The Simple Life

1 John 2:26-27 (NLT) 26 I am writing these things to warn you about those who want to lead you astray. 27 But you have received the Holy Spirit, and he lives within you, so you don't need anyone to teach you what is true. For the Spirit teaches you everything you need to know, and what he teaches is true—it is not a lie. So just as he has taught you, remain in fellowship with Christ. Uncomfortable with the direction of the country? It is either because you think your life will be affected adversely or because the Holy Spirit is poking at your soul. Recently the president of France expressed concern about our president. He said, in essence, that our president was naive and arrogant, a most dangerous combination; for if one is naive and un-teachable one remains a great danger. Certainly this was Satan's original sin as well. He was naïve in believing he could be greater than God and arrogant in that he believed he could actually pull it off because of who he was. In my mind, I wo...

Lies….The Stuff of Life Do we really lie to ourselves? It seems as if we always have a positive spin on what we do or what we say. It seems as though people do not really have a "mirror" to look at when evaluating themselves, or, if they do, the mirror is so distorted that what they see looks acceptable. This past week I was astonished at the eulogies that were heaped upon Ted Kennedy. It seemed as if nobody wanted to really talk about what was obvious. Ted was talked about, by both sides of the aisle, as a man who fought hard for the downtrodden, for those who were less fortunate, for those who were "helpless." He was talked about as a man of faith, as one we could and should emulate. Really? Do we really believe this or is it just normal and acceptable rhetoric that we often verbalize after someone dies? Isn't this the same man who fought to have innocent babies killed through abortions? Weren't these babies the "least of these," the innocent, t...