A friend sent me this picture. It reminds me of the saying “What you are doing speaks so loud that I can’t hear what you are saying.” This election, more than any other that I can remember is a “good versus evil” contest.
In these days where women can divorce their husbands for no legitimate reason, denying daddies the right to rear their own children and using child support judgments to ruin them financially, some men are fighting back. Having suffered from this, I want to link to a site that proposes that laws might be reformed if men refuse to marry and have children.
Satish Chauhan has a Ruby on Rails site that has a very helpful article on how to import a CSV file into a table. I took his code and have extended it. I offer it now to you.
We Christians are said to be “people of the book”, that is to say that our faith hinges upon the authority of the written Word of God. While it is true that many Christians base their faith upon what their denomination teaches or their preacher says, behind these two still lies the understanding that the church or preacher is functioning under the authority of God’s Word, the Bible. Of course there are those who, while calling themselves Christians, deprecate the Bible. I’m not addressing these folks or their concerns at all. I’d like to address a concern of those who fear God and want to obey His Word. This concern is how to interpret questionable passages of Scripture.
If you accept the view that we humans are made by our Creator in the image of God, you will regard human life as sacred, something to be valued. If you accept the evolutionary view that we are the products of blind chance, then there is no reason to assume that human life has any more value than that of a squirrel.
This is not a theological dissertation. It’s a practical suggestion.
The Bible tells us that when we are born again into the family of God by acknowledging Jesus as our Lord, we are adopted as sons, that God becomes our Father in Heaven. His goal for us is not just an official statement that some sort of relationship exists, but a real, living person-to-person relationship.
A lady friend (I’ll call her Mary) visited my wife and me with a distressing problem. A number of years ago, her husband had left her for another woman, whom he married. Mary would still like to be married and to have children. Her father is a missionary, a theologian who knows his Bible. He has told her that, as a divorced woman, she must remain alone. I’d like to explore the basis for his judgment, for the principle on which it is based applies to many aspects of living the Christian life.
Name: Alan Lake
Identity: Christian
Nationality: American
Profession:
Computer programmer
Residence:
Jyväskylä, Finland
Trips around the sun: 67
Interests:
Spiritual life
Computers:
Linux (Fedora 9)
Akelos
American politics
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