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Lots of folks in the pro-life movement browbeat and shamed people for not supporting Trump, and now we have more abortions, the generic abortion pill, a completely watered-down GOP plank on abortion, and public executions. Absolutely pathetic and very, very sad.

I’m perplexed by leaders who grow harsher, more legalistic and less compassionate in their older years. It seems, at least to my understanding, to go against the grain of aging for a person walking with the Lord. Unless there is hardness of heart caused by resentment, bitterness, jealousy, perversity or the like, the aging grow in holiness marked by humility and gentleness. Fact is, we’ve seen too much sin, weakness and failure in ourselves and received too much grace and mercy to be otherwise. Think, for example, of the scene in John 8 where people are ready to stone the adulterous woman. Jesus says, OK, let the one without sin cast the first stone. And you know how the story goes. They drop those stones, one by one, and walk away starting with the older ones. Why? Because they know the length, breadth and depth of their own sins and failures. Think of James 3:13 where he draws a direct connection between wisdom and gentleness, the latter indicating not powerlessness or eroding convictions but power and conviction submitted to the control and wise restraint of the Holy Spirit. Gentleness is also fruit of the Holy Spirit. Jesus described himself as gentle. Though he was utterly sinless, he was deeply compassionate, having been tempted in all ways. Harshness, extremism and a condemning spirit are ill-fitting to the aging in Christ. I have no desire to name names or cast stones or I’m no different from those I find baffling. I just want to say we’re greatly helped by an honest and frequent examination of our own hearts to see if they are growing in tenderness and compassion or in the hardness of unresolved character issues.

RT @DianeLangberg: When you sit with someone who is suffering, grieving, or sorrowing, you are sitting face-to-face with a grief that your…

RT @DianeLangberg: The silence about wrongdoing in our religious institutions can be rationalized and affirmed as a desire to protect the n…

RT @DianeLangberg: Christianity does not look like praying, singing, and giving money while ignoring the screams, unspeakable suffering, fi…

Performative patriotism always cares more about waving the flag and demanding that people show respect for it than it ever does about embodying what it actually stands for. Performative Christianity does the exact same thing with God and the Bible.

RT @DianeLangberg: We are not called to protect our institutions, nor do we protect the God of truth by covering up sin and/or a crime. To…

The use of verbal and emotional mistreatment to silence a victim, coupled with power used to prevent exposure of an abuser, can have catastrophic outcomes in a person’s life. The combined abuses constitute a life-destroying tsunami.

Ben Sasse is uniquely extraordinary…but if you watch that interview and wish we had more civically serious leaders like him, please understand that’s a choice. Voters can demand it.

Not even the Never Trumpers ourselves thought he would so thoroughly prove us right this disastrously.

When the church caesarizes the Messiah, it loses the gospel. When it messianizes Caesar, it gains a tyrant.

RT @DianeLangberg: The work of the church is not the call to ministry. Our true work is that of manifesting likeness to Christ in all thing…

RT @DianeLangberg: Christianity does not look like praying and singing and giving money while ignoring the screams, unspeakable suffering,…

At some point, words fail. Federal agencies that are supposed to serve all Americans have now twice deliberately misrepresented the circumstances of a killing within hours of it occurring—maligning the victims as “terrorists” out to “massacre” officers. To any rational observer, the strategy of government officials is clear: avoid or shape the political ramifications of the reality that Americans all see as quickly as possible and with complete disregard for an investigation or truth. They believe they can fashion truth out of thin air, by flooding the zone, by creating confusion and sowing doubt. This is Soviet Union stuff. It is increasingly difficult to understand or even recognize the country that I love. In our 250th year, we are letting slip a golden inheritance earned in the blood and sacrifice of generations of Americans. It’s all unraveling so quickly.

RT @DianeLangberg: We are not called to protect our institutions, nor do we protect the God of truth by covering up sin and/or a crime. To…

RT @DianeLangberg: Systems that cover up abuse through deception, coercion, or abuse of power mimic the perpetrator and re-victimize the vi…

RT @DianeLangberg: We are complicit with ungodliness when we turn a blind eye, support, and protect existing perversions in the name of suc…

RT @DianeLangberg: Jesus’ strongest words were for those religious leaders who used the words of God to crush and destroy humanity.

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The level of sectarianism on social media platforms is sad. Its resulting tribalism is sin, because it serves only to divide the body of Christ.