In my opinion, if you’re shacking up with someone and can go to church and sit there comfortably, without conviction, there’s something wrong with the church.
Pastor LeRoy Sullivan, of Bread of Life Outreach Ministry, had similar thoughts. He was disturbed about the fornication among his church’s members, so he’s now preaching the value of marriage, something that every pastor is supposed to preach anyway.
The world needs to hear some real preaching like “Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God”, by Jonathan Edwards.
I did a radio interview yesterday afternoon, my second. The host of a local station in Utah wanted to discuss my article, “Why Courting the Black Vote Won’t Work.” I was much more relaxed and professional (less stuttering!) than I was in the first one. The recording is not available online so I’ll try to upload it to my blog.
This host was also non-hostile. I’ve got a feeling that one day soon I’ll run up against a wolf in sheep’s clothing, pretending to agree with me and then…Bam! Suddenly I’m on the air defending myself against false accusations and an onslaught of loaded questions from crazy callers who “slipped though.” Maybe I watch too much TV.
What was this guy smoking? He told one of his black students that he needed to “send her back to Africa” for being absent.
A black woman who said a college professor told her she needed to go back to Africa has asked for an apology and said the incident prompted her to drop out of school.
She shouldn’t have quit school over this, but I certainly understand her anger. Why, in this politically correct, overly sensitive racial climate would you say to a black person, even in jest, that you’d send them back to Africa?
Watching the New Hampshire primary, you’d get the impression that John Kerry was President of the United States.
So a bunch of white people in New Hampshire and Iowa think Kerry should be president. Big deal. Hold a primary in Oakland, California or anywhere in Texas and see what happens. For such an “inclusive” party, I notice a distinct lack of color in the all-important primaries.
The husband of a billionare said this with a straight face: “I ask Democrats everywhere to join us so we can defeat George W. Bush and the economy of privilege, and so that we can fulfill the ideal of opportunity not just for some but for all Americans.”
Economy of privilege??? Big Ketchup v. Big Oil: The Showdown Continues. The man lives very well married to a woman worth a fortune, the result of her dead first husband’s hard work, and Kerry has the gall to talk about the “economy of privilege?”
Wake me up when it’s over.
More conservative club bashing. Another high schooler tries to start a conservative club to counteract the ubiquitous liberal bent in government-run schools.
In the newsletter, Bueler calls for a crackdown on “every Muhammad, Jamul and Jose who wishes to leave his third world state to come to America, mostly illegally.”
This statement is inflammatory, I’ll admit. Without going off the politically correct deep end, I think some sensitivity is warranted. However, the kid should be protected against liberal thugs who turn out not to be so tolerant after all! Reading stories like this and the ones about Affirmative Action bake sales remind me of the way I treated people like this back in my liberal days. When I was in law school, there was a group called the Western Heritage Society that may or may not have been off the wall (I can’t remember). Its leader was bold in his commitment to preserving “western heritage.” To my liberal ears, that was code for “Racism!” At the time, I couldn’t appreciate nor tolerate different points of view.
What’s the surest way to increase a teenager’s risk of incurable diseases, cervical cancer, pregnancy, infertility, abortion, a broken heart, a jaded view of love and marriage, and doom a child to poverty and fatherlessness?
Teach her how to put a condom on a cucumber.
Despite all these risks and many more, taxpayers spent 12 times more promoting so-called safe sex education than abstinence in 2002, according to a new report released by the Heritage Foundation. Taxpayers contributed $1.73 billion to “safe sex” programs and $144.1 million on abstinence education.
After a few Advils and hours of playing with this thing, I think I’ve got my Atom feed working.
…with this new RSS feed Blogger just came up with. It’s called Atom, and I don’t find the “instructions” very helpful. I followed them but it hasn’t worked for me. To anyone with Blogspot who’s set it up or any technically savvy geek (I admire computer geeks!) out there, e-mail me at *** or leave a comment. It’s much appreciated!
Yesterday was the thirty-first anniversary of Roe v. Wade. I’d forgotten. Last night I was listening to a radio show called Family Life Today, and I was reminded. The host, Dennis Rainey, was interviewing a woman named Carol Everett. She’d had an abortion shortly after the Roe v. Wade ruling.
Afterward, Ms. Everett worked for the man who’d aborted her child for the next six years. She described her high pressure sales mentality and her $25.00 commission per abortion, convincing women to come in and have their babies killed. Ms. Everett’s teenage daughter even worked there for a time.
As this woman described what happened after a 32 year-old woman with two kids died after she bled out from a botched abortion, my heart sank. I don’t usually listen to Family Life Today and this was a story I really didn’t want to hear. But I was riveted.
Ms. Everett is now saved, but she clearly still feels overwhelming guilt from that time in her life. The host gave her such words of comfort, that I was overcome with emotion and began to cry. The host quoted two passages of Scripture:
For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us. Psalm 103:11-12
and:
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. Romans 8:1-2
What an awesome God we worship! The Bible is filled with such comforting passages. No matter what we’ve done in our wretched lives, once we come to Christ, repent of our sins, accept Him as Lord and Savior and submit to Him, there is no more condemnation.
The weight of those words touched my heart, and I praised God. I’m so very thankful, eternally grateful that He had mercy on me. I love Him because He first loved me.
“Finding Life in the Redeemer” is the name of the show. Listen to all three days’ worth.
Read Chuck Colson’s latest commentary.
