The Reverend John Brokhoff tells a great story about a major league baseball game that was stopped by a dog. It happened at a Kansas City Chiefs' game. A dog walked onto the playing field and wandered around. The game was stopped so that the dog could be removed. The umpires tried to shoo him off. The players yelled and hollered at him, "Get out, go home, you idiot dog." The dog by this time was thoroughly confused, ran here and there, and finally lay down on third base, refusing to move. A sports reporter summed up the situation. Here is what he wrote: "The problem was that the dog could hear no dominant voice." (1)

This is a critical question in our lives: whose voice is dominant?

Broadcaster Ted Turner has said that Christianity is for losers. It is for people who are weak--who cannot…