Yoga, spiritual gurus, there is a new spiritual fad every year. All of it under the premise to help you achieve the best you—all of it perverting what God has called us to do: Die to ourselves. Not pamper ourselves.

The Hebrew month of Elul is a month that is set aside to traditionally focus on repentance and our need to make reconciliation with others and with God.

A biblical apocalypse is not a one-time event.  It isn’t the end of the world.  It isn’t something we should commercialize or use as a gimmick.  It is a transformation of one’s entire perspective that God wants to change, and that should lead to life and the greatness of God being restored to this earth.   

Christians will explain that the New Covenant did away with the “Old” Covenant and that Jesus “fulfilled” the Law. They might even throw a bone to you and say something like, “We still keep the moral law, but the ceremonial law is out. Besides, no one can really keep the Law.” Christians who answer this way believe in “Replacement Theology.”