Intimacy with God for the Overchurched Blog
A few years ago, one of my prayer partners received the word “abide” from God, and so we spent a fair amount of time talking about it. But first, we had different definitions of what it meant, so we had to come up with a common language to communicate. I remember that one of the…
What do you do when lies are shared from the pulpit? Do you get up and quietly leave? Do you create dissension with your whispering and try to stage a coup? Do you stand up in the midst and rebuke? Many people seem to want the latter. To scream their voice out above the rest.
The same tradition can bring life to one household and oppression to another. Even in the same house, a rule can be life giving or demeaning.
I’m not thinking of taxes, yet. I will be in a few weeks when I sit down to organize everything. I’m just thinking about how much I love the interaction between Christ and the political/spiritual leaders who tried to trap him in his words regarding taxes. In Mark 12:13-17, they asked if it was lawful…