One of the most beautiful things about children is that their minds have yet to be bound by the strictures of reality. Their imaginations soar, they pretend with reckless abandon and they create entire universes of play with no effort at all. They do not know what cannot be yet, so they have no reason to be bothered about it.
This is a truly wonderful quality in children. It becomes sociopathic in adults.
Read MoreHave you ever wondered about the Pharisees? About what it must have been like for men so educated and pious to have their authority threatened by a blue collar nobody who eviscerated them every time there was an argument? To watch as the people whom you have dedicated your life to teaching and guiding cease paying attention to you and begin to focus instead on someone without even a hint of your pedigree, expertise or credentials? It doesn’t take much imagination to understand just how maddening it must have been. After all, what was all the training, study and discipline worth if any old carpenter from the backside of nowhere could just waltz in and turn everything upside down? Who did they think this fool must have thought He was?
But, here’s the thing: the Pharisees were wrong.
Read MoreThe pain and trauma we will experience in this life is real and hurtful. We will not understand it all. But we must decide whether or not the goodness of God is an absolute of our existence or a judgment to be made based on our own personal experiences.
Read MoreChristians who rushed to support BLM during the emotionally charged heat of the moment are faced with a dilemma: continue in their stated endorsement of a pagan and Marxist movement that explicitly stands in contrast to the commands of God or retract their hasty words of support. The choice ought to be an easy one but the entire situation might have been avoided if Christians had heeded the words of the Bible in the first place.
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