Ten Years Later...

Well... it's been 10 years since I posted a blog on this site. In that time my wife and I have added four more children, moved a few times, settled in Laurel, MS, survived Covid, and are a month away from celebrating our 18th wedding anniversary. And of course it would take the absolute craziness of 2020 to finally get me to find my way back to this old place and make some random comments about the seeming insanity that we see all around today.
The family and I have been enjoying the quarantine life since I tested positive for Covid-19 on June 6th. It's been over two weeks since we started our time in quarantine, and we are waiting another week before really getting out to make sure that we've given plenty of time for everyone to have gone through their full two weeks since their first symptoms. By "really getting out" I mean allowing everyone to be out in public and not just sit in a vehicle while getting gas or picking up groceries in the pick up lane. In the mean time I have enjoyed getting some reading done, spending time with the family, and getting hooked home renovations shows.
Also, I've been watching how secularism has revealed all of its downfalls over the last several weeks, and even though it's been fulfilling watching secularism prove its inability to order a society with its ever changing morals and lack of belief in absolute truth, it's sad to see people giving over to chaos and uncertainty because their worldview has proven to be built on sinking sand. For example, I was reading on Twitter about how upset people were about all of the things they WERE NOT taught in public school, or at least not given the full story about. I laughed audibly at the things being mentioned, not because they were inconsequential and didn't deserve to be included in the curriculum of public schools, but because public schools have been leftist institutions basically since their inception. John Dewey, the founding father of public education in America, was a leftist and most (I'm being generous because "all" seems a bit presumptive) public schools have been overseen by liberals ever since. Therefore, those wringing their hands over what wasn't or hasn't been taught have only their friendly leftist-secularist leaders to blame. And of course all of this begs the question, "Why wouldn't our secularist educators want us to know all about their failed policies throughout American history?" But, I'm pretty sure you know the answer to that one...
This isn't to simplify the complicated issues around us and just point the finger at the left and say "it's all your fault!" No, Christians do in fact have some responsibility to own up to and most of that is connected to not being more forthright in their preaching and teaching of the whole counsel of God, and, instead, being intimidated by the ever-changing demands of secular culture. Soft-pedaling the Gospel, avoiding biblical ethics, adding to Scripture the opinions of men, churches seeing one another as competitors instead of co-laborers are just a few examples of ways Christians have failed the culture they have been planted in and haven't helped their fellow man to understand their Creator's expectations for them and why He has every right to make those demands on His creation.
I think I am going to use this post as a jumping off point to start a series of posts diagnosing the problems around us today and offer some real solutions at how to begin remedying those problems. I'm not a fan of pointing out problems without offering some sort of solution, so my aim will be to do that as detailed as possible. You may not agree, but I would hope to at least start a conversation or two that may result in seeing fruitful results for Christians, like me, who are seeking to persevere in this life, while anxiously waiting for the hope of the world to come.