Many characterize their religious church or movement rowing away from the sinking ship of “the world”. They are “saved” and the ship of this world is going down, and anyone not on board their lifeboat deserves to be lost.
The unvarnished, ugly and unadorned truth is that morality based on religion outraged and offended by God’s indiscriminate acceptance of anyone other than its rituals, rites, routines and regulation.
Greg was reminded at a memorial service about the love of God that Jesus lives in us. It’s a love that God gives us first before any and all other considerations.
Shame is a powerful and intimidating emotional reality employed widely, throughout our society, in an effort to keep people under control – and religious organizations are no exception to this rule.
Join us as we consider what the Bible says and doesn’t say about Satan the devil – as we search for a Christ-centered perspective, we will discuss two extreme views about the devil.
Two word pictures of our spiritual condition – a woman who by her own work as a slave, purchases clothing that loudly proclaims her profession – and a bride whose husband gives her a wedding dress she could never afford.
After Jesus was resurrected, he joined two of his disciples as they walked away from Jerusalem. They did not recognize him and he seemed completely unaware of what had taken place that last week in Jerusalem. The irony is that Jesus as the Stranger didn’t seem to know what was going on – but he was actually the only one who really knew.
We thrill to stories about a person being rescued who is unknown to the rescuer, but what kind of love does it take to purchase a slave who has been unfaithful?
Suffering is woven like a tapestry into the experience of God’s love expressed for you and me, and the expressions of his love that we pass on to others, by his grace.
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