judgment

Farmer, pastor, theologian Clarence Jordan, author of the Cotton Patch New Testament ———————————– From The Sermon on the Mount, by Clarence Jordan (1912-1969), pages 102-3.       It is not judging, but self-righteous judging against which Jesus warns his disciples.  Honest, sincere judging is good, but hypocritical judging is perilous.  Nothing will destroy a fellowship more […]

Isaiah 6:11a  —   Then I said, “How long, O Lord?” ————— —————— By Randy Alcorn, in 90 Days of God’s Goodness.      For many, the most difficult problem with evil is its persistence.  God “has set a day when he will judge the world with justice” (Acts 17:31).  But why a future day of judgment?

Martin Luther  (1483-1546) Time magazine cover, March 24, 1967 ————————————-      “When God wills to punish a people or a kingdom, he takes away from it the good and godly teachers and preachers, and bereaves it of wise, godly, and honest rulers and counselors, and of brave, upright and experienced soldiers, and of other

     I once asked my grandfather why his grandfather left Germany in 1875 to come to America.  Grandpa said that the old emigrant told him that Germany was always getting into wars and drafting all the young men, and he did not want to die as a soldier in some fight that did not

     The Parable of the Wicked Tenants; Matthew 21:33-43      (…continued)  Knowing what we know about renting and owning, what can we say about that?  First of all we might want to ask, “What on earth could they have be thinking?”  Were those tenants insane?  Is that how it works: if you kill

     (Jesus said), “Listen to another parable:  There was a landowner who planted a vineyard.  He put a wall around it, dug a wine-press in it and built a watchtower.  Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and went on a journey.  When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants

 Job 34:17-28: 17 Can someone who hates justice govern?     Will you condemn the just and mighty One? 18 Is he not the One who says to kings, ‘You are worthless,’     and to nobles, ‘You are wicked,’ 19 who shows no partiality to princes     and does not favor the rich over the poor,     for they are all the work

     This meditation is the final of three from the apocryphal book of II Maccabees (See also Meditations #441 and #463).  It tells the story of God’s judgement upon the wicked King Antiochus IV whose persecution of the Jews had caused so much suffering.      King Antiochus, filled with anger, decided to avenge