Peacemaking means waging spiritual warfare against evil, David Balyeat believes. So, if Christians want to stop violence along the Texas/Mexico border, peacemaking prayer warriors need to report for duty on the battlefield, he insists.
On Easter, my pastor asked, "What if life is like a big iceberg?" He encouraged the congregation to think of God's working beyond the small bit of reality — the tip of the iceberg — of members' experience. Perhaps an argument could be made that
Easter’s secular trappings are over for another year. Sally Forth has bitten the ears off the chocolate bunny in her comic strip, baskets have been put away, and the plastic grass has just about all come out of the carpet.
And Easter