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“When we make our central message anything other than the gospel of grace, we end up being known as a people of hate—judgmental, hypocritical, and defined by what we are against.”

A thought by Darren Whitehead and Jon Tyson (2011-07-19) from their book, Rumors of God: Experience the Kind of Faith You´ve Only Heard About (Kindle Locations 1160-1161). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition. Somewhere along the line we got off track.  They say it takes only two generations to get away from the core values of any organization and that for sure has been true of us.  So why in the world would we take the greatest announcement that was ever given and make it the complete opposite?  I mean Jesus came into the world to save it not to condemn it.  That is what He said and that is what He did. Now we live today in a world where we believe that people should get what they deserve.  This is one of the main reasons for a lot of people’s anger.  Somewhere in their life they didn’t get what they deserved in a positive way and it makes them angry.  Or someone did something wrong and they don’t get punished as they deserved to be punished and that makes them angry.  But here is th

“If we always compare ourselves with those in financial brackets above us, we will never feel content.”

A thought by Darren Whitehead and Jon Tyson (2011-07-19) in their book, Rumors of God: Experience the Kind of Faith You´ve Only Heard About (Kindle Locations 523-524). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition. Have you ever noticed how dissatisfied you get after watching House Hunters on the HGTV network?  Have you ever seen it?  A person is dissatisfied with their home or location and they get with a real estate person and look at 3 different houses and then choose which one they want to buy.  Of course the homes are always bigger than the one they were living it.  And usually the one we are living in and it can cause us to be dissatisfied. Television is a great pusher of dissatisfaction.  Do you realize we live in bigger homes today with smaller families?  We don’t need all that room but we want it.  It is no wonder we are having economic problems.  We want more than we can afford and believe we’re entitled to it.  That is a problem. So what is the answer?  Well it seems like the proble