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Everyone is a winner
Yesterday was Super Tuesday and we had the super giveaway. Today is really the super giveaway because for every person who commented, we will send each product involved:
- Chuck Colson on Politics and the Christian Faith
- Jesus for President Pack (book and Tour Film)
- Understanding Your Mormon Neighbor
- Mormon Mirage
- Voting as a Christian: The Social Issues
- Voting as a Christian: The Economic & Foreign Policy Issues
Thanks for all the great responses!
Super Tuesday Super Giveaway
I didn’t grow up in a political home at all. I believe my parents voted, but it was never discussed. My first foray into politics was when i attended Northland Baptist Bible College in 1992 and we were told that they were not allowed to tell us who to vote for, but it better be George Bush, not Bill Clinton, and then bused us to the voting stations.
Today, I am not much more political. I do vote, but my wife and I stay away from political discussions typically. Four years ago, I read Jesus for President by Shane Claiborne. I thoroughly enjoyed it. It is a wonderful, thought-provoking book. I have also watched our Politics and the Christian Faith curriculum from Chuck Colson. Colson answers questions on whether Christians should be in politics, and whether or not politics can save America. It is biblically based, balanced, and clear teaching on politics and the Bible.
Today is Super Tuesday and Georgia, Idaho, Massachusetts, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Vermont, and Virginia will be holding primary elections today. On the blog, we will be holding a Super Giveaway on our resources that help provoke thought and offer insight into our American political system. We will be doing the giveaway two ways. First, one person will win a bundle of all our resources below. Second, six winners will be chosen to win one of the below resources:
- Chuck Colson on Politics and the Christian Faith
- Jesus for President Pack (book and Tour Film)
- Understanding Your Mormon Neighbor
- Mormon Mirage
- Voting as a Christian: The Social Issues
- Voting as a Christian: The Economic & Foreign Policy Issues
To enter, simply answer these two questions in the comments below:
- Was politics discussed in your home growing up, or is it now?
- What verses, chapters, or books for the Bible are instructive for you as you think of voting?
To learn more about Jesus for President and Politics and the Christian Faith, view the first sessions here and here.
Baseball, Tinker Bell, and Absolute Truth
My four year-old son has a TAG reader. This is a pen that helps him learn how to read through interactive games, stories, and spelling. Whenever you press the pen on the page, it tells you a word, reads the story, or such. One book that TAG promotes is a Tinker Bell story. The promotional copy says, “Tinker Bell learns that if she is true to herself, she can accomplish her dreams.”
What is ethics? Is it following your own integrity? Making decisions based on your personal values? Or is there a fixed moral standard?
We who believe Scripture know that there is such a thing as objective moral truth. However, many times we live like we are moral relativists. We are very black and white in terms of our personal ethic, but when someone else fails (especially those in high positions), we love to call them out on it.
As a Cubs fan I loved that Mark McGuire was found out to have taken HGH, but explained away Sammy Sosa’s gargantuan growth. We love seeing home runs and players breaking records, but when they are found out as cheaters, we shred them apart (even though it was plain to see that they were growing into giants).
Doing the Right Thing is a six session small group Bible study that explores ethics. Ethics for business, for institutions, for churches, for lenders, for governments, and most importantly, for individuals. This study features Chuck Colson, Robbie George, Glenn Sunshine, Brit Hume, Ben Stein, and many others talking about the ethical mess our society is in, and how we can work to change that. Dr. George says, “It has to begin in homes, churches, and schools. At every level, we have to be working together to build a consensus around a sound and coherent ethic.” Watch the entire first session from this study below.
What is your personal reaction to the idea that there is an absolute standard of right and wrong that, as Donovan Campbell says in the video, is true “outside of any context and which is translatable across cultures, times; it’s applicable everywhere”?
