What Do They Have in Common? “Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.” Wendell Berry The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern. Proverbs 29:7 I offer these brief thoughts as sort of an addendum to my previous posts called, “What Should …
A Christian Response to Terrorism (Part 2 of 4)
Last time I talked about how hysteria and hostility tend to dominate American minds and mouths in relation to terrorism, and how this plays right into the plans of the Captain of “Team Hate.” When we think and talk the talk of the hysterical we’re tossing it up right over the plate and into the …
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What God is Like (Musings on the character of God) #16
[This is the 2nd half of a brief chapter on God's justice. You might benefit from reading the 1st half first.] He’s compassionate in distribution Among us Evangelicals it’s a well-known fact, if not a particularly well-appropriated reality, that God is “consistent in retribution.” We know that his justice is retributive, and when he forgives, …
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What God is Like (Musings on the character of God) #15
A just God… My blind spot… I’m ashamed to admit that I came to the table late on this aspect of God’s personality. Though “justice” is mentioned 134 times in the Bible, in my three decades of pastoral ministry I never gave one message on the concept of justice for the poor and powerless. In …
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