I see the preachers. A hundred-thousand dollar purchases, parading fancy suits on t.v. Claiming Jesus equals earthly pleasure, material reward, physical prosperity. They say if bad things happen, it is because of lack of faith, it is because sin is hidden and it is likely that you haven’t repented yet. Still, I wonder why we follow […]
When it’s Time to “Take Your Freedom”.
It’s like a wave of grief swells involuntarily in me as my nine-year-old clings to the book we are reading… Addy, an American Girl, was something I wouldn’t let my brown skinned daughter read on her own. It’s about a young child entrenched in a war for her freedom; beaten, made to eat worms. Her father and […]
Shattering Your Mirrors of Adversity
The walls felt like they were closing. It was as if I had come from a mountain-top experience….to swoop low, hollow, walking unexpectedly out of the rivers of freedom. And it was dark, really dark. The people I thought might have been there were gone. And sometimes you don’t really know what you have until the […]
What it Means to be a True Christian in a World Darkened by ISIS
Grey. Blending. Meshing closely. Like the sadistic movie creating so much frenzy. People saying nothing. We don’t want to offend. I hear them endless…“Let’s talk about what’s positive, not what we are against”. And the line is thinning, even here in our Western Society. Moralistic teaching becoming irrelevant, speaking truth now offensive, picking sides labeled, judgement. […]