One of the books that I read for February was The Healing Touch by Norma Dearing.
A very easy and enjoyable read. The author has a style that is quite readable and emotionally moving at times. I'm not sure how much I believe the need for generational and "past" healing, but they are interesting concepts I'm willing to consider.
Just do something. Even if you aren't properly prepared for a project or feel that you have time to finish it, or you feel you aren't ready to start it; just start it anyway. Do something, and you're more likely to actually finish the task.
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A Short-Lived Lie
Bible Verse for Good Friday: A meeting of all the religious leaders was called, and they decided to bribe the soldiers (Matthew 28:12).
Watergate, one of America's greatest
political scandals, led to the resignation of Richard Nixon and the
imprisonment of some of his top political aides. To protect the
president from impeachment, some of his assistants tried to create and
maintain a cover-up. It lasted only three weeks. Chuck Colson, one of
Nixon's most trusted aides, explains: "The first to crack was John
Dean. He went to prosecutors and offered to testify against the
President. After that, everyone started scrambling to protect himself.
… Some of the most powerful politicians in the world—and we couldn't
keep a lie for more than three weeks."
While in prison for his role in Watergate, Colson
became a follower of Christ. What convinced him of the truth of
Christianity? The implausibility of the disciples doing what he and
Nixon's top aides couldn't do—successfully maintain a lie. These men
had everything to gain by maintaining their silence. The disciples and
earliest Christians apparently had nothing to gain by their
silence—only persecution, marginalization and, in many cases,
martyrdom. When Colson tries to persuade others of the veracity of the
disciples' claims to have seen the risen Christ, he starts with
Watergate. "The Watergate cover-up proves that 12 powerful men in
modern America couldn't keep a lie—and that 12 powerless men 2,000
years ago couldn't have been telling anything else but the truth."
—J.P. Moreland in God Conversation
Adapted from The Passionate Journey (Regal, 2006) by permission.
Copyright © 2008 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
Christ. But outside of Him I'd choose my father.
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