A Christ-Centered Political Party
Peter is the New Testament version of Jacob. More than any other people in Scripture, Jacob and Peter represent God’s people. We sympathize with them because they are boldly human. Both Jacob and Peter were seriously flawed people, but their one redeeming characteristic was how they clung to God. In their flaws, we can see ourselves, but in their cleaving
» Read moreGod bless America! We often hear this on the lips of Christians and even non-Christians around the 4th of July. Certainly, this is what we all wish. We desire to be God’s people and we want God to bless our nation. Yet, when people use this phrase so flippantly and irreligious politicians end their speeches with this injunction, I get
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And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem
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Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But my people have exchanged their glorious God for worthless idols. Be appalled at this, you heavens, and shudder with great horror,”declares the Lord. “My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken
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