Another Call to Prayer

Faith in America launched a campaign this last Sunday that specifically attacks Christianity as the source of bigotry in America today. This is not entirely a new idea but it is a new campaign and it is coming on a national scale. The website literature does a petty job at bundling the gay and lesbian "plight" with that of racial equality and the women's rights movement - claiming that the same "right wing Christians" who denounce homosexuality also attack these "other" civil liberties. This is just another billow's puff on the fire that will one day make it illegal for Christians to preach that homosexuality is a sin and should be treated as such.
In light of this I encourage you all to join with me in prayer for the pastors in the specific cities that this campaign will be attacking and for the congregations to hold strong for the truth. Further, we need to be vigilant in our efforts to make clear the fact that the follower of Christ is opposed to the SIN of homosexuality but is not making attacks against the person. The problem has always been the behavior and not the being.
A final note I would leave with you is to know your history both Biblical and civic. The website supporting this "Campaign for Courage" contained outright lies about the Biblical historic support of homosexuality and our own country's support for homosexuality. The truth is on our side so know it!

A Hope Eternal...

Reading in Thessalonians 4 this evening I was struck by a thought about our hope in Christ’s return. My nature in hoping in that great hope we have as believers is so quickly defaulted to the hope of justice. I am too quick to be excited by the idea of the wicked getting their “due reward.” This is not what the hope in Christ’s return is to be about. More it is the hope we have in the fulfilled promise that on that day when Christ returns – all the world will be forced to acknowledge that there is one truth and one God – and on THAT day, Jesus will receive all the glory he is due. This is the hope we have in the return of Christ – the hope that the sinful off-balance of man’s natural state will be corrected and God will be seen as the most supreme by all men at one time.