FEMINISM VS. FOOTBALL by Matt Kaufman Should women play college football with the boys? A federal court says one thing. Good sense says another. http://www.boundless.org/2000/regulars/kaufman/a0000412.html
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In an essay that crafts a stunning panorama, English writer F.W. Boreham describes the presence of God as being more like a bird than it is a candle. When a candle is extinguished only smoke remains where a flame once burned authoritatively; the light is no more. But when a bird is driven away, it only leaves to sing its song on another branch. With this metaphor in mind Boreham traces the movement of God throughout history and leaves his readers with the blessed reminder that God is near to those who call on Him. Like a bird that wills to sing, the presence of God can be seen throughout Christendom, in lives and nations unto the ends of the earth.
What is it about the rumors of God's glory steadily humming throughout land and time that stirs and comforts the soul? As the name of Christ is silenced and his light expelled around us, the stirring sounds of God at work remind us that we have a reason to sing even in the darkness. The light is not overcome. The song may just be sung in another language.
In a world where most people live as if they have to achieve the final fulfillment and satisfaction of their human lives before they die, the Christian message sounds as bold today as it did to those who first heard it. Yet all around us is the murmuring that there is something different about this good teacher, that his questions are hard to shake, that he speaks as one with authority. His influence echoes a promise that has not been forsaken: "Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age" (Matthew 28:20).
We now hear of God's moving among the persecuted church of China, among hearts and nations far from our own. We see his hand in the unlikely places of our lives and neighborhoods. We find his message being preached to the ends of the earth and the ends of our streets. We hear whispering of a purpose that embraces not only the possibilities of the present, but the sufferings of the past and the hope of the future. We see evidence for the Christian belief in the whole story: a story, in the words of the psalmist, reviving the soul, making wise the simple, rejoicing the heart, enlightening the eyes, and enduring forever (Psalm 19). The sounds of a great cloud of witnesses bid us to join them in song. There are times we may have to strain to listen, but God is near to those who call on Him, to those who seek his face and tell of his glory among the nations.
Since the creation of man, the stirring sounds of God at work can be heard unto the ends of the earth. As the author of Hebrews writes, "In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe. The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. bringing many sons to glory" (Hebrews 1:1-3, 2:10). Even today, may his voice draw us near Him, his work move us to join Him, and his presence be a song that resonates throughout our lives.
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