Sowing Fake News

But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ. ⏤ 2 Corinthians 11:3

Some other nations have an interest in manipulating the American public through social media. Often, they promote contradictory, false accounts to different groups, aiming to divide us. It works, just like when the devil sows lies and confusion to unsettle us and undermine our faith.

By Degree

North and south are directions. There are poles, but few of us wind up there. North-ness and south-ness are measured by degree. In politics and religion, degrees aren't allowed; we're pushed to poles: conservative or liberal. For Christianity, this relates to our approach to God's Word. How much authority does his Word carry in my actual lived life? So I ask myself, how many degrees am I from the North Pole of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, Great Commandment, Great Commission, and his other teachings? Does the answer to this question make me more conservative? Or more liberal?

Give Us Barabbas!

They shouted back, “No, not him! Give us Barabbas!” Now Barabbas had taken part in an uprising. — John 18:40

Jesus Barabbas and Jesus of Nazareth were both disrupters. One by force, the other by love.

Jewish leaders gave up on love. Was it too slow and inefficient? Too impractical? Too unsatisfying? Or was it as disruptive to them as it was to the Romans?