Ethics Anyone?

One of the neat things about being the chaplain of a training group is having access to a few hundred young men and women whose morality has been colored by Postmodern principles (an oxymornon?!). The challenge is not to get them to change their morality, but to admit that one can have an objective morality at all. Enter Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the US, who left us with an abiding sense that we must stand against evil as a nation. Vandenberg AFB is only a couple of hours from the Reagan Presidential Library which is filled with exhibits regarding the moral lessons he lived and learned. So we put together a one-day event that begins with an overview of the life and ethics of the 40th POTUS and concludes with a trip down to the Reagan Library in Simi Valley. ICBM missile students (yes, the ones who would launch nuclear weapons) have been our target audience. If anyone needs to hear the message that morality is not relative it is those who could completely change the face of the earth via nuclear war. So here are some pics from our latest trip, which included a walk-through of the newly opened Air Force One.
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"Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners . . . ."

The message of the birth of Christ seems to me to be quite simple, and yet it usually gets lost in the noise of the season: Jesus came to save sinners. This is the best possible news we could ever receive, yet most miss it for they have yet to be brought to a "no kidding" awareness of their depravity before holy God. Isaac Watts got it in 1719 when he wrote, Joy To the World, the Lord is Come: No more let sins and sorrow grow, or thorns invest the ground. He comes to make, His blesssings flow, far as the curse is found . . . . So don't believe everything you read in those Christmas letters. If our families were that perfect, we wouldn't need a Savior :-) A blessed Christmas to all of you from us who are eternally grateful to the Father for His indescribable gift!

"This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; and I am the worst of them." 1 Timothy 1:15