Sabbath
What we need most in our society is an atmosphere of Sabbath.
What we need most in our society is an atmosphere of Sabbath.
If we adopted the high standard of being 100% mistake free and applied it to everything we did, no medications would be approved and no bridges would be built.
Thank God for the loving fathers who remind us of our heavenly Father in heaven who loves us more than we could ever know.
God is committed to a freedom too wonderful to accept without serious contemplation and thought. Such freedom does not decrease but increases faith. It’s about embracing the deeper ethics of our faith and thinking rightly about God and our own purpose in life.
We tend to envision God as acting to solve all our problems, as an omnipotent being who will support us in meeting our every need. Poor God, He likewise needs us in times like these. He needs us to be faithful witnesses who support His character of love and justice in the world.
My faith is not in a God who will solve all my problems or save me to an afterlife while condemning unbelievers for eternity. I have faith in something else.
“Do no harm. Do all the good you can. Stay in love with God.” — John Wesley
What obstacles, public shaming, and longtime assumptions are we willing to overcome—as did the courageous woman in this story—to touch Jesus and be in His healing presence?
The common theories and methods for describing the process of justification had become a puzzle for me. I was not a terrified sinner plagued by guilt and seeking justification before a cosmic judge.
The story of Jephthah tells me that it is good to break from the static structures of expressing faith, to break through the rigidity of religion into new and better understandings of God.