Something most TV preachers will never say......

Don't Waste Your Sports

What does sports have to do with the glory to God? Can you play sports in a way that does not bring glory to you and you become an idol of our own accomplishment?

Here is a great message by C.J. Mahaney

Don't Waste Your Sports from Sovereign Grace Ministries on Vimeo.

What is mainstream Islam?

Jonah Goldberg at the National Review has this article where he asks if the so-called moderates in Islam are really the ones who are hijacking the religion and making it into something it is not. Goldberg writes.... For years, we’ve heard how the peaceful religion of Islam has been hijacked by extremists.

What if it’s the other way around? Worse, what if the peaceful hijackers are losing their bid to take over the religion?

He takes a hard look at the recent assassination of a Pakistani Governor Salman Taseer who was a moderate Muslim. He was killed for defending a Christian woman who was accused of blasphemy.

The west is facing an ancient foe in Islam. Islam, at its heart, is opposed to the values of the west and ultimately of Christianity. It is violently opposed to it all. I believe Goldberg is spot on in that Muslim moderates are not speaking for true Islam.

Finally, Islam is opposed to the cross of Christ. Christ crucified for sinners- western sinners and Muslim sinners is a message that Islam cannot tolerate. The great hope for the west is if the Gospel is able to win over much of the Islamic world- provided that the west does not loose its own grip on the Gospel.

Islam is a large and mighty foe, but compared to the Gospel it is a paper tiger. The preaching of Christ crucified is able to demolish strongholds and take every thought captive and make it obedient to Jesus Christ.

We may yet see in our day a large scale conversion of many in the Islamic world to the gospel of Jesus Christ. (Just remember the suddenness of the fall of the former Soviet Union).

Watch and pray.