Another article by the Witherspoon Institute. This one is especially interesting if read with the backdrop of how much government involvement is beneficial, desired, and biblical. I will have to do some more reading on the role that the Bible attributes to government. Hope it makes you think, too.
As a side note, the Public Discourse website by the Witherspoon Institute seems to be pretty new, but I am looking forward to reading more from them. Hope they add RSS feeds soon.
The answer, as with so much, is, of course, yes. Would it be a biblical vote? Not at all. Obama’s pro-abortion stance is so obnoxiously obvious, it is beyond me why anyone just slightly concerned by over one million dead babies every year would even consider it.
I found a very good and well written article by Robert P. George of Princeton University. It came my way via the Triablogue crowd. It’s somewhat long, which may turn people off who are used to reading blogs instead of books, but it’s well worth the read.
Ann Coulter on Biden per The Constructive Curmudgeon by Doug Groothuis. I don’t endorse everything Ann Coulter says, but that’s pretty good stuff right there. You sure you want that man as VP? And why doesn’t the mainstream media report on those errors? Oh yeah, the mainstream media are mostly liberal and biased.
EDIT: And another one on Biden, again per Doug Groothuis.
Just listened to a clip of a pastor preaching out of “Horton hears a Who” by Dr Seuss. The Way of the Master guys cross played that with a sermon by Jonathan Edwards’ “Sinners in the hands of an angry God” and it got me thinking. We are somewhat vary of hellfire and brimstone preaching, and to a certain extent rightfully so. However, it has a point, namely to warn sinners of a terrible fate.
Would you like to….
Let’s not lose focus on what our mission regarding unbelievers is. The loving thing to do is to warn them about the eternal consequences of dying unvindicated, however unpleasant it may seem.
Just to clarify, this should be part of every sermon, though the focus of preaching is the edification of the saints according to Ephesians 4.
I’ve know we’re not for a while but never posted anything on it. Bioethicist Wesley J Smith did, so this may be insightful and lead you to further research this.
This comes courtesy of Paul Manata @ Triablogue. Sound familiar? This is the very thing we see today, the logical conclusion of relativism and ultimately evolution.
Then I learned that all moral judgments are ‘value judgments,’ that all value judgments are subjective, and that none can be proved to be either ‘right’ or ‘wrong.’ I even read somewhere that the Chief Justice of the United States had written that the American Constitution expressed nothing more than collective value judgments. Believe it or not, I figured out for myself–what apparently the Chief Justice couldn’t figure out for himself–that if the rationality of one value judgment was zero, multiplying it by millions would not make it one whit more rational. Nor is there any ‘reason’ to obey the law for anyone, like myself, who has the boldness and daring–the strength of character–to throw off its shackles…I discovered that to become truly free, truly unfettered, I had to become truly uninhibited. And I quickly discovered that the greatest obstacle to my freedom, the greatest block and limitation to it, consists in the insupportable ‘value judgment’ that I was bound to respect the rights of others. I asked myself, who were these ‘others?’ Other human beings, with human rights? Why is it more wrong to kill a human animal than any other animal, a pig or a sheep or a steer? Is your life more than a hog’s life to a hog? Why should I be willing to sacrifice my pleasure more for the one than for the other? Surely, you would not, in this age of scientific enlightenment, declare that God or nature has marked some pleasures as ‘moral’ or ‘good’ and others as ‘immoral’ or ‘bad’? In any case, let me assure you, my dear young lady, that there is absolutely no comparison between the pleasure that I might take in eating ham and the pleasure I anticipate in raping and murdering you. That is the honest conclusion to which my education has led me–after the most conscientious examination of my spontaneous and inhibited self. –Ted Bundy, Quoted from Ethics: Discovering Right and Wrong, 5th edition, p.30″
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At the pinnacle of Christian movie reviews, Christianity Today rated Sex and the City higher than The Chronicles of Narnia:Prince Caspian.
Bravo.
Thank you for being a lighthouse for everything that is God-honoring and good in this world of darkness. It’d help if you actually turned on the beacon because I can’t tell a difference between you and the rest of the world…
Found some more cool Christian Hip Hop last week. It’s the GrassRoots EP by Lamp Mode Recordings and you can get it on their website for the one time fee of nothing. Check it out, it’s good stuff and theologically sound.
Way of the Master Radio played some excerpts from one of their artists, Shai Linne. I really liked it so his two albums are in the mail right now and should be here tomorrow or so! Yay!
There’s a good blog post about CNN’s Compassion Forum and human life over at Human Life Matters. Well worth a read.
Albert Mohler wrote a nice article on marriage. Here are some excerpts:
Our culture is so sexually confused that the goods of sex are severed from the vows and obligations of marriage. Thanks to modern technologies, we can have sex without babies, babies without sex, and both without marriage. For many, marriage has become an irrelevancy.
How does marriage glorify God? Tertullian, one of the early church fathers, offers wisdom: “How beautiful, then, the marriage of two Christians, two who are one in home, one in desire, one in the way of life they follow, one in the religion they practice . . . Nothing divides them either in flesh or in spirit . . . They pray together, they worship together, they fast together; instructing one another, encouraging one another, strengthening one another. Side by side they visit God’s church and partake God’s banquet, side by side they face difficulties and persecution, share their consolations. They have no secrets from one another; they never shun each other’s company; they never bring sorrow to each other’s hearts . . . Seeing this Christ rejoices. To such as these He gives His peace. Where there are two together, there also He is present.”
Having been married for over four and a half years now I can say that it’s true. It’s truly an awesome thing. Every day is better than the day before. We have fallen more in love with each other every day. I can’t wait to walk with my wife for many more decades -God willing- and see how God can use it for His glory and what all He has in store for us.