The Lord Is The General,

It Is Only As We Consciously Bring Each Victory To His Feet, And Keep It There As We Think Of It - And Especially As We Speak Of It - That We Can Avoid The Pride Of That Victory, Which Can Be Worse Than The Sin Over Which We Claim To Have Had The Victory.

We Should Not View Men With A Cynical Eye, Seeing Them Only As Meaningless Products Of Chance, But, On The Other Hand, We Should Not Go To The Opposite Extreme Of Seeing Them Romantically. To Do Either Is To Fail To Understand Who Men Really Are--creatures Made In The Image Of God But Fallen.

If There Is No Absolute Moral Standard, Then One Cannot Say In A Final Sense That Anything Is Right Or Wrong. By Absolute We Mean That Which Always Applies, That Which Provides A Final Or Ultimate Standard. There Must Be An Absolute If There Are To Be Morals, And There Must Be An Absolute If There Are To Be Real Values. If There Is No Absolute Beyond Man's Ideas, Then There Is No Final Appeal To Judge Between Individuals And Groups Whose Moral Judgments Conflict. We Are Merely Left With Conflicting Opinions.

A Christian Should Use These Arts To The Glory Of God, Not Just As Tracts, Mind You, But As Things Of Beauty To The Praise Of God. An Art Work Can Be A Doxology In Itself.

Thank God For The Reality For Which We Were Created, A Moment-by-moment Communication With God Himself.