Sitting Under the Kudzu Vine

So the LORD God appointed a plant and it grew up over Jonah to be a shade over his head.

Category: Theology

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FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

We are ruins who walk among ruins. Our spiritual world is a smoldering heap of broken lives, broken dreams that stand like destroyed buildings in an apocalyptic landscape. We are like piles of moldering ashes. We are ruined by our own natures and our slavery to our darkness and rejection of God. We are slaves to our self-importance, to sex, to greed and materialism, to selfishness, to the glittering trinkets that the dark powers throw at us to grab our attention.

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BAPTISTS: WE RATHER FIGHT THAN SERVE

Scripture tells us two important elements of the Christian life on which everything else hangs. We are slaves to Christ and we are to serve one another. That is the heart and soul of the Christian...