“I kissed a girl and I liked it,” was the lyric she sang (yes, she) from the rafters of Gold’s Gym. I had heard the tune before but not noticed the words. All I wanted to do was work out and drop a few pounds, but instead I got a hard core dose of homosexual propaganda.

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My yet-to-be-announced neighbor is building a new house across the street from me. Over the past three or four months, we have watched the workers bring the house–one small step at a time–out of the ground. And now that we can start to see what it will finally look like, boy, is it a beauty! With multiple roof-line angles, a full basement, and about 5,000 square feet (at least that’s what one of my other neighbors told me), this is truly somebody’s dream home.

Here’s the thing: this house didn’t just pop up out of nowhere in an instant. Long before the first shovel of dirt was moved, someone somewhere  Continue Reading »

What will it take to get our attention?

God is bombarding our nation with spiritual signs, but we let them pass us by.[1] Crisis after crisis comes, yet we continue unaffected. We fashion ourselves a favored nation; we end our political speeches with ‘God bless America.’ But is God showing us His favor?

Think about the plagues of the last 12 months alone. The energy crisis gives us $4 a gallon gasoline; wars in Iraq and Afghanistan linger at the cost of billions; floods, hurricanes, droughts, and fires ravage our lands. What will it be next?

And don’t think the financial crisis making headlines this week will go away anytime soon.

How foolish we are. Major financial institutions are failing not because of a lack of regulation, but because of the greed of our people, the greed of corporations to fatten the bottom line and the greed of me and you to have the biggest house and nicest car on the block. So, to ensure we don’t have to suffer for our evil and foolishness, we cover it up with billions of dollars of more borrowed money, much of which comes from foreign powers.[2]

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When should we let our brains decide what is true about the world? After all, God gave us a brain (I know this is debatable, but allow me some latitude here), and it is only natural that He wants us to use it. Nobody could argue with this.

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