
Category: Simple Virtue
Disgusted with the choice of Trump verses Clinton?
The answer is not to wash our hands of “politics” by retreating into a theology of Gnostic dualism – which isolates our spiritual life from the “real” world and all its shortcomings. Jesus never taught that, but proclaimed full authority over both heaven and earth – while sending us out into all the world.
God’s people need to be careful about wide swings between hope and disillusionment. Wisdom seeks to find, instead, the Biblical precepts which stand firm and will remain true even after the present unpleasantries fade into the past.
Let’s be engaged in a world Christ yet loves, but with a renewed discernment that’s been lacking in God’s people.
The problem is not so much Clinton or Trump as much as our lack of engagement and discernment – in disregard of God’s call to be His salt and light in all spheres of life.
This election, more than most, we are paying the price for our own failures.
Let’s learn the right lessons, vote for whom our conscience allows (while understanding there are more issues and offices up for grabs this election than just the White House), and resolve to never let this happen due to inaction and poor judgement again.
The solution to problems caused by our past disengagement from the civic life of our nation, and from lack of discernment, is not more moral relativism and retreat.
That’s entirely the wrong lesson to learn from the current mess we’re in.
Let’s take our lumps, vote as best we can, learn from our mistakes and resolve to never again be reduced to such poor choices.

Many burnout by repeatedly ministering to folks who want our time, energy and resources …
Without fundamentally dealing with their underlying issues through honest repentance.
Continue readingWhy do some only speak up about fraud and abuse in the church …
When it’s to urge silence by the victims and those standing with them?
They are not peacemakers, but enablers.
They are not courageous, but cowards.
They are not principled, but complicit.
When integrity is displaced by loyalty to a leader …
When folks sit silent amidst disclosures of wrong …
When comforting assurances are offered and accepted in lieu of open, true repentance …
It’s not a church …
But a cult.
Authentic love brings truth …
And truth is never neutral.
If good never confronts evil …
What good is it?
When a candidate or politician becomes the measure of our values, rather than our values the measure of a candidate or politician …
We lose our witness.
Life got a lot simpler when the Lord taught me that not every problem …
Has my name on it.
Those who never pay a price for their beliefs …
Should not be upset when their beliefs are accorded all the worth they are due.
Say a lot, but use few words.
Cheap Faith:
Naïve social media posts on a doctrinal position …
Without first making it work in your own life instead.
Unless our nation again affirms basic concepts like liberty, faith and virtue, as historically rooted in Biblical precepts …
The Leftist agenda against all that is true, real and right – under the pretense of “tolerance” – will keep advancing.
When evil demands compliance …
Integrity demands resistance.
Books, blogs, conferences and social media – oh my!
But are those Christian authors, speakers and “influencers” really living what they’re peddling?
When it comes to blowing their own horns …
Many toot without good fruit.
If evil can’t seduce you with real vice …
It will try false virtue instead.
As a Christian, I am no more interested in criminalizing private sin …
Then I am in protecting its public depravity.
People of conscience and conviction who we initially jeered …
Often end up protecting us against those of no conscience or conviction who we initially cheered.
Leftists have dumbed down liberty.
It now means pursuing vice, with government protection …
Rather than pursuing virtue, without government constraint.
The tyranny of leftist and “progressive” know-it-all-ism …
Inevitably fails when confronted by Godly self rule.
The day is coming when God may call you to bear open witness against darkness.
The day is coming when few will have the courage to heed His call, and those who do will pay a heavy price.
But through that sacrifice, the day is also coming when His truth eventually will prevail.
It always does.
When a nation favors sin over virtue …
Freedom and liberty will not long endure.
If you don’t like being knocked down …
Stand for nothing.
You can’t change what you won’t confront:
Courage and sacrifice are the price we pay for freedom …
While evil thrives on lethargy and fear.

