Anarchy begins when the State elevates the right to choose sin …
Over the right to choose virtue.
Category: Simple Virtue
God blesses those …
Who are good stewards of His blessings.
Blessed are those who give without remembering …
And receive without forgetting.
“Progressive” nonsense distorts love by affirming life-controlling sin …
And those who promote it.
Only reprobates call virtue …
The new hate speech.
False “deeper life” spiritually has become a substitute these days for “real life” …
Among insular Christians too wrapped up in themselves to engage a messy, waiting world with authentic faith in action.
In life, faith and culture …
Without virtue, liberty is impossible.
Because He loves us, Jesus affirms in Romans 13 – and elsewhere – the State’s obligation to stop evildoers and protect innocent lives …
Through the judicious use, if needed, of deadly force.
Some deny this by elevating their own sensibilities above Christ and His Word …
While reducing love to distorted sentimentalities.
Choosing the lesser of two evils, at a certain point, is more about rationalizing what is wrong …
Than making an imperfect choice for the greater good.
When corporations use their growing power over speech, commerce and social interactions to oppose virtue …
They become as much a threat to faith and freedom as any totalitarian government.
Good values and good choices don’t always produce good results …
But they sure do prevent a lot of bad ones.
When we replace prudence with expediency …
We lose our moral witness.
Real love doesn’t just affirm what is good and right, but also opposes what enslaves and destroys.
Those ministering authentic grace to folks who are lost and know it …
Understand this.
Those peddling an abstract faith that’s never put into practice …
Don’t.
The world claims human dignity comes from self determination.
This destroys individual worth, because dignity – when anyone can make it mean anything – means nothing.
In contrast, Scripture says human dignity comes from God …
Who created us in His likeness and image.
This preserves individual worth, because dignity – when it comes from a fixed standard apart from us – is inalienable.
“Christian” isolationists commit a special kind of stupid …
When they cloak their cynicism and civic retreat in moral superiority.
Don’t be deceived.
Evil advances when we ignore Christ’s commands to go, serve, and obey in all spheres of life …
Including culture, politics and government.
Let’s not fall prey to contemporary Gnostic ideologies, which reduce Christ’s authority to “spiritual” things only.
Rather, let’s learn to be effective witnesses of His Lordship in all spheres of life …
Including proper, Biblical guardrails on how to do so appropriately.
We seem to have many Christians …
But not many truth tellers.
Over the years, my wife and I have ministered to literally thousands of individuals trapped in life-controlling bondage.
Addiction, sexual perversion, gender confusion, abuse, violence, despair, chronic homelessness …
We’ve been there helping others, up close and personal.
In the jail, in the woods, in the ‘hood and in other places where polite society seldom goes …
And seen God redeem many lives.
We have yet, however, to meet anyone who’s there simply because of poverty or racism.
Although those are real issues, they are more often symptoms than root causes.
For the vast majority, the key issues go back to dysfunctional upbringings due to dysfunctional or absent fathers …
Often affecting multiple generations.
Although the power of the Cross can heal individual wounds …
Without restored fatherhood, there’s not much else a nation as a whole can do to actually prevent most social ills.
Good stewards of God’s blessings don’t give a dime for the paradigm of “church” as we’ve come to know it …
But give instead as the New Testament actually shows it.
If the righteous remain silent …
Nations which elevate public sin over private virtue will not long endure.
When nations forget God:
Liberties orginally adopted to protect virtue become twisted entitlements for sin …
Until liberty itself is lost.
God doesn’t want me to fix the fix He fixed to fix you …
Any more than He wants you to fix the fix He fixed to fix me.
Never works …
Never has, never will.
Show grace, but let Him do His perfect work in each other.
Doing for others what they should be doing for themselves …
Is no mercy.
Expediency denies the efficacy of God’s sovereignty …
And is not a Christian value.
Mercy can be an amazing wellspring of good …
Or a naïve enabler of evil.
Discernment makes all the difference.
Obedience is not just believing what God says we should …
But also doing what God says we ought.
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