Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. T.S. Eliot Imagine you attend a corporate gathering at a church where you believe you will learn spiritual things that are said to deepen your walk with God and how to have all your prayers answered. The speaker teaches from a book he wrote about praying from the heavenly realm, and he goes on to talk for the next hour and a half about himself…
Several days ago, I came across a few things piquing interest, agreement, disagreement, sadness, and hope. It all circled back to the recent United States Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v Wade and Planned Parenthood v Casey. The first was a social media post from Don Green stating in part, “Christians everywhere should understand that the change in the law did not produce a single change in a human heart. The parents and abortion doctors who practiced abortion last…
Are you under a lot of stress? The answer came out more quickly than I anticipated, and a dam broke as the tears followed suit. I wanted to grab the yes proceeding from my lips and shove it back down deep inside where no one except God knew how weak I had become. Normally, I would reserve my moments of weakness to the confines of my home and in the quiet alone with the Lord and my thoughts. It is…
So they called them and charged them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge, for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard.” Acts 4:18-19 ESV So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven, but whoever…
And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, since he also is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.” Luke 19:9,10 ESV A sinful, short, cheating tax collector climbs up into a tree one day as Jesus passed through Jericho. He was not just any tax collector, but he was the chief tax collector, despised by his own people for his underhanded and greedy ways in…
There is this gospel that has been preached and offered up to some in the modern day church for quite some time. It is a beautiful prison, adorned with walls of half truths and sweet words of personal affirmations seeming to come from God Himself. There is no judgment or chastisement. There is no call to die to self or any biblical teaching to discipleship. The use of “offensive words” causing us to think that we are anything less than…