Hearing the Good News in an Age of Fake News

In this day and age, it is a sad commentary on American culture when the most pressing stories that the 24-7 tv news channels can give us is chatter about Anna Nicole's dead body, whether Al Sharpton is related to Jesse Helms, and an outrageous claim of a hollywood director who says he found Jesus' bones.

Then on other channels we have comedians hypocritically cracking jokes about the news channels and adding "fake news" stories of their own into the mix, further perpetuating the cycle of media mindlessness for a few cheap laughs...

It all seems to me sort of like a diet plan that advocates eating marshmallow sandwiches on Wonder bread for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks- it tastes sorta good going down (at least for a little while), but ultimately one is left with just a lot of fluff and unresolved issues to deal with later (if ever).

I get the sense that our culture conditions us to feed our hunger with interesting lies rather than timeless, and satisfying truth.

The beginning of the Gospel of John reminds us that Jesus is the incarnation of God's Word, and our key to abundant life:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it... The true light that gives light to every person was coming into the world...

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Let us seek to Live in God's Word- it is the only truly satisfying news around!

Peace in the Lord,

John