“There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path – don’t allow yourself to become one of them.” – Ralph Marston

From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst

5 September

We live in an age in which the Christian Church is viewed as a relic of a bygone, less enlightened era. Tourists, not worshippers, flock to a magnificent church as to a medieval 

castle, the one as impressive and as irrelevant as the other.

Many Christians think the answer to decreased church attendance is insuring a kind of nice-nice church. The cosmic love of Jesus Christ may not tolerate considering the issue on those terms...