Posts from the ‘Power’ Category

What Do you Expect?

Doing the right thing can be terribly inconvenient. It takes stamina and a life so dedicated to serve Jesus that pressure won’t take you down a path of immorality. Peer pressure pushes at each of us. Read more…

Speak, Lord. I’m Listening

No matter how often I read about it I am shaken, startled, and saddened at the response of religious people to the work of God. Jesus healed a man speechless because of a demon of silence. When the man spoke the religious people (the ones who go to church service and sit on committees and contribute to new furnaces and a roof or two) condemned Jesus. Read more…

Power Politics Are Tough

For a third time I look at that extraordinary account in John 11 of the official response to the power Jesus displayed. Read more…

Tough, It’s a Miracle

What a terrible thing it is for institutional religion for a prophet or faithful witness to appear in the power of God! Read more…

When the Going Gets Tough, Some Just Go

Some people don’t see God at work, they see religion at risk. Read more…