What a Difference 180 Years Can Make

Today, January 22 is the third anniversary of Cassia Rowan’s birthday. As her paternal grandparents, Glenda and I hope she has a happy birthday, and wish she lived close by so we could join in that celebration. Her birthday also reminds us that Cassia shares that anniversary with the US Supreme Court’s Roe vs. Wade decision that made it legal to kill unborn babies here in the United States. That decision was 37 years ago and it demonstrated that since Eve believed the lie and Adam failed to show leadership in his family that man is still trying to substitute his authority over God’s. In other words, man has from the beginning tried to be his own god. Choosing death over life for an innocent baby is a horror most Christians fail to comprehend.

11/30/09

Suppose 20 people enroll in medical school to become physicians, but when the first semester for the freshman class convenes there are only four of the 20 who show up for class. Then two more enroll the second week. At the end of the month there are a total of eight students. At the beginning of the second year five more of the 20 enroll. And then finally toward the end of the third year all 20 come to class to become medical doctors. You may be thinking that it is just plain silly to suggest that medical doctors be trained in this manner.

Okay, that may not be the way to train medical doctors, but what I have described with students coming into the classroom at different times is a model of what happens in most church congregations for discipleship training.

10/17/09 There has been a lot of buzz about government healthcare reform and its antithesis, the dangers of socialized medicine in America. Thanks to the dumbing down via America’s public schools for many decades, most people regardless of their age have little understanding of free enterprise, capitalism, healthcare, care of the aged and training of the young per the Bible’s instruction. Illiteracy among American’s is growing worse, and that of course, includes biblical illiteracy. It should be obvious that most American’s don’t really care what the Bible says, but for the rest of us, it should be our Anchor as books come and go. Besides THE Book is not going anywhere; it is here for eternity.

8/9/09

I probably smell more like a sheep now than I did two or three years ago. The reason is simple, and I am convinced pastors could learn something from this post.

NOTE: This was written in 1992 and is now Chapter 23 in the book Sheep Tracks, Biblical Insights from a Sheepherder. The theme is just as applicable in 2009 as it was in 1992.