In early July John Paul expressed `bitterness for the insult’ of homosexual men and women gathering in Rome during the grand Jubilee of the year 2000. In addition, the Pope underscored the “offense to Christian values” that, he said, was caused by homosexuals. The Pope’s
“… we must ask ourselves whether or not we are angry with God. We must learn how to feel that anger and not deny it. We must learn to trust God enough to bring that anger into our prayers and share it with God. Remember
I think it goes without saying that most of us have a lot of anger at God for our situations as gay and lesbian believers. It seems to me that just the experience of being gay and Christian, at least in our present society, naturally
Too often I hear people talk guiltily about feeling anger toward God. More often than not, we get angry at God over things over which we have no control. If we don’t control it, God must – someone has to be in control! It may
It seems that from our very youngest days we have developed the habit of asking “Why?” Our young, inquiring minds need to learn the explanation for everything we see and hear, and even for the absence of some things and people from our lives. As
The Jews enslaved in Egypt, no doubt were angry with God and thought He had abandoned them. Certainly the Indians wondered where the Great Spirit had gone when the whites came and took their land and lives. The Africans captured and brought here as slaves
A lot of people may get a chuckle from this title, knowing that I am bisexual, but I thought that the topic for this issue of Whosoever would be a great time to talk about one of the miracles in my own life that came
For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death. (2 Corinthians 7:10) When one belongs to God, he or she is eventually forced into a corner where he or she must say “Amen” to
I think we concentrate a bit too much on how we feel and a bit too little on what we’re meant to do. Most of the time, God doesn’t call us to feel good about how He is running the world but to play the
When I reflect on our anger with God, I immediately remembered of how Adam reacted when God confronted him about eating the forbidden fruit that Adam thought would “make him become like God.” God asked Adam, “What have you done?” Adam blamed God and the