Eric's List of "Need To Know" Items Concerning the Important Issues of Today
New from Answers in Genesis president Ken Ham:
Already Gone, a book by Ken Ham and Britt Beemer, with Todd Hillard
Statistics reveal a huge disconnect taking place between our children and their church experience... Nationwide polls and denominational reports are showing that the next generation is calling it quits on the traditional church. And its not just happening on the nominal fringe; it’s happening at the core of the faith.
"Popular government lasts only until the electorate discovers that their votes are the key to the treasury."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Government is not the solution to the problem. Government is the problem."
Ronald Reagan, 1981
"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
P.J. O'Rourke
"The more laws, the less justice."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The Wall Street Journal Online has posted a very accurate opinion article shaming the mainstream media and its adherents on the left for much disgraceful treatment of President Bush. You can read it here: The Treatment of Bush Has Been a Disgrace. One verse from the Bible comes to mind:
"Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you." (Matthew 5:11-12 ESV)
Not that this indicates that Bush or anyone else is considered a "prophet"; just that as the men of God who were prophets were persecuted in the Old Testament times, so will the followers of Christ be persecuted by those in the world. This is because the world hates Christ, and it hates the things of God. So we should be expecting that the world hates the followers of Christ. To me, this would explain the undeniable, unjust, and over-the-top hatred that the mainstream media and many of its followers have had for President Bush during these last eight years.
Please pray for President Bush as he prepares to step down from his position as president. Pray also for his staffers, that they would not be unjustly punished as "war criminals" and so forth, just because those in the world (here and abroad) would hate George Bush. Pray for those taking power in January, especially President-Elect Barack Obama, that they might govern justly and seek the blessing and guidance of God Almighty, and that as needed, their hearts may be changed and reformed, so that they may seek the true, one-and-only God, Creator of heaven and earth, through His Son Jesus Christ, instead of chasing after false idols of their own making. May God have mercy on this country.