INVERTING RIGHT AND WRONG

I know it's been quite a while since my last post.  I've been extremely busy taking care of family - vacations, projects, and many other things.  I've also been helping our church with our Vacation Bible School - by leading it.  I am Bi-vocational - at least I have another part-time job as well to supplement our income - and have also been busy during "down-times" with that.  I'm back today, taking time out of other needed things to post this.  I only hope it makes someone think about their position.  Nevertheless, things have gotten to the point that I need to "vent" on some things, and so I must post this - As I See It.

Morality in America is inverted, and it has been for quite some time.  People are posting the craziest things on Facebook, the MSM (Main Stream Media) reports from the most inverted value system I've ever seen, and our governmental leaders are more out of touch with reality than ever before.  Today, I just want to publish a bullet list of these inversions.

• A marine defends himself and others under fire by returning fire on a Muslim extremist seeking to kill them.  He is under investigation and threatened with imprisonment for firing a weapon on a military installation. He is a field grade officer charged with leading and caring for his men and women.
• A protected lion is killed and the world wants his killer caught, extradited, and punished while an entire business is thriving based on the murder, dismemberment, and sale of body parts is protected by MSM and liberal congressional representatives.
• The police are encouraged and honored for their "undercover sting operations" against organized crime mobs, drug rings, etc., while a citizen's group is denigrated as "biased" for conducting its own "undercover sting operation" revealing indisputable proof that criminal conduct is taking place daily in a taxpayer-funded business that sells baby body parts for profit.  
• Police officers who, in the line of duty, have to physically take down a criminal that will not submit are considered racist if the criminal is black and the cop is white.  
• Police officers who, in the line of duty, must use deadly force to apprehend a criminal that is black, are called "killer cops," while nothing is said in the MSM when a "cop killer" uses deadly force to resist apprehension.
• License and Liberty are now synonymous, meaning that freedom (liberty) guaranteed by the Constitution offers complete legal, social, and governmental protection to all who seek an immoral lifestyle (license) regardless of who it may offend, and that protection will include the removal of all who protest for any reason.  This is done through the IRS, FBI, MSM, SCOTUS, POTUS, HSA, BATF, and politically correct liberal professors throughout our land.  
• Criminals have guns, politicos have people with guns to protect them from criminals, and citizens may not defend themselves from neither - the criminal or the overpowering politico.

And the list goes on.  Those in favor of these inversions are also in favor of these perversions.  Our very nation's foundation, the Constitution, is threatened by the ideologies that are behind these inversions.  That, in itself, is the most dangerous of inversions today, with one exception.

• The Bible-believing Christian is now considered as dangerous to our nation as a Muslim Extremist, if not more so - a belief held by those who support the inversions mentioned above.  Why?
• Because the Bible-believer has a moral foundation not found in the immoral, godless, inverted beliefs of others.
• Because the Bible-believer will vote and stand for right and wrong, constitutionally based policies, and demand justice in the case of these inversions.  This threatens the agenda of these liberal, godless, immoral power-hungry people.
• Because the Bible-believer offers a real remedy through peaceful means as the gospel demands.  This is effective beyond the wildest imaginations of the power-hungry, immoral liberals.  Therefore, they must be ostracized, outlawed, and outcast before they actually can influence the masses under the control and sway of the liberal MSM, politicos, and educators.

Ronald Regan's Supreme Court nominee, Robert Bork, is quoted as saying, "A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable."  He has hit the nail on the head, and explains what is happening in America today.  He also hints at the answer.

I was asked the other day what I thought was wrong with America.  I was asked by someone who is very conservative - but NOT a Bible-believer.  My answer was simple: We have removed God from the American Marketplace.  Too many people no longer trust the Bible, God, or Jesus Christ.  Instead, each does what is right in his own eyes, thinking that freedom is license to serve self at all costs.  But God says, "Righteousness exalts a nation, But sin is a reproach to any people." Proverbs 14:34 (NKJV)  If we will not acknowledge the righteousness set forth by God, we will become a nation that sins in the sight of God - and we will be come a reproach to all people.  That is why "our enemies no longer fear us and our friends no longer trust us."  We have left the God who has blessed us, and we expect Him to continue to bless us for leaving Him.  "The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.'" (Psalms 14:1; 53:1).  

Because America has inverted its allegiance to the One True God and Savior of Mankind, America can no longer help but invert its understanding of right and wrong.  Each person will do what is right in his own eyes, having no understanding of the consequences.  Unless we return to the foundation of justice, mercy, Truth, and eternity found in the Bible, we will only drift further from sanity.  That's America As I See It.

WHAT HAPPENED TO INDEPENDENCE DAY?

Today is "Independence Day."  Did you know that?  Social media, TV media, and print media have re-named the day to "Fourth of July."  No longer do we say "Happy Independence Day; now we say "Happy Fourth of July."  Is there any significance to that?  

As I See It, there is. 

Before you go too far, my son called me a "pessimist" last night, so I will be cautious about being "pessimistic" and try harder to be "realistic" - which is what I would describe myself.  

Back to the significance of the holiday name change.  

Where We Came From
It was the desire for independence from governmental and religious tyranny that sent our settlers this way from Europe.  In a single document signed by men who would sacrifice their lives, fortunes, and families to ensure freedom to govern themselves according to the ways they saw fit, these men declared independence from England's rule.  That document started a war!  The men who signed it and their supporters won.  A new constitution resulted - but could not be ratified until the first five amendments were in place.  Our new nation was born to protect free speech, religious liberty, and the right to keep and bear arms.

Where We Are
Our society JUST celebrated a flawed move by our Supreme Court to declare same-sex marriage to be legal and recognized by all 50 states based on a twisted reading of the 14th Amendment of our Constitution.  In that decision, faith groups will now be required to face consequences - social or financial - for disagreeing with this decision and refusing to recognize or perform same-sex marriages.  Businesses can not take a stand on the issue without being declared bigoted and be forced to pay huge fines that would put them out of business.  Bottom line - the religious liberty and freedom of speech promised by the first amendment are no longer in effect.  They have effectively removed the 1st amendment from protecting anyone.  Our ability to lay open the sins of our government and make them accountable is dwindling because the government can now silence speech.  The recipe is there, and more will be forthcoming, As I See It.  (I'm not being pessimistic, I'm being realistic.  it is the trend.)

In addition, there is a growing challenge by the government to persuade the citizenry to give up their guns.  An effort to have the 2nd amendment (promising the right to keep and bear arms) overthrown is afoot among us as well.  It was this very right that enabled our nation to become a nation in the first place.  And a growing number of Americans still want that freedom today!  

And so we are subtly, year-by-year, renaming our holiday that should celebrate our nation's birth.  We no longer mention much our foundations - for our media, government, and increasing numbers in our country want a nation with a different foundation.  

• We want to remove the ability of our citizens to protect themselves from armed attackers. 
• We want to remove the mention of "God" from the public square.  (Even our President Obama wants to "help us overcome our religious views.")
• We want to remove the ability of the press and the citizenry to speak their mind and tell the truth if the government wants the people to hear a lie.
• We want to remove our historical "flags" when it is convenient to take the conversation off the real issue.  (The effort to "ban" the confederate flag across the land.)
• We want to take away the police' ability to enforce the law by declaring them to be the bad guys when they do so firmly (and sometimes resulting in the death of a criminal citizen). 
• We want to re-write history and put our founding fathers in a bad light. (As if this one doesn't best explain our re-naming of our holiday!)  

America seems to be trying to shun its heritage in order to turn her path toward a failed future.  Cultures and countries that have already gone where we are heading, embraced the values we are embracing, forsaking the morals we are forsaking are all in decline.  Our president doesn't even want America to be the greatest nation in the world anymore.  He wants to apologize for being that in the past.  And too many of my countrymen are willing to endorse this!  

In the process of changing directions, we have ...

• Forsaken the blood of those who died to keep our country strong
• Forsaken the blood of Christ who died to enable our country to exist
• Forsaken the faith of those who gave so much to make our country in the first place
• Forsaken the faith of those who went before us to make us "one nation under God."

As Ronald Reagan is credited with saying, "A nation that is not under God is a nation that has gone under."

As I See It, America needs to return to some things if we hope to make any REAL progress.  We need our freedoms again.  We need our "Independence Day" again.  And we need to get rid of "the Fourth of July."  We might celebrate on 7/4, but we must never forget why!  As I See It, this is INDEPENDENCE DAY!

Your comments are always welcome!  Happy Independence Day!

WITHOUT CHANGE, YOU ARE PART OF THE DECLINE OF AMERICA – AND SO AM I

It is happening right in front of us.  You are watching it happen.  You may even be a part of the process.  I’m talking about the fall of a nation.  Gumby used to say, “I have found the enemy, and he is us.”  We are all willing and unwilling participants in the fall of the United States of America.  And that has been the plan for our nation for some time now.

The first part of the fall of the USA is when the nation was truly divided.  We were no longer the United States of America.  We went to war over issues that divided us.  I’m not pro-slavery in any fashion.  But I AM a patriot, and I want our nation to remain UNITED.  To remain united, we need to deal with some deeply divisive issues.  We can’t do that by disrespecting one another, ostracizing one another, or marginalizing one another.  Those things divide, they do not unite.  Disagreements can best be handled by “agreeing to disagree” and pressing forward together.

However, in a nation, it is a bit more complicated than that.  Agreeing to disagree takes a great deal of help when two parties, states, or regions of the country have world-views that are polar opposites.  It is very hard to do when two parties, states, or regions cannot even agree about what the problem is, much less the solution.  Let me give you an example.  The Christian believes that there is a God, He sent His Son to die to save man from his sin, and he rose again from the grave to return again in glory.  The Atheist, agnostic, Gnostic, alternative religion, and the humanist all disagree with this perspective.  The Christian sees the division problem as stemming from Satan, who is the spirit-leader opposing God and His plans.  All others deny Satan’s existence and so his methods as surely as they deny God and His ways.  These beliefs go to the core of those who hold them.  Agreeing to disagree does not help us move any closer to solutions agreeable to both parties.  The Christian solution is offensive to the others; and vice versa, the others offend the Christian.  Both hold their views as TRUTH.  And they are willing to die for it.  That does not bring unity.

So unity in our country needs something else.  We have a Constitution born out of compromise and conviction.  Before ratification, it was amended five times.  We call those amendments the “Bill of Rights.”  Now, our nation stands on the brink of destroying those “rights,” rejecting our Constitution.  If our nation’s highest court does so, it will pull the yarn of our nation apart, unraveling our unity by destroying our foundation, like a knitted sweater, row by row, coming apart and leaving a ball of string without form or usefulness.

And we all play a part of this destruction. We are politically correct, and so afraid to “offend anyone” except those who we have socially deemed worthy of offending (Christians, conservatives, and constitutionalists).  We are trusting our biased media to tell us the truth, allowing our ideologies to be shaped by their twisted truth rather than insisting we hear both sides before coming to conclusions.  We are voting for politicians who will promise things to benefit our pockets knowing that for every dollar they put in, they take two more as a means of providing the one for everyone.  We are easily distracted from the truth by knee-jerk reactions rather than measured analysis of crises.  We have lost our will to succeed, work hard, and thrive.  Instead, we have gotten lazy and expect others to do for us, to live off the government dole.  We hate the word “discipline.”  It means we choose what to do without: entertainments, excitements, etc.  Discipline means saying “NO” to ourselves as we choose the best over the good.  Our education policies reflect a “dumbing down” rather than a disciplined approach to learning that served our fore-fathers very well.  Our reliance on technology to do what we used to do the “old-fashioned way” will cripple us if our energy sources ever dry up.  We destroy our families by redefining marriage, aborting our children, euthanizing our parents, and legalizing drugs.  We have forgotten the heart of man and fight among ourselves over flags after a senseless, racist massacre by one man in one town, in a single church.  We are outraged over any harm done to animals while we destroy one another in bitterness, anger, and hatred or we butcher our babies in the womb for no reason at all.  When we disagree with these things, we turn a blind eye to them and go on as though they don’t happen.  But we all contribute at some point or another. 

When one side stands and declares “these things ought not to be,” the other side tries to ostracize, criticize, demoralize, belittle, denigrate and destroy them for calling them out.  Taking sides based on popularity rather than common sense only exacerbates the problem.  We are divided.  And Divided we fall!  We cannot stand unless we stand together.  Clearly, we are NOT doing that.  And so we will, as a nation, fall.  We all are watching it happen.  And we all are contributing – unless we start working together to deal with our problems as a nation, as states, as communities, and as citizens.  Let’s return to statesmanship, respect, and integrity in every aspect of our lives.  And let’s not wait until our neighbor does it.  Let us EACH choose NOW to be the time we do it ourselves.  I, Greg Yount, commit to being this kind of American.  Will you, too?

And that’s America, As I See It.  Your comments are welcome, appreciated, and invited.  

IDEOLOGY FUELS MORALITY (OR IMMORALITY)

With the oral arguments over the same-sex marriage case now concluded, it comes time for our nine justices to discuss, digest, and deliberate the case before issuing a ruling (and dissent) in late June. Never before has it been so imperative that Christians pray to the Lord to plead the case before the eternal Supreme Court to which even our American Court must answer for its rulings.

Having said that, I would like to comment on the moral state of our nation. It is moving downward so rapidly, I hesitate to use the term "spiral" any longer. The trajectory of moral decline in America is, as I have said before, like a snowball rolling down a mountain. Taking the inclined plane of the mountain side, and the force of sinful, immoral gravity pulling on the snowball, more and more mass accumulates along the way, making the whole ball have more momentum every day it moves downward. It is consuming the entire nation. Liberal voices everywhere praise its progress, while the communities of our nation are eroding from its destructive force.

And this is not new. These things have happened before in human history – though not over the issue of gay marriage. Moral decline comes in many forms. America's includes the declines that many other nations have faced in history – a secularism, diminished view of the sanctity of life, reticence to heed to ethical concerns in research and scientific applications, educational systems used to indoctrinate children out of any faith at all, politicians willing to do whatever the highest bidder wishes, and an anti-faith attitude. Places like France (its bloody Revolution during the turn of the 19^th century), Russia with the deposition of the Czar in 1917, Germany under Hitler, Italy under Mussolini, and China under Mao Tse Tung. That is more recent history. Throughout the centuries of humanity, these things have happened.
And while this is not new, I hope to cause a few of my readers to pause and consider the effects of their liberal, immoral, anti-Christian ideology. And to be honest, it is ideology that fuels this American Revolution now underway. When a person jettisons the idea that there is a God to whom he is accountable, he is "free" to do as he pleases with no regard to consequences – for there are none. But that person gambles with eternity. When a family of people hold to this same idea, the family becomes a force for the community to deal with. When a community becomes indoctrinated this way, society at large, and the state specifically must deal with it. When a state is filled with communities, filled with families, filled with people who hold this view, the nation must deal with it. When the nation is filled with states filled with communities filled with families filled with people – it is truly a problem of global consequences. We consider the threat of global terrorism and those nations who sponsor it to be a global issue. It is the ideology of those nations that fuels terrorist actions. We are truly fighting a global war of world-views. And people die in that war!

I intended to try to articulate the moral state of the United States today. Before our Supreme Court is the question, "what consequences will be encountered by our nation if we adopt this policy of a 'fundamental right to gay marriage'?" While that is not the stated question of the case, it is the question that some of our justices probed during oral arguments yesterday. The answer will be very revealing. But so is the spin put on the view of America by those who want most to influence its outcome – our press corps. There are those on both sides of the issue, and their biases in polling and reporting are evident. I offer you two cases in point:

1. USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/04/28/audio-transcript-supreme-court-gay-marriage-oral-arguments/26516157/ . This link takes you to a page that is supposed to be an audio transcript of the oral arguments. However, the links to hear it are pictures of Americans who are demonstrating in favor of making same-sex marriage legal – completely! There isn't one picture on the page of the opposing view!
2. Fox News: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/04/28/supreme-court-hears-historic-same-sex-marriage-arguments/ . This link takes you to a page that is supposed to be a fair and balanced report of the oral arguments. However, there is, at the top of the page, a video link regarding the spin of the 2016 candidates – and that video link begins with one of the same pictures as is found on the USA Today link above – of people demonstrating in favor of the legality of same-sex marriage. While the discussion below highlights the uncertain direction of the decision, it also highlights the conservative portion of the oral arguments. By that, I mean the arguments as to why the High Court should NOT rule in favor of making same-sex marriage a fundamental, constitutional right.

Biases are clear. These reports leave out the demonstrators from the right and highlight the abundance of demonstrators on the left. However, there were as many of the right demonstrators outside the Supreme Court building as the left.

But the moral change in our nation is also clear. In an effort to be unbiased, LifewayResearch.com reports (http://www.mbcpathway.com/2015/04/28/gay-marriage-gap-widens-for-evangelicals-culture/) that morality seems to be moved by contact with those who are already well into the new movement. The graph below should help you understand what I mean. When a person has a friend who is "gay", he is more likely to want it to be OK in society than those who have no such "gay" friends. To me, this begs the question: have we gotten to the point where happiness supersedes all other sensibilities?

There is another sign of moral change: a departure from faith. People in the pews do not accept the views of the people in the pulpit. Ed Stetzer is quoted (in the MBCPathway link above): "Church leaders have traditionally been seen as the champions of all things moral in society," Stetzer said. "As public perceptions of morality change, pastors find themselves in an increasingly unpopular position." Pastors were very influential at bringing in the 1^st Amendment before ratification of the Constitution could happen. Today, pastors are being marginalized rapidly. Their influence is waning quickly. When pastors become the only people of faith, the "fundamental transformation of America" promised with the election of President Obama will be complete. America will be secularized, and morality will be defined by the whim of the state. Life will have no meaning, and death will all around us all the time. We will be socialized – in ideology AND in practice. And I believe with that, America's place on the world stage will no longer be as the "good guy" – we will become the "bad guy" like the USSR, Italy, Germany, China, and all other nations with a dictator and a semblance of secular socialism have been. 

I hate to forecast these troubling times. However, I would be less than honest to think that unless our nation (and this year, our nation stands on the decision of the US Supreme Court) turns to a more moral ideology, we will continue to decline as we have been for the last 50+ years. These results and many I have not yet stated will come to pass. They must. They are the only outcome that any similar nation has experienced. If we do the same things, why would we expect a different result? That would be the definition of insanity.

And that's how it is, As I See It, for today. I only ask you to "choose you this day whom you will serve. As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord!" (Joshua 24:15) For in Him is my only hope!

POLITICALLY CORRECT = MORALLY INCORRECT

I've been thinking about the direction of our nation – from a spiritual standpoint – for a long time. That it has been in the opposite direction of the teachings of the Bible is an understatement. We have truly gotten to the point where we are celebrating what God denounces. 

For the bulk of Americans, that is just fine. They say that God is Dead anyway, that life is no sacred thing, and that everyone should be free to do as he/she chooses – as long as that does not mean stopping someone else from doing as they choose. But that is not exactly true, is it? They mean, "If we offend someone of the Christian faith, that's ok. We can force them to violate their consciences and support our liberal way of life; but they will NOT be allowed to even comment on anyone in any way if they disagree, much less refuse service and celebration to those who wish to do what God hates."  (And, of course, they are moving toward calling the Bible "Hate Speech" like Canada did a few years ago.)

Now, the late Adrian Rodgers said, "Nothing is politically right that is morally wrong." He would be correct. If it is morally wrong, it is NEVER right. We don't set our own morals, God does. Trying to set our own morals is like trying to sail a ship across the ocean using the light on the bow as one's guide. We'll wander aimlessly until we sink, but all the while insist we are "on course."

Therefore, I am highlighting the dangerous platform and direction of the Democratic Party. I am NOT saying that Democrats are not believers, but I AM saying that true Believers should examine what their party is putting forward. Political Correct is different from Politically Right.  The Politically Correct Democratic Party is Morally Incorrect. In truth, the Politically right thing to do is the Morally right thing to do.  The Politically Correct thing is the morally bankrupt thing.  And the Moral compass of a true Christian is Jesus Christ. Trying to justify as "right" that which is wrong is folly. It's a shame that there are Christians who practice this folly. They need to repent. Repentance here means doing the work worthy of repentance and read the platforms of their candidates this election cycle, and vote the issues.  The real question is this:  Does their party platform conform to their beliefs?


The reason the platform is so important, even more important than personal promises, is because the candidate will be nearly unable to break from it, even if he promises so.  The pressure to follow it will be tremendous.  


In 2012, while deciding the platform for the Democratic Party at the Democratic National Convention, the Chairman of the Committee at the time single-handedly insisted that a mention of God would be included by declaring the vote to be in favor of it when video revealed that it was decidedly against even acknowledging God. That vote was taken three times before the Chairman made that declaration, failing EVERY TIME! So, if the party won't acknowledge God, why does a Christian align him/herself with them?

That's not all. The moral issues of the day in 2012 were pretty much the same as they are today, nearly 3 years later: Abortion, Same-sex marriage and "Gay rights." God has spoken clearly on each of them – for those willing to listen. It takes a broken compass to believe that murdering babies in the womb is somehow acceptable in any situation. Likewise, the unnatural relationship of men with men and women with women is declared by God to be an abomination – in both the Old Testament AND the New Testament. Twisting the teachings of Scripture on this matter is a travesty – for if one can do that, then there is NO certain hope of Salvation if a Lawyer or unbelieving Theologian get hold of passages regarding how to be saved!

Why am I bringing all this up? Because our next election seems to be certainly one where it is Hillary Clinton vs. someone else. There is no one in the Democratic Party that can beat her at this point. If she is elected, the moral landscape will only grow more anti-Christian here in America. I am asking all Christians to check their own moral compass and vote the issues, not the party. Again, as Adrian Rodgers said, "Nothing is politically right that is morally wrong." Christians who vote for the morally wrong but "politically correct" democratic candidate will be voting for morally wrong policies for America. This election is not about WHO is running, but what they are running for. Issues Matter.

And that's the 2016 election As I See It today. You'll likely hear more as we grow closer to the time. Stay tuned.

I would love your comments.

For more information:
http://www.democrats.org/democratic-national-platform#protecting-rights - This is the 2012 Platform. You can download it or read it on the web.
http://2016.democratic-candidates.org - This is the review of all parties, with the expectations for each. I have given you the democratic link, but there are all the others there as well.

The Decline of the Church - Is It Our Fault?

I have been doing a ton of musing over the decline of the church in recent years.  I have witnessed her decline in America for more years than I have been in the ministry – over a decade!  I have researched it by researching those who have studied it.  I have read all the polls, examined the books, read the papers, interviewed people myself, and I have often been confounded as to the bottom line of it all.  Theories abound.  There are theories ranging from the secularization of the church, to the over-programming of the church leaders.  Efforts to correct the decline range from style changes, programming changes, and methodology changes to the  Southern Baptist Convention’s recent study of a name change.  Yet, with all of that, the decline continues.  Why?

I think I may have found the answer – or at least part of it.  It is US!  Believers.  Leaders and congregants together seem to be missing something.  A few have found it, but it seems to be far too few.

The thing we are missing is Worship.  I believe that the key to revival is the key to evangelism; and this is worship.  We are not properly defining worship and so we are not giving the people a chance to worship properly.  I’m not the first to notice this, but it is a paradigm shift for me and my congregation.  There are several definitions of worship, all of which might be boiled down to the popular phrase: give worth to, or the “worth-ship” of someone.  Denominations and groups have held “solemn assemblies,” revivals, prayer vigils, evangelism efforts, and the like.  All have had some effect.  However, when our daily lives are given wholly to the Lord, our weekly services given to helping the believer to communicate how much Jesus is worth to them, then the whole worship experience makes room for the power of the Lord to fall upon the assembly!  This is a spectacle to behold!  It is an experience to be lived!  The believer will become an evangelist.  The lost will be confronted with the reality of Jesus in a personal way as they watch the moving of the Lord among His worshipping people!  The spiritual hunger that resides in the heart of Americans will be filled!

We have made our worship services too “media-driven” and programmed for the Lord to be in charge.  Rather, we have made the clock in charge.  We must do this, that, and the next thing quickly, professionally, and timely so the broadcast covers it all before its time is expired.  We must let our congregation out on time so the police can manage traffic when services end.  We have gotten so programmed that if the Lord wanted a 3 hour worship service full of testimony, praise, repentance, and prayer, we couldn’t do it.  We sing, play, and preach on time.  You almost never hear a testimony time of praise in a large church, and often enough, not in a small country church.  Our stomachs and crock-pot dinners await the noon hour.  We must leave the place.  We are there to receive rather than to give to the Lord the worth due His name. 

The more we worship in spirit and in truth, the more we look forward to worship times.  The more we worship in spirit and in truth, the more we invite others to join us.  The more we worship in spirit and truth, the more the lost will see the reality of our faith.  The more we worship in spirit and truth, the more we expect to experience during our corporate gatherings in Jesus’ name.  The more we worship in spirit and truth, the more prayer, revival, and evangelism we will see happening as a natural by-product of truly relating to the Lord in a personal way in public!  The church will regain her footing in our Christ-hungry nation if we, who are called by the Lord’s name, will seek His face, repent, and turn from our wicked ways – for the Lord will heal our land and hear our prayers (2Chronicles 7:14)!

Holler for Jesus,

Greg Yount

Check out my blogs:

Just-a-Thot - Devotional thoughts - http://justa-thot.blogspot.com

As I See It - Biblical perspectives on current events - http://asiseeit10.blogspot.com

Enemies of our Constitution

In the Fox News article, Army defends chaplain intervention over letter criticizing contraceptive mandate, LTC Tony Shaffer is  quoted as saying, “Clearly, the Army's job is to be a military organization, not be in the middle of a social values conflict," he told Fox News. "This is something we've got to resolve quickly. Otherwise it will diminish our ability to fight as a military.” 

There you have it.  Even the military agrees that national defense is weakened by these issues.  Social Values conflict has affected our military very heavily in the past several years.  DADT has been repealed – at the dismay of many of our troops.  Chaplains are silenced at an increasing rate.  Civil  disobedience is the feared result.  So we keep the troops in the dark so they can focus on fighting our national enemies.  Don’t we get it – our government (including our military) is sworn to defend ourselves against ALL enemies, foreign AND domestic.  Supporting our Constitution is central to service.  These social policies and experiments attack our constitution.  These things ARE our enemies.  The debate itself is not – but the mandates coming from the White House, Supreme Court, and Capitol Hill are very much threatening our Constitution.  (See my previous post to learn about these mandates.)

Our nation is being destroyed for sure.  It is being destroyed from within.  It is destroying the Constitution – which guides and binds us as a people.  When that is completely eradicated, we are no longer the United States of America.  We are something else completely.  Let us support our military’s mission when they fight against domestic enemies of our Constitution.  Let us fire all public servants who reveal themselves to be enemies of our Constitution – whether they sit on a bench, behind a desk in a round (oval) office, or in a large meeting hall.  Civil disobedience is even required by our Declaration of Independence.  So is throwing off a government that ceases to do its job. 

If Rick Santorum’s recent victories in the polls are any indication, could it be that America is waking up?  Keep praying, dear friends.  Keep standing up, fellow Americans.  This could be our last stand.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/07/military-chaplains-told-not-to-object-to-contraceptive-mandate-as-senators-look/#ixzz1ln70fp00

Holler for Jesus,

Greg Yount

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Alarm raised about Saudi school in Virginia
McLEAN, Va. - A private Islamic school supported by the Saudi government should be shut down until the U.S. government can ensure the school is not fostering radical Islam, a federal panel recommends.

Do you suppose that our nation is opening its doors to those who want to take us over? Could this be part of the Biblical One-World-Government mentioned concerning the Great Tribulation? Maybe we should listen to the federal panel and not the liberal politicians.

The Decline of a Denomination

Albania OKs United Methodist Church

TIRANA, Albania - Albania, a former communist nation which is now majority Muslim, has officially recognized the United Methodist Church.

Doesn't this just highlight the direction of many mainline denominations? There are several steps in the move to unbiblical Christianity:

1. Reject the clear teaching of the Bible. The time-honored doctrines are disavowed; the Bible ceases to be the central text of the messages; Biblical authority denied in place of experience.
2. Ordain women. I'm not trying to be cheauvenistic, but all falling denominations have this common denominator that comes directly from first doing #1 above.
3. Embrace homosexuality. This means believing that active homosexuality is somehow compatible with Christianity. This step is another common denominator, and generally follows #2. I have not got a single example of this one preceding #2.
4. Ordain practicing homosexuals. This is the final stage of the fall. When a denomination has gotten to this point, churches will split from the denomination because it is so very unbiblical.