Randy's Blog

I was reflecting back on something my Oncologist told us during one of my visits very recently. He told us that his wife has a very close female friend whose husband had the same exact condition I was diagnosed with, having a cancerous tumor in his colon, metastatic cancer on the lungs and liver, stage 4 cancer.  The patient was only about 40 years old, and my doctor was telling his wife to tell her friend about me, that I had survived the same circumstances for 3+ years, in order to give this patient's wife some hope.  He told his wife to tell her friend, who was just inconsolable over her husband's diagnosis, and likely future prognosis, that he has a good chance of living longer than anticipated, and that during that time, they might discover new drugs that have a very positive influence on controlling cancer. Anyway, the patient had his surgery to remove the tumor, just as I did, but died 27 days later, no complications ...

Many " true" Christians, after having asked for forgiveness of their sins, and having also realized that in the asking, through Jesus Christ, they have been forgiven for their transgressions, are burdened by guilt with respect to the sins they have committed, and sins they will inevitably commit in the future while in the flesh.  "True" Christians feel a deep remorsefulness, and an almost torturous regret upon their souls, at having committed any prior or future sin against a loving and forgiving Father in Heaven, who provided a way for them, through Jesus Christ, that their transgressions are forgiven, and their offenses, which are hurtful to a loving Father in Heaven, are forgotten in the mind of God the Father, and separated from them, through Jesus Christ.  Unrepentant sin is felt deeply by God the Father and Jesus Christ. A "true" Christian realizes after having become a "true" Christian, that God is very deeply hurt and disappointed when si...

Anyone having cancer, or other life threatening terminal illnesses, should have hope to fall back on. If and when earthly endeavors fail to deliver us from physical death, we can only have hope for an everlasting spiritual life. I have been blessed with the time to get right with God, whereas those who are taken from this earth in an instant have tragically not received my same opportunity, even as I contemplate that my demise may be sooner than later, short of God granting me a miracle that extends my physical life into very old age.  That's why I feel blessed by the cancer on the one hand, and disappointed  by what otherwise seems to be an unfair, shortened physical life on the other hand.  I have received the opportunity to reconcile myself to God by being given over 3-1/2 years to grow in my own faith, with an eye toward everlasting spiritual life. But, that can occur only if I seek God, receive his Grace, and have genui...

Do you believe in the inerrancy of the Christian Bible? Were it not so, then our belief system would be baseless with respect to acknowledging that God, Jesus Christ, the prospect of everlasting life, etc...actually exists. Otherwise, our belief system is based solely on nothing but the "world according to us." It would be the equivalent of declaring ourselves god.  The evidence of the Bible's truth and inerrancy is demonstrated through the validity of 6000+ years of verifiable historical record, the confirmation of prophecies already fulfilled, as well as an individual's internal spiritual realization that the Bible is true and legitimate in its entirety. Those who are spiritually open will recognize the Bible as truth. Those who are not, but whose beliefs are grounded in the wisdom of the World, will not recognize the spiritual truths in the Bible, and they will reject the Bible as the inerrant Word of God. If rejecting the inerrancy of the Christian Bible, then tha...

When Jesus seemingly spoke in riddles, stories, and illustrations, He did so on purpose. The  common man did not understand them because they were spiritually deaf and blind, unable to discern the meaning of spiritual truths.  The ancient "believers" spiritually understood Jesus' concepts because they possessed a spiritual awareness that enabled them to spiritually understand the parables, stories, and illustrations Jesus used, and they were able to be discerned by the listener because they were spiritually open to the God's truths.  Jesus spoke in parables and illustrations that required an open spiritual mind for the meaning of the parables, stories, and illustrations to be fully understood in the spiritual sense, and He did it on purpose, so that only those who were seeing and able to hear His truths would understand them. "The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them becau...

A man said he wanted to follow Jesus, but the man asked if he could first go and bury his father.  Jesus replied to the man, “ Let the dead bury their own dead,”  b ut you go and proclaim the Kingdom of God (LUKE 9:59-60).  What did Jesus mean by the statement "Let the dead bury their own dead?" Jesus was saying that the man should let those who are still physically alive, but spiritually dead, bury their own physically and spiritually dead. Jesus was implying that the man who wanted to bury his father first, who was physically dead and spiritually dead, should prioritize the spreading of the Word over burying his father first, who died lost, without a commitment to God.  This implies the importance of a commitment to God over the obligations of daily life, while we still are physically living, and that after we have physically died, their is no second chance.  It implies that the obligations of life should not be prioritized in lieu of spreading God's Word....