Faith

Hope you are all having a wonderful celebration of the independence of our great country. We are spending the weekend in Des Moines, Iowa, my hometown. So far, we saw Yankee Doodle Pops which is a concert on the grounds of the Iowa capitol. That was a lot of fun. Then yesterday we went...
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Our pastors are currently preaching through the book of 1 Peter and today came to 3:1-8 which is addressed to wives and husbands. The passage starts with a command to wives to be submissive to their husbands. Consider that a minute. The very suggestion seems odd and out of place in our culture. Militant...
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Abby Sunderland wants another crack at sailing around the world solo. A lot of people are making a fuss about the fact that she was making such a dangerous journey anyway. I say: Good for you Abby! Sunderland’s ambition recalls America’s adventurous spirit. I am afraid that spirit is nearly lost. What ever happened...
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Today is the most important day in the entire year for Christians. Every Sunday we celebrate God’s grace and mercy bestowed on us through Jesus. But Easter Sunday we make a special point to remember how he did so. God accomplished what until then could not be done: he satisfied the penalty for sin....
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Persecution is alive and well. Six Christians were killed in Pakistan by extremists. I don’t have a lot of time to comment except to say, pray for the persecuted church. Pray that their faith will be in God and their deaths will not be in vain. The martyrs will be vindicated one day just...
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Fox News has a story up tonight from the Associated Press about disenfranchised home-schoolers. One look at the story tells you it’s a hit piece designed to lash out at Christians for dominating the home-school market. The story quotes a parent (ironically named “Mule”) whose kid got all bent out of shape because she...
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For your reading pleasure: Did you see the Audi ad with the environmental police during the Super Bowl? Jonah Goldberg calls it “Gorewellian.” He wonders if it will sell cars. I was disgusted and let the people I was watching the game with know perhaps crossing some social boundaries. What else is new? The...
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I wonder how many people had the same reaction I did to the Tim Tebow ad put out by Focus on the Family. After all the hype I expected something at least mildly in your face. Instead, the ad was just mild. We learned a couple of things from this escapade. First, anything in...
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In 1923, J Gresham Machen penned Christianity and Liberalism. The inclusion of the conjunction “and” was both intentional and indicative of the thesis of his still-celebrated volume: There is a fundamental difference and distinction between Christianity and Liberalism. The two are at odds, and utterly incompatible with each other. Of course, Machen was referring...
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The US Air Force announced they now have a “worship circle” so Wiccan members can worship the earth…in a circle. Key paragraph from the article: I’d be interested to hear reactions from military people. The military obviously tries to accommodate everyone religiously. I wonder how this works in practice. I have long held the...
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