Lord's Day Post

               My wife and I recently received a thank-you card in the mail for a high school graduation gift. Just today I mailed out a card to a friend....not a thank-you card but more of a remembrance card on the passing of my friends wife. I imagine that we have all sent out many thank-you cards in our life. Theres not a whole lot there....just a card and some remarks....but it is nice and appropriate.

               "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." John 1:1 
               "And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth." John 1:14
               "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16 all ESV

               So they took the Son of God...and spat on him....and beat him....and drove a crown of thorns into his scalp....and nailed him to wood....let him hang there....and then drove a spear into his side. He voluntarily let this happen....that anyone who believes might not experience the wrath of God in hell.
                After forty-two years....that is still hard to wrap my mind around. I stub my toe and I am not happy. He was nailed to wood....and then lifted up....to keep a wretch like me from what I deserved? So what do I do....send him a thank you card? Or maybe send him a card once a year....like a birthday card? 

                I have often posted on how devastating it has been for the church that essentially there are no more Christian bookstores. I was in a Barnes & Noble again today....looking in their 'religion' section....and it is really a waste of time....but I still do it because occasionally they carry a good book....but none today. Back in the day....the 80's....when there was Christian bookstores everywhere....they had all types of Christian books....and I bought them up consistently until the last local Christian bookstore died. One of those categories was Christian history....another was Christian biography.
                In those books I found what Christianity once was. Today we as if send God thank-you cards once....maybe twice a week....for what Jesus did for us on that bloody cross. In times past....without a 150 television stations....and fifty sport teams....and twenty-five different brands of walking shoes....you get the picture....they praised God every morning upon awakening....and every evening upon laying their heads down to sleep...and throughout every day.
                They had a Lord's Day back then....at least those who wrote books....or who had books written about them. They wouldn't last one day in this culture without weeping uncontrollably. 
                 Roughly eight or ten hours from my typing right now....men will enter a pulpit or stand behind a lectern....and read a Hallmark greeting card to God.