1.  She can crack open her Bible that she brought over on the Mayflower.  It really helps on days like this.

2.  And rather than be hostile to Christ’s Church, seek out the household of faith.

Praying tonight for those in Aurora,

Todd

See here. 

When will BYU-Idaho join in?

One of the church deacons last night successfully proposed to me how the words of Hosea 6:1-3 can come from the lips of those immersed in manipulative presumption.  I am still chewing on this train of thought today.  God help us.

I am thankful that the boy scouts have not capitulated to the pressure of the homosexual agenda in America.

From today’s reading in The NKJV Daily Bible:

This event was pivotal.

Now when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found the Book of the Law of the LORD given by Moses. (2 Chron. 34:14)

Judah’s last great king.

[King Josiah]  And he read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant which had been found in the house of the LORD.  Then the king stood in his place and made a covenant before the LORD, to follow the LORD, and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statues with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book. (2 Chron. 34:30-31)

We all read the article on the front page of the local newspaper: “Stephen Covey, ‘7 Habits’ author, dies at 79 in Idaho Falls”.

We pray for all the family during this time.

I have his book that sold more than 20 million copies.  I read the book.  I remember when it was sold in the Christian bookstore on the campus of Bob Jones University.  Covey had quite an impact in America.

Google the title.

It’s a small token this week of a few Americans departing from one of America’s homegrown religions.  Will there be a day when the I-15 Corridor in America becomes post-Mormon?

Pixar has produced an amusing hero through the Scottish girl, Merida, in their latest movie, Brave.  It took bravery for her to forge her own path.  We like that in America.

But there is another path that takes a little more courage . . . fulfilling the calling of God upon your life.  So listen to the ancient charge,

And David said to his son Solomon, ‘Be strong and of good courage, and do it; do not fear nor be dismayed, for the LORD God–my God–will be with you.  He will not leave you nor forsake you, until you have finished all the work for the service of the house of the LORD (I Chronicles 28:20, NKJV).

Be brave in Idaho Falls.  The King heading into town on the big, white horse gives you courage to do what you need to do today.

“Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a mighty man who shouts because of wine.  And He beat back His enemies; He puts them to a perpetual reproach” (Ps. 78:65-66).

Here is the covenant-keeping Hero for a drunken, unfaithful, promise-breaking people.  We complain that God is inactive.  We long for God not to be so distant.  We are up to our necks in problems and suffering due to our own sins.  Let us be thankful to the Holy One who suddenly steps into the field of war and starts breaking the heads of the mockers and oppressors.  The Lord will enter the arena like an enraged MMA fighter.  He will crash through the woods like a Yellowstone Grizzly.  Woe to the enemies of the Lord.  He will be their worst nightmare.

Today is the day.  I rejoice with the SBC.