Rodent Regatta

Word comes that Tim LaHaye, author of the Left Behind series, and Rick Warren, author of The Purpose Driven Life, have decided to collaborate on a book. It will be about Calvinist theology. Title?

Left Behind On Purpose

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Tough times test people. Someone once said that we are all…

• ... 3 meals away from borrowing
• ... 6 meals away from begging
• ... 9 meals away from stealing
• ... 12 meals away from murder

What do you know about yourself? What do you know and believe about being tested? What pushes your buttons? Is it a rude driver? Is it a coworker? Is it an indifferent clerk? Is it money? Is it something mundane?

For most people reading this, it isn’t missed meals. It’s some other routine or intrusion into our comfortable little lives. Think about what you value above all else. Most of us spend way too much time trying to be comfortable. It’s time for all of us to take a stand, value something above our stuff and the lengths we go to trying to protect it. Otherwise, our values will unravel.

The Middle East has a rather high concentration of terrorists, hate-mongers, extremists, Jihadists, etc. Either we agree on that point or we don’t. They understand nothing about shame, remorse, decency or civilization. This may be a small minority of the so-called peaceful Muslim community, but they must be routed.

They talk to a different God from the one I worship. Dr. Albert Mohler wrote this today:

What we believe about God determines everything really important in life. As A. W. Tozer reminded us, what we believe about God is the most important thing about us. The ultimate test we will ever face is the test of truth—do we really know God?

Dr. Albert Mohler
June 18, 2004

These words are from his series called No Ordinary God.

Please read and think about the series. Parts | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |

I’m seriously angry and ready to DO something. I’m sick of the rhetoric. I’m sick of debate about whether the Koran says this or that. I’m sick of the liberals blaming America. I’m sick of watching our towers collapse. I’m sick of seeing holes in the side of our ships. I don’t want to hear of another Marine barricks blown up by Middle Eastern zealots. I’m sick of watching kidnapped civilians murdered abroad. My anger causes me to lose sight of my own God. It turns me to the Old Testament.

There comes a time when the shrimpy little spokespeople for these foreign governments need to just shut up. I’m ready for leadership that says, ”this globe is simply too small to tolerate these so-called cells of terrorists.” Then, let’s take the political handcuffs off the military and rid this world of these thugs. I’m too agitated to think clearly, but reason doesn’t seem to be one of the options for dealing with Middle Eastern stupidity and tolerance for extremists.

The question? Will anyone do anything, or will we merely talk some more?

Too many Americans hold to a view of God that is both sub-biblical and disastrous. Rather than believing in the God of the Bible, they believe in a God of their own imaginations, cut down to manageable size. The Bible reveals God to possess certain definite attributes that define His nature. On these, there must be no compromise.

Dr. Albert Mohler
June 17, 2004

>From a series of essays called No Ordinary God.
Here’s the series to date: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |