A few months ago I chose a passage in Matthew 13 to speak on this past Sunday. The parable of the weeds highlights living with evil (righteousness and evil growing in the same soil), even though evil will, in the end, be thrown into the eternal fire. As events in Baton Rouge, then Minneapolis, then Dallas,…
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Therefore, We Will Not Fear
“Therefore, we will not fear.” These are the words of the Psalmist in Psalm 46. Fear is standard protocol today. Politicians leverage fear in order to gain support. Pastors preach fear through the impending doom of hell. Fear mongering has become an artform, easily disguised in our age of individual expression where nothing seems to…