... white people have reigned technologically and economically supreme (too often at the expense of the rest of the world). In order to protect this temporary advantage in the world’s arena, the doctrine of white supremacy evolved. The mama bears picked up the cry and whispered and shouted across the land, “White Supremacy!” Then the mama bears cry, “America first.” A measure of truth can be found in this cry, too. To be sure, America must be first in our national loyalty. She has the right to expect ...
... so loving to me, black people could come in only to cook and clean. I didn't hold this belief over against the gospel. I didn't believe that I was rebelling against Jesus Christ in holding on to white supremacy. Rather I believed that the God I knew in Jesus Christ had established white supremacy. This is the human point of view.4 This is what Paul means in verse 16, in that hallmark phrase of the beginning of his powerful paragraph on reconciliation. Paul announces here that the gospel of Jesus Christ is a ...
... based upon envy and ambition or “what can this get me”, but that looked down from heaven and viewed a community of saints who had been offered the love of Christ and the hope of peace. The community of faith is not supposed to be yet another dog-fight for supremacy. The Christbody community is called to be more like a sleeping puppy pile — where members trust and love one another enough to embrace one another completely. The difference between “earthly” wisdom — which teaches us to fight for ...
... . That is the difference between an “appetite” and a “desire.” When Jesus comes into our lives, he doesn’t change our appetites so much as revolutionize our desires. All of us have “appetites.” But the grace of God exchanges the supremacy of our biological “appetites” for the supremacy of divine “desires.” To each one of us comes a moment when we must decide which way to go: to live life according to our appetites, which feed the desires of the flesh, or to live life according to the ...
... halted by the leprosy of greed, savagery, and lust. We are mighty people but we are lepers. Naaman traveled all the way from Syria to Israel to seek healing from the man of God named Elisha. Here we have the touchstone by which we may test the supremacy of our faith. It alone is able to purge our souls from the leprosy of sin. Only the religion that can do that can claim the final allegiance of the human heart. Naaman heard the prescription of Elisha, but he was indignant and felt that another river ought ...
... their personality rather than their point of view. Two friends can come to grips with the subject honestly and rudely. This is why so many social arguments are fruitless and shallow. Each contestant is secretly trying to prove his or her supremacy to the other; logic and reason are only incidental weapons." The quality of our relationships can be judged by the depth of our conversation. Gabbling and gossiping and idle conversation are the hallmark of superficial friendship. Someone has argued that the ...
... a high moment holding forth great promise for the days to come. IV Peter's witness to Jesus, however, soon cost him something. For it was meeting with such widespread response that it alarmed the authorities who saw in it a threat to their supremacy. After all, Peter was from Galilee, Israel's hotbed of rebellion; and allowed to go unchecked his testimony might very well topple them from power. So they arrested him along with his companions. Actually, it was the authorities' intent to execute both the big ...
... in the Garden, resulting in Adam's and Eve's loss of light. They allowed the reality of darkness to overcome the light of God in them. In the second creation, with the coming of Jesus, we find that God is trying to re-establish the supremacy of that light in the souls of humankind. God is not trying to re-create physical creation, but re-create and configure the souls and spirits of humankind, because there is so much darkness that the light threatens to be snuffed out, overcome. So God sent another ...
... this is!" And the cowboy said, "Can you imagine trying to find a lost steer in there?" People see things differently. The Messianic hope of those in the Jewish community who held such a belief was that the Chosen One would reestablish the supremacy of Israel among the great nations of the world. The assumption was that this would be accomplished in a violent and vengeful manner, with the forceful overthrow and total destruction of the current ruling powers. But before this happened, the prophet Elijah would ...
... , during the reign of King David, Israel was a force to be reckoned with by her neighbors, even envied by them. Israel was respected back then, and yes, by golly, even FEARED! People took notice. The people of David’s day enjoyed a sense of supremacy that comes with high national status. And the people liked that. The more things change, the more they stay the same. The disciples of Jesus longed for a return to that golden era of yesterday. They wanted to feel good about themselves again, to walk with ...
... and speed, but be gradually dissuaded from letting them become ends in themselves. Five great Imperishables of the Spirit persist. Belief:• In the Permanence of God.• That Life is a sacred journey and involves our choice.• In the undisputed supremacy of love.• That God is knowable; that faith risks being wrong.• That Life has a transcendent dimension and is transformed by encounters, both human and divine. The church will continue because it has an Eternal agenda. Its institutional decay may ...
... head of William Penn. Years ago the city fathers decreed that, in honor of Philadelphia's founder, no building should be built higher than the statue of Penn. That is the way it is for a Christian with Jesus. No one towers above him. Because of Jesus' supremacy in all things, it is the ambition of a Christian to match him as far as possible. When Kagawa became a Christian, his first prayer was, "God, make me like Christ." In the days when boys were hero worshipers, a young lad went into a public building ...
... than any other television program in history. With eighty-five million viewers, this story of the black man's struggle in the Old South easily surpassed the former record-holder for an audience, a show which, ironically enough, portrayed the white man's supremacy in the Old South - the famous movie Gone With The Wind. Of course, the audience record set by Alex Haley's story is not the greatest significance of Roots. For many years now, increasingly large numbers of Americans have become fascinated trying to ...
... That is the same truth that meets us in every other facet of the whole truth of God. What makes it offensive to us is that we may take no credit for such an eternally precious gift. The old sinful nature that still rampages through us reacts against the supremacy of God’s grace in our total life of faith before him through Jesus Christ. Where Sin Presses Hardest on Us Here is where sin presses hardest upon us, when we must turn our loved ones over to God through death. Indeed, the real testing is when we ...
... of Job with its profound probing into the mystery of human suffering. Or the opening verses of the Gospel of John with such a breathtaking sweep of movement of the eternal God into our flesh. Or the thirteenth chapter of 1 Corinthians with its proclamation of the supremacy of divine love in all the relationships of life. These passages and all the others which come to us in the Bible culminate in the risen Savior. This is our Ascension faith. Christ is the power to open our minds to the Easter book of our ...
... . He says that this heaven "hasn’t a rag of intellectuality in it anywhere." He finds this very strange, since on earth humans exalt the intellect "above all things else in (their) world," and enthrone "it there under the arching skies in a supremacy unapproachable." He thinks it incredible that "this sincere adorer of intellect and prodigal rewarder of its mighty services here in the earth has invented a religion and a heaven which pay no compliments to intellect, offer it no distinctions, fling to it no ...
... thought control. This is abhorrent to the liberal. There must be tolerance. We come then to the fifth major characteristic, which is the test or the guide on which liberals rely. Not in any absolute sense, but as a major guide, there is reason. The supremacy of reason - my reason, your reason. Any dogma, any decree, any authoritarian statement that does violence to your reason must be rejected at all costs. You may believe much that is beyond your reason and that enters into the realm of faith, but the test ...
... total value was from eighty to 100,000 dollars. It frightened the king, Jehoram of Israel, to have such a gift delivered to him. But Elisha sent word that this would give Israel an opportunity to let Syria know of the religion of Israel, a religion of the supremacy of Almighty God. Syria had nothing to match this. Naaman then went to Elisha’s house, only to be told that if he wanted his health restored, he must go wash himself in the Jordan River seven times. Now, Naaman was a proud man and he balked. He ...
... and safety. If I put my life where my mouth is, I run the risk of a threat against my life, or at least, against my community status. Christians in Europe during World War II who dared speak out boldly against the concept of the Aryan supremacy and the mass extermination of one ethnic group, were served notice they would either shut up or be shut up permanently. There’s an experiment in Christian love and living in Georgia called Koinonia Farm. It’s an effort to bring whites and blacks together to ...
... our lives. In these rules for living, there are three things which I believe are important. I. The Ten Commandments deal with our relationship to God. The first four commandments clearly deal with our relationship to God. The first commandment affirms the supremacy of God by declaring, "You shall have no other gods before me." The second commandment declares the dangers of worshiping gods that we make when it says, "You shall not make for yourself a graven image." The third commandment forbids the reckless ...
... word is to turn them toward a future filled with glorious promise, soon to be fulfilled. He begins with words of comfort, with an older definition meaning to strengthen, rather than to soothe, and then he proceeds to recite the mighty power of God, whose supremacy is over the whole world. Nowhere else in the scriptures is the omnipotence of God proclaimed more eloquently than in these words: Get you up to a mountain, O Zion, herald of good tidings; Lift up your voice with strength, O Jerusalem, herald of ...
... people to be shaking at its very foundations. In the undergoing of renewal - which I applaud as a fellow Christian - the Catholic Church is undergoing massive changes. The liturgy is in English, the priests are revolting, the pill has forced a crack in the facade of papal supremacy. Now, in the face of all that, if your Catholic neighbor sounds a bit defensive, maybe you ought to listen to what he’s saying. Perhaps he’s saying, "I’m not sure just what I’m supposed to believe any more, but if I don ...
... at the Junior College of Mason City, Iowa. Rankin aspired to a theatrical career. He was only a stagehand with a one-line acting part, but it was a time of glory for his little stage troupe. In a one-act detective thriller, they had gained supremacy in a regional drama contest and marched off to the finals at the University of Iowa. In Iowa City they encountered two unexpected problems: the timing of the trip made it impossible for them to have a dress rehearsal, and the stage assigned to them was smaller ...
... were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross. (LB) So, if you want to be thankful for something ...
... Among the Religions of the World” in which he called upon Christians to expunge Christianity of its alleged uniqueness. He asked Christians to give up the absurd notion that Christianity is unique because, said he, it is our persistent emphasis on the uniqueness and supremacy of Christ that stands in the way of unity with the other religions of the world. We ought instead, he said, to be united with them in our common opposition to atheism and godlessness. This insistence on the uniqueness of Christ and ...