At Ease in Zion (Amos 6) On national holidays Christians ought to be patriotic, but not in a heedless manner. The United States is not God's chosen people. Only Israel in the Old Testament and the worldwide church in the New Testament era are God's chosen people. Nevertheless, our government embodies…

Paul addresses the Jews who had developed 2 significant misunderstandings about what it meant for them to be the descendants of Abraham. It is all too easy for the church today to fall into these same kinds of misunderstandings, so we want to be sure we are walking in true faith.