Jed Wrote...

I’m back to writing on this blog. I hope you find what you see here useful, and I look forward to your feedback. Many blogs come and go, so I’ve tried to not make promises here, but to simply do what I would promise. That’s my goal going forward. So what this blog will be will be the rhythm of posts that you see. Now that is profound.

An explanation, of sorts, for my hiatus from writing here: I’ve been reading “Art & Fear”, by Bayles and Orland (see here), and I’ve learned that many of the same obstacles that I’ve faced in the last year are faced by every author, every artist. No temptation or trial has overtaken me that is not common to man. But God is faithful . . . (1 Cor. 10:12). Perhaps I will elaborate on those exact obstacles in the future. But I’m hesitant to do so here, because they’re so pedestrian, so common to human writers.

What is not so common and pedestrian is those last four words of the verse above. "But God is faithful.” That truth drives me and frees me to write. Writing, for a Christian, must be an act of faith in God doing good, because He is good. Writing, if it’s to be any good, must bank on God always being faithful to Himself, to His own glorious character, in and through that writing.

And I write because, I’m convinced, our “New Normal” will be written either by those who believe that goodness is found by God being faithful to His gloriously good Self, or by man being faithful to himself, to his inglorious delusions. One will lead to us to Christ, and light and life, and the other will lead us to further chaos, and darkness, and death. The saying is true: it’s Christ or chaos. The choices are that stark. Time to pick up again the shovel that God gave me, and get to work.

Sometimes the Church sits closer to the gates of hell than She thinks. Recently Governor Newsom of California signed into law AB 1184, which we will get to in a moment. But remember the number of this bill. For it aptly represents the days in which we live. George Orwell was right – his book 1984 was as much prophecy as fiction.

For this bill comes on the heels of Newsom ordering all school children to take a vaccine for a disease for which they are simply not susceptible, not remotely like anything else we immunize for. And this at the very same time that other countries are suspending the use of the same vaccines, due to side-effect risks. This is not about some fixed truth called “the science.” As one doctor puts it, we are using and abusing our children as shields for adults. 

Such is also the logic of AB 1184. It says – with the force of law and of the government – that if a child as young as twelve would like to receive “sensitive services”, the insurance company paying for it is prohibited from informing the primary policyholder – who is almost always the parent. 

What are “sensitive services”? It includes – note the Orwellian hole of doublespeak that one must go down – “sexual and reproductive health” and “gender-affirming care”, among others. In other words, if your child – as young as 12! – wants to:

* Get an abortion

* Have their genitals removed or permanently altered (for instance: vaginectomy, phalloplasty or scrotoplasty)

* Start hormonal treatments including puberty blockers to permanently stunt growth

* Make other permanent modifications to their bodies based on their passing feelings of self-identity (for instance, and I’m not making this up: voice modification, where the cartilage of the trachea is “shaved”) 

* Seek help for an addiction

* Et cetera, et evil cetera

They can do so, and the parent’s insurance provider is forbidden from informing the parent or guardian. In other words, the state wants parents to pay for such “sensitive services”, but to be further removed from the decision to engage in them in the first place. 

We Believe in Science!

This law is, on its face, anti-science. As the American College of Pediatricians puts it,

There is not a single long-term study to demonstrate the safety or efficacy of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries for transgender-believing youth.

In fact, there is evidence that such treatments cause severe mental health problems – on top of those already experienced by normal children and teenagers. This law encourages our medical establishment to take emotionally troubled youth, and allow the troubled teen to name the antidote to their own problem, without parental consent, and then “solve” the problem by castrating, sterilizing and permanently mutilating them. 

This has nothing to do with science. It is the definition of medical barbarism. The superstitious, blood-letting “doctors” of the Dark Ages would be proud. 

“It’s for the kids.”

And it has nothing to do with parents. 

There are three spheres of authority that God gave in the organizing of His world: 

* The civil magistrate

* The family

* and The Church

These three spheres certainly have overlap, and we will always debate the extent of that overlap. But this law is not a step of overlap, but an act of usurpation – one of a string of usurpations and abuses – the state overstepping its own God-given authority and assimilating the authority of parents and church into its own.

Thus AB 1184 – again, we must give thanks for the Orwellian name – is more evidence that there is no neutral ground between state and church or state and family, no “secular square” where we might hash out our differences with indifferent stoicism. This bill reveals that our secular state – and the dominant party of California, but I repeat myself – seeks to build its own Tower of Babel, to which every other sphere of authority must submit. And then once you’ve submitted, once you are assimilated, you are required by the state to repudiate the authority of the other spheres. Submit and repudiate – that’s the gospel of the god of state. 

Of course this “gospel” is proclaimed with a refined sweetness – all in the name of “empathy” for those with gender dysphoria. But make no mistake: this “empathy” only goes one way, and it has absolutely no sympathy for the law of God or the God-given authority of parents – or even for the long-term good of children. 

Why Do This?

Why? Why pursue such an agenda, that will clearly move so many to exit the public school system, and even leave the state? That is difficult to say, since the political sausage has so many parts. But it seems to me that this bill is the product of an unholy coalition of three kinds of people: 

* first, those who are untethered from God and truly do not realize what they are calling for – let’s call them the deceived, and they are many; 

* secondly, those who are truly evil – who do know exactly what they are calling for, and their hearts are so calloused that they pursue it with gusto; 

* and thirdly, those whose god is power – they pursue power because they want to have power. It matters not whether it’s red or blue power; it matters not what sphere they intrude upon or subsume in their lust for power; it matters not whether the ship goes down under their power – as long as they’re the ones in power on the way down. 

But the god that governs all of these parties is, in the end, a brutal god. This is a god who a long time ago led the nations and even the Israelites to throw their own children on the fire (2 Kings 17, Jeremiah 19:5). He is the same god who leads millions today to fornication, adultery, sodomy and other forms of “sexual freedom” – and then he leads them to kill their resulting sons and daughters, in exchange for lesser gods, like a career. The god of our state is a brutal god, the god “of this world” (2 Cor. 4:4), who empathizes with evil but has no sympathy with what is holy and righteous and life-giving. 

Bark!

So what are Christians to do? Let’s consider again the three steps of Christian resistance: bark, back-up, and bite. 

To “bark” means, yes, to write letters and to speak up, in every forum you can, in opposition to such evil. But it means so much more than that. It also means to proclaim the gospel, which is both good news and bad news. It is good news, to those who are to be saved: that Christ is crucified and raised from the dead, and ascended to the right hand of the Father. That means we are washed and forgiven; we are made to stand righteous before God; and this Savior Who loves us so is now King – King over all, over every sphere. 

And thus this gospel is bad news to the perishing, no matter what power they think they wield now. Christ is King. Over churches, over families, and over the governor, and his pen, and all the legislation that comes to his desk – Christ is King. Not the state. 

This means that you, Governor Newsom, and your friends at Planned Parenthood – who helped sponsor this ghoulish bill – will be held accountable for every dismembered teen; for every suicide that was hastened along by “sensitive services”; for every parent who was kept in the dark a little longer about their child’s addiction; for every aborted baby, dumped alone in a garbage bag – you will be held accountable. For our God is a God of amazing grace, and also a God of consuming fire: 

Jeremiah 19:4 Because the people have forsaken me and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have known; and because they have filled this place with the blood of innocents, 5 and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command or decree, nor did it come into my mind— 6 therefore, behold, days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place shall no more be called Topheth, or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. 7 And in this place I will make void the plans of Judah and Jerusalem, and…

Introduction

What is at the heart of “wokeness”? For the uninitiated, to be “woke” means to have “woken up” to the realization that the world is the way it is because of systems that keep certain people down, and certain people up. The system keeps certain people oppressed, and others immune from oppression. To be “woke” means to see the world in terms of systems of oppression. And therefore right change means to even-out all outcomes - “equality”.

The wreckage of such a worldview is everywhere: the burned cities of 2020; a generation of sexually mutilated people; and increased, not decreased racism. To give but two recent examples of that third piece of wreckage, the increased racism: the mayor of Chicago, in the name of wokeness, announced yesterday that she will only give interviews to non-white people. And a major university is now - ironically - waking up to the realization that their hire of a founder of BLM was in fact the hiring of an inveterate racist. 

You can also see the change in the redefining of words. The Concise Oxford used to define racism largely around the biblical definition: that is, racial vainglory or malice - pride or animosity, based on race. But no more: now their definition includes anything that is thought to yield disparate outcomes among races. The woke movement, in order to justify and paper over its work and goals, must literally change the dictionary. 

The Heart of It

But why? Where is all this coming from? I submit to you, dear reader, that it goes deeper than systems. Yes, there has been racism in our country’s past - deep racism, heartfelt, sinful pride and animosity based on race - much of it by white peoples. But the current bogeyman of the “system” - “systemic racism” is a parasitical freeloading off that past to paper over its real motivations.  

Psalm 73 paints us a vivid picture of this heart of wokeness. The Psalm is all about the prosperity of the wicked: they are in comfort till the moment they die; they have beautiful bodies (4); they have the resources to get themselves out of their own problems; they don’t suffer the same consequences like everyone else (5); so they live in pride - it’s their defining characteristic (6). 

But they’re content with violence (6). And while violence rages, they just get more fat and happy (7). They scoff at the needs of the poor - always at ease, their riches always increasing (12). And people look up at them and can only conclude, no matter how hard I work, no matter how clean I live, I’ll never get there. I’ll never experience their prosperity. I can’t. I’m kept from their perch, by the systems in place that oppress me. 

Out of the Frying Pan and into the Politburo

Today many people tried to restrain themselves, seeking to peacefully coexist with the proud prosperity they see. But some could do so no longer, and finally gave in. They finally spoke up. And betrayed their own generation (15). These “anti-racists” have gone beyond the dream of MLK to the nightmare of Marx, with only greater division and racism to show for it. Although, like the old Soviet Politburo, the leaders are doing quite well, buying million-dollar homes in white neighborhoods. Which is instructive, to what’s really at the heart of it all. 

By the point of verse 15 of Psalm 73, there is really no difference at heart between the Psalmist and Ibrahim Kendi or the founders of BLM. They see the world the same. They are both envious of the arrogant (3). Envious of the prosperity of arrogant proud people, living their dreams. The success of modern-day BLM is based on an age-old human sin: envy. Coveting. Simple, human envy. This is why racism’s definition must be changed from pride and animosity to equality of outcomes - we want what the proud and prosperous have, and we can’t have it. 

This is the basis for all human conflict, throughout the centuries. We both reach for the same brass ring, and our heads knock on the way down. And so we fight. Our present-day race wars are actually envy of the prosperity of the wicked, cloaked in something more noble, more palatable to the woke mind. After all, naked envy is so ugly, in every generation. 

Acceptable Sins

So is every other kind of wickedness. The wickedness of fat, prosperous, proud people is still ugly too. And it may be that this is evangelical America’s great sin - or at least one of them - that we have enshrined gluttony and greed in our halls of “acceptable sins”, as I think Jerry Bridges once put it. And others look in on that idolatry and rightly find it ugly. Even while they long to be in the same place, enjoying the same idols. The only thing as strong as the greed of the rich is the greed of the poor. 

So how do we resolve this morass of ugly desire? Our present tactic is to follow Marx’s ideologies, which flattens out all moral distinctions, under the massive weight of “equality”. Who can argue with such a glorious concept as “equality”? In fact, if you do, you’ve just demonstrated how deeply corrupt you are in your racism - you’ve just shown how deep your “whiteness” goes. It’s a system that boils everyone down into easy-to-identify groups of GOOD and BAD - woke, or racist. And if you argue with the categories, well, we smile, knowing which group you belong to. 

It is brutal, simplistic, immoral thinking, that has bred violence in the streets, and in our culture. If you don’t want to believe the Bible, take an honest look at the fruit from this tree. Ugly has begat ugly. That’s all we’ve got. 

From Beastly to Biblical

But the Psalmist knows better. Something pulls him up short, up and out of his covetous ruminations. It happens when he goes into the house of God (17). He realizes that BOTH the prosperous wicked, and the covetous poor will meet the same end:

“Truly you set them in slippery places; you make them fall to ruin.” 

Now the Psalmist is truly “woke”, as He considers the future, when GOD awakes and brings judgment (20). 

Only now, at this point, does the Psalmist gain a proper self-understanding of what he was like, in his envy: 

“When my soul was embittered, when I was pricked in heart, I was brutish and ignorant; I was like a beast toward you.” (21-22)

This is why the angry, untethered women of BLM and the unhinged gamers of Antifa act like beasts - why they think burning down cities and acting in brazenly racist ways will actually DO something: because that’s what envy does to us. It makes us sub-human. It makes us like the thing we hate and resent. 

And so both the proud, prosperous fat-cat and the covetous, violent racist will go down together, into the same pit, grabbing for the same brass ring. But even that ring will be taken away from them. 

But the Psalmist - and anyone wise - is pulled out of this death spin, not only by looking forward, to the future, but by looking up. 

He realizes that, because has has God, he was wrong in his envy. He was incorrect. They really don’t have more than he does. Because he has God (25). Even when his life is taken from him, he will still have everything (26), in Him. He knows that in this life, the most valuable thing is to be led not by one’s desires, but by the hand of this God. For that alone will lead to glory (23-24). 

The Answer

The answer for our nation, for our culture, for our way of life, is nothing less than repentance. We need revival - a widespread, heartfelt repentance from our worshiping our prosperity, and from our envy, from our violent covetousness. And then this repentance must run hard towards Christ. Christ alone. 

The Psalmist ends with a resolve, that he will run to God, and make God his refuge, not his stuff, and not satisfying his animalistic envy with violent, beastly “equality” (28). Only God will do. Only God will serve as a proper refuge. Thus America must repent. TO Christ. For he has shown himself to be the only source of real life and peace and satisfaction, by not only dying for all our idolatry and envy, but also by raising himself from the dead. 

He alone is King. Thus we must repent …

Introduction

In the last week, the United States has received economic news that should surprise no one, at least no one reading their Bibles. First, unemployment numbers came out, showing that the Biden administration’s “giving” our grandchildren’s money to the population has certainly created a stimulus - to not work. The anecdotes from some restaurant owners say that they have to pay over $20 an hour just to hire dishwashers.

Then connected to this is the news today that inflation has shot up 4.2%. Inflation, as you probably know, is the increase of prices for unchanged goods. The lumber at Home Depot one day is $1.00; and the next day it’s $1.04. Which doesn’t seem like much, until you look at your pay increase from last year. Mine - for which I was thankful for - was a cost of living increase, of around 3%. In other words, my income has effectively dropped. 

Wallpapering with Dollars

Most of this can be stemmed back to another major decision, that the “stimulus” wallpapers over: the lockdowns of 2020. We spent a year working less, producing less, but still consuming, with stored up wealth, and with wealth “given” to us by the government.

But the government does not “give” its citizens money. That’s not a true way of seeing it. The government must either collect money from its citizens or borrow it, to “give” it. And either way, that money that is “given” comes off the backs of the citizens’ productive work. 

So when the government “gives” its citizens money, it’s not a “gift”, no matter what your IRS letter from Resident Biden⁠ says. It’s a loan. A loan that very few people asked for, even if it did give some of us a short-term financial breather. And loans need to be repaid. And when that loan/gift enters the economy, especially when resources are more scarce, it pushes up prices. More money, chasing fewer things to buy. Thus, prices rise, and your money buys less. And we have to pay back that loan, with less powerful dollars. Same bricks, less straw.

Thinking Biblically

It’s hard to understand how we might think biblically about lockdowns and government stimulus payments - hard to find that anywhere in the Bible. But the Bible is very clear about debt (Proverbs 22:7): 

7  The rich rules over the poor, 

and the borrower is the slave of the lender. 

In other words, with the shekels, come the shackles. With the lockdowns, and the stimulus payments, we have become more and more like slaves to those who are wealthy and in power. It can’t help but be otherwise. Reality has a pesky way of always being, you know, there. 

We let it happen, too, in our slavery to safety, and now we’re already making payments, in the form of higher prices, and therefore in decreased income. Which may last for some time. When the inflation news came out, markets dropped. This was a bad sign, because markets had already “baked in” inflation expectations into market prices. The drop shows that the numbers were worse than the market collectively thought. 

All of this should not surprise us. For right after Proverbs 22:7, verse 8 says this:

8  Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, 

and the rod of his fury will fail. 

Isn’t it interesting that the writer’s train of thought moves directly from “With the shekels, come the shackles”, to “after tyranny, comes catastrophe”? Calamity, catastrophe - these always follow tyrannical stupidity. Too strong? Let’s see - we now have:

* Enslavement to government-induced debt

* Sex slavery abounding at the border, children being dumped there, all induced by our government

* Slavery to the goddess Safety, with remaining lockdowns and restrictions

* The threat of slavery to government power, if firearm restrictions are passed

* The threat of slavery to government thought police, if the Equality Act is passed

But hey! No more mean tweets! Ammaright?

Taking Evasive Actions

So what should a Christian do? 

Move. One option is to move to a “freer” place. Many states - one being Idaho - have determined to not enforce presidential orders from the White House. And they also (usually) have lower taxes, and a lower cost of living. You may find that your spending power can go up, even as inflation eats away at it, simply by moving. There are many factors to this, and I will write more on the topic of moving states later. But as Paul says in 1 Cor. 7:21, if you are enslaved, and you can avail yourself of the opportunity for freedom, go for it. 

Learn to live on less. You can protect yourself, by learning to live on less now. One suggestion, since you asked, dear reader: you might begin by canceling subscriptions to big tech companies: Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc. I’m not saying, “Throw away your iPad.” But cut back on those things that are of questionable long-term value. Spend locally, in your own town. Support the family down the street, who competes against Wal-Mart. 

Pay down debt. One of the best ways to protect yourself from inflation is to pay down debt. Use the money the government “gave” you to pay down that credit card, or that car loan. In this way, you “increase” your income, against inflation losses.

Earn more money for your work. One way to beat inflation is by using it as an opportunity to learn more, and do more, with the same number of hours you have each week. The payoff will be down the road - not immediate, because any short-term “raise” you get will be offset by rising prices. But in the short-term, you will make yourself that much more competitive, as the marketplace for labor tightens. And you will set yourself and your family up for greater blessing in the future. 

Get involved politically at the local level. Much of what we are experiencing has been artificially created by political decisions at the federal and state capitol level. But at the local level, there is still great power available, to disregard the royal edicts of our federal overlords and craft a different path. We may not be able to save the world, or even our country, but we can create pockets of sane, flourishing resistance. 

Stay focused on the Mission. Many people are going to be puzzled and bewildered and frustrated in the coming days, with the thorny fruits of communistic governance. They will want to know that Something Better exists out there. And of course it does, and you, Christian, know Who He is. In all your own decisions, about moving or spending, don’t let those decisions distract or divert you from the mission. For even if Lord Reagan returned from the dead to “save” us from the encroaching darkness, it would only (again) be temporary. There is only one Risen Savior. Only one life, and it is only found in Him.

Stay free for the mission, on the mission.

Introduction

I read that Hillary Clinton is concerned about what’s going on in the church, because so many young people are “leaving” it. Here’s the quote:

“Because a lot of people are leaving the church, a lot of young people are leaving the church in part because [of] the way they understand what Christianity has become is, you know, so judgmental, so alienating, that they think to themselves, ‘Well, I don’t need that. I don’t want to be part of that,'” Clinton said. “So, this should also be a time for the church to take a hard look at itself and try to figure out how it can be a real partner in this moment of moral awakening.”1

There is much to say here. But let’s first consider Mrs. Clinton’s charge to the church.

Dancing Bear Acts

Yes, the church should look at itself. But ironically, and sadly, for large swaths of American Protestantism, there is very little biblical truth left, upon which it might begin to be “so judgmental, so alienating”.  Too afraid of offending. So then offensive truth-claims are replaced with entertainment. The kids are then raised in an entertainment-focused approach to worship, and then sent off to State U., where they are de-programmed . . . of what? Not much. The job of that professor in Philosophy 101 is no more difficult than that of the director of a Super Bowl half-time show, who tells the singer to disrobe. It’s not hard, because there weren’t many clothes there to begin with.

James K.A. Smith says it best in his excellent book “You Are What You Love”:

It’s as if these adults overheard the nineties grunge band Nirvana shrieking, “Here we are now: entertain us!” but completely misunderstood the point.

The point being: we already have enough of that. We need something else. Smith goes on:

. . . the sad fact is that our youth ministries have treated [young people] as thinking things that need to be entertained when, in fact, what they really crave is not liberation from ritual but rather liberating rituals. Have we failed to realize that while we’re trying to entertain them, our young people are waiting for us to form them? . . . [W]hile [young people] might never articulate it, their departure from [entertainment-focused] versions of Christianity likely grows out of a suspicion that Christianity is nothing more than a production, like every other production.2

What’s Left?

The “production”, in seeking to attract to the truth, actually, sadly obscures the truth. Therefore, though not in the way she intended, Mrs. Clinton is right: all that’s really “there” to this version of Christianity, all that’s non-ethereal, is the judgment, and the alienation. All that’s really there is what the Spirit came to convict the world of (John 16:8-10): its alienation from God (sin), its need for righteousness and its impending judgment. Yep. You’re a theological poet and you didn’t know it, Madam Secretary.

And that’s all that’s there, because something else has long left the building. Entertainment fills the vacuum left by the departure of the gospel. The whole gospel, including that whole thing about Jesus being raised from the dead. The article I referenced states that Mrs. Clinton “identifies with the United Methodist Church”, an organization whose turn away from biblical, Romans 1 Christianity is well-documented. The gospel left that building not long after Elvis.

What’s the Point?

So then, no wonder she observes that, in her religious circles, young people are leaving. Because they think their church is irrelevant. And in their case, they may be right. If Christ is not raised from the dead, if he is not King, and if all that’s left is religious entertainment, then what’s the point? I can get this on Netflix and Instagram, and I don’t have to tithe for it. I can get this at my next Planned Parenthood fundraising banquet, thank you. If Jesus is not raised from the dead, then he is not King over all spheres of life, including what I do with my sexual urges and the gender I was given. And then I am autonomous. I can “awake” to my own reality, my own moral framework.

Thus Mrs. Clinton speaks in the same breath of a “moral awakening” that’s currently happening. Here she uses the same religious vocabulary that historians have used to the describe Christian revivals of the past – i.e., the Great “Awakening”. Except now she is calling the church to partner in this “moral awakening” that is happening outside the church. Mrs. Clinton serves as a high priestess of a new “gospel”, calling the church to depart from the truth and fold itself into a new Christless congregation of enlightenment. To the church’s own destruction, I might add (Heb. 6:1-5). But the devil wears Prada, and never tells you that until you’ve entered the slaughterhouse.

True Justice

The central virtue in this new woke church is justice. Clinton asks “how can you be a Bible-reading person, a church-attending person,” and not recognize that there is “no separation between Jesus and justice.” Oh, that Mrs. Clinton, and all like her, would come to see that that statement is more true than she realizes! There is no separation between Jesus and true justice. Because it’s at the cross that “mercy and justice kiss” – where all the judgment of God – the One most offended in any sin – was poured out on Jesus, in our place, and all mercy was instead undeservedly poured out on those who believe.

Because all justice was satisfied in our place, we Christians are not for injustice of any kind, anywhere. We are for justice in all its forms, not just those narrowly defined by our generation’s current brand of Marxism, which boils down everyone into simplistic, binary, oppressed-non-oppressed categories, pitting them against each other. Which is, ironically, dehumanizing.

But gospel-minded Christians know better. Because we know a Savior who has come as man, for us, to endure all our categories of injustice, that we might be free. And one day, he will return. Our eyes will open, and we will awake to perfect justice, for all injustice, including for that done in the name of “social justice”.

Recently I and others had an intense conversation with a BLM protester. Perhaps the most telling moment came when she said what she really wanted: “True justice for Breonna Taylor.” That’s a commendable desire – that’s only satisfied in Christ. True justice, for Breonna Taylor; for the murders of millions of black people killed in this country in that most dangerous place – the womb; for the shopowner whose business burned; for all abuse by clergy; for all name-calling and shaming; for all betrayals; for all inhumane treatment of another . . . it will all be dealt with, in utterly perfect justice, for all to see, by Jesus, when he returns.

My Answer

So then, with respect to your invitation, Mrs. Clinton, on behalf of me and mine, I decline. I decline to partner with your new congregation and its “moral awakening”. Because it is no awakening at all, but a call to the living to climb back into the grave. I decline.

But I have an invitation for you, too, Madam Secretary. The question every person will face is not whether justice will be done, but around whose neck will it come? Will the justice that you desire hang around the neck of Christ, on his cross, or around your own neck, when he returns? Those are the gospel’s only two categories. May the Spirit awaken you and all our generation to that reality, and cause us all to run to Christ, while there’s time, in faith.

* https://disrn.com/news/hillary-clinton-on-the-church-so-judgmental-so-alienating↩︎

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