Aug
13
2012
Worth a Look 8.13.12
Kindle Deal of the Day: How Christians Should Relate to Government by Wayne Grudem. $2.99.
Outlines five misguided approaches Christians take to politics and a way that is both more biblical and better for society. Grudem describes the five misguided approaches as follows: Government should compel religion / Government should exclude religion / All government is evil and demonic / Do evangelism, not politics / Do politics, not evangelism. In their place, Grudem argues for a view that he calls significant Christian influence on government.
Frank Schaeffer’s Change of Heart?
As for me I’m burnt out on rhetorically burning others. I’m going to try Hume’s agreeableness for a bit. Instead of damning each other, maybe we can learn to show mercy to those with whom we disagree, taking our cue from a teacher who said that love of enemy — not correct theology or politics — is all that can make us whole.
Read the Psalms On Your Knees:
For any Christian for whom prayer is becoming formal and stereotyped, the Psalms provide a rich source of inspiration. It is true that to read the Psalms on your knees, as it were, can be a great boost to one’s prayer experience. The book of Psalms provides the most sustained and concentrated biblical expressions of prayer.
Paul Ryan on Abortion – “The Cause of Life Can’t Be Severed from the Cause of Freedom”
Now, after America has won the last century’s hard-fought struggles against unequal human rights in the forms of totalitarianism abroad and segregation at home, I cannot believe any official or citizen can still defend the notion that an unborn human being has no rights that an older person is bound to respect. I do know that we cannot go on forever feigning agnosticism about who is human. As Thomas Jefferson wrote, “The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.” The freedom to choose is pointless for someone who does not have the freedom to live. So the right of “choice” of one human being cannot trump the right to “life” of another. How long can we sustain our commitment to freedom if we continue to deny the very foundation of freedom—life—for the most vulnerable human beings?
I can’t wait to read this book