Paul’s main admonition in his short letter to Titus was that he should both teach and speak the things that accompany soundness and steadfastness – and so that admonition follows to us as believers. We also are to speak and to do the same things, the type of things that, if followed, might end up getting us known for being “rock solid.”

To do otherwise would net nothing with God, and certainly wouldn’t work towards improving anything here. And if we go on thinking that, as Christians, we can continue to do the same selfish and contrary things we have always done and that we will somehow manage to be useful and acceptable before God, then we are seriously deluded.

Being hypocritical and not doing as we ought is pretty easy to do – just look around. The fruit of contrary living is everywhere. There are folks here and there that simply cannot muster up enough decency to do a thing for someone else or to be consistent from one day to the next in their personal dealings. The corporate world is slap full of them. Many people are decent to a point, scrupulous only as far as they remain in clear sight, and honest only as far as things have to do with them and their own plans. You know this sort is around. You also know that some of them profess to be Christians.

The Dem’s Fate: On the Left Wing And a Prayer

In a speech on Tuesday, Barack Obama told his audience that the 2008 presidential election would answer the question: “What kind of America will our daughters grow up in?” What, one might wonder, does he want to protect our daughters from? An oversexualized culture? Predators on the Internet? Alas, no. Mr. Obama was addressing a Planned Parenthood convention and worried that if the wrong person got into the White House, our daughters might grow up in a country without . . . partial-birth abortions. –lead from an article by Naomi Schaffer Riley in The Wall Street Journal 7.20.07

As part of Paul’s letter to Titus and in his admonitions concerning “things that become sound doctrine” he gave advice and godly instruction on how all Christians are to act and as to the character they should exhibit. In chapter two and verses seven and eight is this statement: “…in all things showing yourself to be a pattern of good works; in doctrine showing integrity, reverence, incorruptibility, sound speech that cannot be condemned, that one who is an opponent may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say of you.” (Titus 2: 7, 8)

Md. State Board Approves County’s Sex-Ed Curriculum

The Maryland State Board of Education has ruled in favor of a sex-education curriculum adopted last month for use in Montgomery middle and high schools, finding nothing illegal in the new lessons on sexual orientation and condom use, school officials said yesterday.

More Troubles and a Conclusion

We all know that false brethren can beguile our sensibilities and gain access and in time find a platform for their doctrines. But what should be the church’s response? Here in the fifteenth chapter of Acts we have an example of what should be done and how it should be handled.

Same-Sex Marriage Amicus -Judicial Watch Files Amicus Curiae Brief in California State Supreme Court in Support of Law Banning “Same-Sex Marriage”

“…The judiciary should not innovate social policy.”

Washington — Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption and promotes fidelity to the rule of law, announced today that it filed an amicus curiae brief on June 19, 2007 in the California Supreme Court in support of a California state law banning same-sex marriage. –excerpted from an article at newsdesk@standardnewswire.com 6.26.07 as submitted by Muriel McConnon