Revitalize Your Church

Todd Rhoades muses: Boy, I'm sure glad America's churches aren't run like the state of Illinois. Otherwise we'd have a ton of churches and pastors giving preferential treatment and bending over backward for people in the church who give the most money. . .

Joy Ziegler posted an insightful observation about the intense media scrutiny of Sarah Palin. . . It got me thinking, what if my life "went public" tomorrow? What if others evaluated my every decision? If they scrutized how I raised our family and spend my money, how would I hold up? Would they have a lot of "dirt" to proclaim to the press or would they see a life of integrity ?

"Character is like a tree, and reputation is like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing." -- Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. -- Will Rogers (posted by Lisa Johnson at Surviving Motherhood )