Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Meaningless Moral Codes?
Good Question #1: You said that a moral code made by society was meaningless, but then you said all society has the same moral code, so how is it meaningless?
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Good Question #1: You said that a moral code made by society was meaningless, but then you said all society has the same moral code, so how is it meaningless?
True religious intolerance is to insist that all religions be the same ...
I want to ask you to begin a new practice – to share with me (via email or text message or Facebook or somehow) just what God is doing in your life. And as your testimony fits with the theme of the day, I would like to share your stories with the whole church on Sundays during worship.
Don't know if you saw the flap over the TV news reporter who wondered aloud on the air, "What happened to the vice president?" His forehead looked "bruised" to her. She speculated that something might have happened to him at the Olympics where he had visited the day before. While the vice president was speaking, the reporter was apparently clued in by someone on the set that those were ashes from an Ash Wednesday service. Red-faced, she set the viewers straight and even noted that she should have known better since she is Catholic herself. I dare say that the day before, no reporter would have misunderstood someone wearing Mardi Gras beads. But ashes? Sadly, I think it’s a sign of the times. There are pieces of the Christian year ...
Our true expectations are revealed by our focus. If you focus on the negative, you are likely to find more bad than good in life. But if you center your life by faith on God's power, you're more likely to discover God's goodness infusing your life.