Just wanted to take a few moments to publicly thank God for some stuff going on in my life...
First, the house is returning to normalcy. The new dry wall and painting are done. The new colors my wife picked look great. And most importantly we have a few days of peace and quiet before we head to the beach Sunday for the next week so the floors can be refinished. Given the hassle this whole water damage thing has been it is great to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Second, I hit 1000 friends on Facebook this week and it put me in mind of how amazing it is to be blessed to have so many talented, dedicated, and truly amazing people in my life. None of them are there by accident and I praise God for it.
Third, we had a great NASCAR weekend at Atlanta. We had some old friends over and made some new ones as well. Two highlights were seeing my old friend Brian Carty for the first time in 15 years and hosting the Motor Racing Outreach ministry staff for dinner at our place on Saturday night. I was really touched by Nationwide Series Chaplain Lonnie Clouse telling me about his plan to move his family to Mexico to work with orphans. Hearing Lonnie share his heart for children was a blessing.
Finally, I'm going fishing tomorrow. It's my first trip of 2010. Folks who know me know how much I enjoy hunting and fishing. Due to my achilles injury I didn't get to make a single trip deer hunting this past fall. (probably for the first time in 30 years) This injury showed me how much I take for granted the physical freedom God has blessed me with to do things that I enjoy. I will savor the time out tomorrow even if I don't get a bite.
So the words from the old doxology are definitely ringing true in my life...Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow!!!
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
The truth about NOW and Tim Tebow
The National Organization for Women (NOW) is showing its true colors with its criticisms of a Super Bowl ad featuring Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Tim Tebow and his mother Pam.
First, a little background on the ad. When Pam Tebow was pregnant with Tim while on a Christian missionary assignment in the Philippines she was diagnosed with a health problem that led doctors to recommend she have an abortion for her own protection. She carried the baby to term against the advice of those doctors eventually giving birth to Tim, quite possibly the most decorated college football player since Jim Thorpe. The commercial, which is being financed by Focus on the Family, shares this story and encourages people to “celebrate family and celebrate life.”
The commercial has led to protests and upheaval from the usual cast of left of center groups claiming to be advocates for women. Predictably, the leader of this pack is NOW and its president Terri O’Neill.
In calling on CBS to ditch the ad, O’Neill begins by saying she respects the private choices made by women like Pam Tebow, but continues to say that she finds the commercial to be “extraordinarily offensive and demeaning.”
Who exactly is offended or demeaned by this story is unclear. Perhaps Miss O’Neill is offended that Pam Tebow didn’t defer to her doctors. Or maybe she just hates the Florida Gators. O'Neill didn't exactly say.
But her next comments reveal the lie that is really at the heart of her philosophy. “That’s not being respectful of other people’s lives,” says O’Neill. “It is offensive to hold one way out as being a superior way over everybody else’s.”
Listen to Miss O’Neill’s words carefully. What she has really said is that there is no such thing as truth. She would sacrifice the very existence of right and wrong to promote her agenda that says anyone (or at least women) should be able to do whatever they please without facing the stigma of having made a moral judgment. The very idea that one choice could be than another choice is offensive.
Consider where her logic takes us. Can we not say that hard work is superior to stealing? If I criticize those who choose to molest children am I being offensive? Are those who rape just making a different but equal choice from those who don’t?
These statements prove conclusively that the leadership of the National Organization for Women is morally bankrupt.
Regardless of how offensive it might be to Miss O’Neill, there is such a thing as right and wrong. Good and evil exist. We cannot divorce ourselves of the moral dimensions of the choices we make no matter how much we may wish those dimensions didn’t exist.
If O’Neill is so offended at the Tebow’s message, then here is what I suggest she do. Let NOW raise the 2.8 million dollars necessary to pay for a Super Bowl ad and put women on television who will tell the story of their decision to have an abortion. If choice is the most sacred of values, let’s give the public a choice between the grief, guilt and heart wrenching agony felt by untold scores of women who have experienced the trauma of abortion and compare that to the heart warming story of Pam Tebow’s unconditional love for her unborn baby who was special to her before he became a football hero.
Perhaps then the world would see the moral bankruptcy of Miss O’Neill’s philosophy and they would choose accordingly.
First, a little background on the ad. When Pam Tebow was pregnant with Tim while on a Christian missionary assignment in the Philippines she was diagnosed with a health problem that led doctors to recommend she have an abortion for her own protection. She carried the baby to term against the advice of those doctors eventually giving birth to Tim, quite possibly the most decorated college football player since Jim Thorpe. The commercial, which is being financed by Focus on the Family, shares this story and encourages people to “celebrate family and celebrate life.”
The commercial has led to protests and upheaval from the usual cast of left of center groups claiming to be advocates for women. Predictably, the leader of this pack is NOW and its president Terri O’Neill.
In calling on CBS to ditch the ad, O’Neill begins by saying she respects the private choices made by women like Pam Tebow, but continues to say that she finds the commercial to be “extraordinarily offensive and demeaning.”
Who exactly is offended or demeaned by this story is unclear. Perhaps Miss O’Neill is offended that Pam Tebow didn’t defer to her doctors. Or maybe she just hates the Florida Gators. O'Neill didn't exactly say.
But her next comments reveal the lie that is really at the heart of her philosophy. “That’s not being respectful of other people’s lives,” says O’Neill. “It is offensive to hold one way out as being a superior way over everybody else’s.”
Listen to Miss O’Neill’s words carefully. What she has really said is that there is no such thing as truth. She would sacrifice the very existence of right and wrong to promote her agenda that says anyone (or at least women) should be able to do whatever they please without facing the stigma of having made a moral judgment. The very idea that one choice could be than another choice is offensive.
Consider where her logic takes us. Can we not say that hard work is superior to stealing? If I criticize those who choose to molest children am I being offensive? Are those who rape just making a different but equal choice from those who don’t?
These statements prove conclusively that the leadership of the National Organization for Women is morally bankrupt.
Regardless of how offensive it might be to Miss O’Neill, there is such a thing as right and wrong. Good and evil exist. We cannot divorce ourselves of the moral dimensions of the choices we make no matter how much we may wish those dimensions didn’t exist.
If O’Neill is so offended at the Tebow’s message, then here is what I suggest she do. Let NOW raise the 2.8 million dollars necessary to pay for a Super Bowl ad and put women on television who will tell the story of their decision to have an abortion. If choice is the most sacred of values, let’s give the public a choice between the grief, guilt and heart wrenching agony felt by untold scores of women who have experienced the trauma of abortion and compare that to the heart warming story of Pam Tebow’s unconditional love for her unborn baby who was special to her before he became a football hero.
Perhaps then the world would see the moral bankruptcy of Miss O’Neill’s philosophy and they would choose accordingly.
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