Whether one reads the Decency Minute scripts below or listens to Bill Johnson narrate them by clicking on the links, one’s mind, given enough time of reflection, will naturally come to a point of judgment. Temporally, each act will be seen as right or wrong, often depending on our upbringing, school and church education, and influences that have made their way into our minds through friendships, politics, entertainment, and so on. Where each of us land on the spectrum of good to bad depends on our view of God, which A.W. Tozer says is the most important thing about ourselves:
“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.
“The history of mankind will probably show that no people has ever risen above its religion, and man’s spiritual history will positively demonstrate that no religion has ever been greater than its idea of God. Worship is pure or base as the worshiper entertains high or low thoughts of God.
“For this reason the gravest question before the Church is always God Himself, and the most portentous fact about any man is not what he at a given time may say or do, but what he in his deep heart conceives God to be like.
“We tend by a secret law of the soul to move toward our mental image of God. This is true not only of the individual Christian, but of the company of Christians that composes the Church. Always the most revealing thing about the Church is her idea of God.” (The Knowledge of the Holy)
Yet, for each of us, regardless of our upbringing or education, our judgment of an act being right or wrong and certainly our view of who God is should be based on the Bible. The Bible teaches us the difference between right and wrong, the holy and the profane, and, most importantly who God really is. It is the standard by which we will be judged and describes He who IS our Judge. The Word of God lays before us the path of the righteous and the path of the wicked, describes who are on these paths, and speaks, in detail, how God feels about each one. So let us diligently search out God’s facts about whether an action is good or bad, taking in the whole counsel of God as opposed to a few portions of Scripture to support our own view, trying to put God’s “stamp of approval” on it.
C.S. Lewis had some good things to say on this topic which we will share with you after the Decency Minute scripts below.
Target stores – a goliath in the woke movement – has seemingly surrendered. After years of defiantly ignoring boycotts and plummeting sales in the wake of their aggressive push of the LGBT agenda, Target just announced it is ending its DEI initiatives and pulling out of the pro-LGBT Human Rights Campaign.
This is truly stunning considering that Target was the LGBT trendsetter in corporate America, using their company to normalize leftist ideology. For the last decade, Target militantly advocated for legalizing gay marriage; opened women’s restrooms to biological men; and indoctrinated children by promoting transgender clothing, such as chest binders, for kids.
Despite outrage from shoppers and dismal sales reports, Target continued to dig in its heels, with the CEO claiming that the transgender agenda was “great for our brand.”
This is truly a massive victory, but considering Target’s extremist history, the proof will be in the pudding.
There are many versions of the Bible available to us today: KJV, NIV, ESV, and the list goes on, BUT a DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) Bible? Say it isn’t so!
Though Zondervan has had a long history of publishing Bibles and books that are meant to honor God and edify His people, they’ve decided to use their influence on the Christian community with their new Upside-Down Kingdom Study Bible which some well-respected Christians have labeled the DEI Bible.
Instead of “rightly dividing the word of truth,” the Upside-Down Kingdom Study Bible twists Truth with progressive and Marxist ideology that contradicts God’s holy, infallible, inerrant word. It waters down the severity of sin and the judgment we must face. It denies the transforming power of salvation in Jesus Christ, encouraging people to identify with their sin instead of identifying with their Saviour.
Guard your heart; stay away from this Bible.
It’s been ten years since David Daleiden revealed to the world the dark secret of the already incredibly dark abortion industry: organizations like Planned Parenthood don’t just profit from the deaths of the innocent, they also profit from the sale of their tiny corpses to medical research organizations.
While Americans whose consciences had not been deadened to such wickedness waited for justice to finally fall on this twisted operation, we were shocked to hear that David Daleiden was the one being prosecuted, by none other than then California Attorney General, Kamala Harris.
Kamala took another loss last week, as after a decade of litigation, the state of California struck a deal to drop the charges against David Daleiden.
Stories like this remind us that God is just, and he cares for His own. Let the abortion doctors tremble – whether in this life or the next, justice will be done.
C.S. Lewis, looking from an eternal point of view, gives a differing view:
“How God thinks of us is not only more important, but infinitely more important. Indeed, how we think of Him is of no importance except in so far as it is related to how He thinks of us.
“It is written that we shall ‘stand before’ Him, shall appear, shall be inspected. The promise of glory is the promise, almost incredible and only possible by the work of Christ, that some of us, that any of us who really chooses, shall actually survive that examination, shall find approval, shall please God. To please God . . . to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness . . . to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a father in a son—it seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which our thoughts can hardly sustain. But so it is.” (The Weight of Glory)
Regardless of which point we are drawn to, we must take our direction and make our judgments from the Bible. In so doing, by God’s grace, we will find ourselves acceptable in His sight, having trusted in Jesus’ atoning work on the cross for salvation and being sanctified to obedience by His Spirit.
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