The Secret Wireless

Is sex becoming boring? My mind pondered this idea a few days ago on my way into Saint Louis.  Before you cross the Mississippi River into Missouri there is a certain strip club one must pass on the interstate.  Said strip club always has a billboard advertising the latest special feature.  As you might guess these billboards do not vary greatly.  The billboard is usually a photograph of a woman from the shoulders up looking rather seductive and inviting any travelers to stop in.  This time, however, was different.  As I passed the billboard there were no women.  Rather than advertising the club’s newest dancer, they were advertising “wrestling midgets”.  So the naked dancing women were replaced by short, clothed, male wrestlers.  I don’t get it.  Has sex really gotten that boring?  A more serious example stuck in my mind comes from a PBS documentary I caught just a few minutes of several months ago....

To have faith in Jesus Christ is to bear a cross.   To believe in Him as the Son of God, to confess Him as Lord, to trust that He alone can save us from the just wrath of God in heaven, is to strap those two splintery, wooden beams to our backs and carry them to the point of death.                 We often miss that when we read passages like Matthew 10 , but we need to be reminded of it.   The cross is not merely an instrument of suffering, although that is certainly included.   The cross is an instrument of death.   People die on crosses.   That is their entire purpose.                 So, to have faith in Jesus Christ is to die.   It is to die toward anything that would compete within us for our love, trust, and fear of Him.   And in Matthew 10 Jesus tells us what a few of those ...