Note to readers: This is an email that I received this morning from a friend who serves as pastor in Kansas. Excellent posting. Excellent points!!

Tim Tebow has been accused of everything from incompetence to arrogance; from being a religious deceiver to being a zealot.

Five of five Fox broadcasters yesterday picked Pittsburgh to beat Denver. Two or three said Denver had absolutely NO chance of winning with Tebow at quarterback, and was the only team in the playoffs that just simply doesn’t belong there.

Hopeless and incompetent Tim threw for over 300 yards yesterday. When having thrown a lame duck pass near the end of the game that would have shaken the confidence of many quarterbacks, instead of “playing it safe” in overtime, he threw a touchdown bomb on the first play to win the game for Denver. Arrogant Tim said he was just doing his job.

And religious deceiver Tim passed for exactly 316 yards – notably reflecting the sign that so many have held behind the goalposts for years in the NFL – John 3:16. Could Tim have deceived his receivers into accumulating that many yards? Did his zealousness result in that number? Or was he just – as he puts it – doing his job – NOT JUST his NFL job.

After all, if this was any other quarterback throwing for 316 yards, would people even be having this discussion?

Is there a lesson here about rising above the quips and accusations and slanderous characterizations thrown against you? Is there a lesson here about moving on past your failures? Is there a lesson here about humbly “just doing our job” in a way that allows Christ to draw attention to himself?

J. Martin

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Like Job we tend to think that we know better than God what is right, good and just.   We cry out, "I am innocent and I am good!  Why do You not hear my case and why do You indict me unfairly?"  

In doing so, however, is it possible that we commit the original sin over and over again and, thus, position ourselves to be "as gods" where we "know" what is good and evil and, thereby, no longer need God to offer such moral definitions?  

Before we know it, we find ourselves several step down this wide path of "human wisdom." We dismiss God completely and actually claim that "injustice" is evidence that He never existed in the first place.  

But this is literal nonsense for it makes no more sense for us to cite the injustice of our situation as evidence against God than it would for a turtle atop a fencepost to declare that his location is proof that no one put him there

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The modern university is rife with intellectual laziness.  From the protection of mediocrity (otherwise known as tenure) to the mindless montras of global warming "scholars", academic rigor has been sacrificed on the alter of postmodern popularity.

Maybe it's time to consider a time tested solution - Christian liberal arts education:  Education that is grounded in the pursuit of truth rather than the protection of opinions, Education that is tested by time, defended by reason, validated by experience and affirmed by Scripture and revelation!! 

See the following article for more:

http://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/the-fannie-and-freddie-university/

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Calls for 'justice' prove the very God we seek to deny, for why plead for a ruling if the 'Judge' does not exist? 

See http://links.mkt3980.com/servlet/MailView?ms=MjQ1NjM3NAS2&r=OTQ0MjI2OTIwS0&j=MzUzNjI4MDcS1&mt=1&rt=0

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