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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Depends on the exact circumstances and how your friend honestly feels about it; but I would say that generally it is never okay.
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Look at MTV or Good Morning America
and watch the images and ideas flash past in a blur of impressionistic
appetizers. No, there is not much room on TV for complexity. You can
partake of our daily banquet without drawing on any intellectual
resources; without either physical or moral discipline. We require
nothing of you; only that you watch; or say that you were watching if
to make our mark on the American psyche. We have actually convinced
ourselves that slogans will save us. "Shoot up if you must; but use a
clean needle." "Enjoy sex whenever with whomever you wish; but wear a
condom."
No. The answer is no. Not no because it isn't cool or smart or because you might end up in jail or dying in an AIDS ward
no, because it's wrong. Because we have spent 5,000 years as a race of
rational human beings trying to drag ourselves out of the primeval
slime by searching for truth and moral absolutes. In the place of Truth
we have discovered facts; for moral absolutes we have substituted moral
ambiguity. We now communicate with everyone and say absolutely nothing.
We have reconstructed the Tower of Babel and it is a television
antenna. A thousand voices producing a daily parody of democracy; in
which everyone's opinion is afforded equal weight, regardless of
substance or merit. Indeed, it can even be argued that opinions of real
weight tend to sink with barely a trace of television's ocean
banalities.
Our society finds Truth too strong a medicine to digest
undiluted. In its purest form Truth is not a polite tap on the
shoulder; it is a hallowing reproach.
What Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, they are Commandments. Are, not were.
The sheer brilliance of the Ten Commandments is that they
codify, in a handful of words, acceptable human behavior. Not just for
then or now but for all time. Language evolves, power shifts from
nation to nation, messages are transmitted with the speed of light, man
erases one frontier after another; and yet we and our behavior, and the
Commandments which govern that behavior, remain the same. The tension
between those Commandments and our baser instincts provide the grist
for journalism's daily mill. What a huge, gaping void there would be in
our informational flow and in our entertainment without routine
violation of the Sixth Commandment. Thou shalt not murder.
Great question. I'll try to stick to ten.
1 - My face as I'm falling out of a window at age 1.
2 - Holding my baby sister for the first time.
3 - My sister and I holding our cat Kitty in Vienna.
4 - My baptism (with my parents and Maj in the background).
5 - Playing football at Tara.
6 - In college with my BSU friends.
7 - At my new job at Fairfax Hospital picking up my new kitten Pounce from the box full of kittens.
8 - Offloading a patient from our helicopter at the hospital.
9-12 or so - One shot with each significant girlfriend.
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I think every case must be judged individually. As long as both parties are 19 or older, and they are both of sound mind, no age difference is too much.
And what exactly is large? I usually date woman 8-16 years younger than myself, and don't think it has ever been a problem or "wrong".
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Not at all. I believe it is necessary for proper rearing (no pun intended).
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