A Christian who calls for capital punishment is like someone picking up a stone and declaring, “I’m without sin; let me do it.”
Anthony Parrott
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You cannot simultaneously believe that God is the God of redemption, forgiveness, and transformation and believe that the best response to certain kinds of crime is execution. I mean, I guess you can—people clearly do. In the U.S., executions happen most often where Christians are most concentrated (85%
God, let's be honest—this year is off the rails. We hardly need remind You. But, Christ, there's so much pain. Pain that has gone unseen, unnoticed, unwept for. So we lift up our prayer for all the forgotten sufferers, The invisible pain, the sorrow too
The ingenious, radical thing about Jesus' teaching is that at the moment we discover someone to be our enemy, we have simultaneously found someone to love and serve. Whoever we have decided is a "sinner" immediately becomes the person we called to forgive and welcome. The way
Shopping is hard right now. Kids put their hands, mouths, and sometimes tongues on everything. Entering any indoor space feels like reverse scuba diving—instead of keeping track of how much oxygen you have left, you're measuring how many viruses you may have breathed in. I know all
But You Said As parents, Emily and I quickly realized that it's not always the best idea to tell your kids when you have something planned for the future. First of all, kids have little to no concept of time. You can tell them that their birthday is
Biblegateway.com Bible Gateway is usually the first place I go on the internet to start researching a piece of Scripture. They have some of the best and easiest-to-use tools on the internet. You should know that the lion's share of those tools are behind a $40/year
I want to suggest something very tenderly, very humbly as we consider death. We often speak of death as our loved ones "going to a better place." I'm not so sure that that is true. I absolutely think it is true that those who die will
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