The Simple Life

  Without a clear understanding of right and wrong that lies outside of ourselves, we will disintegrate as a culture from within, and face formidable challenges from without. There has been much said in recent days on why Iran should not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. Even though I agree with the majority of thought on this issue, the reasoning behind the thought does not make sense. Why should Iran not have a nuclear weapon when the United States does? What makes us different? Are we morally superior than those in Iran? Do we get to have these kinds of weapons because we would show restraint in using them? (As if we never did use them….) Do we have these weapons in order to keep the rest of the world as vassals of the United States? I would agree that if we, as a nation, lived by the standards put forth in God's Word, we could be trusted with great power. In fact, anyone who is subject to God's Word could be trusted with great power. Those who know and obey God understa...

  A young man recently wrote "Dear Abby" because of his concern for his father becoming sexually active with other men. He was disturbed by what was going on and asked Abby how he might better deal with this. His first problem was to ask "Dear Abby," who obviously pulls her ideas from whatever is most politically correct, and not from what is right and wrong. She told this young man that it should no longer shock people that someone has chosen to act like his father is acting. She went on to say this: "Times have changed. Today a person's sexual orientation is no longer considered something to be hidden. One constructive way to deal with it would be to realize how fortunate you are to have the kind of relationship you have always had with your dad. Be supportive, don't judge and love him for the parent he has always been." Bad advice. The loving part is good; we should always be loving. But love cannot watch someone destroy themselves and say noth...

There is a crisis in our nation in that Christians are not acting like Christians. We seem so concentrated on being forgiven that we forget to be holy. We find causes to rally to and open our lives to scrutiny of a press that does not care about right and wrong but about their personal agenda. Any liberal in the country would give their life for freedom of speech, yet when Miss California exercised it she became target #1. When she said she did not believe in Gay marriage and later claimed it went against what God has said and she would not go against what God has said. That should have been enough for the media. She exercised her right as an American citizen to speak what she believed. However, we are seeing that free speech is not free. In fact, this young woman has been taking a beating and, quite frankly, was not prepared for such an onslaught. If one is going to take a public stand then ones life will be publicly scrutinized. We do not battle flesh and blood but the ...

In life there are things that are whether we want to acknowledge them or not. For example, real maple syrup comes from maple trees no matter what we say, believe, or choose to ignore. The color red has already been established. We can call it whatever we want, but red is still red. Snow falls in the winter in Wisconsin. We may wish it was different, but it is what it is. Intelligent people spend no time arguing things that "are." They acknowledge them and adjust their lives to the obvious. It reminds me of a story of a warship traveling through the night on a special mission. In the middle of the night the captain saw a light in the distance in the very path that the ship was headed. He sent out a warning to the oncoming "ship" that it would need to alter its course in order to accommodate the warship. Soon the captain received a response that told the warship that it should adjust its course by 15 degrees. The captain sent another message giving his ship's name...