VA Preneed Certificate
I was at my American Legion Post for the monthly food distribution it hosts for the local Resource Center’s Food Bank. Come to find out the VA just rolled out a new pre-need program to help with VA burials. This should take some of the burdens off the recently bereaved.
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Christians & the Immigration Crisis: A Few Thoughts
From DBTS blog. Used with permission.
Donald Trump’s stay on admitting certain immigrants has brought out a raft of evangelical critics, especially those who see everything as an immediate gospel issue. Arguing from the facts that (1) God says nice things about foreigners in the Bible (e.g., Lev 19:33–34) and that (2) we have to be nice to foreigners or we’ll never have an audience with them to share the gospel, these express astonishment that a Christian could ever support an immigration ban of any sort. How, we might ask, can the gospel be forwarded if we anger or injure those to whom we are sent with the gospel?
It’s a redirection of the selfsame arguments that pacifists have been using for centuries to oppose war—and just as misguided. The following are a few thoughts in response:
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