Monday, August 8, 2016
508 - Rough and Humble
Spirituality Column No. 508
August 9, 2016
Common Christianity / Uncommon Commentary
August 9, 2016
Common Christianity / Uncommon Commentary
Rough and Humble
By Bob Walters
Surveying a rugged landscape …
– ISIS Islamic terrorists have recently
published the 15th quasi-monthly edition of their English-language
recruiting magazine, Dabiq. ISIS is
as doctrinally, lethally “against” the Muslim Brotherhood as it against
Christians or Jews and seems to be mad at everybody. One other thing … when I was a sportswriter I
never remember a sports contest where the JV team had its own souvenir
program.
– American atheists now have their
own logo (devil’s horns around “Unabashed Atheist”), catchphrase (“Not afraid
to burn in Hell”), organization (Freedom From Religion Foundation) and even held
a rally attended by enthusiastic, god-spurning thousands this summer on
Washington D.C.’s national mall. The FFRF
claims reason sides with them. I claim that
God, the author of all wisdom and
reason, sides with me.
– The majority of today’s
university “religious studies” professors either don’t, won’t or can’t admit to
belief in Jesus Christ. Faithful theologians
are largely sequestered in seminaries and church schools. Those at high-profile universities are routinely
held by PC peers to be intellectually suspect and generally kept away from teaching
undergrad philosophy classes, lest truth undermine opinion.
– Public K-12 schools everywhere laboriously,
fearfully separate “church and state.” School
boards highlight mission-level promotion of excellence, diversity, tolerance,
anti-bullying, being drug-free, making good choices – anything so long as it
doesn’t promote the existence of divine truth or objective morality. Faith in
“me” is celebrated. Prayer, if one
dares, is forgiven as long as no one talks about God. Capital-G God won’t be tolerated; Jesus won’t
be mentioned.
– Old line Protestant churches
stand evermore empty in Western culture except for the few that have successfully
blended their long-festering doctrinal heresy of God’s unseriousness and
optional faith with the modern ascendancy of a rainbow cultural pallet that
praises man’s intellectual supersession over God’s “outdated” principles. After a couple centuries of serious, God redefining
theological mischief, the old guard has all but killed off God and credits the
absence of Sunday crowds as a victory for progressive theology.
In navigating one’s holy Christian
walk there is no shortage of resistance to the simple, permanent, unyielding,
John-14:6-truth of Jesus Christ, “I am
the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through
me.” There is plenty of instructive,
awesome, eternal truth in the Bible, but that truth becomes meaningless to
those who believe God either is already gone, never was there or is somebody
else.
Gauge the world around you by the
life, light, love, truth and promise of Jesus.
Sin won’t surprise you, God won’t
fail you, and strength won’t leave you.
Walters
(rlwcom@aol.com) notices the joy and ease of Jesus, and the
despair of a suffering world. Love the first by humbly helping the second.
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