View from Mars Hill

When the Apostle Paul stopped by Areopagus Coffee in Athens, he was favorably impressed.  While the baristas there all sported the logo of Mars, the Roman god of war, these people were at least spiritually aware.  They had posters to all sorts of gods and goddesses, and they even had one reserved for “the unknown God.”  And there were special red cups for the dark elixir offered as oblations.  They were celebrating, but not sure just why.  And so Paul was able to tell them some very Good News.  In their sad and generic, spiritually bankrupt and shades-of-grey world that lacked all sense of wonder, Paul let them know the single most wondrous truth in the entire universe.  Some mocked; some believed; some said he should come back and tell them more about this God-Man they had unknowingly yet instinctively acknowledged.  “The god of the red cup” became an opportunity to speak of the one true God loving us so much that He chose to dwell among us, seeking and saving those who are lost.

A Time to Speak

Some of you may be tiring of my continuing references to the Planned Parenthood situation. I can only explain that about 26 years ago I was faced with a question: What would I tell my three children and their children when they grew up and asked me what I had done for the unborn during "those dark days" in U.S. history? I cannot apologize to you...without later needing to apologize to them.

You may choose to look away,

but you can never say again that you did not know.

William Wilberforce

Praying for Our Police Officers

We need to pray for the police officers who protect us every day. People working political agendas have placed them in new kinds of danger. A split second of hesitation can cost them their lives, but pulling the trigger may cost them their jobs, their reputations, and the opportunity to live quiet and peaceful lives. Their families, who always face that nagging thought that a loved one might not come home from work, now face even greater challenges.  Take a moment to ask the Lord to protect and encourage them.

Our Legacy

The Congressional Budget Office has calculated the Medicare cost we might incur if we prohibit abortion of the unborn who make it to 20 weeks. Who even thinks in such terms? If it's a baby (and this is incontrovertible--try telling a 5-months pregnant mom that "it" is something else), then it is a baby. We have lost our way. Thomas Jefferson's name can hardly be mentioned these days without someone saying: "Yes, maybe a great man...but he owned slaves." One day will people look back on us and say: "Yes, but they allowed abortion"?