Sometimes it seems like one step forward, two steps back… Sometimes the world seems dark, and the elites, the troublemakers have their way but somehow though, hope rises up and a counter-cultural champion comes along the way. Finally, someone saying, doing, pressing for, pushing for the right things and enough people with common sense champion him! Maybe the movement they’re making will spread! Maybe the hope he’s bringing will catch on, and will fight back. But before he's entirely and totally successful, he's taken away! What to do in those moments? And is the world lost without such a champion to grace their lands?

Sometimes it seems like one step forward, two steps back… Sometimes the world seems dark, and the elites, the troublemakers have their way but somehow though, hope rises up and a counter-cultural champion comes along the way. Finally, someone saying, doing, pressing for, pushing for the right things and enough people with common sense champion him! Maybe the movement they’re making will spread! Maybe the hope he’s bringing will catch on, and will fight back. But before he's entirely and totally successful, he's taken away! What to do in those moments? And is the world lost without such a champion to grace their lands?

Sometimes it seems like one step forward, two steps back… Sometimes the world seems dark, and the elites, the troublemakers have their way but somehow though, hope rises up and a counter-cultural champion comes along the way. Finally, someone saying, doing, pressing for, pushing for the right things and enough people with common sense champion him! Maybe the movement they’re making will spread! Maybe the hope he’s bringing will catch on, and will fight back. But before he's entirely and totally successful, he's taken away! What to do in those moments? And is the world lost without such a champion to grace their lands?

The same God who can be aggravatingly merciful is also the God who can be offensively unbending. One hundred soldiers and their captains lost their lives being burnt up alive. Why? Is God too harsh? What are we to learn from the fiery judgment of God?

The same God who can be aggravatingly merciful is also the God who can be offensively unbending. One hundred soldiers and their captains lost their lives being burnt up alive. Why? Is God too harsh? What are we to learn from the fiery judgment of God?

The same God who can be aggravatingly merciful is also the God who can be offensively unbending. One hundred soldiers and their captains lost their lives being burnt up alive. Why? Is God too harsh? What are we to learn from the fiery judgment of God?

“Faith that grasps mercy enlivens.” Mercy is not a small term. This story of Naboth's vineyard sets the table for some scandalous, aggravating mercy, and when was grip that with our emotions, we understand mercy all the more.

“Faith that grasps mercy enlivens.” Mercy is not a small term. This story of Naboth's vineyard sets the table for some scandalous, aggravating mercy, and when was grip that with our emotions, we understand mercy all the more.

“Faith that grasps mercy enlivens.” Mercy is not a small term. This story of Naboth's vineyard sets the table for some scandalous, aggravating mercy, and when was grip that with our emotions, we understand mercy all the more.

On Oct 31, 1517, one Catholic Monk named Martin Luther forever changed the church background. He was a guy, who by his own words, "Hated the righteousness of God." What did he bring to the Church tradition? And how did he grow to agree with Paul to no longer be ashamed of the Gospel?