(Originally written for The Baldwin Bulletin: Pastor's Column March 17, 2021) What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?...Do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”? But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you…Do not speak evil against one another, brothers... (James 4:1-12) Every week, if not every day, it seems like there’s a new “crisis” people identify and are outraged over. Whether you’re a Christian or not, on the right or the left, the middle or associating with other ideologies, whether you consider yourself “woke” or any other cause or position you want to attach to yourself—people can find something to be worked up about. Some of the causes for outrage, anger, pain, or outcry are leg
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