About This Video
To truly find freedom and understand life fully, one must embrace truth without fear, even when it's uncomfortable or reveals harsh realities. However, truth should always be paired with mercy; extending love and kindness to those who may not deserve it highlights our common human fallibility and aligns our actions with compassion.
To foster a more compassionate society, prioritize love, mercy, gentleness, and kindness, particularly towards those who have fallen, reflecting the principle that the goodness of God leads to repentance. Emphasize that human anger does not achieve God's righteousness, and encourage extending mercy to others as we hope to receive it ourselves.
Truth and Mercy
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Show 22 McKenna Denson Review
May 28st 2019
We have the pleasure of having the return of Dave Donaldson tonight for our second part talking about his work in and among prisons – and we will get to that in a moment.
But first a couple of quick things. Remember – Sunstone SLC – I’ve been invited to speak on Thursday August 1 so go to Sunstonemagazine.org online and register – I would love to see you there as I give one of the most important speeches of my life.
Then on Saturday, September 7 this year I have the great opportunity to go to London and speak at the Sunstone Symposium there as well. So if you are living in the British Isles or even on the Continent come on into London town and say hello.
Addressing McKenna Denson
Okay – I want to address McKenna Denson tonight and what is going on with her. In so doing I get the opportunity to talk about two of my favorite five letter words in the English language. The first is . . . truth – we have even named our ministry after this word using the Greek – AlatheaMinistries.
In my estimation we should want the truth about all things in our lives because as Jesus plainly said, the Truth will make us free. I can honestly say that I want the truth about all matters in my life – if I got cancer, let’s hear it. If Jesus is a fraud, gimme the proof, if South Mountain Church preys upon the masses, say it loud and clear – because the truth will set people free.
The purpose and point of this show is to let our views get to the truth – to assess people and things on their own in the face of information and interviews and to check the facts out for themselves.
In September of 2018 we gathered here and interviewed Mckenna Denson and heard her tell the tale of her life. Anyone who watched the shows had to know that something was off with McKenna and her stories. We knew it here. On a break between takes I actually asked Wendy: “How many times can a person get raped?”
The bomb dropped when she said that she was served cake a PF Chang’s with razor blades in it. Right there I was done in my mind with the veracity of McKenna’s stories. And I am of the opinion that any and all with a modicum of discernment would come to the same conclusion. Just like they would when listening to Kwaku El, or any other guest with a story to tell.
The important point I hope to impress upon you all tonight, the point I hope you can see, is in the case of McKenna, or Kwaku, or anyone else in our lives that we sense a disconnect, or implausibility, is we don’t have to challenge their every word. We know the truth and the truth has set us free.
Mercy as a Response
I mean how often are we dealing with people of moral turpitude – and know it – but allow them to play present a charade? All the time. Human beings lie, they make up tales, they stab us in the back, and they are not what they seem.
The question is, how will you and I relate to them? Will we alienate them with vitriol and anger and condemnation OR will we apply the second favorite five letter word for tonight?
Mercy. Compassion is when we feel bad for the plight of someone that is undeserved. Mercy is when we extend love and gentleness and kindness to those who do NOT deserve it. We are all fallen – I don’t care who you are – you have moral culpability for something that is egregious in your life. It’s a good thing to face it, and admit it, and change it.
And pointing the negative truth out about others to the other is a good thing when led. But hand in hand with the truth must come mercy – full and complete mercy for the one exposed – for the simple reason we all are guilty before Him.
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McKenna is getting a taste of her own medicine here. She ardently proposed the public exposure of criminals in their sacred meetings – something I am against – and today she is receiving the same treatment.
The World’s Response to McKenna Denson
From the sacred pulpit of social media.
But ours is a merciless world. It loves to see people fall and when they are down, we love to kick them to a bloody deathSeparation from God—now overcome. Physical death remains, but it no longer separates us from life with God.. I would suggest another approach to our sister – love, mercy, gentleness, and kindness.
For as it reads in Romans “it is the goodness of God that leads to repentance!” And as it says in The anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God.
Truth and Mercy
The truth about McKenna Denson has now been confirmed. Okay. Good. Understood. We know the score. We can be wise. Now let’s show her mercy in the face of her crimes – the same type of mercy we hope to have from the hands of our God as he clearly sees us for who we are too.
Guest Introduction
And with that on our lips, let’s get to our esteemed guest tonight, brother Dave Donaldson, who knows a lot about truth and mercy. Dave – what up?
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