Have you not heard that responsibility can only be borne and cannot be preached? The discourse can inspire individuals to make the right decision. Christians are to love their neighbors and called to be accountable for our work and not our neighbors. Paul is telling the Christians in Galatia that we are all liable for our work and not our neighbors. Every one of us “will have to bear his (or her) own load.” Meaning, we will be responsible or…
Vaclav Havel said: “An enormous conflict between words and deeds is prevalent today: everyone talks about freedom, democracy, justice, human rights, about peace and saving the world from nuclear apocalypse; and at the same time, everyone, more or less, consciously or unconsciously, serves those values and ideals only to the extent necessary to serve himself and his “worldly” interests, personal interests, group interests, power interests, property interests, and state or great-power interests.…So the power structures apparently have no other choice…
1. “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.” 2. “He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.” 3. “Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the…
In the sixth stanza of Emily Bronte’s poem: “Though earth and moon were gone And suns and universes ceased to be And Thou were left alone Every Existence would exist in there.” Apparently, the author recommends a fortune and future with God in which every part of our known world has vanished. There is no Earth or Moon. Neither is there “suns and universes.” All of these bodies have “ceased to be” but God has not. His “Existence” would hold all…
In a seven four-line stanzas poem, Emily Brontë expression of a speaker’s irresistible affection for God and the courage that she can draw from her faith remains exemplary. The poetry starts with the speaker asserting that she is untouchable by fear and anxiety. The love she has for God and the power bestows by faith, due to that love, make her unafraid of death. She describes others who are not of the same belief accentuation and sees them as weaker…
1. “Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing.” 2. “not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.” 3. “If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but…
Yes, violence in the hand of God is not synonymous with genocide and vengefulness! Violence is never glorified or encouraged in the Bible; in the New Testament, we can all see how the God of love in Christ Jesus changed the relational view of violence. There would always be punishment for sins and warfare to exhibit the absence of peace. God sent HIS Son to redeem whosoever believe that HE is a Rewarder of those who diligently seek HIM. A…
Oscar Romero said: “We have never preached violence, except the violence of love, which left Christ nailed to a cross, the violence that we must each do to ourselves to overcome our selfishness and such cruel inequalities among us. The violence we preach is not the violence of the sword, the violence of hatred. It is the violence of love, brotherhood, and violence that wills to beat weapons into sickles for work.”
1. “As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.” 2. “In him, we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace.” 3. “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.” 4. “The Lord our God is merciful and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him.”
Yes, I mean, the need for forgiveness! I mean, when forgiveness is the answer to your questions. I say when an absolution gives a divine solution. Forgiveness is the response to the youngster’s dream of a wonder by which what is broken is made entirely once more, and what is filthy is made clean once more. The vision discloses why we should be pardoned and why we should excuse. Within sight of God, nothing remains among HIM and us –…