Mr. Ryan Roach - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Engaged to the most wonderful future wife a man could have.
Unashamed follower of Jesus Christ.
Alcohol and cigarettes are drugs. I don't do drugs.
I was born about 50 years too late.
One day, our grandchildren may ask us what we did when Islam threatened the free world. Some of us will say we were preoccupied with fighting that threat wherever possible; others will be able to say they fought carbon dioxide emissions. One of us will look bad.
C.S. Lewis on Jesus
I am trying to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: "I am ready to accept Jesus as the great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God." That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic--on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg--or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.

My Interests

Jesus, Morgan, the Bible, cold weather, history, politics, college basketball, golf

I'd like to meet:

John MacArthur, Todd Friel

Music:

Appleseed Cast, Artie Shaw, Bing Crosby, Blind Guardian, Nat King Cole, Dean Martin, Ester Drang, Glenn Miller, The Gloria Record, Frank Sinatra, Starflyer 59, Stavesacre

Movies:

Arsenic and Old Lace, Big Fish, Casablanca, Dirty Harry (all 5 of them), The Fountainhead, Harvey, High Sierra, Hoosiers, Miracle, Nacho Libre, Napoleon Dynamite, National Treasure, North By Northwest, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, The Village

Television:

Around the Horn, Leave it to Beaver, Dukes of Hazzard, Knight Rider, Pardon the Interuption, Sanford and Son, Sportscenter, Three Stooges, just about anything on the Travel Channel

Books:

Bible, Ashamed of the Gospel, Battlefields & Blessings, Charismatic Chaos, Hard to Believe, Spiritual Leadership, Tea With Terrorists, The Truth War

Heroes:

JESUS, The Apostle Paul, My grandfather, Morgan Lynn, John MacArthur, Adrian Rogers, Jeff Noblit, Todd Friel, Charles Spurgeon

My Blog

A plea to my Christian brothers and sisters

One question: Are you preaching the gospel? Living a godly life is a great thing, but we must preach the gospel. Jesus said, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation." We are to pr...
Posted by Mr. Ryan Roach on Sun, 06 May 2007 10:45:00 PST

Divorce and Living in Sin

As anyone with any semblance of morality knows, living together before marriage is wrong. But now, some eggheads at Rutgers University have statistically proven that living together before marriage i...
Posted by Mr. Ryan Roach on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 05:06:00 PST

Important thoughts on illegal immigration

This is a great speech on the floor of the House of Representatives. This is such an important issue...perhaps the most important issue in our country today. If something is not done, we w...
Posted by Mr. Ryan Roach on Wed, 24 May 2006 07:30:00 PST

Politics

I know that 2008 is a long way away for most people. I also know that politics is a bore to most people. But the presidential election of 2008 is shaping up to be one of the most intriguin...
Posted by Mr. Ryan Roach on Tue, 23 May 2006 09:22:00 PST

Amazing Grace

Far too often we go to church on Sundays and sing the songs but never actually contemplate the meanings and the spirituality behind them. Too many churches today won't even play hymns, save for ...
Posted by Mr. Ryan Roach on Sat, 18 Feb 2006 06:34:00 PST

This is my Father's world

I love hymns. One of my favorite (when done with a full orchestra) is This Is My Father's World. Much of the language is outdated and some of the references may seem foreign to us, but the...
Posted by Mr. Ryan Roach on Sun, 15 Jan 2006 03:01:00 PST

Encouragement

As some already know, Morgan and I are reading through the Bible in one year. We are over 7 months into it and it is one of the greatest things that I've ever done. It's tough, but definat...
Posted by Mr. Ryan Roach on Thu, 01 Sep 2005 04:45:00 PST

A Thought about Taxes

The Truth about Taxes by Anonymous Let's put tax cuts in terms everyone can understand. Suppose that every day, ten men go out for dinner. The bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill ...
Posted by Mr. Ryan Roach on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

What I Like About Scrooge

(Note: This column is something that I've been saying for a while - Ebenezer Scrooge was not a bad guy at all) --- What I Like About Scrooge: In praise of misersBy Steven E. Landsburghttp://slate.msn...
Posted by Mr. Ryan Roach on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST