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There Are People Who Are Dangerous, And Evil Is Real.

But What Had Lasting Significance Were Not The Miracles Themselves But Jesus' Love. Jesus Raised His Friend Lazarus From The Dead, And A Few Years Later, Lazarus Died Again. Jesus Healed The Sick, But Eventually Caught Some Other Disease. He Fed The Ten Thousands, And The Next Day They Were Hungry Again. But We Remember His Love. It Wasn't That Jesus Healed A Leper But That He Touched A Leper, Because No One Touched Lepers.

For Even If The Whole World Believed In Resurrection, Little Would Change Until We Began To Practice It. We Can Believe In Cpr, But People Will Remain Dead Until Someone Breathes New Life Into Them. And We Can Tell The World That There Is Life After Death, But The World Really Seems To Be Wondering If There Is Life Before Death.

The Death Penalty Has Succeeded In America, Not In Spite Of Christians, But Because Of Us. The Bible Belt Is The Death Belt. Wherever Christians Are Most Concentrated Is Where Executions Are Happening, And That's Deeply Troubling To Me.

A Pastor Friend Of Mine Said, "our Problem Is That We No Longer Have Martyrs. We Only Have Celebrities.