While the People Are Virtuous

The following text came to me yesterday from a fellow missions leader:

Hi, Ron. Besides voting, which doesn’t seem to do much good, is there anything else that can be done to slow down the runaway circus of government? It’s getting quite serious!

I gave him my answer, which I’ll share later.

In today’s article, I had already planned to discuss this problem from an unusual angle.

What angle?

We the People–and our desperate need for a renewal of virtue.

Read More

The Complete Gospel on One Special Day

We humans have a penchant for imbalance–in many areas of our lives.

We put on weight, we lose it. We discipline our kids “by the book” as young parents and spoil rotten our grandchildren. We huff and puff about the importance of telling the truth, then succumb to crafting  little white lies.

We do the same thing with the Good News of Jesus Christ. On one hand we know that God hates sin–and we should also. But other times we lavish grace and forget about right and wrong.

On February 23, 2019 God gave the United States a lesson in the balance and wholeness of the Good News.

We saw the complete gospel on one special day.

Read More

The Most Unsafe Space in the World

A conservative speaker was recently refused access to speak on a major college campus in America. The reason given was that some students would feel “unsafe” if he was allowed to share.

There are many unsafe places in our world. Radical Muslim nations, drug cartel areas, Chinese and North Korean gulags, and some inner cities (Chicago?) come to mind.

But there’s one place on earth that’s FAR more unsafe than all of them combined.

A mother’s womb.

In the era of “Patty Murder.”

Read More