Dear FCC Family & Friends,
Send in the clowns! Am I the only one shaking a head over the three-ring media circus the death of model Anna Nicole Smith has created? While legal eagles soar from California to the Bahamas, this sensationalized contemporary tragedy just keeps getting bigger and bigger – while a body remains unburied and a baby remains genetically unclaimed. To add a proverbial insult to injury, our kids dying in Iraq, Iranian war intrusion, Russian muscle-flexing, mass starvation and our little friend up on the Korean peninsula become stories number six through twelve nightly. There’s got to be clowns!
Why does this sad story warrant such star-spangled attention?
Personally, I believe that Anna Nicole represented and embodied everything that we as Americans secretly or overtly are taught to chase, elevate and aspire to. I’ll explain.
Think about it. She was fashion, vanity, beauty, perfection, celebrity, popularity, image, sexuality, ambition, greed, rebellion, glamour, drama, defiance, unrestraint, and acceptance incarnate. Yet, look where all of that ‘chasing after the wind’ got her – a life cut short – sad – confused – bitter – alone.
Friends, I’m not piling on the memory of a dead media darling. Clearly she needed some bold and genuine Jesus-followers in her camp. Instead, in light of God’s Word, I see Anna Nicole Smith’s abbreviated life as a modern-day parable – a lesson and warning for all of us. Her death and the disarray of her past earthly life is proof that the ambitions of this world lead to nothing redeemably good or praiseworthy - that the wages of sin is still death. Is it any wonder that the Apostle John warned, “Do not love the world or anything in the world” (1 John 2:15)?
This Sunday I’ll be sharing a highly evangelistic message entitled “Watch!” Invite your unsaved family members and co-workers to accompany you. They’ll be glad you did.
Also, don’t miss our brand-new ADULT SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS this Sunday at 9:00A.M. upstairs in the Library! The first study is entitled “The Jesus I Never Knew”. Contact Dave Gleason (dave@1stchristianchurch.org) at the church to sign-up.
Just a reminder – SIGNPOST #5 (Share) is coming Saturday, March 17. Sign-up this Sunday to secure your spot in the class. Seating is limited.
I Love You!
In the Fight,
Steve Kiefer
INVISION 3:31
10 comments:
Huh...interesting. Thanks Steve.
hmmm, are you saying that all beautiful women, models are chasing after the wind? Watch out now.
Have you got something against beautiful women?
Yes....that's what I got out of it. Steve has a beef with beautiful women....that's why we fight sometime.
I think you owe the beautiful, glamorous, fashionable women of the world an apology, Steve. Plenty of us love the Lord and serve him while working, sometimes two jobs, and supporting families. In a world where we are envied by women and chased after and secretly desired and even feared by men. Yet, with the Lord's help we still manage to keep our heads about us and resist the temptations of this world. I am a beautiful, yet offended godly woman. Forgiving you in advance....
Hey dude what gives? I'm inclined to agree with Jeramy and all the gorgeous women out there. What are you trying to do run them ALL away from our church. One of the reasons some of us guys get out of bed early on a Sunday if for we can see the few gorgeous women FCC has left. Huh... oh did you think we came to see you.
J
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