Comments and Katie

Yesterday CBS news (now with Katie Couric) aired a commentary by Brian Rohrbough in their free speech segment.   Mr. Rohrbough lost his son in the Columbine school shooting a few years back.  His comments are as follows taken from CBS website:

I’m saddened and shaken by the shooting at an Amish school today, and last week’s school murders.

When my son Dan was murdered on the sidewalk at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999, I hoped that would be the last school shooting. Since that day, I’ve tried to answer the question, “Why did this happen?”

This country is in a moral free-fall. For over two generations, the public school system has taught in a moral vacuum, expelling God from the school and from the government, replacing him with evolution, where the strong kill the weak, without moral consequences and life has no inherent value.
We teach there are no absolutes, no right or wrong. And I assure you the murder of innocent children is always wrong, including by abortion. Abortion has diminished the value of children.

Suicide has become an acceptable action and has further emboldened these criminals. And we are seeing an epidemic increase in murder-suicide attacks on our children.

Sadly, our schools are not safe. In fact, we now witness that within our schools. Our children have become a target of terrorists from within the United States.

Read the whole story here.

As you can imagine, CBS has taken some heat on this one.  The leftists are outraged at the very notion of a religious man promoting his own agenda in the face of their own secular agendas.  Of course evolution and abortion have nothing to do with violence and the problems in society today – they are the very answer to these problems!  This guy must be a Limbaugh-listening, gun-toting, right-wing, fundamentalist bigot.   At least this is the idea you come away with…  My comments posted on the site can be found here:

Would anyone care to comment on how abortion and evolution have improved the situation in our schools? Have test scores and quality gone up as we have sought to remove religious influence from public education? Are students better behaved now that evolution is accepted as truth? Is violence on the decline as abortion rights are defended more and more?

An Evening with Evangelist Wil Rice and Galilean Baptist Church

I wonder how many of you were wondering why there was no posting yesterday…  What happened to The Epistle of Jude part 9!!!  Relax, I did not teach my usual Sunday School class yesterday.  I actually was quite sick this weekend and did not accomplish much of anything at all.  But, on Friday, I was able to travel down to Galilean Baptist Churchin Stafford Springs, CT with a group from my own church.  It was the last night of the Wil Rice revival meetings.

The meeting went very well.  There were several other churches in attendance along with local visitors.  It was a great blessing to see some old friends and acquaintances at the church I formerly had worked with.  

Brother Rice delivered an excellent message from John 17:14-20.  His main theme centered around the idea that your relationship with Christ effects your relationship with the World. Here are a few notes I jotted down from the message:

I.  You are Not of the World
     A.  You are different because of your relationship with Christ
     B.  You are different because of your relationship with the truth

II.  You are not out of the World
     A.  Don’t forget your responsibility to be a testimony where you are
     B.  People need you

III.  You are Sent Back into the World
    A.  With God’s Spirit
    B.  With God’s Word
    C.  With Your Word

For more information about Wil Rice and the ministry of the Bill Rice Ranch, log on to trhe new Fundamental Perspective blog.  Today is the big debut featuring an interview with Brother Rice.  Don’t forget to join in on the discussion using the comments section below the posting.