Elizabeth Warren continuing to make sense…
Evidence that John Piper is not fit to pastor a congregation of actual humans. This is more than just really bad advice, it’s a complete disregard for the Imago Dei in women.
fcb4:
You can put a sniper round through a man’s head, obliterate a village with smart bombs or bayonet someone’s intestines out and that’s ‘morally justified’…but peeing on your enemy is a moral outrage?
I’m confused by this morality.
I’m also interested in understanding how soldiers are expected…
Destructive to marriage is the self-fulfillment ethic that assumes marriage and the family are primarily institutions of personal fulfillment, necessary for us to become “whole” and happy. The assumption is that there is someone just right for us to marry and that if we look closely enough we will find the right person. This moral assumption overlooks a crucial aspect to marriage. It fails to appreciate the fact that we always marry the wrong person.
We never know whom we marry; we just think we do. Or even if we first marry the right person, just give it a while and he or she will change. For marriage, being [the enormous thing it is] means we are not the same person after we have entered it. The primary challenge of marriage is learning how to love and care for the stranger to whom you find yourself married.
From Documerica, an exhibit by the EPA that documented what America looked like when the EPA just got started in 1972. I can’t imagine what our country would look like 40 years later without the Clean Air and Water acts.
I had the title Poet
and maybe I was one
for a while
Also the title Singer
was kindly accorded me
even though
I could barely carry a tune
For many years
I was known as a Monk
I shaved my head and wore robes
And got up very early
I hated everyone
but I acted generously
and no one found me out
My reputation
as a Ladies’ Man was a joke
It caused me to laugh bitterly
through the ten thousand nights
I spent alone
and now Gentle Reader
in what name
in whose name
do you come
to idle with me
in these luxurious
and dwindling realms
of Aimless Privacy?
This writer is dreaming BIG… I like it!
NT Wright in response to this question at a round table at Moody Bible Institute: How would you speak to an unbeliever that senses a personal guilt and alienation from God?
Actually, I have to say, within western post-modernity, most human beings I meet are not walking around saying, “I feel terribly guilty. How can I get rid of this?” That’s simply not the way they’re asking the question. And I don’t believe it is necessarily part of the task of either the apologist or the evangelist first to make them feel a guilt which they didn’t feel and then to show Jesus as the answer to that. It feels like a con trick.
I’m not saying that we go soft on sin – far from it. I’m saying that all people are aware of a major problem at some point. They may blame everyone else for it. They may blame the politicians, the economists, whatever. But to be able to say, “Actually, the whole world is in a mess and we share that messiness, that brokenness, that sinfulness. And God has dealt with the whole cosmic problem and he’s dealt with your problem in the middle of it.”
We’ve got to do both. And I have a sense that people … there’s a sort of sigh of relief when they realize that the church isn’t just interested in them as an individual, as maybe another scalp to be yanked in. But actually that we in the church are concerned with the whole creation, the whole world, with, to be sure, every single last human being as part of that…
You aren’t persecuted because you are a Christian, you are persecuted because you are a jerk.
