Ziklag W424SOS: Time for Praise

From the Archives: A Dark Secret

SOS Discipline - Daily Proverb and Red Letter Reader

Duplicity has not the time for praise. cf Pr. 29:6

There is a wrong way. cf Mt. 7.13

Exact pressure at the fulcrum holds to release, directs the wind, and harnesses the flood. cf Sun Tzu 4.20

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From the Archives

from Broken, by Jonathan M. Fisk on Amazon

One of the darkest secrets of Christianity in America is that we are losing our kids. We hide it with light shows and Christian dance video games, but it’s true, and it is nothing new. It has been happening for more than fifty years. It is still happening right this very moment. Worse than that, it’s not just happening to kids. It’s happening to college students and senior citizens. It’s happening to emerging adults and the midlife crisised. Christians are losing faith. Christians are falling away. Christians once on fire are burning-out.

Jesus knew about this problem. He once told a story about it. He said the Christian faith was like seeds being planted. He said for many people—too many—they would believe in him, but then their faith would die. The cares and trials of this world would overwhelm them and choke them. Missionaries for atheism or Buddhism or some other secret mystery would find them and convince them that they could get a better deal than Jesus somewhere else. Even though they once sprang up with joy and grew like they could never grow enough, their roots would suddenly find themselves trying to creep through a layer of bedrock. They would be thirsty, but no one would give them a glass of water. They would wither. They would die. Their faith in Christianity would be broken.