Mercifully,
Jesus Christ decisively defeated all the powers of evil—including the
conventional yet false Olympian gods behind the GTS. What’s more, his steadfast
love endures forever and his faithfulness knows no bounds. Consequently, he
persists in calling his churches back to him. He even calls and enables you and
me to live as prophetic Christian witnesses tasked with showing his churches
the differences between serving the gods and serving him. Today we will reflect
briefly on the differences between Easter and Resurrection Day.
(1) Jesus Christ sets us on the path of freedom which is based on truth and leads through love to eternal life. (2) Yet false gods continue to enthrall us with the path of power which is based on falsehood and leads through indifference to death. (3) Even Christians have fallen under their spell. (4) But Jesus is calling us to join him as prophetic witnesses in breaking their spell beginning with his Church. (5) Use this website to strengthen your witness to Jesus for our good and his glory.
Thursday, March 29, 2018
Kissing the Easter Bunny Good-bye on Resurrection Day
Right
now our churches are primarily Olympian. And while every person has both an
Olympian and a Christian personality, right now even within each of us Christians our
Olympian personality dominates. The influence of the painfully Olympian Global
Technological System (GTS) is just that strong.
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
When Going to Church Is a Disastrous Distraction (Mark 11:15-18)
This is the week of Passover. Pilgrims from many lands
are pouring into the holy city of Jerusalem. One important reason: to have a
priest sacrifice an animal on their behalf in the Temple, the holiest place on
Earth, as prescribed by the law of Moses.
To help these thousands of foreign visitors make the
prescribed sacrifices, moneychangers inside the outer court of the Temple take
their foreign coins and exchange them for Temple shekels. Pilgrims then take
these shekels and choose which animals they wish to have sacrificed on their
behalf. All the animals available inside the outer court are guaranteed to be
clean, unblemished, and acceptable to the priests.
Monday, March 26, 2018
When Going to Church is Good but Not Enough (Jeremiah 7:3-11)
In 721 BC, Yahweh allowed an Assyrian army to destroy the
Kingdom of Israel because the people of Israel had stubbornly abandoned him for
other gods. With that destruction, those ten northern tribes disappeared from
history. When they abandoned their meaning, they lost their existence.
One hundred years later, the Kingdom of Judah faced
catastrophe for the same reason. But Yahweh didn’t want to lose them too. To
avoid that, he sent Jeremiah to speak liberating if irritating words of
truth to his people.
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