Seeking Reconciliation Over Revenge
We should interpret God’s laws through the lens of Christ’s teachings with love, mercy, and justice.
We should interpret God’s laws through the lens of Christ’s teachings with love, mercy, and justice.
God has a way of humbling me that I can’t escape.
Even though we have been walking through the valley of the shadow of death does not mean we have any cause to give in to fear.
If you were the officer, who would you listen to, the captain or the convict?
e often like to share how Jesus being fully human means He knows and can empathize with our deepest struggles. We often say this when talking about a major sickness or spiritual temptation, but to me, it also means Jesus knows our small daily struggles that make up the stuff of life.
God’s atonement, the work of the cross, is for everybody. God is not willing that any should perish but that everyone should come to repentance… We have agency. We have choice. How will we respond to the gospel?
I go through doubt. You go through doubt. Even people like Mother Theresa and Billy Graham went through doubt. Doubt is natural. It is not sin. What we do with the doubt is what matters.
Everybody is hungry. Jesus is offered a little boy’s lunch. Jesus prays. The disciples pass out food. Everyone eats. There are lots of leftovers. The end.
Do we talk too much?
No matter who first thought it up or said it, the fact remains. Two things are hated, feared, and yet guaranteed: death and taxes. This has been a fact of life for as long as humanity has been around.