Tell your friends… there are four summer camps in North America this year!
Here is a video of Harmony Lake, the East Coast camp. (Click “Read more” from the home page).
To learn about them all, visit: https://www.thechristiancommunity.org/children-youth/camps/
The question often comes up: Is gambling a sin in the Bible? Well, this is the reason that casinos are so popular. Sin is involved in every gambling activity. And yes, it is definitely wrong in a number of ways.
There are many gambling activities in the Bible. It seems like they may not be as bad as what we are doing now. But, that is not the case. Of course there are things to love and have fun in the Bible but still gambling is wrong.
Going to the casino is definitely gambling. Using a mobile casino with Interac is a bit different and a lot less sinful than the traditional casinos in Canada. You don’t have to leave your house to gamble.
Going to a casino with an ATM is gambling. Going to a casino without one is gambling. The Bible talks about eating or drinking anything on an open source. This includes going to a casino without an ATM.
The casinos are not like home. They require money to even go into the casino. That means that you can spend a lot of money in a short period of time if you have to. This can lead to gambling addiction.
The casinos are full of sin. If you are going to the casino with your wife, it is wrong. If you are going to the casino with another person, it is wrong. So, if you are with a woman or someone who is not your wife, this is going to be a big deal.
Going to a casino without an ATM (with Interac payment system as example) is going to be a big deal as well. If you are going to a casino without an ATM, it may involve some gambling, but it is not always going to be real gambling. With these two things in mind, it is a decision you need to make and you will need to decide for yourself.
Casinos are not a place where you should feel comfortable because of the dangers involved. If you choose to go to a casino with an ATM, do so because you want to and not because you feel obligated to. If you decide to gamble, then gambling is definitely a sin in the Bible.
“Two lights brighten our world. One is provided by the Sun, but another answers to it–the light of the eye. Only through their entwining do we see; lacking either, we are blind. ” ~ Zajonc, Catching the Light. ——
Something more than physical sunlight streams down to Earth. In sunlight, the warm love of the Godhead can be felt. Every human being has light within which responds to the light without. But there is a mystery here. We do not always respond to the light. We do not always tend toward the light like the plants. We have free will. And sometimes we choose to ignore the light and go our own way.
When we are in a Cathedral, we see the light of the sun streaming in through the stained glass in the daytime. At night, we have to be outside to see the light streaming out from within!
And so it is with human beings. In the daytime, we take in the spiritual world in the brightness of day. It is loud here, and we often miss what the spirit is trying to say to us at any given moment. At night, in the darkness, the Spiritual world can much more easily see what is beautiful and worthy streaming out from the light of human beings sleeping.
What gets in the way of the light within us, that it does not always reach the light without? What is the darkness which causes us such chaos and confusion in our times?
We are in darkness when we are not clear. We are in darkness when we are untruthful, when we are vague, when we make assumptions or avoid thinking about the thing that is right in front of us. We are in darkness when we are full of hatred, anger or fear.
But what happens the minute we try to make sense out of what is before us? What activity of the mind starts turning when we go for precision, for clarity, when we are even willing to do a little research? What happens when we try to understand the one who is foreign to us or the one who drives us crazy? Then something begins to awaken in us which leads us towards light. The activity of trying to make sense out of what’s going on when we do not know what or why it is happening develops a capacity in us.
Every object, well-contemplated, opens up a new organ in us. ~Goethe
We are seeking the light in freedom. How can it be that the Light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not accepted it? (John 1:5) Can we find a way? Can we possibly find Christ’s light in our daylight, and return it to Him in love each night? This would bring grace upon grace to our troubled world.