A great friend and Word guy, Max Smith, sent me this email. I think it’s worth repeating.  Max wrote:

What would you call someone who…

went around afflicting people with cancer?

who went around killing infants in their cribs?

who went around causing accidents that killed teens?

flew planes into buildings to teach people a lesson?

would cause terrible storms that kill thousands of people?

went about giving husbands and fathers heart attacks so

their wife and kids could “learn from their suffering”?

What would you call them?

In religious America, we call him God.  And that is a lie.

It’s sad, but true.  You want to know God?  Read about him in

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.  Do you think he’s changed? 
Seriously.  Do you REALLY think he’s changed?  He hasn’t.

He is life.  He is the Redeemer.  He is a lover.  He is the healer.

Watch the work of Jesus in these four books and ask then ask

yourself, I mean seriously ask yourself, “do I REALLY think that

God is doing these horrible things?”  Where did this stuff come

from?  These all came from the father of lies, satan.  He has used

the religious American church to blame God for his (satan’s) own

evil work.  So, how do we change it?  Preach the gospel.  Give

people the WORD.  It is CLEAR.  It is TRUTH.  God is really,

really, really, GOOD.