A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It is a weak nation, like a weak person, than must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of...
Our world is intended to reflect God's vision of Shalom, the beloved community, the peaceable realm, in which joy and laughter, love and harmony guide the affairs of persons and nations.
One of the gifts of the Old Testament is how faithful Israel was in recording their unfaithfulness. Israel could've erased all their sins, but they recorded their idolatry, oppression of others, and when they put words in God's mouth. Erasing a nation's sins isn't...
When you take the Way of Jesus seriously, you encounter resistance. Jesus calls us to love our enemies, but society kills our enemies. Jesus calls us to Jubilee, but ours is a nation of debt. Jesus calls us to befriend the ostracized, but ours is a society of...
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
Nationalism keeps telling us Christians to take up our swords and make nations "Christian" by any means necessary. Jesus keeps calling us Christians to take up our crosses and be like him, serving the world through grace, humility, compassion, and self-sacrificial...
It is clear that the nations of the world now can only rise and fall together. It is not a question of one nation winning at the expense of another. We must all help one another or all perish together.
If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to just pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that he commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that...
I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
He did not wait till the world was readytill men and nations were at peace.He came when the Heavens were unsteadyand prisoners cried out for release.He did not wait for the perfect time.He came when the need was deep and great.He dined with sinners in all their...