) Cleanliness is close to Godliness?  Didn't arrive in our world until a sermon in 1778! (source here) How about decorating our churches with pews, pulpits, and crosses?  Oh wait, in the New Covenant, the church isn't even a building.  Then there’s Karma, the idea that if life is bad, you've done bad, if life is good, you've done good. Folks that's about as anti-Christ as you get.  It was Jesus who said in the Sermon on the Mount, "the rain falls on the just and the unjust alike."  (Matthew 5:45)  It was His follower Paul who said, "the wages of sin is death,"  (Romans 6:23) and "all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God."  (Romans 3:23) Truth is folks, we deserve death and we can't do enough good deeds to deserve good in life.  The scales of Karma just don't fit with sin and God's Justice. And that's the good news of the Gospel.  Christ came to save us and offered grace and adoption to all the lost and wayward children of the world.  We may deserve death, but Christ came with the Grace of Life as a free gift.  So, for the believer, karma is dead, and Christ reigns supreme.   I don't believe in karma, but I believe in the grace of Christ. Today, be grateful for that unmerited favor of grace and kick Karma to the curb by sharing grace with others.  You'll be glad you did.  Click the logo below and subscribe to automatically receive these Podcasts every weekday morning on Google Play Music or iTunes.    Message Minutes are sponsored by  Washington Church of Christ and recorded for the public 107.9 The Memories WAMW morning radio program.  They air at approximately 7:35am on Weekday Mornings. To find more of the Message Minutes that have been uploaded to this blog CLICK HERE.   To subscribe to a Message Minute podcast feed on iTunes or other podcast player, copy the following URL into your subscription list. http://feeds.feedburner.com/topherwiles/MessageMinute