The Mercy of God

Luke 1:50 And his mercy is for those who fear him from generation to generation.

This is a very thought-provoking verse considering what is going on in our world right now. We have absolutely no fear of God in our culture, and yet when something like a mass shooting in a school happens, we have the audacity to ask, "Where was God?" What hypocrisy. We have slowly pushed God outside of almost every area of secular life. The precious little children and adults who died in that school the other day, perished in a place in which God was forbidden years ago. Really, what did we actually expect the end result would be to our Godless pursuit? Do we really have that much confidence in our fallen humanity? Obviously so. 

Of course, the cry of the ignorant is, "Get rid of the guns!" Yes, they really do seem to believe that gun control is the answer. That tells me two things. First, they have never spent any time in Mexico where owning a gun is illegal, and yet it's one of the most dangerous places on earth. Second, it also tells me that they still do not get it.

God told the nation of Israel who had also turned its back on God in 2 Chronicles 7:13-14, When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people, if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

If we want God's mercy, we must fear Him. There is no other way.

Wimpy Pastors

"Christian leaders have the wrong idea about Jesus, they see him as this little, wimpy guy who walked around plucking daisies and eating birdseed and saying nice things, but never doing anything controversial. The fact is, Jesus did confront his culture with truth -- and he ended up being crucified because of it." - Dr. Robert Jeffress

Check out his interview here: Pastor: ‘Wimpy’ won’t cut it in culture war

The Scriptures

Entitlement Spending

Check out this video by Bill O'Reilly in which he is urging Americans to wake up to the fact that 109 million private sector workers cannot support the other 87 million welfare recipients and government paid employees. It's definitely an eyeopener to those who want to see it. Most don't.

Peru is Unprepared

I pray that this never happens.

"Yet this city of 9 million people is sorely unprepared. Its acute vulnerability, from densely clustered, unstable housing to a dearth of first-responders, is unmatched regionally. Peru's National Civil Defense Institute forecasts up to 50,000 dead, 686,000 injured and 200,000 homes destroyed if Lima is hit by a magnitude-8.0 quake."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/12/09/peru-capital-faces-high-chance-big-quake-but-extraordinarily-unprepared-experts/#ixzz2EZK2v8Jy

Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons

Irenaeus, the Bishop of Lyons was born around AD 130 and grew up in Smyrna where Polycarp was the bishop. He was a defender of the orthodox view of who Jesus was and is viewed as one of the major contributors to the emergence of a unified, catholic Christianity.

He was a leading figure in establishing the canon of Scripture because he was one of the first to answer such questions as: Which texts are authoritative? How should they be interpreted? By what authority do they speak? Whose interpretations are correct? Thus, his main arguments were that the catholic church had to draw their authority from the same place that the apostles drew theirs': the Old and the New Testaments of the Bible and not "fanciful narratives and cosmic mythology".

One of his most significant works was The Detection and Overthrow of What is Falsely Called Knowledge" which was aimed at the false teachings of the Gnostics and their so-called "knowledge". Today it is simply known as Against Heresies.

Ignoring the Voice of the People

“If the courts feel they have the right to ignore the voice of the people, then it is only a matter of time before the people will ignore the voice of the courts." - Reformation in Responsibility

Constitutional bans on same-sex unions in the United States, by state

   Constitutional amendment bans same-sex marriage, civil unions, and any marriage-like contract between unmarried persons

   Constitutional amendment bans same-sex marriage and civil unions

   Constitutional amendment bans same-sex marriage

   Constitutional amendment grants legislature authority to ban same-sex marriage

   No constitutional amendments

When the King Saved God

When the King Saved God | Vanity Fair

Here's a very interesting article from an atheist's point of view on the plethora of  Bible translations. It's worth the read.

Voucher Plan Ruled Unconstitutional

La. school voucher plan ruled unconstitutional

God forbid that Americans should actually have a choice on how to educate their children. Of course, they do. It's called private schooling or homeschooling, but most simply have other priorities (e.g., homes, cars, smart phones, etc.).

The Church Fathers: Justin Martyr

Justin Martyr was an early church father who was seen as a trailblazer because he was among the first to engage the Greco-Roman culture with the Christian message. He was born in Samaria around the year AD 100 near the site where Jesus had met the woman at the well. He was eventually martyred by being tied to a pole, whipped and beheaded.

He is considered to be the church's first Christian philosopher because of his attempts to correlate the claims of Christ and the Scriptures to the philosophical principles of the time. Unlike Ignatius, whose writings were warm and aimed at the church, Justin's audience was the pagan world around him, and thus his writings had a very stern emphases and were extremely intellectual. Unlike the heretical sects all around him, he was able to do it in such a way that the Christian faith was uncompromised. His First and Second Apologies are still considered to be the greatest examples of Christian apologetics in the history of the church.