We are not to go out of our way to pick fights and be Jerks For Jesus, but need to realize that if we are living for Him, opposition and division will always follow.
We are not to go out of our way to pick fights and be Jerks For Jesus, but need to realize that if we are living for Him, opposition and division will always follow.
Why do we engage in this bizarre behavior? Is there something in the water?
Do we gather to ask of the Lord for mere provision of the things of the flesh? Or do we gather that his kingdom would come?
Our minds are not naturally set on things above.
I have come to the conclusion that no matter what denomination you find yourself in, the way you study God (theology) falls into one of two camps Equation Theology or Revelation Theology.
Every day it is there, lurking behind every turn of a corner, hiding under every syllable I hear spoken, whispering with every breath of a shifting wind.
The Church’s response to James Cameron’s brilliant, breathtaking, and dauntless sci-fi epic will mainly fall into one of 2 camps . . . I can almost guarantee that our response will not be the correct one.
Jude admonishes us in his Plutonium-charged weapons-grade epistle that the false prophets are people who “Speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.”
A mountain is strong, and no mountain more strong than the mountain the Spirit says will abide forevermore.
For the life uncrucified is not a life raised into true life, but only a paltry shadow of wraith-like existence.