Drowning in Guilt
Dishonesty does indeed affect you as a person, and others around you.
Dishonesty does indeed affect you as a person, and others around you.
Those who know me personally know that I have an uncanny ability to answer a question truthfully yet saying something far different than what it seems. Although my words might be true, their implication is a lie…
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?
In modern western culture, we have equated love with tolerance… I’m sorry but this is not love.
Instead of breaking that prayer down that prayer into ninety-two pages and making my own millions, I will do it in four paragraphs and give it away for free. It’s your lucky day.
If God were to show Ezekiel our sins today rather than those of Israel back then, what would he see?
My head says “yes” to these I am statements of Jesus, but does my life really back that up? Is Jesus my bread of Life? Or do I look to other sources for my provision? Is he the light through which I see my world? Or is he merely a tack on, an afterthought to my life?
Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is…
Never in the history of mankind did four letters so eloquently sum up all that is wrong with a generation.
I love Jesus, and I love the Church, and I love religion. If anyone is truly doing the first, the other two will naturally follow.