Friday, November 16, 2007
Thursday, November 15, 2007
C.S. Lewis
"You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness."
--The Weight of Glory
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
I am thankful Dear Lord...
for all the freedoms I enjoy as a citizen of the United States of America.
Monday, November 12, 2007
Sunday, November 11, 2007
BibleGateway.com- Commentaries » 1 John 2 » Warnings Against Unfaithfulness
BibleGateway.com- Commentaries » 1 John 2 » Warnings Against Unfaithfulness: "The command do not love the world demands that we reject those ways of life which do not lead us to God or to the practice of truth, justice, righteousness and love. While this sounds easy enough in theory, it is not easy in practice. For it entails the recognition and condemnation of sin and unrighteousness. Here we can too easily fall prey to arrogant judgmentalism on the one hand or, on the other hand, to the subtle tug to let sinful behaviors pass unnoticed or unnamed in our efforts to love and accept people as they are. And yet acceptance and love of others never means that we must--or may--approve of a way of life that is inimical to God's way of light. Certainly Jesus knew his ministry to be one that exposed sin (Jn 16:8-10). Yet a ministry of exposing the unright eousness of the world's ways does not stand in contradiction to a min istry of love. For precisely by exposing sin, lies and hatred, we can become channels of God's truth, light and love, so that we enable others to live in that truth as well. But let us remember the epistle's admonitions to confess our own sins, and so let judgment begin at home."