A Thought for the New Year
I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death. Philippians 1:20(NIV) Are we ashamed? Do we (I) have courage? While channel surfing last night during commercial breaks, I ran across a movie on TBN. It caught my attention, because a guy was heckling another guy in a diner about being a Christian. He also would insult him by calling him Jesus. It was obvious that the heckler was trying to make the Christian mad so he could prove the point he was trying to make, that all Christians where "hypocrites". The Christian young man eventually responded very quietly and caring about God's love for him. No matter what he said, the heckling continued and even got to the point I thought the guy(heckler) was going to hit him (Christian). When the food for the Christian arrived, he did however reach and pick it up and messed up the plate. After all that, the ...