We're living in a world of increasing hostility and division. People feel threatened by those who choose not to get vaccinated because they see their choice as being reckless and cavalier with other people's lives. And they're frustrated because they feel that the unvaccinated are prolonging the pain of the pandemic. Others see the coercive force being implemented to pressure people into getting vaccinated as threatening the foundations of our civil freedoms. And they feel threatened by the potential dangers of the vaccine given questions about its long-term health impacts. As Christians we find that it is through the chaos of all these questions and doubts that we are called to become peacemakers!
The Light: 1st John 2:10
VERSE 10: The Light Anyone who loves their brother and sister lives in the light, and there is nothing in them to make them stumble. This is the second test in John’s apostolic epistle given to believers so that we can verify that Christ is in us and we are in him. In these first …
The Love of God Perfected: 1st John 2:5a
VERSE 5a: The Love of God Perfected But whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. This verse contrasts John’s negative exposition (v. 4) of his second proposition (v. 3) with two positive expositions (v. 5a; v. 5b-6). I’ve divided this verse because it properly presents two thoughts: 5a: …
LOVE of CHRIST
The Love of Christ Compels Us: Every day I see the Love of Christ revealed in an every expanding scope, as the universe testifies of the every expanding presence of God, I am moved further and further in Christ. Certainly God has chosen to reveal His love through Christ because Christ was the only vessel in …