World Magazine 12.9.2017...by Marvin Olasky p64
airport shooting.
Trump inauguration.
travel ban
pipeline protest.
midwest tornadoes.
Neil Gorsuch
school shooting.
Comey firing.
obamacare survival.
Solar eclipse
Scharlottesville killing
Antifa violence.
National anthem protests
Concert shooting
Wildfires
Church shooting
Hurricanes harvey, Irma,and Maria.
Books, movies and music CDs that reflect and amplify atheism and anarchy.
I've just been looking at mostly domestic stories in the first draft of WORLD's next issue which will be our Year in Review special - or maybe we should call it the Year of Tears. the international stories are..heart-rending:
Peruvian floods
Coptic church bombings
terrorism and fire in England.
Venezuelan protests.
China crackdown.
Mexican earthquakes
North Korean missiles.
christians should keep track of this bad news for at least 3 reasons.
First, God tells us to mourn with those who mourn and pray for them.
Second, tragedies remind us of our own morality and push us to yearn for heaven:
As Puritan pastor Increase Mather put it, 'Man knows not his time'.
Third, if we discern the ties, we can slightly influence the world through our buying, voting and other actions and we can greatly influence our churches and communities.
how to follow what's going on?
the Washington Post and most television news networks are so anti-Trump all the time that it's hard to know what's fact and what's just friction. I'll watch Fox News over CNN, but Fox fear-selling also increases demands for antacids and high blood pressure medications. WORLD reminds us to be watchful but not anxious, because God is still in charge. through God's grace in keeping our staff members healthy and hardworking, a relatively small number of WORLD reporters and editors create the magazine you read, the website and podcast an increasing number of you access, and our educational tools - newspapers for children and the World Journalism Institute for adults. our daily half-hour podcast is perfect for busy people commuting to work or cleaning house...
p6 the Roy Moore moment
...the reason our Moore quandary is hard:
we do a disservice to God's mercy when we maximize it.
we do a disservice to evangelism when we say or believe winning an election is more important than telling the truth about God's glory and our sinfulness.
my concern is with those who have written to me and said, in essence, None of those considerations matter because what's most important is to have 52 rather than 51 Republican votes in the Senate.
if numerous Alabaman women are lying, they are defaming Moore;
but if they are telling the truth and he refuses to acknowledge any impropriety,
he is defaming them.
if the latter is the case, Alabama Republican face the choice...
'Retain the Senate seat or retain our honor.
if we act toward Roy Moore as feminists acted toward Bill Clinton,
we need to think about the message we're sending to our children;
some are concluding that conservative evangelicals care more bout political power than anything else. (the irony is that seeking political power now is the quickest way to lose it in an upcoming backlash election.
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