Starving to Death

I can never in my lifetime remember being hungry. I mean really hungry. When I say, "Man, I'm hungry." I really mean, "Man, I'd sure like to eat." What's worse is the fact that saying "I'm hungry" usually comes only a couple of hours after I've eaten a full meal.

We have all seen the commercials about children in third world countries starving to a degree that we can't imagine. Their little stomachs are swollen from malnutrition. How sad! As sad as that is and as much as we want to help, we feel so helpless. We realize that many of those children will starve literally to death.

There is another kind of "death by starvation" that I have on my heart today. It is the spiritual death experienced by many Christians in pews in churches all over this land.

Church to them has become cold and stale. The food that is presented from their pulpits and class rooms are the leftovers from a modern age where words like "logic" and "doctrinal soundness" are presented as an end in and of themselves. What they call the "good news" is nothing more than doctrinal precepts thought up by people with a judicial background. These laws are taught in the name of "keeping the faith." It is a rules based religion that is starving people of a real relationship with their Lord Jesus Christ. People cannot live spiritually on food that has no relational substance.

Jesus Himself said that He was the true bread of life. I believe that the only way we are going to be able to sustain our spiritual lives is to feed on the real bread of life. Jesus invites us to come to the table and feast on Him. Only then will we truly be filled.

Passion Snubbed

I saw yesterday on the news that the movie "Passion of the Christ" was not given a chance at the Oscars in Hollywood. I don't know why anyone was surprised by this seeing that Hollywood is the seat of Satan now.

The man on the Today show (can't think of his name) who was on the side of the Hollywood people said that the movie didn't get any votes because most of the people who voted on such things did not watch the movie. He stated that the movie was "too controversial." What a cop out!

It is interesting that the "controversial" movie, "The Last Temptation of Christ," received many votes.

Hollywood doesn't want to avoid controversy. Hollywood wants to avoid any connection with Jesus! The scriptures say that the "devils believe and shudder!" It could be that Hollywood, one of Satan's biggest allies is just too scared to face the truth!

Johnny Carson Dies

I remember as a young boy growing up that almost a nightly thing with my mom on TV was the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. He was something of an American Icon. He spent his life making people laugh. Most of the time it was funny stuff about everyday life. In listening to different people talk about his life, you get the feeling that he almost touched every person in the world.

The Bible says (Proverbs 15:13 NIV) "A happy heart makes the face cheerful, but heartache crushes the spirit." Johnny was certainly not a preacher and I don't know about his spiritual life at all, but I do know that he brought about lots of cheer for people. That is a good thing.