Either sadly or advantageously we live in a world of double-dealing. On all sides. It’s what James Carville called, “spin.”
Read MoreBe cautious what you attribute to God. Simplistic God-statements inside complex circumstances compromise the true cause of God.
Read MoreAnd we were—and are—raised with Him “in the likeness of His resurrection.” Christ lives! And because He lives, you live, I live.
Read MoreWe are currently being nasty to one another and getting absolutely nowhere except deeper into the divide.
What would happen if we stopped? If you stopped? If I stopped?
Read MoreA nation is not divided over night. It is separated over time as fissures breach and split.
Read MoreDo you feel it? There is no peace, no resolution, no consensus.
Read MoreIf we live and move and exist in Him, then God is engaged in every aspect of life.
Read More"What do you do for a living?"
"I murder babies, all day long, and I do so legally. It's part of a woman's health, you understand. Our leaders in DC determined it to be so."
Read MoreBecause the people thinking about politics are the same people passing laws that make killing a baby legal, I don't have the luxury of assessing their politics.
Read MoreA cold civil war is better than a hot civil war, but it is not a good situation for a country to be in.
Read MoreKilling babies is not a political perspective. It is a human issue.
Read MoreSocialism puts forward the idea that we will all be better off if we are equal. It sounds like a good plan, ideal, even Christian
Read MoreLook around you. The message of the Incarnation is demonstrated in nearly everything you can see.
Read MoreMy desire is to live my conviction consistently, i.e. thoroughly converted.
Read MoreThe question now in God’s mind is, How can I prove to my people that salvation and justification have changed them fundamentally, transformed them at their core?
Read MoreI recently heard a wonderful sermon, filled with exemplary theology, and four or five declarations of spiritual truth. But for each theological truth declared, the speaker leveled derision regarding the struggle to implement the truth into real practice.
Read MoreThe governance of shame is meted out in ruthless self-criticism, condemnation, ranting, raving, self-cursing, and condescension.
Read MoreI only want to know enough to get me by.
Read MoreAny turn that is by divine definition a yielding of willfulness, is by definition a sufficient turn for God to seize upon His opportunity.
Read MoreI have returned to the observation attributed to St. Francis of Assisi. “We are called to be witnesses for Christ, and every so often we must use words.”
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