Everlasting Arms – A meditation

Lord hold me
in your everlasting arms
enfold me
in your everlasting arms
let striving cease
that I may come to rest
in perfect peace
renewed and truly blessed

Lord bathe me
In your everlasting light
Lord raise me
In your everlasting light
awake my mind
that I may understand
and come to find
the truth of who I am

Above the silvery bay
A bird rose on the breeze
Then swooped as if to say
you too may fly
with ease

Lord lift me
In your everlasting love
home swiftly
in your everlasting love
I’ll go to where
A temple stands upon a hill
In silence there
I’ll wait upon your will
Lord lift me
In your everlasting arms
In your everlasting arms

Mike Scott

A Striking Footnote

I am going through David Wells latest entitled “Above All Earthly Powers” and I ran across this footnote:

“The transition from a premodern to a modern world was effected over centuries in Europe but it has by no means been effected in the same way outside Europe. Most Asian countries are currently modernizing but a number of Islamic societies are in their structure and function still quite premodern even though they may also have capitalistic interests and may use technology. Inasmuch as they remain premodern in their view of the world and in their social structures, it is inevitable that they feel themselves to be at war with the modern Western world with its individualism, its loss of centrality of God, its irreverence, and its moral vacuity. Hollywood producers who produce many of the images by which America is understood outside its borders are, wittingly or not, a part of American foreign policy as well as a factor in its security.”

And in the same footnote this:

“Islam has always been ill at ease with democracy if not overtly hostile to it and democracy has been an essential piece in the story of modernization in the West.”

”Above All Earthly Powers” – pg 28

A couple of things to notice including:

1.We are not well liked because of our decadent culture which is a result of our view of freedom – freedom from the past, freedom from God, and freedom from authority.
2.The Neo-con mission to democratize the Middle East will result in failure because Islam and democracy go together about as well as oil and water.

“Above All Earthly Powers” a must read for any Christian who is serious about impacting our world for God’s Kingdom. Think of Francis Schaeffer on steroids.

I am not a chart guy, but……..

http://chartingstocks.net/2007/03/04/and-the-crash-of-2007-begins/

A Theology of Work

For so long now the Christian church has bought into what Francis Schaeffer identified as the “sacred secular dichotomy”. Nowhere, has this faulty dichotomy played itself out than in the world of Business and work. S. Michael Craven identifies a consistent theology of work.

http://www.battlefortruth.org/ArticlesDetail.asp?id=155

QUOTABLE

“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”

James Madison

Have We Lost our Country? Paul Craig Roberts says Yes

http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts197.html

Daily Reminder – Wisdom

The longer I live the more I am reminded of my own lack of prudence. Proverbs 24:3-7 instructs on the value of gaining wisdom.

“By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established;
By Knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
A wise man is full of strength, and a man of knowledge enhances his might,
For by wise guidance you can wage your war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory. Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he does not open his mouth.”

Some Valuable advice from Gary North

http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north511.html

Daily Reminder

The larger catechism of the Westminster Confession states that our chief and highest end of man is to glorify God and enjoy him fully for ever. Well, I am ashamed to say that over the last couple of weeks I have been entirely convicted and fallen short of this goal. I am reminded in the words of Colossians 3:12-17, that I am to put on these virtues;

“Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all else put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.”

And Now a Word from our Favorite Republican

http://www.chalcedon.edu/blog/2007_02_01_archive.php#117203019651313965