This past week my wife and I were driving up the interstate when we saw a large billboard that said: Real Christians Forgive Like Jesus The sign also included a Scripture reference, Luke 23:34 And Jesus said, "Father, forgive them,...
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When We Believe the Wicked and Dismiss the Oppressed, We are Guilty of Cowardice
Forcing the weak to submit [to an evil oppressor] is clearly easier than confronting the strong, particularly if you have persuaded yourself that the weak deserve what is coming to them. (William Manchester) This quote is taken from Manchester's observations...
Continue ReadingWhen We Believe the Wicked and Dismiss the Oppressed, We are Guilty of CowardiceWhen Victims of Evil Become Evildoers Themselves
Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving. And the people of Israel also wept again and said, "Oh that we had meat to eat! We remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing, the...
Continue ReadingWhen Victims of Evil Become Evildoers ThemselvesMost Local Churches Today are Dominated by a Plague of Legalism and Taught by Legalists
Certain persons, by swerving from these, have wandered away into vain discussion, desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make confident assertions. Now we know that the...
Continue ReadingMost Local Churches Today are Dominated by a Plague of Legalism and Taught by LegalistsBear One Another’s Burdens? Then Why are the Oppressed Being Told to go it Alone?
Galatians 6:2 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. When it comes to evil attacking Christ's people (always of course in the form of agents of evil who most often disguise themselves as fellow sheep), Christ...
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