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The Lost Virtue of Honor

A couple of months ago I was at the home of an elderly lady setting up her new wheelchair. Our conversation led to my revealing to her that I am a pastor also. She told me that her grandson has no use for her church but would probably like mine because I seem so young. Just then her grandson enters the room. He is 15 years old, has a mullet, and is wearing a "Thug Life" t-shirt. I forgot to mention that this home was in a section of South Bend that I refer to as South Bendtucky. Anyways, this kind lady tells her grandson that I am also a minister. He then proudly tells me that God is a number one priority in his life followed by his weed then his hoes. The sad thing was, he was serious. He is no different than many of us in this country. He has taken an extraordinary God and made Him ordinary. How do we do that? We act like its a big deal to give God our Sunday mornings. Its as if we are giving Him a one hour shout out. Then we just go on with our lives without gi

Why?

There was a auto accident in Kentucky. The man who drove the pickup truck had to explain why he caused the accident and why he had burn marks on his neck. I heard about this on the radio so this must be true. This guy and his wife were learning about the new shock collar they bought their dog. They wanted to know how far the signal would reach. So he puts the collar on around his neck, and tells his wife that he will drive his truck over the hill, and when he honks his horn, she is to push the button to activate a shock on the collar. So he drives his truck over the hill and hits his horn, she presses the button sending her husband into excrutiating pain. He swerves into the oncoming lane where another truck in approaching. That truck hits its horn, so the man's wife hears the horn and presses the button again causing her husband to continue to swerve. Well there was a car behind her husbands truck that then honked it's horn. Hearing the horn, the woman hits the button