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Scanning the blogs today? Well, Mr. Blog-Surfer, Mark Dever and C.S. Lewis have something to say about our reading habits that you should mark well.

(I must warn you that what I have written here may keep you from coming back to hughbiquitous.com, or any other blog you frequent, for some time.) (more…)

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, 7 December 1941

September 11 for me was a wake-up call. Do you know what I think? A lot of the world woke up for a short time and then turned over and went back to sleep again.

Tony Blair, 26 July 2005

Michael Ramsden of The Zacharias Trust (Ravi Zacharias’s European ministry) gave a splendid talk at the European Leadership Forum titled Conversational Apologetics.

Download the MP3, have a listen, and consider it well… you will be edified, educated, and entertained as you learn to think better about ways to be an effective ambassador for Christ.

Kevin “Too German” Schultz posts about Jesus Camp, a film that depicts the fecklessness and syncretism of American evangelicalism in all of its folly. I believe the “Jesus Camp” shown in the film is doing more damage to the cause of Christ than the film itself. How should thoughtful Christians respond to a film like this, and how should we respond to things like the “Jesus Camp” itself?

Charles Krauthammer identifies the high cost of taking on Iran, including this assessment of the diplomatic liabilities:

There will be massive criticism of America from around the world. Much of it is to be discounted. The Muslim street will come out again for a few days, having replenished its supply of flammable American flags most recently exhausted during the cartoon riots. Their governments will express solidarity with a fellow Muslim state, but this will be entirely hypocritical. The Arabs are terrified about the rise of a nuclear Iran and would privately rejoice in its defanging.

The Europeans will be less hypocritical because their visceral anti-Americanism trumps rational calculation. We will have done them an enormous favor by sparing them the threat of Iranian nukes, but they will vilify us nonetheless.

These are the costs. There is no denying them. However, equally undeniable is the cost of doing nothing.

He goes on to spell out the cost of doing nothing, and it’s far worse than watching Old Glory ignite on the streets of the Middle East…

HT: John Lee