No, we aren't Mr. President

Obama's stumping for health care reform continued yesterday in a telephone conference, in which the president said that "we are God's partners in matters of life and death." (HT:Lifesitenews.com)

‘See now that I, I am He,

And there is no god besides Me;

It is I who put to death and give life.

I have wounded and it is I who heal,

And there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
Deuteronomy 32:39

When justice is turned on its head

On December 21, 1988 Pan Am flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 people on board plus 11 on the ground for a total of 270. There were 189 Americans on the plane.

Today in the name of "compassion" Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi was freed from a prison in Scotland in order to return to Libya, because he has terminal prostate cancer. He was the only one convicted in the bombing and has served only eight years of his sentence.

How many murders get to leave prison in order to die at home? Not many. How many mass murders get to leave prison to die at home? Should Charlie Manson be allowed to go home because he is terminally ill?

Scottish justice has mistaken sentimentality for compassion, and replaced justice with something very wicked.

Woe to those who enact evil statutes

And to those who constantly record unjust decisions (Isaiah 10:1)

Piper on Jesus' view of women

Here is a good explanation of Scripture's view of women (and men) by John Piper as he recently preached from John's gospel.

An Atheist's view of trendy evangelicals

Phil Johnson shares this article about what an atheist thinks of "uber" cool evangelicalism. It is from a writer who attended a large mega-church called "Planetshakers" in Australia. Here's how the writer finishes his article appropriately titled "Shaken but not stirred".....

The crowd left believing they had been moved by God and touched by Jesus. They hadn’t. They had been seduced by slick video packages and had their emotional desire for love, community and certainty met by manipulation. It wasn’t the Holy Spirit; it was just people.

So often churches' attempts to be cool and hip by the world's standards just makes us look plain silly and cheap, like a MacDonald's Happy Meal toy.