Jan
27
2010
Worth a Look 1.27.10
Authenticity is a funny thing. God desires it, but He doesn’t need it. He already knows us from the inside out. We can’t keep secrets from God. Authenticity is more about how we act with each other. It’s important to be “real” with each other but if we’re not careful, our authenticity can turn into a badge that we wear. God hates masks…but he also hates badges.
Don’t let your hipster jeans, modern worship bands or iPhone bibles fool you into thinking that you’re somehow closer to God than the suit-wearing guy sitting in the pew.
President Obama recently mentioned his desire to be a great “one-term” president versus a mediocre two-term president. Joe Carter writes of some one-term presidents in the past.
That leaves only twelve Presidents that would be comparable to Obama’s situation: John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, James Polk, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Rutherford Hayes, Benjamin Harrison, William Howard Taft, Herbert Hoover, Jimmy Carter, and George H.W. Bush.
Controversy over Tim Tebow’s pro-life ad at the SuperBowl. Where’s the tolerance?
Odd isn’t it? Freedom, they cry! Liberty and equality for all and don’t you attempt to force your view of morality on others. And yet it is that very same group that is now demanding that CBS not allow this perfectly legal and approved spot to air. Their desire for freedom is so specifically and narrowly defined as their own right to destroy inconvenient human life that the hypocrisy of this stance remains hidden from them. It is not freedom but fiat that they seek, and this fact is embarrassingly clear every time they seek to bully and quash the basic right to express contrary opinions.
90 Days of Joy and the Serious Life:
There is appropriate seriousness but there is also seriousness that is a mark of pride. Our society cultivates people who are serious about themselves — and the church does too. One mark of this: people who are so serious about life have very little sense of humor. They are busy doing important things. How can they smile? The world is coming apart. Global warming is going to ruin us all. There is ijustice in the world. We must do something. There is little place for humor.