The world wants to bombard us with negative images and stories. But when we think only about the bad things happening in the world or in our lives, it has a negative effect on our physical, mental, and spiritual health.
The Power of Pure Religion
Have you ever met someone, as the saying goes, who was “all talk and no action”? They went to church religiously but they never got engaged in kingdom work. They claimed to love Jesus but outside of church no one could tell by how they talked or walked that they even knew Jesus. Religion for the sake of religion, or religion as a set of repetitive rituals, is empty and powerless, but religion as the overflow of a right relationship with Jesus Christ is a powerful force in the world.