One reason God gives us each other
None of us are God, so we aren’t going to know it all. And sometimes we aren’t even going to know what it is that we don’t know, as John Cleese notes below. That’s one reason God gives us the communion of saints so we can support each other (Eccl. 4:9–12), including learning from our brothers and sisters. As Solomon tells us in Proverbs 12:15: “The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.”
Speak, even if they don’t listen?
Ezekiel was commissioned to speak God’s truth whether His people listened or didn’t. The results aren’t in our hands, but His.
Only two-thirds of US Christians believe we’ve all sinned
If evangelizing to non-Christians is intimidating, George Barna’s latest study shows there’s plenty of evangelism that needs to be done among those who profess to be Christian.
The lesbian seagulls that weren’t
For a while there, Christians who were too afraid or too embarrassed to cite the Bible, would instead try to point out the wrongness of homosexuality by highlighting how “unnatural” it was. And that is certainly true – God designed our parts to interact a certain way, and if you try the other it can result in incontinence.
So it was a thing when an island of lesbian seagulls was discovered – look, homosexuality in nature, so it is natural!
But now it has turned out, the lesbian birds were probably due to some chemicals being sprayed about, and once that stopped, the lesbianism stopped too. So, disappointment for the LGBT advocates.
That doesn’t make the “unnatural” argument one to fall back on again. We live in a broken world, so we can be certain that somewhere in Nature homosexuality exists – shucks, as this author notes, some animals eat their young, so Nature shouldn’t be our guide for how things should be. And even the world knows that. So let’s point them to where guidance can be found, with God, and in His Word.
The secular liturgy of Goodnight Moon
“Here’s the point for Christian parents. Goodnight Moon reads like a bedtime prayer for a reason. Brown’s experimental writing was part of a modernist movement to shape an alternative moral ecology for children…. The next time you read Goodnight Moon with your kids at bedtime, don’t stop at ‘goodnight noises everywhere.’ End your routine with bedtime prayers…”
The Gray Havens’ “Sirens”
The lyrics are worth a read too!
One taste of the sound
From the Sirens in the water
And I’m thinking I should get out
The sharpest sword and suit of armor
So I can be ready to strike
But I pause, one more time
One last taste of the sound
Then I’ll cut these Sirens down
But as they sang, I forgot
They were death, so I brought them my heart
To be filled, and I followed them
No trace could I find
Of any joy the Sirens promised
They had found a way with a lie
To turn what’s good and should be wanted
Into what is highest above, all desires and loves
Til’ my heart would obey
Whatever it wants whatever it takes
To feel alive and set free
Only bound to the sea
Where the sirens are leading me on
Hold on, hold on, my heart
You once were full and sang of grace
Hold on, hold on, my heart
You’ve tasted joy that’s more than this
Hold on, hold on, my heart
You once were full and sang of grace
Hold on, hold on, my heart
You’ve tasted joy that’s more than this
