God and Country
We do the most for our country when we “first” do the most we can for our King.
From Patriotism and the Kingdom
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Remember the Cost of Freedom
In 1776, John Adams said, “If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering if my life, the victim shall be ready, at the appointed hour of sacrifice, come when that hour may. But while I do live, let me have a country, and that a free country!”
Monday, June 26, 2006
The Bullet of Encouragement: Wisdom
The Lord lifted me recently with I Corinthians 1:30. It is only in Christ we have the wisdom that 1) conquers our blindness (righteousness), 2) completes our inadequacies (holiness), and 3) covers our failures (redemptions). What a praise that He would do that for the likes of us! What an encouragement that He did!
The Lord lifted me recently with I Corinthians 1:30. It is only in Christ we have the wisdom that 1) conquers our blindness (righteousness), 2) completes our inadequacies (holiness), and 3) covers our failures (redemptions). What a praise that He would do that for the likes of us! What an encouragement that He did!
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Monday, June 19, 2006
Monday, June 12, 2006
Commission for Parents
Our children are our most precious legacy. It takes much time and energy to… “Train a child in the way he should go …” (Proverbs 22:6) To achieve that end, it helps to have solid goals to work toward. The most important of these we can set are spiritual ones. Donna Otto put our greatest spiritual goal thus, “Raise your children so that they can make a choice for Jesus.” Mothers and fathers who shape their family life around this calling will find they meet the other goals they have for their children through a lifestyle geared to teach their children what it means to know Jesus, to live the Christ Life.
Our children are our most precious legacy. It takes much time and energy to… “Train a child in the way he should go …” (Proverbs 22:6) To achieve that end, it helps to have solid goals to work toward. The most important of these we can set are spiritual ones. Donna Otto put our greatest spiritual goal thus, “Raise your children so that they can make a choice for Jesus.” Mothers and fathers who shape their family life around this calling will find they meet the other goals they have for their children through a lifestyle geared to teach their children what it means to know Jesus, to live the Christ Life.
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Are We Losing Our Young People? Yes!
I came across a telling paragraph recently. It is from Jim Burkett of Foundations Ministries International and is dated September, 2005. With a few facts, the author makes a telling case for Biblical truth directed toward the young of our nation.
Never before in our history has the need for presenting the truth of the Word of God been more urgent and imminent. We need a new Haystack Revival on our campuses, not to reach the world but to reach our nation!
There are many churches, movements, and ministries seeking to win the youth of America. Some are very traditional, some highly innovative. The ultimate success of all these different approaches will lie in their ability to motivate Believers to grasp the percision of the Savior’s life and insights. The new and exciting is always appealing to the young and it is our job to show them that the newest and most exciting thing in life is learning to live in Christ. Only in so far as our young people learn to focus on the Christ Life can the distressing trend seen in the statistics quoted above be reversed. All of our programs and innovations are inadequate until we learn how to be centered on the adventure of Christ in you. Older Christians with a dull view of the wonders of Jesus will never compel their youth to seek the fullness of the Gospel.
I came across a telling paragraph recently. It is from Jim Burkett of Foundations Ministries International and is dated September, 2005. With a few facts, the author makes a telling case for Biblical truth directed toward the young of our nation.
Last Sunday I made the following statement at Destiny Christian Church in Del City, Oklahoma” “WE ARE LOSING OUR YOUNG PEOPLE!” We are losing our young people to destructive philosophies and influences that lead them to spiritual emptiness, sexual exploitation, and sometimes physical harm through disease and death.
Consider this:
- 70% of the university students in the United States have a sexually transmitted disease (STD) and do not know it.
- 88% of Southern Baptist young people leave Christianity within four years after graduating from high school.
- Among the Boomer generation (bo
rn betwee4n 1946 to 1964), there are 35% Bible-based believers;- Among the Busters generation (born between 1965 to 1983), there are 16% Bible-based believers;
- Among the Bridgers (or millenials, born 1984 or later), there are 4% Bible-based believers.
THE MISSION FIELD for teens and young adults (60 million plus) is real and critical!
Never before in our history has the need for presenting the truth of the Word of God been more urgent and imminent. We need a new Haystack Revival on our campuses, not to reach the world but to reach our nation!
There are many churches, movements, and ministries seeking to win the youth of America. Some are very traditional, some highly innovative. The ultimate success of all these different approaches will lie in their ability to motivate Believers to grasp the percision of the Savior’s life and insights. The new and exciting is always appealing to the young and it is our job to show them that the newest and most exciting thing in life is learning to live in Christ. Only in so far as our young people learn to focus on the Christ Life can the distressing trend seen in the statistics quoted above be reversed. All of our programs and innovations are inadequate until we learn how to be centered on the adventure of Christ in you. Older Christians with a dull view of the wonders of Jesus will never compel their youth to seek the fullness of the Gospel.
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