The Surpassing Value, Part 1

I have no doubt that the overwhelming majority of you have heard and read about the Supreme Court ruling that was issued this past Friday. The highest court in our land, in an unconstitutional display of judicial activism, has circumvented the democratic process and issued a mandate to all 50 states to fundamentally redefine marriage, effectively shaking their fist at their Creator, and the Creator of marriage.

It was a ruling that should have come as a surprise to nobody. Our society has been racing through the checkpoints of immorality at breakneck speed for quite some time now. But I confess to you that when I heard of the decision—and saw the rainbow lights on the White House, and saw how a nation as great as ours has been is virtually celebrating its own destruction—I was affected by that. Probably like many of you, I was filled with a sense of mourning and lamentation—an affection that’s captured by the psalmist, as he observes the godlessness of his own nation, and says, Psalm 119:136: “My eyes shed streams of water, Because they do not keep Your law.”...

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