As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
“Help us,” one of the detainees, Carla Thompson, said Monday as she lay on a bed in a scorching jail cell about 8 feet by 5 feet, her ankles bandaged from infected mosquito bites. “That’s the message I would give to Mr. Obama and the State Department. Start helping us.”
Unless you reason outside the box of human reason, you can forget about understanding the Jesus of the Bible. Only those willing and able to break the constraints of common experience and human rationalism can hope to make any sense of Jesus’ life and ministry.
Here’s an idea - why don’t the Clintons mobilize their considerable powers of office and help Haitian officialdom understand what normal people automatically comprehend: The Baptist missionaries were sacrificing their blood, sweat and tears in Haiti not for their own sake, but for those who are suffering.
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