Abundant Life: May/June 2010

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Where the Social Gospel Always Leads

This article in the Dallas Morning News caught my eye, with its incredible title: “Dallas-area churches plan to ditch Sunday services for community service.” Churches will not meet on Sunday? How could that be?

Our Tattling Priorities

As someone has wisely noted, “life is governed by esteemed values.” It’s what men consider important that really counts in the ordering of personal priorities. Obviously, not all consider the same things important. What one views as trivial may be another’s treasure, and vice versa. But this much is sure: no man ever treats his own “treasure” as a trivial thing.

Disconnected Dads

Many years ago, there was a blues song called “Motherless Children.” But there is cause to wonder, if a similar song were written today, if it might not be called “Fatherless Children.”

First, there is the growing trend among successful (as the world counts success) women in their late 30’s and early 40’s to raise children without fathers. Then there are those who are fathers only biologically, refusing to take responsibility for their sinful lifestyles. And there are the great number of children deprived of fathers by divorce.