So here’s my question. For a Christian, should the ends justify the means with Donald Trump? Notice, I wrote should, not do. Truth be told, for many Christians, Trump’s ends do justify the means. But should they?
Never will I leave you or forsake you. I suppose pretty much every Christians knows that line. But do we believe God will never forsake us and do we live like we believe it?
What is the source of knowledge? And I mean of true knowledge? Not just information. Not someone’s version of “their truth” or what someone else “knows”. No, I mean real, honest-to-goodness true knowledge. Remember when that used to exist?
The Great Commission apparently isn’t so great anymore. I feel like that must make God cry. And yet, it doesn’t seem to bother many Christians these days. And why should it? Apparently, they don’t even know what it is. And way too many Christians have never even heard of the Great Commission! So sad.
Life goes on. I didn't realize how long since I put anything here. Not that I haven't been doing anything - just haven't gotten around to adding it here. But then, I guess having too much to do is better than not having enough. Anyway, I finally decided it's time to do something I really didn't want to have to do.
If Christians are a new creation, why isn’t everything perfect? I ask the question because of today’s Verse of the Day, from YouVersion. It says we are a new creation. The old is gone. The new is here. It sounds so exciting! So how come things aren’t perfect? For that matter, how come little or nothing seems to have changed? Is the verse wrong?
Have you ever thought about how you're dealing with life in a COVID world? I heard a restaurant owner on the news this morning talking about Darwin and COVID. He was talking about how Darwin didn’t say that the strongest survive. Rather, Darwin said it was the most adaptable who survive. And this particular person wanted to be one of the adaptable ones who survive.
Should religion, society and the government fit together? I know - the title says "can". But as soon as I typed it, I thought "should" is a better question. But I left the title as it is, because lots of people are trying to make religion, society, and government all fit together.
Is Christian transformation still a thing? Do we still believe in it? Maybe even more important, do we still even expect it? Or, have we truly reached the point where someone says the sinner's prayer, and we're instantly a complete Christian?
The Great Commission has come to have such meaning and importance to me. Among other things, it drives a need to be more personal. So that’ll be part of starting over.
God and me - this life and the next 