Passion Means Persecution

Passion Means Persecution
Psalm 68: 1-18

I dreamed last night that I was being taken to court for preaching. The question “If you were prosecuted for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?” is a cliché, but it’s a clever and thought-provoking one. When my wife recently drew my attention to a sensible article about the Christian faith in a British journal, it struck me that it would be harder to find such an article in a journal in the United States because of the intensity of the culture wars (the faults are on both sides). Both atheists/agnostics and Christians (or Jews or Muslims) can feel that they are being persecuted or treated with prejudice...