NO RELIGIOUS BULLIES. We Must “Lift Our VOICES” – While We Lay Down Our SWORDS.
“Declare to my people … their sins.” Jesus, Isaiah, the prophets, the apostles...
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We Must Speak Up. “Lift your voice like a trumpet; declare to my people their sins.”
God requires it of the prophet. He MUST speak out about what he sees going on. Shout it aloud, do...
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Are Economic Matters a Moral Issue? Isaiah Thinks So.
In spite of Isaiah, and other Bible sources, we’ve all heard this – something like:...
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Freedom From Fear – Comes From Your Faith, Not Your Government
[See also: What if We Are Persecuted?!] No government can ever guarantee that you or I will have...
Read MoreIsaiah, with Question: “Where Will You Leave Your Riches?”
Isaiah 10:1-3 (emphasis added) Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and...
Read MoreIsaiah 58: Moral Patterns Have Consequences, Blessings Are Available
Isaiah 58 (like much of Isaiah) is awesome. For example, here’s verse 2. 2 For day after day they seek me out; they seem eager to know my ways, as if they were a nation that does what is right and has not forsaken the...
Read More“Because It’s Right” to Ban Torture
from a New YorkTimes editorial, Nov 29, 05. The United States should be leading the world, not dragging its feet, when it comes to this sort of issue – because it’s right and because all of us, including Americans,...
Read MoreThere Is Great Hope for America, But We Have to Get Real. – Isaiah 58
Can we hope that God might be willing to bless America? I think Isaiah chapter 58 does offer some hope. Connie and I got to work on this chapter together on our recent road trip. We had each spent 2 or 3 days on it separately,...
Read Moreon Bankruptcy is our Congress “Grossly Wicked”? Jesus Calls Its Values “Detestable”.
Here’s part of a recent email from moveon.org. It uses the word “heinous” about this bankruptcy bill – that means “grossly wicked or abominable.” Would our dear leaders ever do anything...
Read MoreDid Isaiah Know About Our Dishonest, Self-Serving “Mainstream” Media?
In a recent forum topic MadTheologian complains about this administration not being held to account. That is so true. “We the people” in general bear some real guilt for not wanting to know the truth and not putting...
Read MoreCriticism, and A Beautiful Vision for Our Day – from Isaiah 58
From that awesome chapter, Isaiah 58: “If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious talk,” Have you noticed how often...
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