Why Cant Christians Help Each Other Better? – | Political News

The late Gary S. Paxton, best recognized in music circles as a producer of early Sixties novelty information such as “Alley-Oop” by The Hollywood Argyles and “Monster Mash” by Bobby “Boris” Pickett, recorded a number of Christian albums after his conversion in 1971. They weren’t regular recordings, unless you take into account songs with titles such as “Only Christians Kill Their Wounded” and lyrics to match, normal concern.

Only Christians they kill their wounded
Lonely souls in turmoil likе me
Only Christians kill their wounded
Why cannot thеy attempt to chase away defeat?
While the world tries to help its own
Christians love to throw stones
Why do Christians all the time kill their wounded?

The new episode of Cephas Hour delves into this quagmire, speaking about how telling a hurting particular person they shouldn’t be is as unfeeling and illogical as telling a hungry particular person they might really feel higher if they ate one thing. Like, they don’t know?

You can pay attention to the podcast on-demand at its web site or wherever you get your podcasts as long as it isn’t Spotify. Long story. Hope you take pleasure in it, and thanks.

A last notice relating to the podcast. Thank you to everybody who has reached out during my unplanned absence from the podcast airwaves (podwaves?). I’m hopefully getting back into the swing of issues. A pair of unhappy occasions in May 2025 affecting the Christian music household are talked about late in the show: the passing of The Alarm’s chief Mike Peters, and the sudden death of Derri Daugherty’s (The Choir, The Lost Dogs) son Chance. All love and prayers to their households and buddies.

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The hardest coronary heart is just not all the time discovered among unbelievers. Far too usually, it resides in the believer who has develop into satisfied of their self-righteousness. While one would possibly assume, not without justification, this manifests itself in haughty vanity and delight, such is just not all the time the case.

Self-righteousness usually manifests itself in the non secular equal of what James condemned in the temporal realm:

What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if somebody claims to have religion but has no deeds? Can such religion save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without garments and day by day food. If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their bodily wants, what good is it? In the identical approach, religion by itself, if it isn’t accompanied by motion, is lifeless.

In like method, the believer who encounters a fellow believer struggling with trials attacking the core of their religion, yet who gives nothing in consolation or help save spiritual-sounding platitudes without gravitas, gives nothing. The particular person going through the flames wants a serving to hand, not a backhand delivered while demanding, “Where is your faith?” The particular person struggling from loneliness wants real companionship, not drive-by cliches. The particular person struggling from loss wants understanding, not a common one-size-fits-all cornucopia of easy phrases immediately adopted by a fast departure back to the consolation zone.

Believers going through conditions ranging from tough to, from all appearances, unattainable to endure know that they need Jesus to get them through it all. How will they get back to Him unless those who know Him attain out to them in, through, and with His love?

In Ecclesiastes we discover these phrases:

As you have no idea the trail of the wind,
or how the physique is shaped in a mom’s womb,
so you can not perceive the work of God,
the Maker of all issues.

There are fascinating feedback in this verse’s footnotes offering alternate translations, which go as follows:

As you have no idea how life
enters the physique being shaped in a mom’s womb,
so you can not perceive the work of God,
the Maker of all issues.

The different alternate translation says:

As you have no idea how the spirit
enters the physique being shaped in a mom’s womb,
so you can not perceive the work of God,
the Maker of all issues.

Come to assume of it, despite all of humanity’s scientific developments since a weary Solomon wrote these phrases 1000’s of years in the past, we still have no idea how the Spirit enters the physique. In case it comes up, the verse does testify to the sanctity and humanity of life for the unborn.

It’s a God factor.

The Cross is the great equalizer. We all stand before it, as it ranges the enjoying discipline for all humanity. All of us need it. The only distinction is that some of us comprehend it.

Referencing an earlier remark, the believer who goes through genuinely tough instances is just not unaware that Christ is the reply. The downside is making an attempt to get the questions proper.

Sometimes, one can do nothing besides wait for the therapeutic. There shall be instances when the best we are able to hope for is to be fed by ravens on our approach to Mount Horeb and the still, small voice. It labored out for Elijah. God doesn’t love us any much less than He beloved him. So take coronary heart.

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