I agree with President Obama, but ......

For months I have been concerned about the values of the Christian community let alone those we are trying to reach. I have spoken to those beyond the walls of my own denomination and church. It really seems the church in north America has slide back in its values. Issues from the Emergent church to creationism verses evolution and the rapture verses the great tribulation. The Church is in decline while the lost have no interest in traditional church.

In my own ministry I have seen lives changed and some growth, but never the way I had hoped and thought would be when I entered the ministry. I could blame others, but I’ll take my fair share of the blame upon myself. In large measure, trying to be politically correct combined with a lack of prayer time has probably hurt more churches then most would be willing to admit.

Within the last year I discovered that one of my old professors from College is still teaching science, but now he has adopted the theory of evolution as part of his Christian faith. I don’t know how he believed the lie from the devil on that one, but he continues to this day to teach that man evolved and that it fits right inside the creation story perfectly. Truly his writing in my opinion are a bunch of bunk and junk. Even one of the students on campus currently told me that everyone knows him as the professor who teaches evolution.

Then there is the emergent church mystery of the day. What is it and who are they? Well after a year of reading about it and discussing it, I finally came to my own conclusions. I can look back now and see that I was headed into that slippery slope myself through the blind acceptance of the Christian pop culture theology . Even within my own denomination I see many whom I am friends with that have accepted evolution and emergent thinking as the way of the progressive Christian thought. But as for me I am sticking to the bible regardless of what anyone says including President Obama.

So what did Obama say? He said we were no longer a Christian nation, but a nation of many thoughts and religions. Well, as much as I did not like those statements, I must admit, that he is right. I wish he were not right and I would rather he made a more politically correct statement so as to not offend so many Christians, but nevertheless he said what he said for reasons of acceptance I am sure among the secular world. Yet his statement was so true! Snce indeed so much of our culture has gone by the wayside of Christianity we are not a total Christian nation as we once were.

Recently I watched the Ken Ham broadcast from the Creation Museum and his presentation on the state of the Union 2 as he spoke about the Presidents comment. He really nailed it as to the true situation we are in. He did not give solutions per se, but at least he has given me a solid perspective that feels accurate for us as bible believers to respond too.

What do you think?

Is American Dying?

I would like to think that America is well and is as strong as ever, but I'm afraid our leaders as a whole are deeply disconnected from righteous values and moral integrity. They truly reflect us more than we want to admit now and even common sense is missing and we are headed over the cliff within a few short months unless...... For years I have been fighting in prayer and correspondence to my legislative leaders about the issues of the day. The most recent one before 2009 was about the issue of taking away the rights of chaplains to pray in the name of Jesus in Virginia. I got nowhere with that issue either. Even professing Christian leaders in power in Virginia did NOTHING to preserve prayer for the people. I guess they were to busy getting ready for another election year coming up. Since 2009 I still get a constant flow of emails asking me to call , write and beg our congressman, senators and President to stop this or veto that or. vote down this or that. But this year I feel checked in my spirit of the Lord to do nothing in 2009 other than pray. I know I moved and my plate is full, but that is not the reason. I believe the reason is deeper and its a change of course to exclusively look to God and let those in authority do as they will do and pray to God to work behind the scenes. I believe we are at the edge and this administration is locked in and are determined to do what it is intent on doing regardless of what the people will say or request publically. Proverbs 25:5 says "take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne will be. Established in righteousness.". I believe we have elected far to many wicked leaders across the board and the hardening of their hearts this time is beyond the influence of letters and calls. The only way to have true influence for righteousness in 2009 is through prayer. We have much more power in prayer than we want to realize. The greatest turn around's in history were done in prayer. Daniel faced living in a fallen pagan god less culture. He was even instructed legislatively to not pray. But thank God he prayed anyway and at that, he prayed 3 times a day. Eventually through many overwhelming circumstances he was arrested and delivered and the wicked that surrounded the king were removed and righteousness was established. It just took a couple key people and God moving through prayer. But the solutions were all grounded in prayer.

When I get these petitions to sign, request to respond and to call and write, all I get in my spirit to do is PRAY.
My prayer in 2009 for the hope of the next generation and of course this present generation is to pray to have the Lord take away the wicked before the king. Perhaps the cost for some of us is LION den time or jail time. I hope not, but it just might be that kind of a day sooner than we want to realize. We are in difficult times and as a whole the American people have abandoned God and have elected a majority of godless leaders who are now in authority. The prevailing philosophy of these leaders is offerings social solutions to spiritual problems to a sin sick culture. If we want public education to improve we must return God to the public square. If we want medical conditions to improve than we must return moral values to the public square. If we want crime to reverse it's course we need to clean up the airwaves and entertainment venues that include immoral music, movies and the violent gaming industries. The list could go on and on, but true change that is needed now is not more legislative motions, but revival and reformation of the hearts of the people of our American culture.

So my hope and prayer is to rely upon the gospel of Christ thru prayer to see the transformation of one heart at a time. As I pray for the wicked to be removed from authority I hope you might join me in 2009 with more closet time prayer for the leaders in position of authority over us.

Have I grown weary of fighting? No! , but rather I am realizing in this season the Lord would have me do more fighting in the prayer closet and less time in the writing of petitions. Let us all pray for revival and Righteousness to be established again in personal encounters. This is truly our only hope now, that we might be established once more in America as a people of righteousness.