We Christians are people-helpers. It’s in the Spirit-loaded software at new birth. Problem is, we often insist on preserving the right to be selective about the recipients of our aid, as though there’s some substantive difference between one kind of human and another. The earliest Christians discovered this tendency in themselves and made the …
How Jesus Feeds the Hungry (Part 2 of 2)
In Part 1 I introduced some thoughts, based on the familiar story of Jesus’ feeding of the 5000, about what I consider to be his typical way of feeding hungry people. The disciples wanted him to “send them away!” but fortunately he had a better idea, which I believe was more than unique to …
How Jesus Feeds the Hungry (Part 1 of 2)
Besides the resurrection, I bet you don’t know which of Jesus’ miracles made it into all four gospels! OK, my title gave it away, but would you have guessed it if I had called it “Jewish Boy Loses His Lunch” or “Give All You Got and Get More Than You Had” or something of …
The Weaponized Bible
“…the letter kills but the Spirit gives life…” 2 Corinthians 3:6 “Weaponize” is a newly coined verb that means, “to convert for use as a weapon.” A “Weaponized Bible” is a dangerous book used to justify many destructive and deadly practices. They weaponized the Bible in order to initiate and perpetuate the crusades They weaponized the …
I Almost Called President Trump a Name Today
13 Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human authority: whether to the emperor, as the supreme authority, 14 or to governors, who are sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to commend those who do right. 15 For it is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish people. 16 Live as free people, but …
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