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  Have you ever been to the circus and watched the performers walk the tight rope? I have always been fascinated with the bravery of these people. They put their trust in this thin piece of cable. It will only take one little slip up and they can seriously injure themselves. However, the performers continue to trust their preparation and that dreaded cable. We must be the same way with God. We must be brave and step out on the cable of faith and trust that God will keep us. But who do we put our faith and trust in? It is so easy to fall into the trap of putting our trust in people, things or even ourselves. However, none of these things have the the ability to keep us over the long haul. We must seek to fasten our hope to the eternal things . The temporal things like: Money, people, power, toys (cars, houses, devices, earthly pleasures) are just temporary. These things (temporal things) are made for our earthly use and pleasures not our godly purpose. God has made it clear that if we

In today’s world it is acceptable to bash on “Pharisees.”  It can even be cool and hip. But as readers can tell from my earlier post titled “ Are you a Pharisaical anti-Pharisee? ”, I am concerned for the direction and outcome of those who sometimes zealously attack others as “Pharisees.”  With the previous post I specifically addressed how some who oppose “Pharisees” (whether real or imagined) can hypocritically and ironically be quite Pharisaical themselves.  In this current post I want to address another issue concerning the direction of those who are zealous in opposing “Pharisees.” Please note that in this and the previous post I am not defending Pharisees or Phariseeism (what I mean by that is the idea that we can be self-righteous before God by our own works and that we can add more laws more higher than God’s laws).  Instead my intention is to point out our own possible blind spots in opposing Pharisees. In opposing Pharisees, please do not become a Sadducee. What do I mean by