clipped from www.dailyprayer.usPrayer of Saint Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Amen.
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Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Marshall (1801-1835) once said, "[T]he power to tax involves the power to destroy." Without a doubt, the Obama administration and its Democratic allies in Congress see the power to tax as the greatest weapon in their arsenal. The Libertarian organization, Cato Institute, just released a list of tax increases those in power and Washington have--or are trying--to 
Yours for Life,
Dr. Frank Turek
"[Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything. It has two rules. First: there are no sacred truths; all assumptions must be critically examined; arguments from authority are worthless. Second: whatever is inconsistent with the facts must be discarded or revised. ... The obvious is sometimes false; the unexpected is sometimes true." 
culture, to suggest that there is a universal moral law may draw anything from raised eyebrows to outright hostility. At the same time, there seems to be written on our hearts a law that demands justice when we have been harmed and paralyzes us with feelings of guilt and shame when we are the perpetrator. When asked if rape, murder, or genocide is wrong, there seems to be universal agreement within the human community that only a psychopath would answer "no."
phenomenon by proposing that moral laws exist eternally in some abstract form. If moral laws were in themselves distinct eternal entities, then there is no mind or authority behind the moral law (Ibid, 228). This would render incomprehensible the guilt and shame that accompanies violating these laws. Personal guilt implies a person offended. Therefore, it would seem that a morally ordered universe must be fully infused with the intentionality of a personal being who claims legitimate moral authority over all existence, a being whose moral authority is not limited by co-eternal entities. Only a sovereign creator God who brought everything into being out of nothing could claim such unlimited authority and be himself the source of that authority. 
without a referent because moral behavior entails free agency and personal responsibility. In addition, moral behavior requires true belief, that is, actual knowledge of moral truth. But no moral truth can exist in an atheistic world since there could be no transcendent value by which to measure our conduct. 
not admit, however, is that, when they make such claims, they are borrowing on the capital of theism whether they like it or not. The fact that even an atheist cannot help but make moral judgments and act as if there really is a transcendent source of morality is evidence of the recalcitrant image of God in man, and hence evidence for the existence of God himself. At the very least, an honest atheist must admit that the moment she makes a moral claim or invokes a moral rule, her godless worldview collapses. We Christian theists will be first in line to help her clear the rubble and rebuild upon the Rock of Christ a worldview that can never be shaken or swept away. 
