Tomorrow

“Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.” (Proverbs 27:1)

(Read by Max McLean. Provided by Zondervan.)

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Focus on the Family

Because I subscribe to many Christian places, I get a fair amount of e-mail letters. Some are good, some are better :), but sometimes there comes an e-mail worth mentioning on the blog. Today is such a day. BTW: what a week! Two good days in the press, and now brave Christians who do not duck under the political correctness of the day.
Check Focus on the Family article. It conveys the unbroken message of scriptural picture of family, so much attacked by today's humanists.
The e-mail that pointed me to the article:

"Protecting Tomorrow's Families Today
Greetings to you and your family from Colorado Springs! Here in Colorado, the leaves are turning and there's a chill in the air—fall is in full swing. While the beautiful weather can be a distraction at this time of the year, there's a more urgent matter that I'd like to share with you— one that has implications for families across the country, including yours.

Last December, Dr. James Dobson, licensed child psychologist and founder of Focus on the Family®, was asked by the editors of Time magazine to comment on Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter and her decision to parent a child with her lesbian partner. Because I believe you're keenly interested in protecting the institution of the family, I thought you'd be interested in reading the editorial, which I've enclosed. It captures many of the core principles you and I hold dear.

In the months following the Time commentary, Dr. Dobson and Focus on the Family were viciously attacked by an assortment of media pundits and organizations promoting the homosexual agenda. It was no surprise to us. These activists are fiercely committed to waging battle against any person or organization that objects, from a biblical perspective, to their social re-engineering experiments—even when those objections are expressed with respect and sensitivity for others, as they were in Dr. Dobson's article.

I'm writing you because the long-term negative effects that same-sex “marriage” could have on our children are monumental—from increasing the instability of families to undermining the biblical institution of marriage.

The stakes are simply too high for us to stay silent. That's why we must respond with the kind of commitment and passion that drowns out the shrill voices of our deceived opponents. If we don't stand and voice our position now, we will betray the next generation—our children and grandchildren—and, by negligence, allow the God-ordained institution of marriage and family to become a vague memory.

Editorials in Time—as critically important as they and other civic dialogues are—will not by themselves make the difference. Effectively nurturing and defending families—and helping parents raise children who love and serve God—are essential to making the ultimate difference.

While it's easy to feel overwhelmed at times by the negative influences in today's society and our culture, there are many efforts currently underway at Focus on the Family that encourage me, and may encourage you as well."

Go to http://www.family.org/ and read on. It is worth it.

And another good day

Somewhat double feeling about it, but anyway - the Church of Sweden is not a Christian church anymore, at least not its official part. The gender-neutral marriages divided it once and for all, and made it stand quite alone since many other churches stopped affiliating themselves with it.
Today a deacon in Roman Catholic Church in Sweden rebuked the whole matter in strong and harsh words, calling what the Church of Sweden does a political game, a social adjustment, a break from Scriptural truth.

I liked those words, and I liked the judgement. Pity, that nowadays those who are not in truth, are still more in it than those who once broke away from the ones rebuking them today, and rebuking them rightly.

Judgement begins in the House of Lord.

Sometimes it is a good day in media

As yesterday... The local newspaper published a Christian article reviewing Richard Dawkins' "God's Delusion". I must admit - I did not expect this newspaper to publish something like this one. The author was humorous yer precise, light in tone yet never giving up on the truth of the Scriptures. His final appeal was directed to those publishing houses that usually publish anti-Christian literature. He asked them to order an anti-Dawkins book, and claimed that writing of such one is not a difficult task.
Basically, Dawkins got presented as the rabid atheist he really is, a very subjective person without a will to show the true picture, and a person not knowing the first thing he was talking about.
This book is old news - but apparently not in Sweden, which surprises me a bit. Since many call this country the most de-christened country in the whole world... Or is it so that because the last sentence is true, there no longer is a need to preach the atheistic manifesto, even if coming from the very pope of atheism himself? Who knows :)
But the snake has bitten his own tail.

All Glory, Laud, and Honor

Author: St. 1: Theodulph of Orleans, 760-821
St. 2-4: Paul Gerhardt, 1607-1676
Musician: Melchior Teschner, 1584-1635, alt.

All glory, laud, and honor, To Thee, Redeemer, King,
To Whom the lips of children Made sweet hosannas ring:
Thou art the King of Israel, Thou David's royal Son,
Who in the Lord's name comest, The King and blessed One.

O Lord, how shall I meet Thee, How welcome Thee aright?
Thy people long to greet Thee, My Hope, my heart's Delight!
Oh, kindle, Lord, most holy, Thy lamp within my breast
To do in spirit lowly All that may please Thee best.

Thy Zion strews before Thee Green boughs and fairest palms,
And I, too, will adore Thee With joyous songs and psalms.
My thankful heart shall ev er Sing praise to Thee anew;
And from Thy name shall never Withhold the honor due.

What tho' the foes be raging, Heed not their craft and spite;
Your Lord, the battle waging, Will scatter all their might.
He comes, a King most glorious, And all His earthly foes
In vain His course victo rious Endeavor to oppose.