Around the horn

Trolling the news web-sites today provided a heaping helping of discouragement. I'll not go into detail, but a great deal of stuff on prominent news web-sites exposed the gruesome debauchery that has become commonplace in our land and in the world.

And yet, despite the 104-degree temperatures, the beauty of the day could not be masked.

Here are a couple intriguing tidbits, stuff to get you considering the God who's not yielded His sovereignty:

• Who'd have thought that Chuck Norris could script some of the best what's-good-about-America commentary going? Here's a quote from today's column:

  When will we learn that just because we can say something doesn't mean that we should? Once again, we're confusing liberty for licentiousness. It is a classic example of what happens when a society leaves its moral absolutes: Everything becomes culturally relative, with each deciding what's right in his own eyes. Language is one more infected arena in America's societal degradation.

• Jay Nordlinger of National Review jots about random items in his semi-weekly "Impromptus" column. Today he included a bumper sticker seen by a subscriber. Yikes:

  "Faith...hope...Obama."
  

• These two articles were no kidding posted one after the other on Pravda's news site (and I quote):

"Moscow to turn into Europe's gay capital for Eurovision 2009"

"Islam to become Russia's predominant religion by 2050?" (If that's the case, I think Eurovision 2050 might a wee bit less tolerant.)

• The last item deflated my sails most of all. The US military is reviewing the "Don't ask/Don't tell" policy regarding homosexual conduct and military service. Considering what's been happening on the coasts, I don't suspect it's being reviewed to further tighten the current guidance.

Let's step out of this with a bit of hope:

For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God...Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?...For the foolishness of God is wiser than men...

1 Corinthians 1: 18, 20d, 25a

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