The Simple Life

  This week, President Obama said the following: "And the last point I just want to emphasize, as I said yesterday at the CIA when I visited, what makes America special in my view is not just our wealth and the dynamism of our economy and our extraordinary history and diversity. It's that we are willing to uphold our ideals even when they're hard. And sometimes we make mistakes because that's the nature of human enterprise. But when we do make mistakes, then we are willing to go back and correct those mistakes and keep our eye on those ideals and values that have been passed on generation to generation." What are our ideals? Who sets the "ideal" agenda? Do our ideals include the killing of unborn babies while we condemn the torturing of the born terrorists? If we were to dismantle the foundation of a building brick by brick, what would eventually be the end result of the building? President Obama does not believe that the United States of America is a C

What is the foundation of Christianity? Christ. Why does the world work? Why It there consistency in sunrises and sunsets? Christ. Why is there food to eat, trees to provide wood for homes, and fuel to heat and provide electricity? Christ. How did the universe come into existence? Christ. How will it end? Christ. I have concluded that Dave is just not that important.   Are the themes we have at church helping or hurting the cause of Christ? Are our churches about Christ or about us? Are we focused on what we focus on or what God focuses on? Could our churches' intent be the same as giving an alcoholic a bumper sticker at an AA meeting that says "I am not sober, just forgiven," Is the goal to be sober if you're an alcoholic, or just forgiven? Is the goal to be "sinless" if you're a Christian, or just forgiven? Does it matter?

Moving Off the "Gold Standard" This week our President informed the rest of the world that we were not a Christian nation. Although many may think that our leader is stating the obvious, and he may be, he is also declaring a new philosophy that will ignore the obvious importance of our nation's Christian heritage and declare independence from God from this day forward. To imply that we were never a Christian nation would be foolish and prove a lack of understanding history. To state that we are not now Christian, or have any "religious" loyalties is to be honoring man apart from God. Years ago the US dollar had value because it was measured against the "gold standard". It was so valuable that all nations of the world began to measure their economy against that of the United States and so stable that that the rest of the world adopted the dollar as their standard monetary measurement. Since our nation has moved off the gold standard our dollar has a di