Church Voices

Do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with your God. These words are found in Micah 6:8, and express the whole duty of man. Unfortunately, I encounter people who are struggling with, in their words, “God’s will for my life”.
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That’s right, I said it. Christians are fruits. We are all different kinds of fruit and at different stages, but for the moment, this fruit feels it necessary to point out some major problems with some of our older fruits. The overly ripe going on rotten fruits. We all know some people like this…
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How long, O LORD , must I call for help,
but you do not listen?
Or cry out to you, “Violence!”
but you do not save?
Why do you make me look at injustice?
Why do you tolerate wrong?
Destruction and violence are before me;
there is strife, and conflict abounds.
4 Therefore the law is paralyzed,
and justice never prevails.
The wicked hem in the righteous,
so that justice is perverted.
Habakkuk 1.2-4 (NIV)

It doesn’t take long to encounter evil in this world. Especially when there are 24 hour news shows as well as internet news sites to bring us the latest atrocity. A quick look at the last 100 years reveals the bloodiest century in history. Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Pol Pot all murdered millions, and deprived over half the world’s population of their freedom. The image of goose stepping Nazi soldiers is so powerful that the horror of what they represented has been communicated over more than half a century and will probably continue to be communicated through history. When evil shows itself we should be as horrified as Habakkuk.
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