It’s tragic, on multiple levels, to watch young Islam men blowing themselves up in the name of Allah.  They’re too young to be gripped by such hatred.  Innumerable lives are destroyed, all because they believed a lie.  Someone told them, likely an elder, that their god would be pleased if they killed Americans in his name.

In I Thessalonians 5, Paul is exhorting the church to be “alert and self-controlled” while awaiting Jesus’ second coming.   He writes, encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing. (vs. 11)