Manchester: We Are Fighting The Wrong War
As long as we continue to fight the wrong war the wrong way, we will continue to lose. Horrors like Manchester will continue to happen.
As long as we continue to fight the wrong war the wrong way, we will continue to lose. Horrors like Manchester will continue to happen.
God has been so good to me. Over and over again, His provision has come in right on time. He has opened doors that I never imagined opening, He has paved ways for me through what seemed a tangled web of obstacles. He has blessed me, and blessed me again so many times that it seems like I start to take it for granted.
The man Jesus had healed had just been grilled by the religious leaders and mocked for his ignorance. His own parents refused to back him up and he most likely had just been kicked out of the synagogue. But this man when being questioned said, “I might not know all about that. All I know is that I once was blind but now I see.”
Religion has received a bad rap over the past few decades, but even those of us who try our hardest to distance ourselves from being “religious” still tend to be very religious.
Am I like Eli’s sons, or am I like Samuel? Have I used my leadership positions and roles for my own greedy gain, or am I truly a servant?
What were you doing that morning? Did you have any idea, even by the end of the day all that God had in store with you through that fateful encounter?
Emotions are not truly good or bad things. The good and the evil are actually the stimuli that create the emotions as well as the response these emotions create.
My love does not last. It will not. It cannot. But there is another…
Does our heart beat for what breaks His?
Jesus saying that nothing can snatch His sheep from His hands is a declaration of love. We do Him a disservice and completely miss the point when we reduce it to a theological proposition.