Pro Life Super Bowl Commerical Squashed

NBC decided not to air any advocacy commericals during the Super Bowl. Ok. That's their perogative.

Watch the pro-life commercial that got squashed because of that policy. Pretty powerful, huh?

Too, too sad!

This story is over at CNN.com right now. To read of a family that thought it better to kill themselves and their children rather than continue to live is so tragic. Is our economy really the culprit? Or is it society? Where was the local church? Where were the neighbors, friends, agencies, anyone?!?!? Five children are dead!

I know that this family may not have reached out for help, but how much more can we as a body of Christ form a safety net of some kind?

I pray to our ever gracious God that He be with this family. Are they in His hands? I hope so! Heavenly Father also please be with families (including mine) that are struggling because of unemployment or other economic hardships. Please help your body share and serve those that need help so badly.

What if?

What if I didn't lose my job and now face giant financial hurdles?

What if I didn't meet Belinda and fall for her in face of all the things put in our way?

What if I actually said everything I was thinking to that coworker that I couldn't stand?

What if I didn't act like a jerk to my kids so much?

What if I didn't need to ask so many questions and need so many answers?

What if I posed these questions to people that cared for me instead of the faceless internet?

What if I claimed every promise that God makes and believed it 100% of the time no questions asked?

What if I still went by my middle name instead of my first?

What if I went back to school?

What if God didn't raise Jesus from the dead? What would've happened then?

What if I was as good as a friend as I want others to be to me?

What if I talked to that person I was meaning to talk to about Christ but chickened out?



What ifs really don't get us very far. They typically deal with things that have already happened. I can't change those things, but I often act like I can with all of the questions that float through my head.

A verse that has struck me recently is John 8:58. It's just so clear in the way that Christ claims that He is God and has been since the beginning of time. This verse gives me strength in knowinig that my Lord has been, is now, and always will be.

Praise God that He is the great I AM!!!

So I've Come Down

Over and over again God comes down from on high to bring us up out of the stuff we get in to. I'm reading Exodus now. It's also the subject of the community's winter bible study that I'm attending.

Check out the beginning of Exodus 3:8. It says, "and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land..."

He is a God of meeting us in the place where we're at, even when it's a desolate region like Midian, and bringing us up to the place that He wants us to be.

Thank you God for coming down and lifting us up.

Jon Bon Jovi Got Me Thinkin'

I very rarely listen to music in the car. If the radio is on, it's usually on talk radio of some sort. Every now and again, I'll get wild and switch it over to the FM dial and rock out to some of the classics.

Today, my buddy and yours, Jon Bon Jovi and friends were singing about how he's wanted dead or alive. I sang along out loud (stop laughing now...you know you do it every time you here this song).

But in all seriousness, the theme of this song really got me thinking. Here is this rockband at the top of their career singing about how hard life on the road is.

Talk about the season of discontent. These guys have it all by the world's standards, but life is still life. They still feel the same feelings we all do.

Music is a powerful thing. It's a way to help us connect to feelings that we may have forgotten or haven't felt in a long time.

Bon Jovi really reminded me of how easy it is to become discontented. While it's never as easy as just turning on the happy switch to get out of a funk, it really is a subconscious decision we make to praise God in all circumstances. I've failed at that recently and thank Mr. Bon Jovi for reminding me on looking heavenward for my source of content. 'Cause even if you're a rocker, you often feel you're wanted dead or alive (wow, that's such a bad play on words it hurts).

Now crank up the volume and sing along!

George Washington Said It Best

After listening to a beautifully poignant speech by our new president, I too point to George Washington, as President Obama did.

"It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors."

and...

"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and Bible."

I pray President Obama takes those words to heart.

I'm Excited About Tomorrow

I didn't vote for Barack Obama. I don't agree with most of the ideas he's floated out there during the campaign and since.

That being said, I'm truly excited about being alive when the first African American president will be innaugurated. What a historical event to witness! I pray God's blessings on the new president, his family, and his administration.

For those on the right that want to continue harangue about how terrible Obama's election is, I refer you to Romans 12:9-13:7.

God bless the new president and God bless the United States of America.