Rex M Rogers - Discerning What Is Best

Discerning What Is Best
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Details: Written by Rex M. Rogers; Published: 07 January 2021

Those of us who are religious, which is all of us in some way, and I am Christian, would do well to remember a few principles:

1 - Aligning our religious worldview with a given ideology (Left, Liberal, Conservative, Right), or a given political party, or a given political leader(s) immediately reduces the prophetic power of our faith to critique ideology, party, and politician. Such identification in Christian terms is called idolatry.

2 - Lawlessness or anarchy divides and destroys, and in Christian terms is never biblical.

3 - Politics is not the end-all-be-all of life, even in totalitarian regimes where suffering people resiliently maintain their secret faith. And politics does not dictate a culture's future in a democratic republic; actually, it's the other way around, so it is up to religious people to live out our faith in family and community. Christians and churches should lead the way, knowing "righteousness exalts a nation" and "it is God's will by doing good you should silence the foolish..."

4 - Remember, "Do not put your trust in princes, in human beings, who cannot save."

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Details: Written by Rex M. Rogers; Published: 06 January 2021

There was a time, on both sides of the aisle, when being upbeat in politics was considered admirable. VP Hubert H. Humphrey was known as the "Happy Warrior." Pres Ronald Reagan, the "Gipper," was widely recognized for his sunny, forever optimistic persona.

Now, it seems many Dem/Repub pols, activists, journalists, academicians--and beaucoup peeps on (anti)social media--are terminally angry, perpetually offended, lack humility, at times fearful, so convinced their view is correct yours does not deserve hearing, and nasty.

I don't think Humphrey or Reagan were clueless Pollyannas. I think they operated with a different worldview than most of the "elites" we endure today. Maybe I sound like an old guy, but I miss the forward-thinking energy you can hear in--

--FDR re the Depression and later the War, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

--JFK, "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."

--MLK Jr, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

--GHWBush, "I have spoken of a thousand points of light, of all the community organizations that are spread like stars throughout the nation, doing good."

While not every American is Christian, the nation has been thoroughly influenced by Christian thought from before its founding, and optimism is a uniquely Christian attitude. Hope, particularly in the future, must come from faith in the Sovereign God.

Other worldviews do not provide hope, or if they attempt to do so, they don’t know how to deal with the reality of evil. Christianity resolves the question of good and evil and gives people reason for optimism.

Our culture’s pell-mell rush during my lifetime to abandon Christian values in favor of the latest Ism is what’s brought us to this point: elites with no optimism, no real hope.

Only way to get hope and optimism back is to embrace what God told us long ago:

“But those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint” (Isaiah 40:31).

Details: Written by Rex M. Rogers; Published: 24 December 2020

Pax et Bonum, “Peace and all Good.”

May the world come to rest this silent night, holy night.

May peace be known; may good be shown.

“Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.” Luke 2:14

Details: Written by Rex M. Rogers; Published: 23 December 2020

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White Christmas.

Details: Written by Rex M. Rogers; Published: 22 December 2020

My draft naughty and nice list for recent months:

Naughty

Lockdown Governors, Mayors.
Woke academics, journalists, gov’t bureaucrats, corporate social activists.
Corrupt politicians.
Bad police.
Anyone suppressing the First Amendment.
Big Social Media censors.
Biased Fourth Estate claiming objectivity.

Nice

Good Wife.
Healthcare workers.
Good police.
Effective NGOs and Nonprofits.
Faith, Family, Freedom.
Christian Liberty.

Details: Written by Rex M. Rogers; Published: 21 December 2020

Feeling low, depressed, discouraged, disillusioned, anxious, fearful, hopeless?

“Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice.

Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand;

do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.”

Phil. 4:4-8

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