How to Conquer the Tyranny of the Urgent

Whether they affect nations, cities or families, ideas come with consequences. Times may change but the ideas behind our country's most pressing social issues have not. The government of the people still hinges on the political endearment of design or evolution.

"But if ye will not do so ... be sure your sin will find you out" (Deuteronomy 32:23). Of all the reluctant and recalcitrant tendencies ever to lurk in the hearts of God's people, what potential sin would occasion so serious a forewarning as this?

Neither the ethical crisis America faces in this century, nor a potential reformation for its rescue, are without precedent in the history of our young country. There are earlier times in which chaos reigned.

In the beginning God infused the beautiful and self-sustaining principle of authority at every level of his creation. And since that time Satan has found many ways to turn the triangle upside down, to cloud the distinctions of the Creator, to create not order but chaos.