It appears that somebody got into the front window of life and changed the price tags. The expensive things now have cheap labels. The cheap things have expensive labels. What has happened is that today we have what might be called a transvaluation of values. Everything is turned upside down. Important values have become unimportant for many people. Unimportant values have been turned into seemingly valuable categories.

Just look at the ads on television, the movies, or the magazines being produced today. From the perspective of popular media you would think that getting more and more material things is the most important thing of all and that God and the Bible are somewhere on the sideline, if we are to consider them at all. Values have been turned upside down. It has happened gradually,…