“One of the most shocking aspects of Mexico’s drug cartels is the use of teens and young children for smuggling, thievery, and even assassinations. This is happening not only in Mexico but north of the border as well. Teens are sometimes offered as little as $50 to act as drivers for the cartels or the…
DetailsDespite 20,000 responses to the San Antonio City Council and Mayor Castro, pro-LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender) activists seem committed to pass a so called “non-discrimination” ordinance – a blatant legal crusade against Christians in San Antonio. The Council has been forced to acknowledge the bias against Christians, but they continue to introduce new…
DetailsLast week, the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled against a photographer who declined to use her artistic expression to communicate the story of a same-sex ceremony. One of the justices noted, that the photographer and her husband, were “compelled by law to compromise the very religious beliefs that inspire their lives,” adding “it is the…
DetailsIn my last blog, I suggested that, first, intimacy and our sense of God’s immanence must not eclipse transcendence. Second, it must not forget holiness. Third, it must not degenerate into lightness. Fourth, the subjective cannot displace the objective. Overwhelmed with the fruit of grace, we cannot forget the work of grace. Our new life…
DetailsWe were made for intimacy with God, and that is the essence, the very heart of prayer. But a detached view of intimacy, one without the recognition that we remain mortals prone to sin, relating to a holy God; that we are under wrath, yet gifted with a bubble of grace; that the God who…
DetailsIn the last few blogs, I have been arguing that the faultiness of the ‘abba’ narrative in prayer and worship has put us on a slippery slope that fails to reckon with God as ‘utterly other.’ But what does the Bible say? In the New Testament, there are three occurrences of the Arabic abba along…
DetailsThe Hebrew term yir’ah is rendered fear or terror. It denotes some awesome or terrifying thing and it is used in reference to our perspective of God, promoting respect, reverence and piety. From the Greek term phobos we get phobia, meaning fear and terror. We dread the thing that provokes terror. Phobic reactions are visceral,…
DetailsThe Hebrew term yir’ah is rendered fear or terror. It denotes some awesome or terrifying thing and it is used in reference to our perspective of God, promoting respect, reverence and piety. From the Greek term phobos we get phobia, meaning fear and terror. We dread the thing that provokes terror. Phobic reactions are visceral,…
DetailsOne popular and broadly accepted idea that has eroded, if not eradicated an appropriate fear of God in prayer and worship is the promotion of ‘abba’ as ‘Daddy God.’ The phrase now dominates popular thinking and any mention of “fear and trembling” before the Lord is too quickly dismissed, at times discouraged or even disdained.…
DetailsMoses was told, “You cannot see my face, for man may not see Me and live” (Exodus 33:20). Prayer can never be understood apart from the regal nature of the encounter and the environment it implies, something about which we Americans know very little. That the writer of Hebrews would urge anyone to ‘come boldly’…
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