Charity Is Merely Returning What

There Are Some Christians Who Totally Disengage From Politics And Set Their Minds On Heaven So Much That Their Faith Is So Heavenly Minded That It Is No Earthly Good.

It's Impossible To Separate Our Contemporary Practice Of The Death Penalty From Our History Around Race And Slavery, And Specifically, Lynching. Where Lynchings Were Happening 100 Years Ago Is Where Executions Are Happening Today. And That's A Haunting And Eerie Thing.

Today The Logic Goes Something Like This: 'calling A Ruler Son Of God Is Out Of Style. No One Really Does That Nowadays. We Can Support A President While Also Worshiping Jesus As The Son Of God.' But How Is This Possible? For One Says That We Must Love Our Enemies, And The Other Says We Must Kill Them; One Promotes The Economics Of Competition, While The Other Admonishes The Forgiveness Of Debts. To Which Do We Pledge Allegiance?

Certainly The Institutional Church Is Ill. It's Hemorrhaging Young People At An Astronomical Rate.

One Thing That's Clear In The Scriptures Is That The Nations Do Not Lead People To Peace; Rather, People Lead The Nations To Peace.