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This is going to be a political week, because there is a lot going on I am feeling passionate about.
I've been trying to organise my thoughts on judges (and this goes back to someone who said Judge Kramer, here in Calif. was being activist in applying the Constitution of the State of California, and the precedents of the Supreme Court of the United States to a law being challenged here in Calif., but I digress), and I'll have something on that by the end of the week, but first, something uplifting.
...what does the spirit of Christ look like?
The part which matters the most, "And I commend that to you today if you're in a quandary about what to do with this big, big question you're dealing with. If you approach it with the spirit of Christ, you won't go wrong.
So, what does the spirit of Christ look like? What does it smell like? What does it sound like? It's a bunch of blue collar fishermen. It's a despised tax collector. It's a colony of lepers. It's a hated Roman soldier with a sick son. It's hungry people being fed. It's the children who they tried to keep quiet and out of sight. It's a woman married five times that he made feel worthy. It's another woman caught in adultery that the religious establishment wanted to execute, but he set her free. It's a Samaritan man who the church people hated, but Jesus made him a hero. It was a little old lady so poor that she only had a few pennies for the offering plate, and Jesus held her up as an example for the ages. It was a woman of the streets who became one of his best friends. It was a thief on a cross that he took home with him. You see, the religious experts of his time called him a drunk and a glutton because he went to parties with them, and they despised him because he hung out with the folks who were on the margins of respectable society---the disenfranchised ones---the ones they called the dregs of society. And they killed him for it. BUT THAT WAS HIS SPIRIT."
Go, read the whole thing, see what a preacher who applies that precept to his life believes.
I've been trying to organise my thoughts on judges (and this goes back to someone who said Judge Kramer, here in Calif. was being activist in applying the Constitution of the State of California, and the precedents of the Supreme Court of the United States to a law being challenged here in Calif., but I digress), and I'll have something on that by the end of the week, but first, something uplifting.
...what does the spirit of Christ look like?
The part which matters the most, "And I commend that to you today if you're in a quandary about what to do with this big, big question you're dealing with. If you approach it with the spirit of Christ, you won't go wrong.
So, what does the spirit of Christ look like? What does it smell like? What does it sound like? It's a bunch of blue collar fishermen. It's a despised tax collector. It's a colony of lepers. It's a hated Roman soldier with a sick son. It's hungry people being fed. It's the children who they tried to keep quiet and out of sight. It's a woman married five times that he made feel worthy. It's another woman caught in adultery that the religious establishment wanted to execute, but he set her free. It's a Samaritan man who the church people hated, but Jesus made him a hero. It was a little old lady so poor that she only had a few pennies for the offering plate, and Jesus held her up as an example for the ages. It was a woman of the streets who became one of his best friends. It was a thief on a cross that he took home with him. You see, the religious experts of his time called him a drunk and a glutton because he went to parties with them, and they despised him because he hung out with the folks who were on the margins of respectable society---the disenfranchised ones---the ones they called the dregs of society. And they killed him for it. BUT THAT WAS HIS SPIRIT."
Go, read the whole thing, see what a preacher who applies that precept to his life believes.
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I hope they listen to him!