Category: Kingdom Law

Response: The So-Called “Right-to-Die”

NeedleSo, I received an email from an attorney friend of mine implicitly endorsing the so-called “right-to-die.”

It contained a statement from Dr. Peter Goodwin, who helped create Oregon’s right-to-die legislation.

Goodwin made the statement before he decided to end his life last year at 83 because of a terminal condition.”Life is unfair,” Goodwin told The Oregonian, but “Be fulfilled . . . be happy with yourself. Recognize achievements and be proud of them then go on to further achievements. Know what you want to do and do it. Be happy. Know good friends. Be in love.”

Why Did Manny Pacquiao Lose?

boxing-punchOn Saturday night, with 1 second left in the sixth round, Juan Martinez landed a wicked right that sent Manny Pacquiao face first into the canvas,dealing Pacquiao his second loss in a row. It was one of the biggest shockers in recent sports history,

Prior to his loss on June 9, 2012, against Timothy Bradley, Pacquiao was 54-3-2, and had not lost in more than seven years.

A few months prior to his fight with Bradley, Pacquiao became a Christian. His conversion appears genuine if one is to judge by the fruits of repentance.

But after losing two in a row, some, including Pacquiao’s Catholic mother, questioned whether Pacquiao’s conversion to Christianity (or as his mother said, “since the Protestant pastors came into his life“), contributed to is losses. I think Pacquiao’s mother may be correct, but for the wrong reason. Continue reading “Why Did Manny Pacquiao Lose?”

God And Law

I’ve decided Christians like law.

Think about it: Christians are a lot more likely to become legalistic than licentious in their beliefs.

Note, I said beliefs not conduct. You can easily enough find Christians who  engage in adultery, for example, but you will rarely find one who will tell you they believe there is nothing wrong with adultery. You are a lot more likely to find Christians who believe in more law than they live.

I got to thinking about this this morning when I was reading in Mark 7 about Jesus reproving the Pharisees for multiplying manmade laws that conflicted with a very simple one God had given: Honor your father and mother. Continue reading “God And Law”

Musical Chairs

Perhaps you’ve been following the Greek debt crises.

Greece has been teetering on the edge of bankruptcy for the last three years. A few weeks ago the Greeks elected new politicians in a reaction against austerity measures they previously accepted as a part of a deal to borrow more money from the European Union.

The European Union was initially reluctant to offer a bailout, but now they are all in, and Greece, like a petulant child, has shown its appreciation by deciding after it took the money that it doesn’t want to take its medicine.

Greece’s profligacy is not the EU’s fault, but it is now their problem.

We face a similar problem in the USA. Greece’s public debt was 152% of their Gross Domestic Product in 2011. Their 2011 government expenses were approximately 120% of their revenues. American public debt was nearly 100% of Gross Domestic Product and expenses were 150% of revenues in 2011. Continue reading “Musical Chairs”

Why Our Troops Shouldn’t Urinate on the Enemy

U.S. Defense Secretary, Leon Panetta, told our troops yesterday to stop urinating on the enemy.

Urinating on the enemy, said Panetta, is bad for morale and can compromise the mission through bad publicity.

I admire Secretary Panetta for calling the troops to a higher standard, but he did so for the wrong reason.

It won’t take our boys too much cogitating to figure out their conduct is only bad for morale and the mission if the media finds out. They will think, “So long as we keep it off Twitter, Facebook and out of the Los Angeles Times, we can have at it.” They will think this, and they will be dead wrong.

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