Marriage

We can't expect our society to affirm biblical marriage if we don't as the Church. Until we crusade with vigor against divorce in the Church we should expect to be ignored outside the Church when we crusade against gay marriage. I hate to say it, but on this issue we are correctly labeled as hypocrites. We point fingers at homosexual sin while giving a wink and a nod to heterosexual sins.

Time

I have a few posts I'd like to write, but no time to do so.  C'est la vie.

Isn't that funny.  I'm trying to learn Spanish and Greek and the only saying I know is in French, of which I have no knowledge!

Osama Bin Laden

My wife woke me up last night to tell me that Osama Bin Laden had been killed and his body taken after a nearly 10 year manhunt.  The 1st words out of my mouth were "Sweet".  After reflecting on that for a moment my mind went from being thankful that he had received justice to being remorseful that he would be receiving justice for the rest of eternity. 

I know that one day I will praise God for all those He justly condemns to Hell, but in my flesh I feel sorrow for them.  Ultimately it brings me to one thought. 

Thank you Father for your great mercy.

Question abour Sovereignty

I so often hear people say that God is sovereign and that He never fails to accomplish anything He purposes to do. A few minutes later I hear them say that God tries to save everyone but people reject Him. So can someone who believes everything in the 1st two sentences explain to me how God tries to save everyone but fails to do so and yet is still sovereign?

Eostre

Disclaimer: I don't have a problem with easter eggs. 

Question: Why do we, followers of Christ, get worked up about "Holiday Trees" and all that jazz at Christmas, but we celebrate the death and resurrection or our Lord by hunting for rabbit eggs on Easter?

Quick note...Easter gets its name from Eostre, the name for a Germanic fertility goddess. At least Holiday originally meant Holy Day.

Final Note: Again, I don't have a problem with Easter or the egg hunts, but it seems as though the Passion Week, as well call it, is full of potential celebrations, feasts, outreach opportunities, times of prayer, reflection, and meditation that could fill the entire week with Christ, but we as modern day Christians show our shallowness by having the most memorable thing of the weekend being our kids running around looking for eggs with candy in them. Just sayin'... seems like we've gone from Beethoveen and Michealangelo to modern Christian creativity of copying every cool new fad and putting it on a t-shirt with our "Holidays" as well as our art. 

 

Final, final Note: Dare I say....perhaps we like the shallowness because a robust week would require us to drop all other things to celebrate the Passion Week? 

Sometimes...

doing what is required and you desire to do is hard.  I always tell my kids, "You do what you're supposed to even if everyone around you isn't."  Easy to say, hard to do.

Huh...

Haven't had time to post in a while so I thought I'd....blah, blah, blah, blah, blah....and that about does it for today's post.  Hope you have a good week.