New Christian Patriotism 2010
People of the world, I want to APOLOGIZE!

I have spent far too much time responding to the evils I have seen arising on every hand. I reported on the winning U. S. Presidential candidate saying one thing to one audience to gain their vote and applause then watching that same man stand before another crowd and declare the opposite policy also to the applause of that crowd. I spent time reporting the impossibility of many of the things the present ruling party declared would save our nation and renew jobs. That prediction has sadly proven true, But worst of all, I really hoped that the first elected black President in American history and a man who declared that his Administration would be the most open and transparent in history has actually presided  over the most closed-door, back-room deals to enforce his personal Soviet-style Socialist agenda down the throats of an unwilling American population in all of American history.  I really hoped he would actually do well and he has responded by denouncing anything righteous and godly, embracing those whose religious beliefs would feel it a soul-redeeming virtue to literally kill Christians. I dare say that this page and website are likely on his hit list already.

I have spent time speaking out on the evil of ABORTION and the homosexual plague, and both are wrong, wicked and need to be stopped.

While it is very true that our President has filled his staff, his advisers  and as much as possible the Cabinet with people known for their radical Anti-American ideals to a level never before seen in history, the news media, even the radical left, are being forced into admission of wrongdoing even though they like to shade it to seem not too bad. For fairly accurate reportage watch Glen Beck and Sean Hannity on Fox News and read Washington Standard and Newt Gingrich at National Review magazine. I leave the political scene to them.

So why am I apologizing?

 Because I am not called to set the world straight politically. I am called to preach the Gospel. To share the good news that "Jesus Christ [is] the same yesterday, today and forever." (Hebrews 13:8). Jesus saves from sin, transforms lives, delivers from addictions as well as healing physical diseases and sickness, plus accidental injuries  as well as mental disorders.

I am called to proclaim that there is ONE genuine article, One real Almighty God who at the appointed time robed Himself in human flesh as a baby, lived, went about doing good, He not only taught peaceable living with everyone around you. He also healed the sick, raised the dead, but He also aroused the jealousy of the Religious Establishment of that day. He was flogged unmercifully, a crown of thorns jammed forcibly on His head and finally crucified on a cross, one of the most excruciatingly painful deaths possible. Not only that. but the shame of being
stripped naked (Oh, I know we see paintings with a loin cloth on His bleeding body on the cross, but they WANTED to shame Him and nakedness, though never one time called a sin, was clearly considered a shameful thing from the time of Adam and Eve.)

The United States is in a very unique position in the world and world history and what happens here DOES make a difference in the rest of the world. And Christians have a unique power in the U. S. that does not really exist in any other nation. As individual citizens, each of us has at least a slight degree of control over who leads our nation and whether they lead toward righteousness and godliness or toward evil and destruction.

If U. S. leadership chooses to turn a blind eye to persecution of Christians in other nations of the world, that persecution continues and even increases. If the U. S. officially demands that such persecution stop as a conditon of trade and mutual protection, it greatly reduces or even stops such persecution and Christian evangelism can have a more free access to the people. 

So, at least for the present, I shall warn and advise American Christians to pray as never before for the leadership of this nation. Pray effectually, fervently and without ceasing for ALL them that are in power. "Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet. Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God? Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people. (Joel 2:16-18).

When you have the opportunity to speak out against evil and to urge your friends to vote for candidates favorable to Christian values, oppose the homosexual agenda and the abortion industry, do so, but keep your primary focus on: "...seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. (Matthew 6:26-36).

So please, Christian friends, do continue to pray for righteousness and truth and real justice. Pray for candidates for any governmental office who clearly stand for godliness and righteousness and integrity. real honesty. Pray that all candidates who stand for causes of evil and wrong — from pork-barrel corruption to abortion and the homosexual agenda, be turned out of office with this next November's election.

But, at least for now, I feel I MUST focus on teaching, preaching and publishing those things which will help to restore the Church of our Lord Jesus Christ to its original first Century Authority and POWER.

Christian Patriotism 2010
So why am I apologizing?

I APOLOGIZE for not PRESSING FORWARD hard enough with getting the Gospel out and spending time I should have been mentoring pastors in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Myanmar, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and the United States and helping more with evangelists in Brazil, Russia and Georgia in speaking out from a view of "righteous indignation" against the evil I see in my country.

 Because I am not called to set the world straight politically. I am called to preach the Gospel. To share the good news that "Jesus Christ [is] the same yesterday, today and forever." (Hebrews 13:8). Jesus saves from sin, transforms lives, delivers from addictions as well as healing physical diseases and sickness, plus accidental injuries  as well as mental disorders.

I am called to proclaim that there is ONE genuine article, One real Almighty God who at the appointed time robed Himself in human flesh as a baby, lived, went about doing good, He healed ALL who came to Him. He taught peaceable living with everyone around His hearers He raised the dead, but alas, He also aroused the jealousy of the Religious Establishment of that day, the High Priests and the Sanhedrin. He was falsely accused of treason, flogged unmercifully, a crown of thorns jammed forcibly on His head and finally crucified on a cross, one of the most excruciatingly painful deaths possible.

The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. (2 Samuel 23:3).

And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will. (Daniel 5:21).
 16Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
 17Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?


 18Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people. (Joel 2:16-18).
 6So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. 7Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation. (Hebrews 13:6-7).
24Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints. They of Italy salute you. (Hebrews 13:24).
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. (Psalm 122:6).
6Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. 7Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces.(Psalm 122:6-7).
And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace. (Jeremiah 29:6-8).

 26Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? 27Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

 28And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:

 29And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

 30Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

 31Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

 32(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

 33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

 34Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. (Matthew 6:26-36).