Who is the Enemy?
With so much combative clatter overhead in an election year and being disillusioned by ones of would-be virtue getting caught into the web of justifications and attacks, we sometimes have to ask ourselves: “Who really is the enemy?”
“We are brothers…” Deep down Abram(ham) and Lot embraced this. But they realized they were [...]

We can certainly understand why a crowd would respond when seeing miraculous healings of every kind (Mt 15:31). They put all the honor on Jesus; they were “ascribing honor to Him, acknowledging Him as to His acts and His glory because Jesus’ innate glory was brought to light.”
But does it take long until we [...]

Threat is actually a very relevant term depending upon how alert we are choosing to be in our world right now. If we think of how we are wired, listening and responding becomes much more acute when threat is attached: from an exasperated parent to gain a response of obedience, to a boss’ ultimatum to [...]