Which of the following are similar to the ways you've served Christ in your family? [check all that apply]
• Taught your kids to see God's glory in nature
• Washed the dishes without being asked
• Played a board game with your kids
• Encouraged your wife to finish her master's degree
• Attended a child's open house at school
• Worked fewer hours to be with your family
• Set an example of a godly prayer life for your children
• Held a crying child
• Swung on the tire swing with your daughter
• Told your wife why you're still in love with her
• Told your son he's got what it takes
• Coached soccer
• Let you child correct you now and then
• Fixed the vacuum cleaner
• Taught your sons to ride a bike
• Listened patiently to a complaint of your wife
• Taped your child's artwork to your office wall
• Admitted to your kids that you were wrong
• Told your children how Christ entered your life
• Cleaned up vomit
• Taught your children to love books
• Been romantic without expecting sex
• Told your daughter she's smart/beautiful
• Set standards for your kids and stuck to them
• Dealt graciously with a busybody neighbor
• Peeled carrots
• Watched movies together
Man the Levees Theme for this Week: Bad Bet Friday, March 15, 2002
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March/April 200252Man the LeveesTheme for this Week: Bad Bet Man the Levees Theme for this Week: Bad Bet Friday, March 15
Key Bible Verse: For I, the Lord, love justice. I hate robbery and wrongdoing (Isaiah 61:8). Bonus Reading:Ephesians 6:10–13
Given gambling's massive money-dump on Washington and statehouses, and the complicity of the govern- ments themselves in extolling the "benefits" of legalized gambling, the odds seem stacked against those seeking to block this vice's spread. If the flood of gambling is to be turned back, it'll be churches at the vanguard, taking up positions on the levees.
In 1991, Galena, Illinois, saw the local county board approve a riverboat casino on the Mississippi River west of town, despite overwhelming opposition. The local populace had nixed the project in an advisory referendum by 80 percent. That's when Methodist pastor Tom Grey decided to take action. He educated himself on the issue and subsequently took his antigambling gospel to the country.
He formed the National Coalition Against Legalized Gambling in 1994, after successfully repulsing an Okla-homa lottery referendum. He then mustered a mere 1,261-vote defeat for a measure that would have expanded Missouri's riverboat industry. "We had no money; we generated a movement," Grey says. "God gave us this incredible victory."
—Tom Raabe in House of Cards
My Response: Here's how I'll look for a way to stand up and be counted in my area:
Thought to Apply: Evil triumphs when good men do nothing. —Edmund Burke (British statesman, 18th century)
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