This is definitely different from what I normally post, but I believe that this is our evidence for why we need God in our life. Our sins start with well-intentioned things like saying that people in these marginalized groups have been hurt and need to be babied (yes, they have been hurt and need love, but babying them is too far), and end with this nonsense where if you mention a marginalized group, you should set yourself on fire. When everything was about the one who died the death that we should’ve died, this crap didn’t happen anywhere NEAR as much.

I think that this tiny little fact is the perfect proof that Luke’s gospel is accurate!

I have mixed feelings about this. The structure of someone’s specific religion CAN be good (it can force them to lift their eyes to God when they don’t feel like it), but it CAN be bad, too (it can feel like they’re being chained to these specific actions and if they don’t do them exactly right, they will burn in hell with all the murderers and rapists). I believe, like everything, it’s based on the individual person, not exactly what they feel, though, that is part of it, but their personality and their specific walk with God. Yes, for us that just want one simple answer to cover the entire problem, it is VERY frustrating, but nothing has ever been that easy.

Going through a 4-hour craze when you tell God that He’s not real sounds so scary! I’ve merely experienced His presence after I’ve done something really wrong, and that got my heart beating out of my chest; I can’t imagine 4 hours of that.

I don’t think I could explain enough to make anyone understand, but when he says that a true Christian’s walk with God is like traveling up a mountain, he’s explaining my walk perfectly! There are SO MANY TIMES that I lose my temper with my wife and almost IMMEDIATELY feel like bawling my eyes out because I just hurt the two people I love the most, God and my wife. In especially this aspect, Paul Washer is teaching something that I’ve not heard any other preacher teach, it’s incredible!

I agree with all of this!