I keep praying for peace and tranquility in my life. But that doesn’t seem to be what God sends.God keeps asking me to build up my strength and capacity for chaos — to become someone who can sit with others in their hard places, and dig deep into solidarity and compassion. One of ...
29 Let him bury his face in the dust— there may yet be hope.30 Let him offer his cheek to one who would strike him, and let him be filled with disgrace. 31 For no one is cast off by the Lord forever.32 Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his ...
As a student of Scripture, I love to study the Hebrew and Greek. I believe God inspired the words of the Book through the men to whom He gave the message. I believe in the infallible, plenary, verbal, inspired Scriptures (for all you scholars who know what that means). I believe we ...
Moreover, it seems to me, there is something in common in thespecific natureof that fetishization. The commodity and the standing-reserve have in common an equivalence and a universality. When you build a table for yourself, it has its value just in the use, of putting things on; a...
I want you to know how hard I am contending for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not met me personally. My goal is that they may
as a peasant revolutionary who lived by example, and died for grace and compassion. To model your behavior after his is to bring heaven closer to earth. To turn away from your fellow human beings is to turn away from his teachings, and from God. This is the Jesus I believe in. ...
What pre-Christian theologians still remembered is that the Living God is not like pagan deities and has no need for endless praise and homage, but rather wants compassion, composure, responsible behavior and an unflinching reverence for truthfulness (Micah 6:8, Hosea 6:6, Galatians 6:7, John...
One way to say this is, “If I enforce it on you, it is legalism; if you decide to disciple yourself then it is spirit.” While biblically in-accurate, it may help you get started. The right fruit is how much love, power and the mind of Christ you operate in as a lifestyle, ...
What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God’s part? By no means! For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.For the...
Anyone daring to say a word is considered an anti-Semite.’” Q: “Does this mean that the Jewish element played a role in igniting the flame of fitna (internal strife)?” Gamei’a: “The Jewish element is as Allah described it when he said: ‘They disseminate corruption in the land...