Christians profess that we should take up our cross and follow Jesus. Instead, we are making crosses for future generations to carry. from "Global Warming is Here and it is Getting Worse"
03827 – Making Crosses?
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03708 – Divine Diversity
God has two binary commands. 1) Love God 2) Love your neighbor as yourself. Two commands that encompass and encapsulate all. Not three, not five, not ten. Two binary commands. Yet, many Christians have added so much to these binary commands. Conditions, hate,...
03705 – Revealing what We Actually Believe
It reveals how little we Christians actually believe that Christ conquered sin and death on the cross when we treat our religion like a war that hasn't been won rather than a work of compassion and treat the world as an enemy to be conquered rather than a neighbor to...
03637 – I Am Somebody!
While Christians espouse the view that we are all God’s children, too often we point to those who have gifts or talents we value. Saying that everyone is somebody is not comparable to giving everyone a trophy for merely existing but treating everyone as valuable...
03623 – Allowing Grace to Govern our Opinions
I pray we Christians will allow grace to govern the opinions we are willing to extend to others rather than allow our opinions of others to govern the grace we are willing to extend. For God is always actively trying to include those who we are actively trying to...
03569 – Christian Empire-Builders
Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships, and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.
03553 – The Real Problem with Christians
I've never heard anyone complain that Christians act too much like Jesus. Even the hardest, angriest, most anti-God atheist will complain that the problem with Christians is that we don't act enough like Jesus.
03314 – Is it Like Christ?
Whenever Christians say, "But is it biblical?" I get uneasy. Smashing an enemy's infant against a rock is "biblical." I'm much more interested in if it is like Christ.
03300 – Converting Christians & Heathens
While we may need somebody like Dominic to convert the heathen to Christianity, we are in even greater need of somebody like Francis to convert the Christians to Christianity. from St. Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox
03186 – The Temptation of Power
One thing is clear to me: the temptation of power is greater when intimacy is a threat. Much Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead.