Challies On "God Is With Us"

If you have never been to Tim Challies blog, let me recommend it to you. I find it to be in a tier all its own. There is always great content there that aims to draw you closer to the Lord. He is a great writer and equally as talented at thinking through hard issues and giving easily understandable synopsises.

Below is an excerpt from his latest post titled God is with Us:

For the past few weeks I’ve been transfixed by a word. That may sound a little bit strange but it is exactly what’s happened. It keeps coming to mind and I keep pondering it, trying to gain a sense of its meaning. Though the word appears just three times in Scripture, twice in Isaiah’s prophecy about the coming of Christ and once in Matthew in the fulfillment of that prophecy, it’s a word we have all used and a word whose meaning most of us know. Our children read about it every Christmas and our pastors mention it in their Christmas sermons. That word is Immanuel. God with us. God is with us.

You can read more here.

Some questions:
-Have you given much thought to this word Immanuel?
-If you took time to browse around on Challies sight, did any articles catch your eye?
-What does it mean that God is with us?
-Why do you think it was hard for those back then to accept the divinity of Jesus?

Iron My Shirt!

Hillary Clinton said in a speech while in Salem New Hampshire, "Everybody in this race is talking about change. But what does that mean?"

A man stood up from among the audience and yelled, "Iron my shirt!" while unfolding and displaying a sign that stated the same. He said it over and over again until the lights were ordered on and the man and another man standing with him were removed from the audience.

Clinton stated, "“Oh, the remnants of sexism are alive and well".

You can read more here.

Some questions:
-What does this say about how far we have come since woman's suffrage?
-Is America really ready to have a woman take control of the country?
-Could a woman bring something positive to the White House that a man could not?
-Would a woman be weaker as Commander-in-Chief?
-Does the Bible have any bearing on those who will vote in this election? Particularly concerning the woman being the weaker vessel? What about a woman being in a position of authority over a man? Should these things influence a Christian's vote or is that to stay within the confines of the church?

Comfort Vs. Truth Summed Up In A Quote

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

-C.S. Lewis