"Dad, Why Am I Never Right?" Christians ought to have an acute sense of right and wrong. It stands true that many are losing this outlook on life; after all, this is the age of tolerance. Lately we have been taught that there are no absolutes, that our truth is not really the real truth, and therefore we have to be constantly seeking for “the other person’s truth.” A whole generation of indifferent, watered-down Christians has arisen with no deep convictions about anything except the accepted norm that you should have no convictions.

“Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to keep.  If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.”

Those were just words when, as a very small boy, I was taught to pray at bedtime. 

They carried no particular meaning.  As an adult however, they have recently become extremely meaningful--or words very like them. 

The 1978 movie, Coma, was a chilling exercise in horror.  It starred Genevieve Bujold and Michael Douglas.  Bujold played a resident doctor at the fictional Boston Memorial Hospital, who discovers that a number of fit and healthy young adults have unexpectedly died, been declared brain dead, during routine, minor surgeries.  As she investigates, Bujold discovers that the bodies are being maintained in a coma state at the mysterious Jefferson Institute. 

 Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilate, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judaea, and the first source of the evil, but even in Rome, where all things hideous and shameful from every part of the world find their center and become popular.

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To the World from America: Last Friday night, June 26, 2015 the White House glowed with the giddy colors of the rainbow as the President celebrated same sex marriage.  The light display was an in-your-face symbol that, in the wake of the Supreme Court decisions on Obamacare and same sex marriage, everything has changed.  It was the flaunted demonstration that the wicked now reign in America.

Everyone around the world seems to know what the U.S. Supreme Court decided about gay marriage on June 25, 2015. 

Many are outraged and many are thrilled. 

At the request of the WRF International Director, Dr. Flip Buys, I am sharing a few thoughts about this matter. 

The Supreme Court's decision enabling same-sex marriage in all states has gotten much attention, positively and negatively. It will facilitate unbiblical marriages everywhere, and God and his law will be massively mocked. Of course that is very serious. Going ahead, will those opposing this decision be convicted of hate-crime? It is very possible.

When the story of our time is written, and if America ever does turn back from its path toward destruction, it may be that historians will point to June 17, 2015 and the days that followed as the moment when that change began.

 Western culture was built upon Biblical foundations.  The latest reviews of social attitudes reveal that the foundation has been deeply undermined under the onslaught of the sexual rebellion by the Baby-Boomer generation, its start symbolized by Woodstock in August 1969.

 An Outstanding Article by Tim Keller on Same-Sex Marriage

The issue of homosexuality and, in particular, same-sex marriage is affecting the church all across the globe.  Many pastors, church congregations, and individual believers are being called to provide sufficient answers to challenges to our faith and to respond wisely to the intolerance of many who are promoting  same-sex marriage. 

The United States Supreme Court is scheduled to announce its decision this month on whether same sex marriage is a Constitutional right.  The Federal government admitted during its presentation in favor of same sex marriage that if the Court affirms it, churches and Christian non-profit organizations that refuse to yield may well become targets of government action. 

Something happened in the winter of 1944-1945 that changed the soul of America. The war in Europe was grinding on. By the Fall everyone in the United States who could be drafted had been called up. The British literally had no new men left to fill their ranks. The Germans staffed their divisions at half strength with old men and young boys. Everyone else was wounded or dead.