Sublime

When leaders are afraid and don’t trust God, followers won’t either.

At the very least, prophecy is truth telling.

We have to be careful about building theology from the Psalms unless it can be backed up elsewhere in Scripture.

Andy Stanley, Johnny Carson, Howard Hendricks, Ronald Reagan, Billy Graham,

God doesn’t stand for a leader who is doing things his own way, disregarding the good of the people, betraying the God of the universe, and seeking selfish gain.

Christ clarifies and specifies the nature, aim, and trustworthiness of all God’s dealings with us because Christ is where those dealings with us come to ultimate fruition.

their leaders are supposed to make decisions by consulting with God.

the intervening years, a religion of the powerful and the dominant, used sometimes as an instrument of oppression, must not tempt us into believing that it was thus in the mind and life of Jesus. “In him was life; and the life was the light of men.” Wherever his spirit appears, the oppressed gather fresh courage; for he announced the good news that