Archive for March 13th, 2008

Barak Obama and the single-issue voter

March 13, 2008

From Pastor Josh Harris:
My five-year-old son, Joshua Quinn, has been following the presidential election with his dad. To him it’s another sport alongside football and NASCAR. Someone wins. Someone loses. He can understand that. He has seen various candidates on TV and he’s been drawn to Barack Obama. Is it any wonder? Even for a [...]

I don’t like the instititutional church

March 13, 2008

What other church is there besides institutional? There’s nobody who doesn’t have problems with the church, because there’s sin in the church. But there’s no other place to be a Christian except the church. There’s sin in the local bank. There’s sin in the grocery stores. I really don’t understand this naive criticism of the [...]

Why Europeans are not having babies

March 13, 2008

With just a single exception, the non-Muslim population of every country in Europe now has a birth rate at below replacement levels. (The exception is Malta, and God bless it.) Why do Europeans refuse to have children?
Because, replies the author of Decline and Fall: Europe’s Slow-Motion Suicide, “children are expensive. They require you to sacrifice [...]

Religion and the Gospel

March 13, 2008

I live in a very religious region.
Our local newspaper is the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal. Each morning, the by-line under the title, Daily Journal, states, “A locally owned newspaper dedicated to the service of God and mankind.”
Imagine that! A newspaper dedicated to the service of God and mankind.
In this area, it [...]