Well, I needed to remind myself that the Gospel- God’s Good News about Jesus Christ covering our sins- is foundational to living effectively as Christian citizens in Maine.

From the article-

Christianity cannot be reduced to one aspect of its reality:

• The gospel changes one’s behavior, but reducing its effect to behavior modification hides its truth in legalism. The gospel should not create one more Pharisee.
• The gospel sets one free, but noting freedom alone apart from surrender to Christ and His commands traps those freed by it to antinomianism. “If the grace u have received does not help u keep the law, u have not received grace,” as Martyn Lloyd-Jones said well.
• The gospel is truth, and propositional truth for that matter, but reducing it to a series of propositions hides the amazing wonder of the new birth and a relationship with the Most High God.
• The gospel shows us how to do the very thing we are created to do, to worship.  But teaching worship provided by the work of Christ as something done mostly in a service guided by particular forms loses the wonder of worship in our preferences, and creates division, not unity.

Read it all at- The Art of Witness | AlvinReid.com.

This year in Maine-

Home Depot exposed children to homosexuality in celebrated style. Home Depot is a willing participant in exposing children to unhealthy and risky homosexual events.

According to the 2010 Southern Maine Pride website, Home Depot signed on as a major sponsor of its 2010 Gay Pride Festival. But simply financing the event wasn’t enough for the big box chain.

Home Depot also signed on as a vendor, conducting kid’s craft workshops for children in the midst of loud and boisterous gay activities.

More information and action steps: Boycott The Home Depot.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A New Zealand Christian school has been ordered to pay undisclosed compensation and apologize to a sports coach it fired because he was gay.

We may see similar discrimination against Christian views of homosexuality occur in Maine within the next few years. There is a pattern of this in other nations [Canada, England, Sweden] where “respect” for homosexuality has been mandated.

FOX News – New Zealand Christian school ordered to pay compensation after firing gay sports coach.

Another telling survey was released by Rasmussen in March. It found that by an overwhelming margin, 62 percent to 12 percent, “Mainstream Americans” believe the Tea Party is “closer to their views” than Congress. By a margin of 68 percent to 16 percent, they deemed Tea Party members “better informed” than members of Congress.

Of course, being better informed than a typical member of Congress is not saying a lot, since some of them are dumber than rocks!

Despite this positive view by Americans of Tea Party people, panicky liberals and progressives and Democrats continue to smear the movement.  Kengor says:

In response to this massive “9/12” march, liberals were apoplectic. They exhibit an intense emotional attachment to Obama, lashing out at anyone who criticizes him. That reaction is particularly pronounced in their fits of rage at Tea Party people, who they denounce with ugly epithets: Nazi, racist, hate-monger.

Please read more at the link: The Blood of the Tea Party.

Dr. Paul Kengor is professor of political science and executive director of The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. His coming book is “Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century.”