We get confused and suddenly our actions are working against God’s Will and our own interests — and we don’t even realize it.

Are we going to be unified with the world or unified with the Lord? That’s the challenge that Paul hands down to us here.

God calls us to “civic” expressions of His love when elections go the way we hope and also when they do not.

As we come an election and contemplate how much those around us drive us crazy, God calls us to a different path as the church than what the world says we ought to do. We turn to 1 Timothy 2 for insights into the Lord’s plan for us in a partisan world.