Too often, when people are expecting—and want—to meet God, churches instead present an illusion, a tempting escape from reality.
Surprisingly, many people don’t reject Christianity because they’ve given up on God. Instead, they’ve given up on the people and things that represent God. They don’t hate Jesus, they just become tired of not finding Him within Christian culture.
Since 2003, more than 35 major U.S. companies have moved their headquarters and reincorporated overseas. Rather than rail against such “inversions,” as President Obama does, or call for an economic boycott, as Ohio’s Democratic senator Sherrod Brown does, we should figure out what is driving U.S. companies offshore. Here’s a clue: The U.S. now has the highest corporate tax rate of any industrialized country, and the Wall Street Journalreports that the Obama administration is “even now looking for ways it can unilaterally raise corporate taxes without going to Congress.”
My wife asked me a very good question the other day that today I seek to answer through scripture. I love being questioned because it causes me to stop and think instead of just accepting. Scripture exists not just so we would believe, but also to prove…
“Jesus came into this world to save sinners, of whom I am the worst. But I was shown mercy for this reason, that in me, the worst of sinners, Jesus might put on display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in Him for eternal life.”