God's yes to the political powers no

April 18th, Acts 10: "We are witnesses of everything he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a tree, but God raised him from the dead on the third day and caused him to be seen. Even Paul could not help himself from putting in a little dig against the powers that crucified Christ. It is easy to point to one particular group as the guilty ones, Hitler proved that. And in proving it he also showed just how easy domination systems can find a scape goat on which to blame the problems of the world. Today is the Arab community (who we all too easily refer to as Islamic terrorists, and the immigrants. Last week it was the gay agenda and the tax and spend liberals. God's yes to Jesus is God's no to our name calling and marginalizing of others. What is your part of the domination system? Today, ask yourself how you participate in this same system that God said no to in raising Jesus from the dead