You Can’t Get There from Here

What happens when John MacArthur meets Mother Teresa.

What does this have to do with us and the gospel?

Listen:

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Battling gossip and slander

How do you battle against gossip and slander?  Here are two wise strategies?

Watch what you eat:  “The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.” (Proverbs 18:8).  Refuse to listen to gossip or slander.

Watch what you say.   “For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases.” (Proverbs 26:20). Refuse to pass gossip or slander on.

For more on wise words, you can read or listen to the message I preached on this theme.

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Are you praying for one restricted nation?

This would be a good pattern to incorporate into our prayer life: praying for one restricted nation a month.

And Stacey can help you get started by praying for this nation:  Turkey–where less than one-half of the population would identify themselves as Christians (and that label isn’t always descriptive of authentic, biblical Christianity).

Click here to be informed. Then, don’t forget–pray!

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Gendercide!

The world is waking up to the horror of gendercide which is now responsible for an estimated 100 million missing girls.

Albert Mohler has written a powerful article on this issue. He begins:

The reality has been known for years now, though the Western media have generally resisted any direct coverage of the horror. That changed this week whenThe Economist published its stunning cover story — “Gendercide — What Happened to 100 Million Baby Girls?”

In many nations of the world, there is an all-out war on baby girls. In 1990, economist Amartya Sen estimated that 100 million baby girls were missing — sacrificed by parents who desired a son.  Two decades later, multiple millions of missing baby girls must be added to that total, victims of abortion, infanticide, or fatal neglect.

The murder of girls is especially common in China and northern India, where a preference for sons produces a situation that is nothing less than critical for baby girls. In these regions, there are 120 baby boys born for every 100 baby girls. As The Economist explains, “Nature dictates that  slightly more males are born than females to offset boys’ greater susceptibility to infant disease. But nothing on this scale.”

In its lead editorial, the magazine gets right to the essential point: “It is no exaggeration to call this gendercide. Women are missing in their millions–aborted, killed, neglected to death.”

In its detailed and extensive investigative report, the magazine opens its article with chilling force. A baby girl is born in China’s Shandong province. Chinese writer Xinran Xue, present for the birth, then hears a man’s voice respond to the sight of the newborn baby girl . . .

Read on.  Then pray this evil will cease.

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Stamp eternity on my eyeballs

“So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.”  Psalm 90:12

This verse and the ones preceding it in Psalm 90 remind us that we only have so much time.  How we view that time is critical. Perspective is of the essence.  We must live strategically in light of eternity.

Many times we may feel like the Israelites who were wandering in the wilderness.  Our lives are going in circles it seems.  Disappointment hangs over us.  Despair shrouds out lives.  Or we let the tyranny of the urgent will all its pressing deadlines robs us of an eternal perspective.

If any of the above describe you, then let this psalm bring much needed focus back into your life.  Steve Lawson has written well, “Live every day for the approval of God, not for the applause of men.”

If you want to invest your life wisely, you must live for eternity.

And as I heard for the first time when I was a teenager:  ”There are only two things in this world which are eternal:  the Word of God and the souls of men!”  Live, my friend, for these eternal realities!

Let us pray as Jonathan Edwards did, “Lord, Stamp eternity on my eyeballs.”

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