It Is A Dangerous Day When We

The History Of The Church Has Been Largely A History Of "believers" Refusing To Believe In The Way Of The Crucified Nazarene And Instead Giving In To The Very Temptations He Resisted--power, Relevancy, Spectacle.

We Should Refuse To Get Sucked Into Political Camps And Insist On Pulling The Best Out Of All Of Them. That's What Jesus Did - Challenge The Worst Of Each Camp And Pull Out The Best Of Each.

Faith Is Believing In The Impossible Because We Have A God Who Is Master Of Impossible.

How Ironic Is It To See A Bumper Sticker That Says 'jesus Is The Answer' Next To A Bumper Sticker Supporting The War In Iraq, As If To Says 'jesus Is The Answer - But Not In The Real World.

Maybe We Are A Little Crazy. After All, We Believe In Things We Don't See. The Scriptures Say That Faith Is "being Sure Of What We Hope For And Certain Of What We Do Not See" (heb. 11:1). We Believe Poverty Can End Even Though It Is All Around Us. We Believe In Peace Even Though We Hear Only Rumours Of Wars. And Since We Are People Of Expectation, We Are So Convinced That Another World Is Coming That We Start Living As If It Were Already Here.