If we would read the Old Testament prophets with any regularity we would see ourselves....America....in that collage of rebellious tribes. There is nothing new under the sun....a God-fearing nation falls away from its benefactor....and is judged. That's what happened to England....and look at that nation today....and we are a half step behind it.
If you would survey American evangelicals you would get the opposite picture. Why.....we go on two week mission trips all the time.....we listen to praise music to keep us going on our exercise regimen....and when we win the championship.....we thank our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for the trophy....right on live television!
Folks....am I being too hard on evangelicals? I'm trying to shake some timbers......and rattle a few cages.....and at least get us thinking again. This is serous stuff.....these are serious times....and we are not taking it seriously. There are some wonderful things being done on mission trips.....but we are in a rut.....the cross is not being preached....while 'born again' has become an archaic term once again. We're not necessarily adopted into God's family anymore....today we just join. Bunyan would call this climbing over the wall to avoid the wicket gate. There's too often no burden on our back at the beginning.....just a backpack with a MAGA hat....Sony headphones and some rockin' Christian music.
We conservatives all know about Rush Limbaugh's ditty meant to be humorous....."Talent...on loan from God".....but I've cringed every time that I heard that over the years.....and no time more so than the other day.....where he almost defiantly spat out the one-syllable word God......as if it were two syllables....."Gaaaaaaw.....Duh!" (I think this was about ten minutes to the end of Tuesday's show if you want to pull it up on his website)....I prayed again at the time.....Lord....open our eyes to this man....open his eyes....and open my eyes to my own dalliances....for we all have to fight this culture!
It does not appear right now that God is going to awaken us before we hit rock bottom. There are no signs that I have heard of where pulpits are being awakened....they're snoozing away....but this is to be our prayer every week anyway.....Lord....revive us......not them O Lord.....us....for we are not a peculiar people....we are nothing resembling separated....we are now Trump MAGA people....and we're going to keep that White House by hook or by crook.....and take back that Congress in 2020....and we're going to make or keep or whatever word he's using about America being great again....we're going to do it!
God may have other plans brothers and sisters.....His Word indicates to us that he does....this isn't the best time ever to "be young and American".....as the false prophet in the White House keeps telling us.....instead.....there may be a dark night rising in our future.
THE DARK KNIGHT RISING
Preface: Few of us conservatives knew anything about Donald Trump during the 2016 election....that's a legitimate excuse. There is no excuse now......for there are more books that I can stack on top of each other showing how he was totally unqualified for the office of president of the United States....and generally disreputable in his nature....but we wouldn't lower ourselves to reading....fake news....(talk radio trained us well)...so we have absolutely no excuse now.
It's not that I'm not a fan of the Batman films.....it's more that I don't really know anything about them. After a cursory look at the various films released since 1989 I can't remember seeing any of them. It was reported today that the Trump 2020 campaign removed a recent video on Twitter....(or Twitter removed it).... after objections from Warner Brothers Pictures over the use off the musical theme from its The Dark Knight Rises.
I Googled the theme music....cute little ditty....never heard it before. What strikes me about this most recent copyright imbroglio with the White House is the title....The Dark Knight Rises....for that is Donald Trump....a dark knight....hero of gullible and mislead evangelicals....champion of the New Trump Party....commanding general of pusillanimous talk radio....and scourge of The Joker and all those other evil nemeses.
I've posted on this numerous times.....whole books have been written on it.....psychiatrists have weighed in on it....Donald Trump is the consummate liar. In my observances over my near seventy years....I have seen no one who comes even close to him in being able to lie so often....so naturally....with a straight face.....as if there is no such thing in this world as truth....and we ourselves admit this now....even chuckle about it....but disastrously fail to consider that he might lie to us also....which he has! Read Commander In Cheat by Rick Reilly....or Vicky Ward's Kushner, Inc....or Leamer's MAR-A-LAGO....or any of dozens of other offerings....if you get the chance....oh I forgot.....Rush and the others have successfully steered us away from all books or information sources that are critical of President Trump....well in Reilly's book you would see how Donald Trump applies his version of truth....to golf....which is a big part of his life.
Folks we have had really just a little over two years of the Trump administration so far.....and it has been gut wrenching to watch.....as you never know what this 'fly by the seat of your pants' president will do. It has been chaos everywhere....and now we have a primary season ahead of us.....should the Lord will it....and the New Trump Party election campaign has gone full-throttle in attempting to stop any legitimate debate on President Trump....with (formerly conservative) radio talk show hosts being the front line of battle....and they want us to obediently....with only one side of the story....OK an additional almost three times the number of years of Donald Trump...2+ down...almost 6 to go! If and when this second term would be secured....we would then really.....let Trump be Trump....where he no longer needs conservatives....thus....'The Dark Knight Rising' as the title to this post.
If you would survey American evangelicals you would get the opposite picture. Why.....we go on two week mission trips all the time.....we listen to praise music to keep us going on our exercise regimen....and when we win the championship.....we thank our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for the trophy....right on live television!
Folks....am I being too hard on evangelicals? I'm trying to shake some timbers......and rattle a few cages.....and at least get us thinking again. This is serous stuff.....these are serious times....and we are not taking it seriously. There are some wonderful things being done on mission trips.....but we are in a rut.....the cross is not being preached....while 'born again' has become an archaic term once again. We're not necessarily adopted into God's family anymore....today we just join. Bunyan would call this climbing over the wall to avoid the wicket gate. There's too often no burden on our back at the beginning.....just a backpack with a MAGA hat....Sony headphones and some rockin' Christian music.
We conservatives all know about Rush Limbaugh's ditty meant to be humorous....."Talent...on loan from God".....but I've cringed every time that I heard that over the years.....and no time more so than the other day.....where he almost defiantly spat out the one-syllable word God......as if it were two syllables....."Gaaaaaaw.....Duh!" (I think this was about ten minutes to the end of Tuesday's show if you want to pull it up on his website)....I prayed again at the time.....Lord....open our eyes to this man....open his eyes....and open my eyes to my own dalliances....for we all have to fight this culture!
It does not appear right now that God is going to awaken us before we hit rock bottom. There are no signs that I have heard of where pulpits are being awakened....they're snoozing away....but this is to be our prayer every week anyway.....Lord....revive us......not them O Lord.....us....for we are not a peculiar people....we are nothing resembling separated....we are now Trump MAGA people....and we're going to keep that White House by hook or by crook.....and take back that Congress in 2020....and we're going to make or keep or whatever word he's using about America being great again....we're going to do it!
God may have other plans brothers and sisters.....His Word indicates to us that he does....this isn't the best time ever to "be young and American".....as the false prophet in the White House keeps telling us.....instead.....there may be a dark night rising in our future.
THE DARK KNIGHT RISING
Preface: Few of us conservatives knew anything about Donald Trump during the 2016 election....that's a legitimate excuse. There is no excuse now......for there are more books that I can stack on top of each other showing how he was totally unqualified for the office of president of the United States....and generally disreputable in his nature....but we wouldn't lower ourselves to reading....fake news....(talk radio trained us well)...so we have absolutely no excuse now.
It's not that I'm not a fan of the Batman films.....it's more that I don't really know anything about them. After a cursory look at the various films released since 1989 I can't remember seeing any of them. It was reported today that the Trump 2020 campaign removed a recent video on Twitter....(or Twitter removed it).... after objections from Warner Brothers Pictures over the use off the musical theme from its The Dark Knight Rises.
I Googled the theme music....cute little ditty....never heard it before. What strikes me about this most recent copyright imbroglio with the White House is the title....The Dark Knight Rises....for that is Donald Trump....a dark knight....hero of gullible and mislead evangelicals....champion of the New Trump Party....commanding general of pusillanimous talk radio....and scourge of The Joker and all those other evil nemeses.
I've posted on this numerous times.....whole books have been written on it.....psychiatrists have weighed in on it....Donald Trump is the consummate liar. In my observances over my near seventy years....I have seen no one who comes even close to him in being able to lie so often....so naturally....with a straight face.....as if there is no such thing in this world as truth....and we ourselves admit this now....even chuckle about it....but disastrously fail to consider that he might lie to us also....which he has! Read Commander In Cheat by Rick Reilly....or Vicky Ward's Kushner, Inc....or Leamer's MAR-A-LAGO....or any of dozens of other offerings....if you get the chance....oh I forgot.....Rush and the others have successfully steered us away from all books or information sources that are critical of President Trump....well in Reilly's book you would see how Donald Trump applies his version of truth....to golf....which is a big part of his life.
Folks we have had really just a little over two years of the Trump administration so far.....and it has been gut wrenching to watch.....as you never know what this 'fly by the seat of your pants' president will do. It has been chaos everywhere....and now we have a primary season ahead of us.....should the Lord will it....and the New Trump Party election campaign has gone full-throttle in attempting to stop any legitimate debate on President Trump....with (formerly conservative) radio talk show hosts being the front line of battle....and they want us to obediently....with only one side of the story....OK an additional almost three times the number of years of Donald Trump...2+ down...almost 6 to go! If and when this second term would be secured....we would then really.....let Trump be Trump....where he no longer needs conservatives....thus....'The Dark Knight Rising' as the title to this post.
