You think you’re right but you have been wrong plenty of times

Politics and I do not go in the same sentence.

It gives me a migraine looking at Facebook and everyone throwing your two cents into the political conversation.  Neither candidate is a saint nor are they the devil in human skin.  Yet I have seen everything in-between on Facebook and Twitter from both sides of the situation. When we think we have all the answers we can have none of the answers.

I pray Christians care more about keeping people from hell then this election.  We as humans do not have all the answers, nor will we ever.  Sometimes we can get stuck in-between a rock and a hard place.  Yet it’s still not as bad as Paul had it.

He was standing up for what he believed in and that was Jesus.  He believed in a resurrected Christ and lived his life for him.  You don’t read in the Bible about Christians voting in an election but you hear how they are put on trial for that faith.  Paul was on trial for a great chunk of time.

He was sent to Festus with his accusers.  His accusers were lying about him and saying he did stuff that wasn’t true.  Yet he faced politics.  Festus felt he owed the Jews a favor and tried to move the trial to Jerusalem. This could have been a death sentence to Paul.

Paul answered with this in Acts 25:10-11…

“I am now standing before Caesar’s court, where I ought to be tried.  I have not done any wrong to the Jews, as you yourself know very well. If, however, I am guilty of doing anything deserving death, I do not refuse to die.  But if the Jews are not true, no one has the right to hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar!”

As a Roman citizen he had the right to appeal to Caesar with his case.  He knew the bad things that could happen in Jerusalem and went the other way.  Sometimes you have to fight for what you believe in.  Paul believed in Jesus and was willing to stand trial for him.

Would you be willing to do the same for your faith?  Faith goes beyond who you vote for, it’s so much more.  If you are a Christian please think about someone who might be going to hell and try to show them the eternal life that Jesus offers. 

Have a great day.

Don’t tell your brother to shut up, Just shut up about Jesus and does Tebow ever shut up about Jesus

When one kid is happy another is ticked.

For parents, have you experienced this?

My wife and I were talking last night how hard it is for all three of our kids to be happy at the same time.

It seems like at least one of them is mad about something.

When they are fighting just like when I was a kid, one will get mad at the other one and start yelling.

Shut up or leave me alone is soon to come.

I remember doing it as a kid and now I see my own kids do it.

Telling each other to shut up.

We try to ask them to say it a different way, but it still comes out with the same tone and attitude.

Sometimes the quietness afterwards helps out and other times it does not.

We like to quiet someone else up when they don’t speak about something we like.

We are filled with a world that either loves or hates Tim Tebow.

I have heard people complain about him talking about faith.

This is what Tebow said in an article about his faith…

“If your’re married, and you really love your wife, is it good enough to only say to your wife ‘I love her’ the day you get married? Or should you tell her every single day when you wake up and every opportunity?”

He follows up by saying this…

“My relationship with Jesus Christ is the most important thing in my life.  So any time I get an opportunity to tell him that I love him or given an opportunity to shout him out on national TV, I’m gonna take that opportunity.  And so I look at it as a relationship that I have with Him that I want to give Him the honor and glory anytime I have the opportunity.”

You talk about what you  love?

What does your Facebook say about you today?

If you look back at what you share, what your status updates say and how you comment to other people, what would people say about you?

Tebow wants the world to know how important Jesus is to him.

Is he important to you?

Or is he someone you just don’t want talked about?

In Acts chapter 4, Peter and John just healed the crippled man and now found themselves having to answer to the Supreme Court of religion.

They answered very boldly in Acts 4:12…

“Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”

When the religious leaders got together to talk about the situation, they found out these were normal men speaking at a scholarly level.

They did a miracle and couldn’t prove otherwise.

But they did not want the message of Jesus to spread.

They went back to Peter and John and told them to shut up.

Peter and John spoke boldly in verse 19-20…

“Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God’s sight to obey you rather than God.  For we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

The Supreme Court like figures let them go, but threatened them again not to mention the name of Jesus.

Jesus has done so much my life that I cannot deny.

I can honestly say I don’t think I would be married today if it wasn’t for Jesus in my life.

What do you speak up about?

What do you stay silent about?

When you look at Facebook and look at what you have talked about, you can see what is important to you?

Is there something you want to be talking about more?

Is there something you need to be talking about less?

Have a great day.