of the message rather than the message itself.  We want everything to be prefect, our music, media, preaching, etc... has to be flawless in order for people to feel convicted.  We try so hard to cater to the masses rather than  preaching the life saving Gospel message of Jesus Christ.  We rely to much on our own abilities, our own words, and our own actions and not enough on the anointed Word of God.  Paul says in 1 Corinthians 2:1-5  "When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.  For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.  I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling. My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power."  Salvation comes through Jesus Christ and His death on the cross for our sins, nothing more and nothing less.

Paul says in Romans 10:14-15 "How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?"  This world is crying out for an answer to the question "What shall we do?"  and they are trying to find help for their condition by looking to psychologists, therapists, and self help books.  But what they really need is a preacher, someone to show them Jesus.  The world doesn't need another book, another therapy session, and it does not need another church service.  What the world needs today is Jesus; the message delivery does not need to be perfect, they just need to hear it.  So today I want to ask you a question, "Men and brethren, what shall WE do?"  We shall preach Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

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