Under Attack
Under Attack
There are those who would say that the many changes we have experienced in the United States have been more numerous and more consequential than any in history.
Have you ever felt that you can no longer stand by and allow a slow drift in the wrong direction? That America's departure from God's standard has occurred so slowly that many of us do not realize just how far we have drifted?
You are not alone. It is time to pray for this land we love.
Morality
Violations of God’s moral code are committed openly and without shame. Lawmakers are being urged to enact laws legitimizing even further violations.
The consequences are impossible to imagine.
Do you worry that there's a disconnect between what is legal and what is moral? That America has lost its moral compass? Do you worry about what you know God expects and what it seems too many are willing to allow as acceptable behavior?
What can you do? Ah, yes, you know. You have a direct line to the Creator of the Universe.
Spiritual Warfare
Spiritual Warfare
The spiritual enemy doesn’t meet us on an identifiable battlefield. Yes, God wins in the end. But the more unsuspecting or unbelieving a person is concerning the reality of spiritual warfare, the more easily he or she becomes prey. The only way to protect oneself from evil’s infiltration is to be on the side of the One who is more powerful. "He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world’ (1 John 4:4).
Jesus
Jesus
Is anything sacred anymore? When Jesus is featured in profane ways on television shows like The Simpsons and South Park, He is reduced from His biblical stature of divine and holy to a cultural characterization of crude and common. But the blasphemous images continue to be tolerated for the sake of political correctness.
We are told ‘Nothing is sacred anymore -- and if anything is, it shouldn’t be. Get over it.’
Let’s not be entertained at the expense of the One who created us and gave us life. Jesus is not just a good man; He is our Savior.
The Church
The Church
Many people view churches as having little to say that is more relevant than what can be found on television talk shows or in Internet advice columns. And so they stay away. Yes, unsavory and regrettable things have happened to people ‘in church’ or in the name of Christ throughout history. But that doesn’t negate the good that has been done and will continue to be done. It doesn’t make the Church irrelevant.
Remember: buildings do not make churches. People do. Jesus didn’t send a church building into the world to make disciples in every nation, He sent people (Matthew 28:19-20).
If we’re going to be attacked or ignored by the world, it might as well be for turning the world upside down as the early Church did (Acts 17:6). We’re here to pave the way for the Lord’s return by sowing the Gospel, both person-to-person and nation-to-nation.
Let’s get busy!
Atheist Activism
Atheist Activism
Atheists have become emboldened -- angry, proactive and determined to intimidate believers in God. We must defend our faith with fervor and grace.
Always ask: What would Jesus say?
Our Alliance with Israel
Our Alliance with Israel
God's Word is clear in Genesis 12:3: Bless Israel and be blessed; curse Israel and be cursed. America has been Israel's best friend in the world. However, over the last few years, our commitment to Israel has weakened. It is more than coincidental that as our commitment has wavered, America's prosperity, posture, and place in the world has begun to decline.
No other race or nation has ever had the phrase "chosen people of God" attached to them as the Bible attaches it to them.
Pray for the peace of Israel.
Sanctity of Marriage
Sanctity of Marriage
Cohabiting without marriage has become so common that in a mere 30 years it has effected a complete inversion of America's attitude toward a practice that the Bible unambiguously labels sin.
Is the future of traditional marriage in danger of becoming obsolete?
Pray for America's families.
Attacks on the Bible
Attacks on the Bible
How did the Bible lose its centrality in our lives? Many Christians have grown afraid to utter the words "The Bible says …" or "God says …" or "Jesus says …"
On one hand we have people in repressive nations laying down their lives to expand the Bible's influence, and on the other we have modern churches being willing to allow the Bible's influence to recede toward the vanishing point, even in their own lives.
Take a stand for the Bible - today!
And pray that it will continue to change lives!
Our Optimism
Our Optimism
Life has never been as complicated and perilous as it is today. So what is there to be optimistic about?
How about God’s ability to keep us from being conformed to the chaos around us -- to raise us higher as the world sinks lower?
Our only solution is to follow a different path from that of the disintegrating world around us.
