When you mix Christianity with political power, it's like mixing ice cream with cow manure. It doesn't really hurt the manure, but it sure does ruin the ice cream.
04200 – Mix Christianity & Political Power?
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04145 – Christian Nationalism vs. Christianity
Christian nationalism relies on a theology of control, asking us to take up our swords, gavels, and politicians to secure and enforce our own power. Christianity relies on a theology of self-sacrificial love, asking us to take up our crosses and love others in the way...
04123 – Western Individualism?
I suspect that Western individualism has done more than any other single factor to anesthetize and even euthanize the power of the Gospel. Salvation, heaven, hell, worthiness, grace, and eternal life all came to be read through the lens of separate ego, crowding God's...
04104 – Easter is…
Easter is about love and truth. Easter says that love is more powerful than failure, bigger than death, bigger than the dark, bigger than cancer. Easter says you can bury truth in the grave, but you can’t keep it there. He is risen.
04097 – Contradicting Jesus?
Is it that hard to understand that if it benefits the rich and powerful while making life more difficult for the poor and vulnerable, it contradicts everything Jesus taught.
04091 – Fear Makes Things Difficult!
Fear narrows the little entrance of our heart. It shrinks up our capacity to love. It freezes up our power to forgive ourselves.
04053 – The Cost of Living
To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or...
04049 – When Power Becomes an Idol
When gentleness starts to sound like a weakness to us Christians rather than a fruit of the Spirit, that's when we know power has become an idol for us.
04018 – Weapons Against Others?
If Jesus told Peter to put his sword away after he used it against someone thinking he was “defending Jesus,” just imagine what he is trying to say to Christians today who are turning political power into a weapon against others while claiming to be “taking a stand...
03995 – God Does Not…
God does not eliminate injustice from above by a show of power, but from below, by a show of love. God does not burst on the scene with limitless power, but descends to the narrow confines of our lives.