Today (Like Everyday), We Pray For Our Enemies
We pray specifically that those involved in this violence return to their shared humanity as they confront the violence brought on fellow humans as a result of their actions. We pray that we don’t lose ours in the midst of it all.
Returning Hate for Hate: Perhaps Our Greatest Temptation
To return hate for hate does nothing but intensify the existence of evil in the universe. Someone must have sense enough and religion enough to cut off the chain of hate and evil, and this can only be done through love.
—-Martin Luther King, Jr., 1957
We are citizens of heaven. We have a social contract with Jesus and with each other. We have a higher loyalty and we do not bow down to governments. We pay our taxes and live as good citizens on earth, but we belong elsewhere and we speak the language of heaven, not government legalese. And we do not despair when governments go bad for OUR government remains secure – God is still on His throne and we are still His people.
Snap Judgments: Our Societal Obsession With Taking Pictures
The danger of using photos as markers is that images appeal to our vanity. We become quickly obsessed with accumulating experiences, capturing them in photos, and publicly displaying our photos as trophies. If we aren’t careful, our Facebook pages and blogs can become trophy cases of our own accomplishments
I wonder today how much sin might be avoided in my life if I really believed in the perfect timing of God. Every time I think I must manufacture an opportunity I show that I don’t believe. Whenever I try and manipulate relationships to my own ends show that I don’t believe. Whenever I am discontent with what the Lord has seen fit to bring about in my life I show that I don’t believe.
The Problem With “Mental Illness”
So what do we call the disorders? “Sin” is too narrow in many cases. “Illness” is too narrow in other cases. Use of either category exclusively is inaccurate, provoking suspicion and often hostile reaction.
CENI – Having a Humble Hermeneutic
My goal in this post is to unpack CENI in a way that shows CENI can be helfpul but does have enough limitations to remind us that we must be humble in how we interpret scripture and what we bind or don’t bind on other people.
World Upside Down: Part 1, Dear Empire, You Have Nothing to Worry About
If you read the bible (at least partially) as an anti-Empire polemic and say things like “Jesus is Lord and Caesar is not” then this consensus view is worrisome. Does the state have nothing to fear from King Jesus? Is Christianity politically innocuous and inoffensive? Is that what Luke was trying to say in the book of Acts?
Windows: It’s over, tech site declares
Calling the latest operating system a “failure” and Microsoft’s leaders “idiots,” a top tech website has proclaimed the PC era over. Windows is coming to a dead end, they say.