Prop 8 – Protecting Marriage

I will be voting “Yes” on Prop 8 this November to protect marriage, and I hope you will too.  If you call yourself a Christian, I think that voting “Yes” on Prop 8 should be a pretty clear cut and easy decision to make.  Here are the reasons…

Homosexuality is a sin:

Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable. [Lev. 18:22]

If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads. [Lev. 20:13]

Sunday 9/28/08 Prayer

Lord,

Thank you for my partner, my love, my wife.  She is the perfect companion for me… a helper to submit to me.  Not a helper as in a slave or a servant, but as in a partner, an equal, a wife to complete my life.  Lord, may she submit to me because I strive to love her as myself, as Jesus loves the Church.  Help me Lord, to serve her as You serve the Body of Christ.  Thank your for building the foundation of marriage here on Earth, to mirror that of the one that exists between the Church (the bride) and Jesus (the groom).

Please help us Lord to protect marriage and its representation of salvation.  Lord, I believe that marriage was created by You, and that it is designed to be between one man and one woman.  That the image of my wife and me married and being faithful to each other according to the way you designed is truly a miracle, a tangible representation of salvation.  Help us Lord here in California and our country to protect the sanctity of marriage and to stand up for You against sin and unholiness.

Amen

How do you hear God?

One thing that I have always struggled with as a Christian is when people say “Don’t worry about it, God will tell you what to do.”  I don’t get it.  I have never heard God tell me to buy a certain car, or move to a certain place, and it is hard for me to believe it happens.  Sometimes I just think that following God is to sit back and let your life unfold, but other times I think “what if God wanted me to do (example), but I didn’t because it didn’t unfold seamlessly?”  How do you balance this?

Current life example: Emily and I have been trying to buy a condo for about 2 months now, and we have been unsuccessful.  We have put offers on 3 places and all 3 of them went to other buyers.  Does that mean God was watching out for Emily and me?  That we shouldn’t buy a condo at the moment, even though prices are down and most assuredly going to increase in the short years to come?  Does it mean that we should stop trying, or that the right one simply hasn’t come up yet (the last one really seemed like the “right one”) and we should keep looking?