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THE OTHER SIDE OF CHRISTIANITY

March 18, 2022

Maggie Gobran, sometimes known as the “Mother Teresa of Egypt,” was invited to speak at the 2011 internationally televised Global Leadership Summit, sponsored by the Willow Creek Community Church, Chicago, IL., and I was able to sit in on the broadcast.

In concluding her remarks, Mama Gobran, as she is affectionally known, made this comment:

Silence your words so that you may listen to your thoughts; silence your thoughts so that you may listen to your heart; silence your heart so that you may listen to God.”

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The Sexualization of America

January 31, 2022

Gender, that basic fact of life that determines everything we are and everything we are going to be, is one issue the Creator has chosen for us. Determined for us prior to birth, we were given no choice in the matter. We are who we are by divine decree.

Not so, however, in America. So independent have we become from our Creator, so determined to ignore this most basic fact of nature, we not only give our children the right to choose but furthermore provide the means to change their gender and sexual orientation.

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When I returned home from work Monday evening, July 16, 1984, he noticed that familiar objects were missing, and his home was strangely quiet. It was the moment he had dreaded for weeks, his first evening as an ex-husband, the end of his career as a minister, and the beginning of a solitary existence that would last twenty years.

This is the story of a troubled life. It is also, however, the account of a man who rose from the mire to live again.

What you have here is a message of hope … evidence that when God is in control, all things do, indeed, work together for good. The maturing process is sometimes traumatic, always life-altering, but, under God’s direction, inevitably rewarding.

The author’s perspective will challenge you to believe that, no matter how difficult the journey, God can bring about beauty from the ashes of your life.

And make of you, too, a living model of Jesus Christ.

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ON BELIEVING THE UNBELIEVBLE

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. … Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. Heb. 11:1, 3

Philip Yancy surely knows about my struggle:

For many days I must pray for the faith just to believe in the reality of the unseen world. Often for me faith feels mostly like an act of the will. I choose to believe, and rarely with anything resembling the certainty described by the apostle (rumors of another world, 239.4 Ya., p. 182).

My struggle is not unique … to believe in the unseen is not natural to many of us … and, frankly, this is the essence of the spiritual battle being waged “in the heavenlies” for our souls. Unseen forces are at work.

Hell would destroy my faith, challenge my trust in a loving Father, question my ability to make contact with heaven. God, on the other hand, would like to make Himself known to me on a personal level. Reality, in short, involves two worlds … and God would make the spirit world as real to me as the material.

I see a way of progress, however, in that the two worlds come together in Jesus. He knew what it was to live within a material realm and sustain a full-fledged battle with evil. He also knew God as a loving Father and the invisible world was, to Him, a vital reality as well. To Him the unseen world was unseen only to His physical eyes; it was, in fact, very real and very active in the spiritual realm in which He lived.

Tangible evidence of this other world begins, it seems, within. Values, unknown to those who live in but one world, were seen in Jesus and are surely meant to characterize my life as well. Humility, patience, forgiveness, forbearance, gentleness, love … indeed all those qualities which are so foreign to my natural self … the God of grace would develop within me too!

I see that Jesus reflected not only the grace of God but evidenced His power as well. He was, indeed, a Living Model of One who lives with a two-world view. An awareness of God’s presence, a sensitivity to the divine will, an implicit trust in the Father’s benevolence, an apparent confidence in the efficacy of prayer, and, on occasion, the very power of God in supernatural display … these demonstrated, as a living reality, His two-world perspective. And this I see as His ultimate objective for my life as well.