Last week, I noted that God being a God of order must not make Order God. Let’s expand on that thought and see where we may be simplifying following God and then making a god out of some principle. Do we put our foot down for God and fall outside Jesus teaching? Our relationship with God and with the people around us needs more art than rule bound thinking. Let us not simplify God and become cold people. Jesus called …
God is about order as seen in 1st Corinthians below. But is he against chaos? God loves order, but is order God? How can we think about this? In 1 Corinthians 14:33 it says For God is not a God of disorder but of peace—as in all the congregations of the Lord’s people. In the passage, the Apostle Paul says that having people speak in unknown tongues for the church is nonsense as people cannot understand. He then indirectly says that God is about order. Christianity Today has a …
I wrote recently about unconditional love for our children. Today, I want to visit again. Unconditional love comforts us like nothing else. Can we do it for others? Without God going before us, could anyone get there? God gave promises to Abraham that his descendants would possess the land Then after all the ways the people betrayed God. He still again and again saves them and cares for them and even in anger preserves them. When God became a man …
To the third and fourth generation is a repeated mantra in the old testament ‘The Lord is slow to anger, abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.’ Last night my teenage son and I were talking. We noted that our decisions to love are deeply important and have results far beyond what we see in any given day. So let’s talk about the ramifications of …
