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After religious prejudice there is hope
In short, I have come to believe that the West does not have a Muslim problem. We have a truth-telling problem. We cannot face the truth of our own violence, our degradation of the poor, our limited moral purity.
Romans 13 Doesn’t Tell Christians to Kill their Enemy
Just because God uses secular—and sometimes quite evil—institutions to carry out His will does not mean that God approves of everything they do. Much of what they do—whether it be Assyria’s sadistic practice of skinning civilians alive, or Rome’s crucifixion of thousands of people in the first century—does not reflect the law of Christ. But God can still use such godlessness, because He channels evil to carry out His will.
The so-called government’s “right to bear the sword” is not a moral “right” at all, any more than Assyria had the “right” to slaughter the Israelites in 722 B.C. Assyria and Rome (and America, and North Korea, etc. ) are objects under God’s sovereign control. That’s all Romans 13 says.
Dear Media: Stop Trying To Teach Christians Theology
Every journalist in America has been secretly attending seminary, and now understands Christianity better than most Christians do. This is the only conclusion I can draw after months of theology lectures from reporters whose most recent encounter with religious terminology was Hozier’s “Take Me to Church.”
Fayetteville pastor convinces church gunman to give up rifle
But the stranger was calm, and Wright took the weapon from him. He then patted him down, and the pastor summoned four strong deacons to embrace the disarmed man, in an effort to make him feel welcome.
Wright then prayed for the man, who fell to his knees and began crying.
Why many welcoming churches are dying churches
We can’t just wait and assume people are going to show up — because they won’t. We’re also going to encounter more and more folks who don’t know the things about our faith that we take for granted. And that’s okay.
What’s not okay is for us to mistake the words of Jesus to “Go” for “Stay and wait for people to come” — no matter how welcoming we may be.
Advice for Another Year of Bible Reading
- Commit yourself to consistent Bible reading.
- Engage in both fast-paced and slow-paced reading.
- Notice the who as much, or more than, the what as you read.
- Seek informed minds and stirred affections.
- Commit yourself to hear and heed, understand and obey, what you encounter in the Bible.
The pilot of a Delta Airlines flight turned the plane around to pick up a Phoenix mom and her children on the way to their dad’s funeral.
This Woman’s Public Shaming Is Why You Shouldn’t Whine at Restaurants on Facebook
A woman whose New Year’s Eve was “ruined” at an Indiana bar vented her frustration on the restaurant’s Facebook page the next day, hoping someone would lend a sympathetic ear to the woeful story of her night. You see, someone almost died of a heart attack that evening. Which brings us to the real tragedy: While the victim was being revived by paramedics, the real victim says the distraught servers messed up her “700+” bill. The woman’s rant (and a bar manager’s snappy response) got popular online and made regional news, and she’s now deleted her Facebook account. Her 2016 is off to an excellent start.