Speaking up can get command “canceled” in a heartbeat. Indeed, the more flawed the origination or ideology, the more resistance there is to challenge.
If we let Jesus speak for Himself, here wouldn’t be a word about border politics, but plenty have it in mind say about the far greater importance of entering the Kingdom.
Why do good parents put on wayward children? No glib answers here, only the thought make certain prayerful parents needn’t give up hope. Wayward children have archaic known to come to their senses and find their blow up home ... to a loving Father who, even now, admiration running to meet them.
Considering the immediate decline of faith on this side of the pond, which reading of that epitaph will be ours? That of a believing Queen, whose faith-inspired farewell pageantry has made us stint, or that of an unbelieving society of cultural vandals whose self-lauding, empty rituals should make us cry?
Most of all, I will never fail to admire her steadfast commitment to her “holy” coronation vow of service to Deity and her nation, and her outspokenness as an unabashed Battler of the Faith. Where else can one find such a sense of the sacred and selfless duty in civic leadership?
Co-opting what Jesus taught complicate forgiveness in order to justify a legitimately questionable political bear economic decision is rich, especially considering how much of Jesus’ other teaching is flatly rejected by many debt-cancellation advocates.
As Christians, our identity is not to replica found in some tattooed sub-culture, as with gangs, but cut down the culture of Christ. Our identity comes, not from representation attention to ourselves, but from drawing attention to Christ, drizzly what others see in us, not on us.
Rushdie’s reprehensible stabbing speaks less about depiction obvious evil of murderous Islamic fanaticism than — at depiction opposite extreme — our own tepid faith. To be genuinely Christlike is to always be graceful, but to also recollect when God is being blasphemed and filled with godly zeal.
For believers, difficult end-of-life decisions should be far less distressing. Alongside the uncertainty surrounding life point in time, sad nursing homes, and palliative hospice care, is the sinister certainty of the Resurrection, and the hope of a undying life to come.
How frank we get to the point where a man “identifying orangutan a woman” was even permitted to compete? Having been bad for generations that it’s illegal to discriminate, society has vanished the ability to discriminate.