Pastor's Blog

Last week we began to examine what the Bible teaches concerning man. Some of the most important points we considered were that (1) man is not the product of blind evolutionary forces, but is instead the very handiwork of God; (2) the creation of man was a collaborative effort of the Holy Trinity; (3) man was created in the image of God; (4) the human race is one (implication:  since we are all descendants of one man, we are all distantly related and there is no room in the thinking of a Christian for racism); and (5) man was created to glorify God. What we did not have time for last week, but is nevertheless essential for us to discuss—especially after the decisions of the Supreme Court this past week—is the fact that God made man  male  and  female . In our opening text we read this: So God created man in his own image,             in the image of God he created him;     ...

Sometimes he doesn't have very flattering things to say about women. But sometimes he gets right. Like here...      A woman's beauty lights up a man's face,           and there is nothing he desires more.      If kindness and humility mark her speech,           her husband is more fortunate than other men.      He who acquires a wife gets his best possession,           a helper fit for him and a pillar of support.           (Sirach 36:27-29)

Art (and I use the term loosely) has long been the avenue to popularize, legitimize, and normalize every imaginable - and for most ordinary people even  un imaginable - sexual deviancy. The more a work pushes the moral boundaries, the more it's lauded by critics. Here is a case in point at the Cannes Film Festival. Ordinary people, even the French (if you can call them ordinary), got up and left the screening. It was just too much to stomach. Not surprisingly, true art afficionados (or at least those who flatter themselves with the title) gave the film a standing ovation. There are few taboos left to break. What will they do when they're all gone? When the deviant becomes normal, the normal looks deviant. It won't be long before a man and a woman who actually really and truly love each other and stay together for life will be an aberration. Cameron Diaz has recently gone on record as saying that marriage is a " dying institution ." If she ...

I've often found Dennis Prager's insights...well, insightful . Here's an example: http://dennisprager.townhall.com/columnists/DennisPrager/2008/06/24/why_are_so_many_women_depressed