“I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you” (John 15:15). By way of hitting the “pause button” for a take-away from this week’s look at Overcoming, let’s go […]
One of the principles of Kingdom vision we talked about yesterday involves expectations. Jesus expected suffering. But He wasn’t a fatalist. How did He avoid fatalism while still being realistic? The Miriam-Webster Dictionary defines fatalism as “a doctrine that events […]
Yesterday we recalled that Jesus overcame the world (John 16:33). He sure didn’t do it the world’s way. His way reflected Kingdom vision and despite temptations, Jesus set before us the way of the Cross. In the temptations of Jesus recorded in Matthew 4, we see several kinds of suffering and temptations to deal with it […]
Are you facing injustice? Adversity? Anger? Sadness? Disillusionment? Prejudice? Persecution? Frustration? Disenfranchisement? Are you tired of being misunderstood? Put down? Unappreciated? Pigeon-holed? Unwelcome? Judged? Are you waking up every day and looking in the mirror at an illness that threatens to rob you of all joy the same way it robs you of energy and […]
There are very few heroes in the Trayvon Martin tragedy. But there are two: Sybrina Fulton and Gladys Zimmerman. Two mothers who both placed their faith in God to reconcile an awful tragedy and to give them peace as they endured the painful process of the time leading up to the trial, the verdict, and […]
Today is Independence Day, known to far too many Americans as July 4th. That’s the equivalent of calling Christmas December 25th, Valentine’s Day February 14th, or St. Patrick’s Day March 17th. It minimizes an event to a simple number on a calendar. Independence, indeed the larger concept of freedom, is important to God. The reasons […]
With the recent federal judge’s approval (and the Obama administration’s assent) regarding Plan B being now available without a prescription to “women” of all ages, we’ve entered a new front on a Woman’s Right to Choose Abortion. Has progress in reproductive health really been made? I submit to you it’s not progress at all. Read on for my […]
Frankly, every Christian, every Jew, every Mormon, Jehovah’s Witness, Christian Scientist, every homosexual, and every woman should be concerned about the growing Surveillance State. I will explore my Top 7 Reasons Why the Growing Surveillance State Ought to be Troubling for Everyone. They are: Computers named NoOne, NoBody, NoPerson, and NotMe Probable Cause, Relative Truth, […]
Soon, I will try to answer, but for now I’m just asking.
What exactly is sin? Well, for starters, it’s a word that has fallen out of favor except in some Jewish and Christian circles where we have a general idea that it’s not a good thing and it results in our being called sinners. In the world at large, people don’t use the word sin anymore. […]
