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Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it. Do not say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again, tomorrow I will give it” – when you have it with you. Do not quarrel with anyone without cause, when no harm has been done to you. Do not envy the violent and do not choose any of their ways.
– Proverbs 3:27-31

In saying “Your kingdom come,” we are acknowledging that faith in Jesus is not simply an idea or an emotion. It is a concrete reality of which we are to become part or else be out of step with the way things are now that God has come into the world in Jesus. When the kingdom comes, we are “to repent” (i.e. change, let go of our citizenship in the old kingdoms) and “believe the good news” (i.e. join up, become part of the revolution).
– Stanley Hauerwas

How would this fly in your church? 🙂

It may be a mute point now that the election’s over and Perry won, but I’m still amazed at the hooplah the media (including some at my own paper) have made over Perry saying that “non-Christians are going to hell.”

Isn’t that exactly what Scripture tells us?

Why are politicians and celebrities slammed for having and talking about their Christian faith?

Independent Kinky Friedman said, “He doesn’t think very differently than the Taliban, does he?”

I’ve thought about this several times since Sunday and I think it goes back to what the Apostle Paul said, “For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.”

As Christians we can’t expect the rest of the world to understand our beliefs or agree with them.

When we start quoting scripture it means nothing to them. Which is why we must find other means to convey our morality and views on issues like abortion and same-sex marriage — besides quoting scripture.

Quoting Leviticus to an unbeliever won’t sway their opinion. If it’s true there must be other means of going about persuading a person.
I may be rambling here, but what do you think?

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Republicans took the Ellis County vote in every contested race.

From the DMN:

Deep within a multimillion-dollar contract to renovate Dallas’ Cotton Bowl is an easily overlooked item that may resurrect an otherwise defunct idea from last decade – doming the stadium.
The $30,000 study would investigate options for covering the Cotton Bowl with a permanent roof or something semi-permanent, such as an inflatable, retractable or removable dome.

I wonder if you can get a deal on tickets if you agree to help blow up the inflatable roof.

From the Perry camp:

Look Who Got Caught Riding a Toll Road
The Master of the Hypocritical Flip-Flop: Carole Strayhorn
NORTH DALLAS TOLLWAY – Wanting to get out of Metroplex congestion yesterday, gubernatorial candidate and One Tough Grandstander, Carole Strayhorn, decided to take a toll road rather than telecommuting to her next event.
This is the same Strayhorn who consistently recommended toll roads, but who as a candidate for governor has labeled them everything negative except “the work of Satan.”
It seems that when it comes to getting somewhere on time, she prefers the Perry transportation model over her own – which is to have Texans telecommute to baby showers and kids’ ballgames, and to build a bridge from San Antonio to Oklahoma.
This latest flip-flop, on the heels of more than a dozen throughout this campaign, generated not even a word of explanation from Strayhorn. According to the Dallas Morning News, she “just shook her head and laughed.”
“If we charged a toll every time Carole changed positions, we could fund every road project in Texas,” said Perry spokesman Robert Black.

Dallas Morning News (11/02/06):
Strayhorn Express
Carole Keeton Strayhorn has gotten support on the campaign trail from opponents of the Trans-Texas Corridor. About 50 vocal opponents of Gov. Rick Perry’s toll-road project showed up in Waco on Wednesday, waving placards and cheering Mrs. Strayhorn, who has made the issue a central theme of the campaign.
As she does at every campaign stop, she denounced the governor’s toll-road initiative as a “land grab” and “a catastrophe.” She said public roads are the way to go.
Arriving in Dallas at drive-time Wednesday evening, the Strayhorn entourage found the public highways congested. The solution? The Dallas North Tollway, which the Strayhorn entourage used to zip to a campaign stop at City Hall.
Asked about it later on the campaign plane, the independent gubernatorial candidate just shook her head and laughed.