Becoming a Christian Nation
What would it look like to lift up God’s Word in our heart rather than fossilizing it in our laws?
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Author: Adria Gulizia
When a Quaker’s Convincement Meant Being Found Guilty
In seventeenth-century England, convinced meant proven guilty. It was a term used in the courtroom, similar to “convicted.” A person became a convinced Quaker after being shown the errors of his or her ears, admitting them, surrendering to God’s judgment, and becoming liberated for a new kind of life. The Light reveals all the internal thoughts, mental patterns, and fantasies that resist the work of God. Although it is painful to see one’s internal conflict, continuing to face the Light and to see what it reveals in one’s own mind, heart, and behavior allows God to refine, or melt away, the inner impediments to the Light. – Marcelle Martin, Our Life Is Love, p. 62
The Cross of Fellowship
In order to know real fellowship and connection, we must be willing to suffer.
Man’s Sin Problem
We all want to be the hero of our own story. Unfortunately, every one of us has played the villain.
A Sneaking Suspicion of My Own Badness
Do we focus on others’ vices to avoid looking at our own?
Who’s Your Daddy?
Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on my own; God sent me.Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say. You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies. Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me! Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me?Whoever belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.” – John 8:42-47 I don’t know the origin of the notion that “we are all children of God.” It doesn’t seem to come from the Jewish …
The Judgment of a Loving God
The judgment of God isn’t pleasant to think about, but the idea that God makes no distinction between someone who suffers for righteousness and someone who cheerfully inflicts suffering is too terrible to contemplate.
