Well, technical difficulties with my website have yet to be resolved. In the meantime I'm experimenting with Blogger.

But that's not what I want to write about today. What I really wanted to write about is the Lee Strobel show I watched on Saturday night. He's launched a new show called "Faith Under Fire" on PAX. Thankfully, even this cable-free family can get PAX, but it was pretty fuzzy at times. For a few seconds at the beginning we were still monkeying around with the antenna and couldn't see anything; the screen was blue! Finally we got a reasonable picture and began to watch. Lee had people talking about all kinds of topics, letting people spar over topics like theology and politics.

It airs at 10 p.m. Eastern and Pacific, 9 p.m. Central and Mountain. I read on WorldNetDaily that Tony Campolo and even Hugh Hefner will be on future episodes! I think the idea is to have a wide range of opinions presented in a fast-paced format. They certainly whet my appetite. I'll be tuning in again this coming Saturday.

One of the questions was, "Is God a Democrat or a Republican?" Sojourners, too, has had a campaign that claims "God is not a Republican...OR a Democrat." At the end of "Faith Under Fire," Lee suggested with a grin and chuckle that perhaps God is an Independent.

I may not have the intepretation right on this verse, but it reminds me of the moment when Joshua comes face-to-face with the angel of the Lord in Joshua 5. It says, "Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in his hand. Joshua went up to him and asked, 'Are you for us or for our enemies?'

"'Neither,' he replied, 'but as commander of the army of the LORD I have now come.'"

It seems that this angel doesn't really even get the idea of taking sides...he simply does what the LORD commands.

If only we could be more like that angel. "Are you a democrat or a republican?"

Neither. I'm just hoping to obey the Lord.