Consumerism created the programatic church structure that seeks to plan event after event to fill the time of people’s week where their faith can be successfully contained. While it may see like an attractive way to do church and ministry, the effect has the opposite effect.
Ravi Zacharias International Ministries recently put out a report detailing the allegations of sexual misconduct, abuse, and impropriety against founder Ravi Zacharias. Caleb and Danny talk about how we respond to this news and how we can decrease so that God might increase.
For a christian marked by consumerism, the focus is on the individual. The need to program they think is best as the church is their to do what they want them to. Often times, when they do not get the exact thing they want, then it is an indicator that the church has failed them.
Ravi Zacharias International Ministries recently put out a report detailing the allegations of sexual misconduct, abuse, and impropriety against founder Ravi Zacharias. Caleb and Danny talk about how we respond to this news and how we can decrease so that God might increase.
Where it should have paved a path home for the sinner to receive forgiveness by the works of Jesus Christ, instead, proclaimed that a person’s worth would be found in their virginity. If a person engaged in sex outside of marriage, the tone of the message was that they had failed or let God down. In truth, the Gospel never labels a person as too far gone or beyond the reach of God. Those struggling through sexuality and identity can find solace and acceptance, of who they are not what they do, in the arms of God and always return to Him. Then, having been forgiven and redeemed, we all should actively flee from sexual temptation so that God would be glorified in our sexuality.
Ravi Zacharias International Ministries recently put out a report detailing the allegations of sexual misconduct, abuse, and impropriety against founder Ravi Zacharias. Caleb and Danny talk about how we respond to this news and how we can decrease so that God might increase.
Life goes beyond the simply defining ourselves by a gender structure, sexual behavior, and any other related signifier. As Christians, we cannot begin to sort through our identity apart from being in Christ more than we can our gender and our sexual behavior. Nor can we rightfully identity according to how we see fit. Our identity can only rightfully be crafted by the hands of the master craftsman who designs and establishes all of creation.
Gina Carano has been fired from Disney+ and future projects. Many Christians are looking to cancel Disney+ is response to her needless firing. But does Canceling something to protect Cancel culture work?
Our bond and identity can only be found in our identification with Jesus Christ through His death burial and resurrection, not in our ability to pursue and gain earthly and fleshly pleasure.
Stocks, according to Danny, operate in mystery and are basically gambling. Danny and Caleb take the recent events with Reddit and Robinhood to talk about how a Christian should best handle their finances.
