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"Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth! I will open my mouth in a parable, I will utter dark sayings from of old, things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from our children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, and His might, and the wonders that He has done" (Psalm 78:1-4).

Well, well, well, Colton Harris-Moore (aka the Barefoot Bandit) is no longer barefoot, though allegedly he is notoriously a bandit.

From time to time I receive something so utterly ridiculous that I simply cannot pass up an opportunity to comment. Sadly, these ridiculous things too often come from supposed Christian sources.

For Christian parents, grandparents, guardians and cargivers whose hearts are being moved by God to return to doing discipleship His way - beginning in the home - times have never been better.

Now that we have spent several weeks examining the basic gospel message, I thought a quote from J. I. Packer's classic Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God (IVP, England, 1961) was in order. From page 101:

"The kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe in the gospel" (Mark 1:15).

"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them" (Matthew 5:17).

"God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them" (Gen 1:27).

"Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God" (Romans 1:1).

Ask a room full of Christians "What is the gospel" and you'll likely be stunned at the variety of responses. This sad truth only speaks to the pandemic of gospel ignorance in evangelical churches today. The word "gospel" itself means "good news" or "blessed message" but one might not know it given the myriad misrepresentations of it in America today.