The relevance to the immediate audiences of John’s original letters is much the same as the relevance to those of us living now in the twenty-first century all over the world: take heart, because this is how it will all come to pass.
Read MoreIt is not our job to build the kingdom. It is our job to herald it. And to wait patiently, expectantly and hopefully for its arrival.
Read MoreBe like Abraham. Share in his faith. Believe what he believed in the way that he believed it.
Read MoreThere is wisdom in silence. There is wisdom in waiting to make your judgment until all the pertinent evidence is on the table. There is wisdom in not jumping to conclusions. There is wisdom in not automatically trusting everything those with ideological agendas say you ought to believe.
Read MoreYou cannot read the Bible at face value and come away with the ideas that God has nothing to do with the current epidemic coursing through the world or that He never has anything at all to do with the difficulties that come into our lives. Only a Bible read through dense, thick lenses of wishful thinking and insistence on our own definitions of love and goodness can be made to reach that conclusion.
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