I have been thinking a lot lately about doors.
Not front doors or back doors, but open doors and closed doors.
Jesus said to a downtrodden but faithful church, “I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut.” He added that he “has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens.”
Prayer is one of the great mysteries of the Christian faith. In part, this is understandable. How is it that the God of the universe could be moved by prayers offered by ordinary people hardly known outside their own neighborhood? And yet he is, for surely that is the meaning of the parable of the widow and the unjust judge
There’s been an explosion of people demanding rights. Womens' rights, mens’ rights, transgender rights, gay rights, black rights, indigenous rights, and many more. Seeing as the first two (or three?) groups alone encompass one hundred per cent of the population, it appears that everyone is now demanding rights.
Has anyone noticed how social media has affected our interaction with other people? And even with fellow Christians?
Ten years ago, we would have considered it abnormal behaviour to go into a room full of people we knew in varying degrees, get up on a chair and start lecturing them on some contentious topic. And doing so knowing perfectly well that our opinion would be offensive to some of those people.
