And the Good News Is: http://t.co/0FdNyEa
— Willliam Boyd Grove (@wboydgrove) September 10, 2011
This is a link that Bishop Grove put out there on twitter. I guess we should just be parting happily with our money……
How does this factor into rendering unto Ceasar what is Ceasar’s?
The topic of military service and self-defense is a touchy one among Christians in America. It is deeply ingrained in our culture that if someone threatens you, you have the right and in fact the obligation to defend yourself by any and all means necessary. I always think of Sean Connery and his horrible accent…
Hello! I’m Henry Neufeld, administrator of this site. You won’t hear from me often, but today I extracted some material written by one of the authors of the books you see in the sidebar. He’s David Alan Black, author of the book Christian Archy. I thought there were some very important points he made. Since…
by Henry Neufeld, Energion Publisher We rolled out a new theme over the weekend. More about that in a few paragraphs … A couple of months ago I sent out an e-mail to a few of the people whose advice I count on regarding the slogan we use on the Energion Publications web site: Educate!…
Hello… my name is Alan. It’s been less than one hour since I usurped the rule of Jesus Christ in my life… When I was first asked to take part in this project, I thought to myself, “What do I know about Christ’s archy?” My second thought was similar: “I need to learn about Christ’s…
Therefore, however you wish that people would treat you, this is how you should treat them, because this is the Law and the Prophets (Matthew 7:12 Author’s Translation). The ethical manifesto of Jesus Christ ends with a final moral exhortation before Jesus reminds his audience that his way is the ultimate, even the only way….
I read an interesting editorial this morning at Fox News: What If Tim Tebow Were A Muslim? The author suggests that the frequent mockery he receives would be largely absent if he were a devout Muslim instead of a devout Christian: Imagine for a second, the Denver Broncos quarterback is a devout follower of Islam,…
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I had to play with Twitter a bit to get the link. If anyone else has this problem, the linked article is at <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/10/opinion/and-the-good-news-is.html?_r=1&src=tphttp://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/10/opinion/and-the-good-news-is.html?_r=1&src=tp.
Thanks, Henry!
As to “rendering unto Ceasar”: We have disconnected from what monetary units functioned for to begin with – “medium of exchange” – that means that what you do or have becomes represented by official measurement so that it can be conveniently exchanged for what others do or have OR better yet to gain friends in the world OR to do God’s work (redeeming the doing or having?).
In our world today, it isn’t doing the job that it was created for and our Ceasar has it on recall. Although I don’t think they are willing to admit that ;^)
I’m wondering if – we could begin actually exchanging our having and doing directly again if we couldn’t manage to reestablish the “flow” that isn’t happening with cash these days and win a recovery God’s way in the process. Just thinkin’….
You raise an interesting point. It is rather amazing how far we have gotten away from the original intended use, isn’t it?