Does God Still Speak through Dreams and Visions?
Across generations, believers have asked an important question Does God still speak through dreams and visions
Across generations, believers have asked an important question Does God still speak through dreams and visions
If there is one thing that seems spiritually certain it is that the Church will always be divided. Our factions and differences and divisions seem as fixed as the rising of the sun. Yet the Bible speaks of a day when we will all come together in the unity of the faith. How can this possibly be true?
It is time for us to say unequivocally, “We have nothing to hide, so we have nothing to fear.”
Sometime after that, a good friend and doctor whom I work with in the hospital had said to me that “whatever you get with the vaccine is better than getting COVID,” and I knew he was right.
We remove the Gospel's influence from our politics at the moment when we are most politically engaged.
If you believe in ghosts, I hate to burst your bubble, but they don’t exist. And by ghost, I’m using the traditional definition of a person who has died and is manifesting themselves in some way to the living, their spirit being trapped between this life and the next. No, there are no such things as ghosts. But there is something much worse that is real.
That is the solemn vow that America makes to its sons and daughters that go into harm’s way: We will not leave you behind. That applies to our civilians, to the Afghans that stood up and are now being hunted down for the sole crime of helping Americans.
A woman who actively wills the elimination and destruction of her preborn child is acting directly contrary to love. As are those men who encourage their partner to abort their child.
During the debate, as Luther faced down the emperor during the Diet of Worms, he uttered these now-famous lines, known for their ringing courage and refusal to compromise the truth, no matter the cost:
Today, one cannot tread too carefully, which will result in smaller and smaller circles being drawn until only the tiniest, super-elite segment remains in good standing.
Our relationships on earth and our dialogue with those who impose sanctions must be shaped not by our respective authorities, but by the will and calling of our Maker and Savior. It is part of our calling to challenge all those in power to stop actions that harm people.