While there is a great deal written on providing love and security for children so they won’t grow into hostile adults, there is nothing very much on how you raise children to be sufficiently alienated from society so they won’t ...
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Christians as Dual Citizens, part 5: The Kingdom and the Power…
Again, the devil took [Jesus] to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to him, “All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship ...
Read More »Christians as Dual Citizens part 4: Learning to Listen
You cannot listen to the word another is speaking if you are preoccupied with your appearance or with impressing the other, or are trying to decide what you are going to say when the other stops talking, or are debating ...
Read More »Christians as Dual Citizens, part 3: God Has No Party
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. –Ephesians 6:12 If only there were ...
Read More »Christians as Dual Citizens, part 2: God Has No Country
The awful ambiguity of Babylon’s fallenness is expressed consummately in Babylon’s delusion that she is, or is becoming, Jerusalem… The moral pretenses of Imperial Rome, the millenial claims of Nazi Germany, the anxious insistence that America be ‘number one’ among ...
Read More »Christians as Dual Citizens, part 1
Then Jesus said to them, “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.” And they were amazed at him. –Mark 12:17 Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.—Matthew 6:10 ...
Read More »Neighbor-Love, part 5: Accountability and Humility
We need someone who encourages us when we are tempted to give up, to forget it all, to just walk away in despair. We need someone to discourage us when we move too rashly in unclear directions or hurry proudly ...
Read More »Neighbor-Love, part 4: Judging and Testing
Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. — Matthew 7:1-2 Test everything. Hold on ...
Read More »Life Together, part 3: Confessing
Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. —James 5:16 Some parts of the Bible are hard for me to understand. This passage is not. The instruction is clear, the ...
Read More »Neighbor-Love, part 2: Learning to Receive
…Our humility shows itself first in the readiness to receive service from our fellow men, and supremely from God…It is well for us to stand on our own feet; to go through life in parasitic dependence on others, contributing nothing, ...
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