Caution: Time can cool you down and keep you from God.

.* Luís Alberto Alves

Nothing like the time to bring about changes in the human being. It changes concepts, ideologies, character, besides destroying great loves, which at the beginning gave a sign of eternity. It can be used by the enemy to drive us away from the good ways of the Lord.

Time is in no hurry. Just as old, he walks slowly but steadily, without stopping or looking back. Ruma always ahead. It involves the person slowly. It does not let her realize that the cold of unbelief penetrates subtly into soul and spirit.

First it puts the tiredness, then the apathy, the discouragement, the laziness, the lack of perspective and finally the lack of love. Gradually he turns the living ember Christian into charcoal erased and annihilated in faith. It changes concepts about the Lord, constantly hammering his mantras.

If there is no vigilance, you my brother will thicken the team of evangelicals who have turned away from Jesus Christ without realizing it, only with argument of lack of time. He becomes concerned about the material, leaving in the last place the spiritual, the green card of access to the Heavens.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

We need to return to the heat of the early church of Acts 2

* Luís Alberto Alves

The evangelical church needs to return to the heat narrated in Acts, chapter 2, when the new converts divided the bread, sold the estates, and divided the money for the gospel to advance beyond the walls of Jerusalem. And today how are we?

As a church pastor I perceive the coldness in the hearts of most Christians of this 21st century. Few are involved in the affairs of the church. They also criticize who gets their hands on the work. The concern on the part of this flock is to sit and watch the service and alone.

When it comes to your ears that some brother is hungry, he turns his back and says loud and clear, "I have nothing to do with it." It is disconnected from the ideals of the early church, where Peter and the other apostles were greatly used by Jesus Christ.

We need to return to the warmth of this early church. Where people were content to be in the presence of the Lord. To pray, to fast, and to preach the Word to the lost. The greatest desire was to remain in the arms of the Father. We must leave the cold of hell away from us.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

It is in the pressure that we must remember the Lord

* Luís Alberto Alves

Can you withstand pressure? Whether at work, marriage, college or even in ministry? When all is well it is easy to believe in the power of Jesus Christ. But the bad day comes for all of us. It shakes our structures. Unfortunately, few Christians remain loyal to the Lord.

There are cases of people giving up walking. They throw everything aloft, claiming that God left them alone. They were Christians in the good times, especially of peace and happiness and in the opposite moment they jumped of the boat of the Lord, to return to the trash of ondem left.

Pressures will always exist. It is wrong to imagine that we will grow up in an atmosphere of extreme harmony and happiness. Utopia. We will only have total peace in Heaven. As long as we are fighting in this dark world, we will only have fierce fighting.

So my brothers, it's time for you to raise your head and keep moving toward the target. Do not let the darkness sow in your mind that was left alone. Jesus Christ will never abandon his son. You will always be on our side.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

In the tragic hour we remember the name of Jesus Christ

* Luís Alberto Alves

In our daily life, we rarely remember the name of Jesus Christ. Perhaps because of over-reliance on human wisdom. We set it aside. As insignificant, unimportant to us. Even Christians commit this terrible mistake.

This week that marked the end of November, the plane crash with the Chapecoense soccer team and crashed five minutes from the airport in Medellín, Colombia, reminds us that this attitude is not good and we need to rethink the way to consider.

In the fast and desperate dialogue between the pilot and the flight control tower, when the urgent landing request was requested, as the plane was running out of fuel, something caught. At the end of the speech he quotes the name of Jesus and the silence interrupts the conversation. The plane had already fallen.

Even the arrogant, when the moment of danger comes they pronounce the name of Christ in the hope of salvation from that terrible problem. But we must invoke him always, not just in need. When we do this we demonstrate how selfish we are.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

Are you grateful for the blessings of God?

* Luís Alberto Alves

How many times does the Lord bless us and end up ungrateful? Place a wonderful person next to us, and with whom we come to live in a beautiful home. Do you know our answer? Contempt. We treated God's gift of God badly, ignoring the requests we made to obtain this blessing.

Jesus Christ will never send anything bad to a child of yours. Always reserve the best. But the man, from the height of his arrogance, with the passage of time begins to find defects in that gift of the Lord. Especially when it comes to love.

My brother: always be grateful for what Jesus did and is doing in your life. If you prayed to the Lord to give you a husband or wife, full of grace and wonders of the highest, never put defects. On the contrary, always give thanks, for Jesus never gives anything bad to anyone.

Close your mouth and praise, even in times of crisis, until you open your eyes. Never mention that the neighbor's gift he received from the darkness is better than yours. In this way, Jesus will continue to live in your heart.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

Defeats are sometimes victories

* Luís Alberto Alves

For lack of vision, many Christians believe that in defeats, God is far from them. They can not visualize that in the loss of something, Jesus Christ continues to speak and show that something better is going in the direction of that evangelical brother.

How many people do not plunge into depression after the end of dating, engagement or marriage. The world is over for them. They are angry with God. They preferred to continue suffering in a sickly and possessive relationship, where love ceased to exist.

But the cauterized mind prevents one from seeing the best of the Lord. They fight with Jesus Christ and even get out of their way. Perhaps they have never read Isaiah 55, verses 8 through 10, where He makes it clear that their thoughts are higher than ours. That is, it promises something wonderful.

God is always in charge, He will never leave anyone alone. You know exactly what we need. From the money to the house purchases, to the necessary resource to pay off the debts. Nothing escapes your command, even when we are defeated.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor

Obedience is the basic rule of the Christian

* Luís Alberto Alves

Obeying has been the stone in the shoes of several members in today's evangelical churches. People, especially workers, ignore church leadership warnings. Pastor, in their view, exists only to preach the Word, should never advise them.

Rebellion is the fuel of this people. They only look at material goods, leaving the spiritual in limbo. At this time of year, few really want to continue doing the work. The business is to plunge headlong into the lentil dishes offered by the darkness.

To obey, in the evaluation of this generation, is something of a grimace. Everyone can do whatever they want. After all, in their opinion, Jesus Christ is love and will forgive them. They just forgot that the Lord is Justice and most of the time it is heavy.

When the member is old in ministry, it is worse to obey the church authorities. It calculates that bank time serves as a green card to enter Heaven. They fit the profile of the old Christian. For this type of brother, church time serves as a reference.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor