This is the final piece of a multi-post theme on how to love people toward Jesus from the story of the rescue of Rahab the prostitute. The others are called: Reaching Rahab A Supernaturally Installed Wonder Accidental Evangelism It Takes a Savior to Save! Rahab’s Red Rope Friends with Prostitutes Humanizing the dehumanized & Mutualizing …
Humanizing the Dehumanized & Mutualizing the Marginalized
Humanizing the Dehumanized… For a number of posts now the topic has surrounded “Reaching Rahabs,” the prostituted citizens of our own Jerichos. The question now is, how do we treat the dehumanized and marginalized? Greed appeals to sex for sale At her expense, it mirrors hell A grave inside a human’s mind They lock …
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Friends With Prostitutes
We’ve been talking about the prostituted woman, Rahab, and her encounter with the two Jewish spies, and what this story teaches us about our part in God’s Friendship Quest… I love the fact that the very first “convert” in the Promised Land was an idolatrous prostitute! If that doesn’t show us something about God’s wide …
Smoke in God’s Nose
They say to each other, ‘Don’t come too close or you will defile me! I am holier than you!’ These people are a stench in my nostrils, an acrid smell that never goes away. Isaiah 65:5 There’s a stench in the air. It’s the pungent smell of arrogance. I smell it in both American culture …
Where This “Snowflake” Lands
Here is some friendly pushback to the rebuttals I received on a recent Facebook post of mine in which I linked an article from the New York Daily News by Shaun King. The gist of the article was that the President-Elect and his proposed cabinet are not as educated as our current President and his …
