Onward, Forward, Toward…

I was online earlier this afternoon when I went to one of my favorite web pages, christianitytoday.com and what I saw there deeply surprised me and bothered me at the same time…

It’s time for the annual ALO / OFT Salvation Army Red Kettle drive.
I’m hosting a Salvation Army Online Red Kettle again this year and collecting donations for the Salvation Army to help those in need this Christmas. My Kettle is just like those Red Kettles you see when you’re out shopping, but it’s online.
If you’d like to donate, look at the bottom of the right-hand column, you will see a picture of the Salvation Army’s famous red kettle. If you would like to donate online to the Salvation …

Hearing and reading the news the past couple of weeks about Sarah Palin and her ‘Christian’ viewpoints ranging from the Assemblies of God to some ‘quazi domionalist, word of faith, New Apostolic Reformation’ slant (the slice is reporting that they received e-mails from people claiming that the foolishness of “demons being barfed up on towels” was practiced there), I started thinking about something that we hear about quite regularly in a sermon on Sunday morning…..
Culture
One of the many definitions of culture as defined by Webster’s Dictionary is:

the customary beliefs, …