The Tulip Driven Life

  Luke 9: 23 Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, [ a ] and follow Me. 24 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it. 25 For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is himself destroyed or lost? 26 For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in His own glory, and in His Father’s, and of the holy angels. These words of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ should not be taken lightly. The life of the Christian is one of spiritual warfare, denying ourselves and our sinful fleshly impulses for the sake of Christ and His righteousness. The way we do that, of course, is by the power of the Holy Spirit, for we cannot find the goodness to obey Christ and take up our cross in and of ourselves. This is why Christ took up the cross for us. We are simply following in His footsteps...

I have learned so much from Postman's discussion of America and media. In fact, I just posted on my Facebook page that everyone in the United States needs to read this book. I had never even thought of analyzing the way in which different mediums shape the way we view truth and epistemology, and even what we consider worth investing our time and energy into knowing. Postman opens his book with the amazing statement that "Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education, and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death." (p.3-4). Observing society today, and after hearing Postman's arguments in the first five chapters of his book, I would have to agree with his assessment. The fact that he said this in 1985 is incredible. If anything, the advent of the internet and social networking sites like Facebook and T...