Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons.
Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent.
I read the Bible, I speak through issues, I see what I think is hypocrisy in the church and things that are wrong, and I speak to these things. But I could be wrong.
Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.
While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective, I also can see the good that government does.
My task as a citizen is to get the government to do more good and less inefficient and wasteful work.
Insofar as the church fails to do the will of God, I am called upon to help it discover and to do the will of God; and I am called upon to help the government to do the same.
So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present.
President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case - and most Americans would agree with him on this - then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people?
I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.
When you listen to Christian radio stations - and there are thousands of them now in the United States - and when you listen to Christian television networks - and there are thousands of Christian television shows across the country - they are all politically right.
Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament.
We ought to get out of the judging business. We should leave it up to God to determine who belongs in one arena or another when it comes to eternity. What we are obligated to do is to tell people about Jesus, and that's what I do.
Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state.
In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.
A strong case can be made for religious leaders to speak out on political issues.
Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem.
It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.
Let us preach Christ, let us be faithful to proclaiming the Gospel, but let's leave judgment in the hands of God.
The Gospel is about grace and we all know that grace is about us receiving from God blessings that we don't deserve.
