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Este fin de semana en La Fráter aprendimos sobre el joven rico que se le acerca a Jesús con algunas preguntas sobre cómo entrar al reino de los cielos. La prédica se basó en el relato de Mateo 19:16 . En La Fráter Ciudad San Cristóbal predicó al pastor Alex López ; y aquí comparto la prédica en 8 tuits:  "No importan las obras que hagamos, no pueden comprar el cielo."  "Una cosa es cuidar el dinero, y otra es ser tacaño por querer más" "¿Quién entra al cielo? Aquel que deja otros dioses y sigue al Dios vivo." "Dios debe ser nuestro único Dios, Jesús debe ser nuestro tesoro." "No existe persona buena, todos somos pecadores."  "Cuando Dios es nuestro todo, todo puede faltar, porque el verdadero tesoro es Dios." "Cuando Dios toca el corazón del hombre, todo pasa a ser secundario." "Que Dios nos libre de ser una generación que solo vive para recibir." Podrás ver este mensa...

Lo siento, no lo pude evitar. Quizás es mi vicio que, en realidad, no quiero dejar. Y es que mientras la lógica nos dice que debemos pensar como todos, la mía me dice todo lo contrario. Mientras ayer veíamos, escuchábamos y leíamos que Osama Bin Laden estaba muerto, y mientras los análisis de los noticieros trataban de pronosticar el impacto de la noticia, y mientras la frase "Se ha hecho Justicia" resonaba no pude dejar de pensar en si Osama habría tenido la oportunidad de recibir a Jesús en su corazón. Quizás el merecía vivir para recibir esa noticia. Yo se, yo se que todos dijeron: Al fin! Pero si no mal recuerdo Jesús murió por él también. Pero así como Osama hay muchos otros que mueren sin la noticia de que Jesús murió por ellos para darles salvación, y eso damas y caballeros, es nuestra culpa. Una vez más lo digo: los cristianos necesitamos dejar la religiosidad y ensuciar nuestros pies del lodo que inunda a los que se están ...

Recently I was listening to my father share the story on Mathew 22:20-22 . He also thought on how humans were created at the image of God. And then is when it hit me. If the image of God is in my neighbor…why do I continue to see pornography? And I say this not only because I watch it. Pornographic images are everywhere. And I have to have the guts to stop seen TV shows that might lead me to fall in. I want to honor God, my wife, mi kids and my friends. And if that requires that I turn off the TV more often, I will. I that requires that I control the way I look at women, I will. I do not want to see the image of God being dishonored as it is done by pornography. I did not understand this passage as I do now. How about you?

Recently my father and I had a conversation, a long conversation. You know those that are not that often in families anymore. – Which by the way, I recommend not to wait until you are your father/mother age to have a conversation with them.- So we talked about dreams. And that same day, my wife and I went to have a cappuccino and we talked about dreams and I told her: I cannot depend on people to dream. I cannot depend on somebody else to make my dreams come true. That’s why I try to share in every post a piece of my dream. What do I dream of? I dream of unity in the leadership. I dream of sharing knowledge that makes peoples life better. I dream of a Church that cares, not only for those who are inside, but mostly for those who are yet to come. What are your dreams?

Yesterday Pastor Carlos shared with us the message based on Psalms 26:2 . Kind David is asking God to test his heart. But...can we say the same thing? Are we sure God will be pleased with what's inside it? To help understand it better Pastor Carlos had some apples in a table and started cutting the in half and showing the audience that those were real apples, real Christians. But it got to the point were there was a fake apple. It looked like an apple, but it was not. It sang like a Christian, but it was not. It gave offerings and tithes...but it was not. So the question was: are you a real apple? Or just a look-a-like? Or a wanna-be? What are you? P.D. The real apples tasted great!