If “God says something” to you and it turns out to be false, it wasn’t God saying something to you. And next time you “hear” that “voice” don’t listen. Now, to avoid confusion or unnecessary offense let me give you a brief example. If “God tells you” who is going to be the next P.O.T.U.S. and as it turns out, your guess isn’t correct, God didn’t really tell you who is going to be the next president.
I arise today
Through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity,
Through the belief in the threeness,
Through confession of the oneness
Of the Creator of Creation.
I arise today
Through the strength of Christ’s birth with his baptism,
Through the strength of his crucifixion with his burial,
Through the strength of his resurrection with his ascension,
Through the strength of his descent for the judgment of Doom.
Read this carefully, and I would appreciate your feedback. Please let me know if you agree or if and where you have quibbles. Here it is:
Apart from the work of Christ you are completely helpless to save yourself.
Christ came to save the world and accomplished that when He rose from the grave.
This means, if you will have Him, He is yours. And further, if He has you, you will belong to Him eternally.
So?
I’ve been sitting on this one for a while now—thought perhaps it was a bit grating. But alas, I don’t care, to loosely echo Jefferson, a little ruckus now and then is a good thing. Let’s get things rolling with a quote something like this:
“A convenience store approach to birth control is this generation’s bitch goddess of infertility.” – Douglas Wilson
I agree with this. To reference the, as they say, pop-culture, my wife and I applaud the enormous Duggar family for their stance on birth control and we appreciate their belief about children all the more. No one is going to be able to coolshame us into changing our minds. If this sounds like we hate our generation’s “bitch goddess of infertility”—good. We do. If you don’t like this—we’re fine with that. If you think this makes us crazy—call us crazy. But as the saying goes, what’s in a name? We love children because God loves children; we’ll be happy with as many or few as He’ll bless us with whenever He sees fit. In other words, we’re not fans of condoms or the like.