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A Final Warning to Those Trying to Change Me
November 16, 2022 What happens when you find yourself the target of an all-out effort to turn you into the total opposite of everything you are? This is what I’ve been going through with members of this “woke cancel culture” and the LGBTQ+ activists among them. God has something to say to this. Beginning the day as I usually do, reading my devotions, I was asking God as always, to speak to me out of the Scripture, showing me what…
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Reaching Out to People Who Can’t See What They Need to See
I’ve wrestled with this issue because of the struggle I’ve had to find natural compassion for the spiritually lost. I’m deeply troubled over the fact that I find it much easier to judge and condemn people than show Christ’s love to them. I struggle with the problem of pointing people to Christ without giving the appearance of approving of their sin. I’m trying to learn Christ’s way of touching the lives of people the way He did, showing them unconditional…
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Abraham: A Model for Intercession (based on Genesis 18:16-33)
When we think of intercessory prayer, we usually think of praying for loved ones in need, or for friends who may need a fresh touch from Christ, or who may even need to come to salvation through Him. We don’t usually think of praying for God to not overthrow a city or country. But this is what Abraham found himself doing when he was met by a human manifestation of God, (who many scholars believe was actually Jesus in a…
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Praying for Justice: Persistence is the Key
A scripture passage I have read repeatedly is the Parable of the Persistent Widow, found in Luke 18:1-8. It’s the only place in the Gospels where this parable of Jesus is found, and it serves to illustrate just how important persistent prayer is. This is a topic that has been at the forefront of my life in recent years, even as I have wrestled with an ongoing injustice waged against me by others. While I don’t care to write about…
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When God Brings Justice His Way
Justice. We’ve heard the cry for it in recent weeks and months with school and restaurant shootings, from the family and friends of a black teenager gunned down by a young cop only 90 minutes after being sworn into duty, and from a growing number of men and women violated sexually by predatory men in positions of importance or prominence. Sometimes the word “justice” gets replaced with the word “vengeance”, which is something else entirely, but nonetheless, we hear the…
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What’s Missing from the School Violence Discussion
In the weeks following the massacre at the high school in Parkland, Florida, I shared the heavy hearts of many, young and old, over the senseless loss of life at the hands of a troubled young man. For seventeen lives to be snuffed out because of a succession of failures on the part of many to identify this teenager as a serious risk is both infuriating and disheartening. Added to this, for gun owners comes the prospect of an eventual…
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Justice vs. Vengeance: How the #Me Too Movement Blurred the Two
In 2017, one news story after another seemed to carry the account of another high profile man accused of sexual misconduct. One message kept coming through from the victims: sincere apologies are not enough; we will make you pay and pay dearly for what you did to us. That’s understandable in cases of rape or physical assault including grabbing, groping, exhibitionism, or soliciting sex. But every small infraction a man could possibly commit physically or verbally is now cause for…
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Surviving Gas Shortages
A pipeline bursts. Gasoline spews out, and the flow of gas to distribution depots and stations slows to a halt. Suddenly, states of emergency are declared to prevent price gouging and to allow more tanker trucks to get through fully loaded to restock the stations. It happened in Alabama, affecting the southeastern U.S., including where I live in North Carolina. The inevitable result: panic buying. Motorists stopping at every station that still has gas, topping off their tanks (even if…
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Leaving Jew-hating Behind
Here’s one of those things I don’t like sharing about myself, but I find it’s important to spill it out now. Some years ago, I developed what could not be described as anything but an intense hatred of Jewish people. It grew out of struggles I was having with Jewish neighbors who obviously despised me for my evangelical Christian faith, and who especially hated the things I wrote. This was not a huge shock to me, because we Christians more…
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Lucifer and his Magic Weapon of Mass Destruction
Lucifer was pacing back and forth in his lair, trying to figure out what to do next to God’s created beings made in His image, Adam and Eve. He successfully enticed them into taking the forbidden fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, but God drove the pair out of the garden before he could persuade them to take fruit from the tree of life. Then they would have lived forever under his control in a…
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Thank-you, Mr. Mandela
Dear Mr. Mandela, Though you are no longer with us, I just thought I’d pass along my thanks along with so many others in the world to you for teaching me something so critically important: the power of forgiveness. Though you could have led your Zulu tribesmen in an all-out bloodbath against the white proponents and leaders of that inexcusably racist system of government called apartheid, you chose to follow the path of forgiveness toward your former persecutors and captors,…
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Homosexuality and the Cross of Christ: How His Blood can Heal and Save the Gay Person
In the midst of all of the discussion today concerning LGBTQ+ rights, same-sex marriage, transgender and sexual identity issues, something is missed entirely concerning what all of this should mean for all of us. What’s missing is the discussion of how God views our sexuality, and what He wants us to understand about it. There is a need to take a look at what the Bible has to say about God’s plan for human sexuality, and God’s original and permanent…
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