The Mayans were right… at least for me. 2012 was the end of me. Last year, 2011 on New Years I went to a church service and at midnight the usual cheering, singing and celebration were replaced by intense prayer and prophetic blessings. This was a first for me. The Pastor asked me to come forward, get ...
When “The Law” ceases to dispense Justice (and mercy) we are left with a law that simply protects “order”.
At this point, “order” replaces civilized and civilized is redefined to mean compliant. The reality is, that “order” provides the powerful (and their wealth) protection from multitudes of the weak and poor. Justice is sacrificed in the name of civilization and any call or protest by the dispossessed, claiming that the powerful should be held to a same or even reasonable apportion of Justice will be intolerable and by definition illegal.
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What is Wealth
A work in progress… Here is how I parse this. There are four not two groups of people in your scenario. In our country, we are segregated by three main Power categories, the Ruling Class, the Ruled Class and the Under Class. If you further designate us by economic categories, you get The Working Rich, the Working Poor, ...
Enemy of the Church
In 1998, the eye-opening tell-all movie, Enemy of the State by Director Tony Scott, told us the tale of how one man with the wrong ideas can quickly become the target of a corrupt and powerful system. Now the anticipated obvious sequel has finally come to the big screen. Once again Director Tony Scott brings us ...
Pastoring ≠ Cultivating
While I was watering Cricket's plants in her week-long absence, the following thought occurred to me: I had no idea how much water to feed her plants. (or how often). I had no idea which ones were healthy. I had no idea which ones were sick or in need of minor care, …or how to ...
Discipleship
An email from a friend: Taylor, Concerning your insight on how church gets off track, and how the focus should be producing fruit and not building a church organization... Christ is causing our church to take a closer look at discipleship and mature believers, and attached is a short PDF of the model I am working on for ...
