Prayer is not in place of actions that can be tracked with verifiable metrics. It is to ask God to provide healing, hope, and peace where we cannot even as we steward all that we have in this world to make certain that these tragedies do not happen again.
Category: Justice
Unexpected Commonalities: White Evangelicals and Nonwhites in America
Pew Research Center has just released a new report on what Americans believe about God’s nature and activity. The report begins by reminding us that Americans are still a religious people with 56% believing in the God of the Bible and 33% believing in some spiritual force or higher power. (Notably, these are much higher…
The Power of the Light
The massacre in Las Vegas cries out to us about the sickness in our culture and social structures, begging anyone who will to offer healing. Those of us in the church hear this loud and clear. As members of the same culture and society, we feel the same need ourselves. Yet, we can feel so…
Trends in America 3: Disparity
In our last two posts, we have looked at the trends affecting people living in the United States. Our hope is that in reviewing these, we can more effectively reach out to Americans with the gospel because we are able to deal with the issue that are most affecting them. Two weeks ago, we saw…