Is the End Near?
Unrest in the Middle-East usually brings out the doomsdayers and prophecy hounds. I can hardly wait not to read the next bizarre book . . . “Muammar Gaddafi is the Antichrist! The battle of Armageddon is just around the corner! The end is near!” And of course all this turbulence, plus the earthquakes in Haiti, New Zealand, and Japan, were all predicted in the book of Revelation! Oh yeah!
Time for a fact check:
Check out Joe's article at the link above.
Luke 20 presents the final moments of conflict between Jesus and the Jewish religious authorities, ending with the Lord's warning to his disciples against the scribes' greed.
Click on the tiny link above for the article. Worth your time, even if I did write it. ;-)
We tend to think that spirituality means escaping the concern with detail. Spiritual people, we think, live simple lives. They don’t worry about mortgages and dentist appointments and going to church committee meetings. They wear sandals, meditate and feed the birds. But that is not the biblical understanding of spirituality. According to the Bible, the obstacle to our spirituality is not that we pay attention to the details of life, but that we pay too much attention to the wrong details.
See the link above for suggestions on details that Jesus didn't worry about. Do you agree?