John Denver: "Late Night Radio"

Here's a song many of us can relate to. I certainly love to listen to the AM band at night when all the distant stations come in. For one thing, I learn that other folks have the same sort of problems we have locally.

Check out John Denver's song here:

One feature of late night broadcasts is Christian programming on certain stations. If a church has the money, they can have their sermons aired. Unless complaints arise about the content of the messages, preachers can say whatever they want. The problem is that both true and false preachers have a say.

Scripture warns us in many verses about false prophets. Proverbs 19:5 (Bible in Basic English) speaks of all liars but false teachers are included in this condemnation. "A false witness will not go without punishment, and the breather out of deceit will not go free."

Another aspect of these misleaders is that they tangle people in fruitless controversies. As Paul wrote in 1 Timothy 1:3 and 4 (BBE), "It was my desire, when I went on into Macedonia, that you might make a stop at Ephesus, to give orders to certain men not to put forward a different teaching, Or to give attention to stories and long lists of generations, from which come questionings and doubts, in place of God's ordered way of life which is in faith;"

As Paul also pointed out in 2 Timothy 4:3 (BBE), people find lies more enticing than the unvarnished truth. "For the time will come when they will not take the true teaching; but, moved by their desires, they will get for themselves a great number of teachers for the pleasure of hearing them; And shutting their ears to what is true, will be turned away to belief in foolish stories."

We must always test preachers by a proper reading of the scriptures. God insists that his best-selling book, The Holy Bible, be read to all the people. Deuteronomy 33:11 (BBE) tells us, "When all Israel has come before the Lord your God in the place named by him, let a reading be given of this law in the hearing of all Israel." It also applies to us today."

If Christ hasn't returned by Saturday, I hope I can post about what love is.