Yes, only God knows where we stand in line. What I mean is that Jesus indicated there is some difference in rank that could exist between believers in heaven , and we do not have enough information to rank. James and John’s Mom brings out the issue. She said, “Grant that one of these two sons of mine may sit at your right and the other at your left in your kingdom.” 22 “You don’t know what you are asking,” Jesus said …
Jesus said we should love others like God loves us. Despite this truth, some people are hard to love. So, what do we do about that? Give up on them? Figure out why? Grin and bear it? These people are a hard problem, and I see no dogmatic answer to resolve this. Let’s put this on the table. Loving someone means going the extra mile to understand them rather than just judging them and walking away. Causes can be differences …
I have lived in Asia (like Paul) for the last 30 years and from the first months found China to be a high criticism culture. So, self esteem is low here. In the West, we may often feel we need people to come off their high horse. But people in Asia and also a lot people in the West have a lot of hurts and often feel not good enough. The apostle Paul lived in this kind of world and …
Who are saints according to the Bible? Was this just a Catholic thing? All Christianity in Western Europe was Catholic before 1517. First lets talk about what the ancient church said. In 993AD, the church started to designate people saints. Before then almost everyone called Saint Patrick and the Apostle Paul saints and locally there were many more. The Catholic church did not oppose this but rather took charge of the process starting around 1000 AD. Now, only the church …
