Rulers of nations have come and gone for 2000 years but the church remains. We did not know all that would befall us 4 years ago nor do we know the times ahead. But the task of the church remains unchanged: to know Christ & make him known. To be salt & light in this time & place.
"In the end...it's not about preference. It's about the disruption of categories that lead us to abandon the difficult, the disagreeable, & the least likely to go very far...knowing that there is...divine ingenuity here, 'the slow work of God', that gets done if we're faithful."
"...we sometimes allow our preferences for the poor to morph into a preference for the well-behaved & the most likely to succeed...If success [not fidelity] is our engine, we sidestep the difficult & belligerent and eventually abandon 'the slow work of God'." #tattoosontheheart
"...Jesus is in a house so packed no one can come thru the door https://t.co/E1HaEGs8sj the ppl open the roof...so Jesus can heal him....They are ripping the roof off the place, and those outside are being let in." #Tattoosontheheart
"The Beatitudes is...a https://t.co/T83ameqO6H tells us where to stand...Compassion isn't...feeling the pain of others; it's...bringing them in towards yourself.If we love what God loves...margins get erased.[It] means the dismantling of barriers that exclude." #Tattoosontheheart
Being "pro life" means defending the lives of
the unborn
and
the sick
the poor
the homeless
the aged
the mentally challenged
the inmate
the refugee
and the person or people you hate.
Being pro life means reverencing
all human life.
Because it's all from God.
#9DaysforLife
"Share your food with the hungry,
& give shelter to the homeless.
Give clothes to those who need them,
& do not hide from relatives who need your help.
Then your salvation will come like the dawn...
Your godliness will lead you forward"
-God's Book. Isa.58 .. #FORWARD
"He is more than a fool; he is a practicing, fact-rejecting, truth-denying, white supremacist." A few of my thoughts on Trump and my kids' shithole birth country: https://t.co/8QsHPsNeeh
Today, evangelical leaders from @WorldRelief, @NAEvangelicals, @ERLC, @nhclc, @cccuorg & more sent a letter to Congress, exhorting then to work on a bipartisan basis to urgently pass legislation for Dreamers losing DACA status https://t.co/4NuhSfDsP2
God’s justice is not simply about his relationship to wrong-doers, but His relationship to the wronged. He is a defender and a vindicator, which means we ought to be also.
“Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.”
#CSLewis