WARNINGS

Stamping out faith in Biblical absolutes is central to this transformation. A mind anchored in God's Word won't compromise, but when that anchor is removed, the current of change can carry that mind anywhere. - CLICK HERE ========================================== Psalm 119:9 How can a young person keep his life pure? He can do it by holding on to your word. 10 I wholeheartedly searched for you. Do not let me wander away from your commandments. 11 I have treasured your promise in my heart so that I may not sin against you. 12 Thanks be to you, O LORD. Teach me your laws. 13 With my lips I have repeated every regulation that comes from your mouth. 14 I find joy in the way shown by your written instructions more than I find joy in all kinds of riches. 15 I want to reflect on your guiding principles and study your ways. 16 Your laws make me happy. I never forget your word. ----------------------------- Excerpt from "Twilight's Last Gleaming" Click Here Our Basic Predicament The real problem is that America is in moral free fall. We are victims of spiritual warfare: We have a media masking truth. We have courts perverting justice. We have schools deliberately "dumbing down" our youth. We have replaced our traditional heritage with "multiculturalism," revisionism, and value relativism. We deny the very existence of truth. So our traditional patriotism has now been relegated to an obsolete form of idol worship. Our government is now the purveyor of immorality. Why are we surprised? Governments have always loved crises: they provide the rationale for increasing budgets and bureaucracies, and subjugating the population. Most new dictators create external crises to consolidate their internal powers. In our country, they long ago learned that social crises serve that function as well as military ones. There is one insight that supplies a key missing link: immorality results in social crises. Is it any surprise to learn that governments have an enormous incentive to promote immorality? Should we be surprised by the attacks on the family, the promotion of homosexuality, abortion, and other disruptive factors to destabilize and disrupt our society? Our Personal Action Plan Obviously, we all need to get back to basics, and lower our cost of living and get out of debt as aggressively as possible.5 We also need to reprioritize ourselves to lead resourceful, productive lives, and extricate ourselves from our own material-ism and self-indulgences. We need to refocus ourselves toward self-reliance, virtuous lives, focusing on real values, and, above all, to regain an active reverence for the Living God And, all our prayers should include the petition that the lessons not be wasted. We can't change the coming tide. But we can warn others. And now the good news: It is going to be the biggest opportunity of a lifetime to serve our Coming King! People who were previously apathetic or complacent will soon be desperately looking for answers! We need to be prepared to provide them! (Ah, there's the rub: we need to be prepared! Are you? How can we help? Some relevant sources of comfort include Phil 4:19; Deut 31:6; Ps 119 (cf. v.50, 76, et al.); and, Rom 8:28-39.