From rescuing children who have been victimized in the global sex trade to fighting for freedom in North Korea or caring for orphans in Indonesia, the Jubilee Campaign, a catholic organization which seeks to minister to the suffering and persecuted church, carries on a vast array of projects around the world. You can review some of them here: http://www.jubileecampaign.org/action_current.asp
Having spent much time with Filipinos lately, I am on alert for stories related to the Philippines. Sadly, there is a news report from Catobato this morning detailing a church bombing. At least 5 people were killed and 30 injured as a Catholic church was bombed during morning mass. There continues to be on-going tension between muslims and Christians in the region. I have met a number of believers in this region of Mindanao, and the tension is always on their minds. Pray for believers in the Catobato region of Mindanao, Philippines. (See news story here)
If you haven’t seen the video below, you owe it to yourself to taste this little slice of Southern pie. If you ever wonder what it’s like to live in Kentucky…
You may have seen this article already; it speaks of President Obama’s fresh appeal for Americans to embrace homosexuality. I find it curious that he categorizes the arguments against homosexuality as “worn arguments and old attitudes.”
It seems to me that Obama exemplifies our desire to be glib, haughty, and, of course, hip. Americans, apparently, don’t want to be left out when it comes to being cool. What I find curious, though, is how we moved from being a people who trusted time-proven truth to a people who only long for the hippest fad. Perhaps, we could rephrase Obama’s categorization and say that the arguments against homosexuality are not “worn and old” but “tried and true.”
It is unusual for an article to be both frustrating and exciting, but this article accomplishes the feat remarkably well. In relation to the 500th Anniversary of Calvin’s birth, this article grossly misrepresents what Calvinism is and why it is gaining influence. At the same time, however, the article focuses attention on the tsunami of Calvinist soteriology in America.
The opening paragraph, like the closing paragraph, displays both ignorance and unmerited hostility. Nevertheless, the energy is clearly in the court of the young Calvinists, which makes ours such an exciting time to be Christian in America. Check out the article here.
This article bemoans the fact that Obama’s administration is not going to put a tax on cow burping. They attribute the lack of cow belching legislation to a powerful farmers lobby. First of all, it seems to me that it would have to be a ranchers lobby, rather than a farmers lobby. Nevertheless, the article presents a cynical attitude toward Obama and the democrats, insinuating that their lack of legislation is COWardly (poor pun).
According to the article, cow belching ought to be taxed because it is the single largest producer of methane. The article is derisive toward democrats because they are leaving cow belches unlegislated… for now. Has anyone stopped to think that legislating cow belching might be a government overreach? Is this not crazy?
It is but one more of the many examples of what kind of an ethic we are in for as we drift away from Judeo-Christian values incorporated in the constitution. If not a Judeo-Christian ethic, then whose? If it is a green ethic, then cow burps are just the beginning of the madness.
I have linked here a letter that was written by Senator Jim DeMint, urging pastors specifically to be vocal in their opposition to so-called “hate crimes” legislation. As I have pointed out several times on this blog, hate crimes legislation is nothing but an anti-Christian powerplay to give those in power a sword with which to demonize the saints. Even if one were to leave out the anti-Christian bias of hate crimes, the legislation represents a poverty of intellect. What murder or rape is not hateful? The crime is what it is, and justice is what is at stake. When hate crimes legislation enters, it seeks to make some murders really bad (as though others aren’t?). The murder of a homosexual is as evil and wicked as the murder of a heterosexual Christian.
Dr. Mohler and John Piper have both written small pieces praising Twitter for the power it possesses to spread good news and good intentions. Even though this story does not have spreading the good news of salvation in view, it is a tangible demonstration of the power of Twitter and other new media to do good in the world–rather quickly. We are living in a fascinating age that has more potential than the printing press gave to the Protestant Reformation.
