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A Time for Choosing: Who Will You March With?

At the center of Washington, DC, is a battle. And at the core of this nation is war. Not for political parties or for financial gain. But for the very heart of this people. The very fabric of our existence. A week ago hundreds of thousands of women, and their supporting male characters, descended on the National Mall. Most, including girls too young to understand, wearing knit hats euphemizing a term that pornographers use to entice and enslave young men in sexual addiction. Speakers raged and pounded on the podium about how society has kept women down - yelling that the only thing that will free women is to reject the very thing that makes women unique. That sets women apart. That gives the world need for women. Screaming in the face of anyone, especially a woman, who would stay the hand of a woman from destroying her womanhood. And the world watches. Gathering in their collective throats an outcry of pent up rage that anyone would dare to keep a woman down. Would dare to stop her f

Unmoored

Quietly, a few days before Christmas, a city unmoored from logic and reason; letting slip the ties of natural order, to be caught in the gusts and gales of chaos. All the while proclaiming that it is finally free and unhindered; that the dock hands who stubbornly call and toss mooring lines after it; that the young man racing to awaken the lighthouse; that those in the tugboat chugging to lay alongside and anchor her; that even those on her deck clambering to the lifeboats - they have no foundation for concern. No reason for seeking the firm assurance of solid ground. That she will be carried safely on the rising tide and brought to float on the ebb and flow of the times. Herman Melville, himself, could not so clearly depict the opening scenes as "human rights" commissions sharpen their harpoons. The white whale of tolerance and conformity spouts clearly on the horizon. The Pequod has set forth to fill its hull with the oil of the shattered lives and businesses of those who

Don't Lose the War Over Defunding Planned Parenthood

On September 17, the Conservative Action Project (CAP) put out a "Memo for the Movement." On the letterhead, CAP signals it is "designed to facilitate conservative leaders working together on behalf of common goals." The title of the Memo? "Oppose Any Bill Funding Planned Parenthood." With less than two weeks before the end of the fiscal year without the passage of a single appropriations bill, CAP is calling on Members of Congress to actively oppose any legislation that provides funding for Planned Parenthood. In short, they are incontrovertibly calling for a government shutdown. A shutdown that will bury their own conservative leaders in a quagmire of political refuse. Let's be clear here. Defunding Planned Parenthood must happen. The recent videos exhibit a vile and untempered disregard for humanity. They reveal an organization so calloused they don't even have the capacity to recognize the difference between a life and the value of a doll

A Man's Stand Against Poverty

In 1964, Lyndon Baines Johnson stood up and declared in the most masculine of words: A War on Poverty. A manly pursuit. Never again would an American child lie down to sleep hungry. Never again would a mother worry about having enough money to care for her children. Never again would a family shiver through a cold, winter's night. Never again would a father... Be necessary. For almost every one of the last fifty years, the United States has spent more money than the year before on programs to help grow out of poverty. Pretty quick, that has become more than ONE TRILLION DOLLARS a year. And the results? In those fifty years, the percentage of children born to unmarried parents has climbed from less than ten percent to well over forty percent. And Supplemental Security Income, SNAP, Medicaid, and countless other programs have taken over where once fathers fought. It is not to say that these programs are bad in and of themselves. By no means. They have buoyed countless families in

The Isolated Christian

Prov 18:1 “Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment” I have lived most of my life as a lone-wolf Christian. I attended church, went to small group, met up with an accountability partner. I even played the guitar sometimes for the campus ministry. I went on mission trips all over the world. I read the Bible with others and prayed with them. But I never allowed any of them to ever know me. Nor did I think that I needed them to. I figured I was smart enough to think things through on my own. That I could handle whatever came my way. Besides, I didn't want people to know who I was. I didn't want them to know that I was a sinner. And I didn't trust anyone to know me. I thought they just wouldn't get it, or they would expose me, or they would laugh at me, or they would try to change me. I though that they wouldn't love me. So, I put up a smoke screen and took a mask - giving just enough to make it look li

Porn: Is it Really a Big Deal?

Is porn really a big deal? Let's listen in on what Pastor John Piper has to say to a young woman considering marriage to a man struggling with pornography. So, how does porn affect us? Consider the four elements Piper puts forth. - It is unloving. - It is adulterous. - Destructive to a man's capacities to love a woman purely for herself. - Destructive to a man's soul; his capacity to see God in the purity and greatness of His glory is shriveled. How does this play out: Porn says reality is not good enough. Pornography is a conglomeration of photoshopped images and tantalizing scenarios. None of which exist in the real world. Today on the internet there are infinite amounts just clicks away. Every click brings a new experience and new stimulation. You can fast-forward and rewind. Nothing in the real world comes close to the expansive nature of sexual images and videos. Porn tells a woman she is not good enough. Nothing