The Home of the Brave and the Land of the Free

Posted on April 13, 2011 by LovingLikeGod.com

Once again I feel compelled to break into the primary purpose of this blog to address a problem that has become glaringly apparent as we approach this coming weekend. It has to do with media black out of the truth, including the give and take of ideas among free men.

This weekend is the debut of a new movie, Atlas Shrugged Part One.

The movie is new, but the book on which the movie is based was published in 1956. The book is one of the biggest selling books of all time, as I understand it, second only to the Bible. It has been named in a good number of public opinion polls as the second most influential book of all time for those who have taken the time to read it.

The media silence should be a great cause for concern, and very telling as to the anti-human liberty agenda that presently dominates or public dialogue. The media refusal to mention the debut of this movie is the silent equivalent of the big lie that took Germany captive during the rise of Hitler. This is not an accident. It is not a matter of no importance, and it is not pretty.

I urge the readers to go see this movie!

Here is a link to where it will be playing: www.atlasshruggedpart1.com

As for the short comings of the philosophy and person of Ayn Rand, I am well aware of them from back in the days when I was in correspondence with her about her problems, both philosophical, and relational. I am more than willing to address those problems, should that become necessary, but the point for the present is that what she has written should have both a reading and a viewing, because it goes to the root cause of the last days of America!

Love!

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Emergency First Aid For Relationships

Posted on April 10, 2011 by LovingLikeGod.com

first aid firstaid relationshipsThe following is a small but necessary side trip from our main theme – God’s kind of Love, and relationships that come from God, but I am hopeful that it will prove helpful for those who have a heart to love like God in relationship to others.

Over the past 40 years of attempting to live this out, I have come to think of myself as a lover in training. I commend this identification to you as well.

That said, there is no challenge as lovers in training so difficult and demanding as loving and being caught between two people who don’t get along or are incompatible. If you love and encourage the one, you offend and discourage the other. It is the most conflicted situation that we, as lovers in training are likely to encounter.

Here again, this is where lovers in training need to turn to the cross, and even Jesus’ garden experience the night before the cross. Jesus was caught between us and His Father, with whom we were/are incompatible. For Him to drink the cup was to associate Himself with our incompatibility. “My God, My God why hast Thou forsaken me… ?” Psalms 22:1. This is the price of being caught between two people who don’t see eye to eye. It is the highest challenge to our faith, and the one where, more than any other, we need to identify ourselves as lovers in training.

Love!

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Time Out For a Brain Adjustment

Posted on April 7, 2011 by LovingLikeGod.com

spiritual brain adjustment about the economy of God
In the past couple of days, I have been prompted to revisit this from my more recent money book, Are You Worried Yet…:

What I saw was a choice between two kinds of “time-shares,” two places to rest, two places to live, even a choice between two kingdoms. How can we leave the one, without entering the other?  Getting out of Babylon, it seems, is a call to every one of us, but where are we to go if we are given no alternative? Does “the gospel” consign us to some kind of mental holding pattern until Jesus comes back? Why should people living in darkness want a piece of that action?

We need to live in the Spirit’s alternative to Babylon; we need to live there now. My experience tells me that this is well within reach of the faith once delivered to the saints, and still available even in our own day. What we are presently calling “church” isn’t fooling anyone, except perhaps ourselves.

As my revelation that day in Mexico became clearer, I found myself wanting to share about the work of the cross, not only as a remedy for sin, but as a kind of bulldozer for spiritual urban renewal. I was reminded that the Apostle Paul wanted to go where the gospel had not been preached. No wonder. A great deal of demolition work needs to be done on the half-way houses that our understanding of the gospel has offered in the name of the Lord.

The way things are now, people haven’t the faintest idea of what the Bible is really offering us in Christ. People living in darkness need very badly to know that there is another place to live, another place to rest. If I understand it right, believers were to be a demonstration in that darkness. “Oh well, maybe next time –  NOT!”

What Jesus offers us is bad for business, any business:

…To what then shall I compare the men of this generation, and what are they like? They are like children who sit in the market place. . . .¹ 

We sit in a market place with an eye to doing business. We have business on our mind. It is this “what’s in it for me that I can buy” mentality that stands in opposition to our ability to enter the Kingdom of God. It is a change of mental location that we need in order to come out of Babylon and enter another place.

The book of Revelation is a strange kind of letter. It tends to scramble our sense of “past” “present” and “future.”  A “beast” is revealed there who will burn Babylon in the future.² 

The book of Revelation also reveals another place to live. This other place is called “The New Jerusalem.”³   The problem is that what’s calling itself “church” has been so locked into futureness that we have missed the burning that is going on in the present. This burning is the result of a fire Jesus kindled at the cross. This is to say, we don’t have to wait until the eleventh hour to get out of the burning tower. The fact is, the fire Jesus set at the cross has already gutted the building.

One way of indicating where the gospel takes us, as contrasted with where we have been, is to summarize the contrast between two economic “systems.” One system finds its expression in a market place, a place where people go to buy and sell. The rock bottom object of the market place is a redistribution of the necessities of life. The economy of God does this by the blood of Christ. This is the transaction of the cross, where we exchange our garbage for His love.⁴

Love!

¹ Luke 7:30-32
² Revelation 17:16
³ Revelation 21:2
⁴ This summary was first suggested to me by Lisa Weger, co-author of Not Left Behind.

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