Empathy is “the ability or capacity to understand and share the feelings of another.” Those feelings may be positive or negative. Compassion is “the sympathetic consciousness of others’ distress together with a desire to alleviate it.” This is a distinct difference. With compassion, you’re...
I saw a video shared of a conservative Christian woman being arrested as she was defacing public property and protesting about how “Black Lives Matter” doesn’t really care about black lives since they don’t care about unborn babies, black police officers, etc. As the police...
The moment you say “You can’t call yourself a [born again believer / Christian] and vote for [name of your favorite party or candidate]” you’ve stepped OUT of a primary Kingdom lens and into the exaltation of your own opinion. Sharing concerns about the issues facing the...
Be careful when you’re “sounding the alarm” in the midst of the world’s affairs that you’re not in reality sounding like a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. Express yourself with love. After all… It’s patient and kind.It doesn’t envy or boast.It...
Dear Christian / Kingdom Citizen:
If you’re calling all the Democrats “DEMONcrats” or you’re calling all the Republicans “Racists” (publicly or privately) then you need a revelation of Ephesians 6:12 as well as all of Ephesians 4.
Thanks for coming to my Sunday sermon.
The dictionary defines opinion as: a belief or judgment that rests on grounds insufficient to produce complete certainty.
I believe it’s time to wrap up this series on Breaking Mental Myopia: “Black Lives Matter.” In Part Three, I shared one significant way that having a Republican/Conservative lens over a Kingdom lens is destructive to oneness and provided recommendations for how to shift to a “Kingdom first lens”...
Kingdom solutions are needed to address the massive economic gaps that exist in the United States.
Enjoy this interview with my 79 year old father, Robert Thrasher. He's the bridge builder whose shoulders I stand on today.
Confession: I’ve been eager to unpack the Kingdom reality that “race” as we talk about it is a social and political construction of man and discuss all the implications of that which are impacting us still today. I’ve been wanting to talk about how God created one race (the...
The core issue that hundreds of thousands (perhaps even millions) of people of many shades are crying out about right now is racial bias and excessive (or undue) force in policing. Yes, there are other agendas happening simultaneously and yes there is debate over the validity of the variety...
The Kingdom of God and the gospel of Jesus Christ isn’t a Democratic or Republican ideology. Yet what we’re seeing right now in the body of Christ is mental myopia on the topic of “Black Lives Matter.” Mental myopia: the result from seeing people and situations through an “all or nothing” lens...