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The Emperor Has No Clothes

Recently released research by the Barna Group sheds an interesting light on the perceptions of the average person toward Jesus and his followers. The research, involving a survey of just over two thousand U.S. adults and late teens in December 2022, revealed an overwhelmingly positive attitude toward Jesus but a deeply negative attitude toward Christians …

When Sin is No Longer Sin

Yesterday, as part of my morning devotional reading, I read some words of Jesus from Mark’s Gospel: “For it is what comes from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come – sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and foolishness. All these evils come from inside and …