I feel an increasing urgency to share Jesus. Time is short. Some years ago, a pastor in Havana, Cuba, invited me and a Honduran evangelist to dinner. In their culture, many have servants. When their maid brought our first course, the evangelist asked her, “What’s your name?”
“Maria.”
“Maria, do you know Jesus?”
“No.”
“Would you like to?”
“Yes.”
And he led her in a prayer of salvation. Then she served the dinner.
Some Scriptures are just plain scary: “But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars―their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulphur. This is the second death” (Revelation 21:8).I mean, that terrible list seems to include everybody! What’s more, it’s Jesus himself speaking. Are […]
To suggest David was gay, misrepresents both his culture and his covenant. In his lament for his friend, David wrote, “I grieve for you, Jonathan my brother; you were very dear to me. Your love for me was wonderful, more wonderful than that of women” (2 Samuel 1:26). Many have inferred David had a physical relationship with Jonathan. Culture Homosexuality was […]