"The time has come for wimpy, conservative, Bible-believing evangelical Christians to get over their cowardice and to parley with God until they decide to be courageous enought to tell the truth to a watching world, then to get ready because God will give them an army to follow after. God bless us all."
--Paige Patterson, in Pastoral Leadership for Manhood and Womanhood.
Monday, June 7, 2010
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Gov. Jindal, build your berms
The Louisiana governor, charged with protecting the citizens of his state as much as possible from things such as ecological disaster, and also cognizant of his state's relation to others via the national government and the U.S. Constitution, is torn: build some sand berms to buffer fragile ecosystems from an advancing oil slick, or honor the looming figure of Uncle Sam personified at present through the person of President Obama.
Apparently gaining the approval of Uncle Sam is a process mired in red tape and the detached, intellectual conservationism of those who are far removed -- geographically and emotionally -- from the myriad oil-covered carcasses washing up on Louisiana's shore, and whose concern would only reach rational levels when the oil problem affected their consumption of imported shrimp and crawfish etouffee.
Let's just say, hypothetically, that Louisiana built its protective sand dunes without the approval of the feds. Would the present administration actually put itself in the position of bringing in U.S. military engineers to remove them?
Gov. Jindal, build your berms.
Apparently gaining the approval of Uncle Sam is a process mired in red tape and the detached, intellectual conservationism of those who are far removed -- geographically and emotionally -- from the myriad oil-covered carcasses washing up on Louisiana's shore, and whose concern would only reach rational levels when the oil problem affected their consumption of imported shrimp and crawfish etouffee.
Let's just say, hypothetically, that Louisiana built its protective sand dunes without the approval of the feds. Would the present administration actually put itself in the position of bringing in U.S. military engineers to remove them?
Gov. Jindal, build your berms.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin': what Journey tells us about Jesus
Well, not much, really. But Journey's interest in satisfaction of that craving for physical contact does reveal something profound about man's interaction with the world through his senses.
In 1 John 1:1-4, great emphasis is placed on the tangible qualities of the incarnation of the eternal Word. Our craving for physical contact with the Divine, lost in the Fall in the garden of Eden, is satisfied somehow in the Word made flesh, and the proclamation of Him is vital for fellowship (communion) with the Father, with the Son, and with each other.
(Audio here.)
In 1 John 1:1-4, great emphasis is placed on the tangible qualities of the incarnation of the eternal Word. Our craving for physical contact with the Divine, lost in the Fall in the garden of Eden, is satisfied somehow in the Word made flesh, and the proclamation of Him is vital for fellowship (communion) with the Father, with the Son, and with each other.
(Audio here.)
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