For June 3, 2026
Is the Blessing Worth the Cursing? by Greg Holmes, D.MIN – Director of Missions serving 17 churches
OUR CHRISTIAN FAITH is not a religion. It is a living and lively relationship that draws its source from a personal interaction with the Person who created us. Because of the various iterations of the melding of church with state and culture that we have grown so used to, we may benefit from considering that the movement of God that came incarnate as the first advent of Jesus began as vehemently counter to the world’s states and cultures. It is not meant first and foremost as an interaction of God embracing the social, political, ethical, and philosophical core values developed by man and then augmenting all of those by adding faith. It is not meant to be popular, hip, or tolerant. God placed Jesus on the earth to shake things up, to make the comfortable feel affliction, to establish values counter to the felt-need driving values so common to man—and especially to bring eternal salvation (cf. John 3:16-17) from the curse initiated by Satan. (cf. Gen. 3:1-19)