Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. (Matthew 5:9) I love the good news, because among other things it is about bringing things together. The thing about sin is that it brings death and everything leading to death which usually involves deterioration, division, dissolving and the degradation of that which […]
Read More Say What You See: Bridge BuildersMe and My Thing With Compromise A word that often comes up in conversations about marriage is the importance of compromise. I recall having a conversation a few years ago that involved my wife, my brother and his wife. We debated the use and purpose of the word ‘compromise’. When I say debate, it was […]
Read More When Is It Compromise?When it’s a Marvel movie, I’ve now been conditioned to sit through the credits. I sit through the credits because there are meant to be little teasers and hints as to what might happen in future films. Sometimes the hints are good, sometimes they leave you thinking what was the point. Actually, though, there is […]
Read More One Story: Many ContributorsJesus – what a guy. Don’t invite Him over to a dinner party if you want a quiet time. He accepts an invite to a dinner at the crib of ‘a prominent Pharisee’. It’s an invite to a meal. Now decent manners would suggest you don’t call too much attention to yourself. Enjoy the hospitality, respect […]
Read More Don’t Exalt YourselfI get the impression sometimes this is hard-wired into the fabric of modern Western society. It is subtle and it is almost established as something reasonable to have as something to achieve in life. That which I speak of is the importance of chasing riches. How it’s hard-wired into mainstream thinking is the thought that […]
Read More Foolishly Chasing RichesWhen people think of politicians, journalists and similar professions, the thoughts are not always positive. Indeed there can be a somewhat cynical view of those either in authority or who are meant to be reporting on those in authority. The cynicism comes from the experience of how power corrupts and the pursuit of power can […]
Read More When Righteousness RulesOn this occasion, it’s King Arthur’s fault. Arthur Sido over at The Voice Of One Crying In Suburbia, recently posted something on a some good stuff he’d come across. One of the posts he referred to was by Dan Edelen over at Cerulean Sanctum. As the linking goes, that post was part of a series […]
Read More Dealing With The SystemThe set-up is straight forward. I give one extreme, I give the opposite extreme, you agree that they are extreme and we agree that we should shift from them both and find the middle ground. That is applied to a number of arguments. In a lot of cases, it makes sense. It works. It’s applicable. […]
Read More It Is Not Always About Finding The Middle GroundKeith Giles writes over there at Subversive1. If your Christianity is relatively comfortable because it doesn’t demand that much from you other than to believe that Jesus is out for your best interests and wants you to be happy, warm and cuddly, then you might want to give Subversive a miss. Likewise if you are […]
Read More The Church That Embraces Those Society RejectsIt is very interesting considering how we have been conditioned. Sometimes I hear people speak in such a way as to suggest that their way of thinking, believing and behaving is objectively correct. Such is their ignorance to the way in which they have been conditioned by society, the oblivious way in which they hammer […]
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