Pastor John Scripture Reference: I Chronicles 29:1-22

   Why Film’s Golden Age Ended      One of the best films ever made is Frank Capra’s It Happened One Night, starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert. The 1934 comedy features an heiress on the run from her father, and the reporter who joins forces with her. The two fall in love and, alone in hotel rooms, to guard against temptation, they hang a blanket between their beds. They call it “the walls of Jericho.” When the couple finally ties the knot, the “wall” comes tumbling down.

  10 Unequal weights and unequal measure are both alike an abomination to the LORD. Proverbs 20:10 (ESV) 

  by Phil Boatwright    KANSAS CITY, Kan. (BP)–If you don’t remember the time, your grandparents will. I’m speaking of an era when movies were a no-no. Like wearing makeup and playing pool, the good Christian wasn’t supposed to go to motion pictures.

  “Tomorrow I leave this land of hope and return to our Western countries of despair,” declared British playwright Bernard Shaw, as he embarked on his return journey from the Soviet Union in 1931.1 American writer and critic Edmund Wilson expressed similar sentiments in 1936: “. . . you feel in the Soviet Union that you are at the moral top of the world where the light never really goes out . . .”2

  A protégé of Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich August von Hayek was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 1974. Earlier in his career, prompted by the outbreak of World War II and his thoughts on the problems (and similarities) of socialism and fascism, he published in 1944 his famous book, The Road to Serfdom.

Pastor John Scripture, Reading: Proverbs 6:1-19, Message Text: I Corinthians 4:1-2

 In 2010, conservative radio host Glenn Beck set off a firestorm of controversy when he warned listeners to leave any church that promotes social justice. “I beg you, look for the words ‘social justice’ or ‘economic justice’ on your church Web site,” Beck said. “If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice … are code words.”1 Some evangelicals responded fiercely. For instance, Sojourners president Jim Wallis called on Christians to boycott Beck’s show and compared him with shock jock Howard Stern.2 Amid the debate, many were left to wonder about the true meaning […]