Breitbart has a good article up right now by their religion correspondent Tom Williams on how about 120 Christians have been slaughtered in central Nigeria over the past few weeks by machetes and guns....yet the mainstream media hardly takes any notice of it.
Williams gives various thoughts on why this happens....and all of the ideas are legitimate...but my thoughts are on something else. We spend an awful lot of time on conservative talk radio pointing out the absurdities of how so many people in America act and think....and we do need to keep informed of this....but we are long past the point where we should have just acknowledged that our progressive educational system has already destroyed the thinking process of much of America and most of our youth. They can only think with what that which they have been programmed. It would therefore be very difficult to attempt to reason with them.
It would serve us better to prepare for what we ourselves are going to do in the coming year....than to keep on flailing away at the insanity that we see happening in the news. One way to prepare is to face the fact that America as it has been known and understood for so long....is no more. That's a tough fact to face. We are going to be dealing with people who consider themselves patriotic but haven't even a clue towards what that means. Instead of getting frustrated at this....we have to move on....concerned more with that which is our only hope. We need awakened pulpits....awakened to the glories of Christ....more than political victories.
The MAGA campaign was defective from the start. The intent was understandable but we were not going to restore any semblance of American tradition when so high a percentage of our own people wanted nothing to do with the America of yesterday. The result has been pure chaos....most of it obviously from the Left but much of it from Donald Trump himself who is expert in the art of chaos.
Ultimately this what we are witnessing in America today.....and have witnessed over the past ....is a rebellion against God. They won't always come out an admit this but it is at the core of what Democrat vs Republican....or progressive vs conservative has come to signify....specifically on issues such as abortion and gay marriage....but more precisely in acknowledging God as He who gave us our beginning...for a purpose....and sustained us even as we strayed from Him. The 1980s made it abundantly clear that the Republican Party.....because of the evangelical who was the biggest part of their base....as a result of God's moving in so many people over the previous decade....was going to attempt to legislate the morality of Western Civilization that emanated first from the Bible.....as opposed to morality legislated from the postmodern and secular mind....where there really are no stars of truth or right and wrong that one must navigate from.
There is no hope whatsoever for us apart from a major awakening across the land with the Gospel of Jesus Christ....and this would most certainly not be to make America great again....but to have America a God-fearing nation once again....with the light of His Word to guide us....and strengthen us....in the turmoil that is surely ahead for the world....a turmoil that we have brought upon ourselves....by ignoring His warnings to us for so many decades. You may disagree but God's Word has been very clear on dependence upon Him....just one instance being the last words of the Fahrenheit 71 post of a few days ago....."apart from me (Jesus) you can do nothing." (John 15:5)
Note: If you are interested in what it was like in the 1980s in evangelicalism....you can easily Google....'Steve Camp...Revive Us....O Lord'....and listen to him perform a song that he wrote that is very descriptive of where we were at at the time.
Also: If you are perplexed by my comments on our educational system in this post from last night....R. C. Sproul....in this mornings Daily Audio titled What Is Truth....at ligonier.org....begins with comments on just what has happened to our colleges.
Williams gives various thoughts on why this happens....and all of the ideas are legitimate...but my thoughts are on something else. We spend an awful lot of time on conservative talk radio pointing out the absurdities of how so many people in America act and think....and we do need to keep informed of this....but we are long past the point where we should have just acknowledged that our progressive educational system has already destroyed the thinking process of much of America and most of our youth. They can only think with what that which they have been programmed. It would therefore be very difficult to attempt to reason with them.
It would serve us better to prepare for what we ourselves are going to do in the coming year....than to keep on flailing away at the insanity that we see happening in the news. One way to prepare is to face the fact that America as it has been known and understood for so long....is no more. That's a tough fact to face. We are going to be dealing with people who consider themselves patriotic but haven't even a clue towards what that means. Instead of getting frustrated at this....we have to move on....concerned more with that which is our only hope. We need awakened pulpits....awakened to the glories of Christ....more than political victories.
The MAGA campaign was defective from the start. The intent was understandable but we were not going to restore any semblance of American tradition when so high a percentage of our own people wanted nothing to do with the America of yesterday. The result has been pure chaos....most of it obviously from the Left but much of it from Donald Trump himself who is expert in the art of chaos.
Ultimately this what we are witnessing in America today.....and have witnessed over the past ....is a rebellion against God. They won't always come out an admit this but it is at the core of what Democrat vs Republican....or progressive vs conservative has come to signify....specifically on issues such as abortion and gay marriage....but more precisely in acknowledging God as He who gave us our beginning...for a purpose....and sustained us even as we strayed from Him. The 1980s made it abundantly clear that the Republican Party.....because of the evangelical who was the biggest part of their base....as a result of God's moving in so many people over the previous decade....was going to attempt to legislate the morality of Western Civilization that emanated first from the Bible.....as opposed to morality legislated from the postmodern and secular mind....where there really are no stars of truth or right and wrong that one must navigate from.
There is no hope whatsoever for us apart from a major awakening across the land with the Gospel of Jesus Christ....and this would most certainly not be to make America great again....but to have America a God-fearing nation once again....with the light of His Word to guide us....and strengthen us....in the turmoil that is surely ahead for the world....a turmoil that we have brought upon ourselves....by ignoring His warnings to us for so many decades. You may disagree but God's Word has been very clear on dependence upon Him....just one instance being the last words of the Fahrenheit 71 post of a few days ago....."apart from me (Jesus) you can do nothing." (John 15:5)
Note: If you are interested in what it was like in the 1980s in evangelicalism....you can easily Google....'Steve Camp...Revive Us....O Lord'....and listen to him perform a song that he wrote that is very descriptive of where we were at at the time.
Also: If you are perplexed by my comments on our educational system in this post from last night....R. C. Sproul....in this mornings Daily Audio titled What Is Truth....at ligonier.org....begins with comments on just what has happened to our colleges.
