Thursday, August 30, 2007

Communicating

You do not have the option of communicating or not communicating.

The only option you have is how well you choose to do it.

Yoder

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Do Words Have Meaning?

I came across this excerpt from a book of Charles Colson:

In a culture with moral AIDS, words lose all meaning; or they are manipulated to obscure meaning....But when words lose their meaning, it is nearly impossible for the Word of God to be received. If sin and repentance mean nothing, then God's grace is irrelevant. Our preaching falls on deaf ears.

This moral deafness leads to disaster. The Scriptures tell us it was when people accepted King Ahab's gross evils as "trivial" that fearsome judgment befell ancient Israel.

Certainly evil is to be expected in a fallen world. What is not expected is for a holy people to accept it. If Christ is Lord of all, Christians must recapture their sense of moral outrage.

(From Who Speaks for God by Charles Colson)

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Let The Truth Lead The Way In Iraq

"My biggest concern is that we are approaching a point in the debate on Iraq where facts no longer matter."
Congressman Mac Thornberry

I think we past that point a long time ago. Read the rest of Thornberry's editorial.