Theology, religion & devotional
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It is not necessary, I do not think, to reconcile every evil event with an equal and opposite work of God in order to believe that God will eradicate all evil in the end.
How often do we question the story of another's experience with God because it does not perfectly match our own? Why do we question the description and activity of grace if it surpasses our own experience? Our experience is not the boundary of God's power, and we err to think it is.
The problem with Osteen's statement is not that it is laughable. The problem is not that it is innocuous. The problem is it dangerously gives the false hope of self-salvation.
It seems a lot of angst is experienced over teenagers and their hair. When I hit late middle school to high school (back before electricity was discovered) guys were starting to grow their hair over their ears. In some cases it went down over their collar. Rat tails came later. I cannot talk about mullets. Many adults–and some leaders–responded with comparisons to hippies, communists and warnings about failing…
Many people not in Catholicism or familiar with may ask today, "What is Maundy Thursday?" Maundy Thursday is the day before Good Friday. That is the short answer.
