Blameless in His Time

A friend of mine pulled me aside at church recently to share some good and bad news. The good news was that after some prodding he was reading through the entire Bible

“I’m doing it, Ron. Thanks for encouraging me,” he shared through a smile.

Then came the bad news: “But, right now, I’m in the book of Numbers and I just don’t get all the killing.”

He’s not alone. There’s an epidemic today of not understanding history or wanting to purge the past of what we perceive as wrong.

We must renew the idea of “blameless in his time.”

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What We’ve Prayed For for 46 Years

When abortion became legal nationwide on January 22, 1973, I was oblivious to Roe v. Wade–being a naive 19 year-old, living in New Zealand and looking for God’s plan for my life.

Soon thereafter, I became educated and burdened. I began to pray against the abortion holocaust and participated in marches in Washington, D.C.–some with upwards of 100,000 in attendance.

Yet, abortion remained the law of the land for decades despite an estimated 60 million babies being slaughtered on the altars of the Sexual Revolution.

That may be about to change.

It’s what we’ve prayed for for 46 years.

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The Complete Gospel on One Special Day

We humans have a penchant for imbalance–in many areas of our lives.

We put on weight, we lose it. We discipline our kids “by the book” as young parents and spoil rotten our grandchildren. We huff and puff about the importance of telling the truth, then succumb to crafting  little white lies.

We do the same thing with the Good News of Jesus Christ. On one hand we know that God hates sin–and we should also. But other times we lavish grace and forget about right and wrong.

On February 23, 2019 God gave the United States a lesson in the balance and wholeness of the Good News.

We saw the complete gospel on one special day.

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