Recently we’ve talked about how to have peace in place of the anxiety and distress so many are facing today. We also looked at various kinds of legalism, including how it might look in our parenting, how some of our politicians are too much like one of Israel’s kings, the test of genuine faith and so much more.
A quick scan of the links below will show you the wide variety of subjects we’ve covered. There are links to the posts here on the website and to the YouTube version.
Angry children—we see them in the grocery store, in the schoolyard, on the news, and possibly in our own homes. While all of us, including our children, are responsible for our choices, as parents we are warned not to provoke our children to anger. Two ways we do that are by living a hypocritical lifestyle and parental role reversal. We may be guilty of those or other ways without even realizing it.
We’ll, also, look at the armor of God, what it is, and how we put it on. It’s not as mysterious or mystical as it might seem.
A couple of years ago, a missionary visited our church to talk about his organization’s work in an African nation where Christians are routinely murdered, women and girls are raped and disfigured, and where the missionaries themselves are marked for death. Doing right by sharing the gospel in a place like that is risky, to put it mildly.
But the Christian life lived well is a life of risky faith. Sometimes that involves a call to a foreign mission field or some other dangerous ministry, but it also takes risky faith to turn the other cheek or forgive with no guarantee you won’t be hurt again. It takes risky faith to obey God when it makes little sense to your natural way of thinking or to stand up for the truth in a world of compromise. So, how can you trust God more as you seek to do right in a world where doing right is risky?
