In any culture where agendas have shaped ethics, we will find a culture that has in fact purged itself of ethics. And that means that in time there will be no culture.

Sometimes I just sit and stare out of the window wondering what the world is going to do today. And my prayer is that what the world does today is based on Who God is every day.

Without a firm moral restraint and a bold adherence to principled ethics, nothing within the power of men will save us from the power of mankind.

I choose not be what the world is. Rather, I choose to be what the world says I cannot be.

I would rather lose the battle to my enemy than lose my integrity in the way that I fought the battle with my enemy.

Maybe the last thing that we want to do should be the first thing that we choose to do. And in the society that I see unfolding around me, maybe that thing should be the surrender of everything that we are to everything that God is.

Integrity is the thing that binds together all that is good within us as a means of overcoming all that is bad around us.

The sure path to tomorrow was plotted in a manger and paved on a cross. And although this sturdy byway is mine for the taking, I have incessantly chosen lesser paths. And maybe it is time to realize that Christmas is a promise that I can walk through the world and never get lost in the woods.

The promises of God hold up long after the promises of the world have blown up.