Atheists like Richard Dawkins or Sam Harris see the increasing secularization of our culture as a good thing. But in reality, ostracizing faith and marginalizing churches will ultimately only harm all of us. Literally.
Grateful people, which I’m evermore striving to be, focus more on what they have, not what they lack. And they express that gratitude to God and others.
Meanwhile, an incalculable number of positive things came directly because of the love of Jesus as the Gospel spread(s) around the world.
Here is a lesson for us all. No one in this world, no matter how lowly, no matter what side of the tracks they come from, would find Jesus unrelatable. He is accessible to all.
Why do some climate alarmists essentially wish us all dead? Because they think people are bad for the earth. They don’t believe in God.
Perhaps the greatest fear of secularists, like those bureaucrats in King County trying to turn Christmas into a black-and-white “winter wasteland,” is the possibility that Jesus is real and that His birth was just the beginning of His Kingdom.
Despite some of the disappointments in last week’s election, I’m grateful to be an American. This month we celebrate Thanksgiving, when we remember the Pilgrims who came to this new land to celebrate religious freedom — something denied to them in their native England.
The Puritans should be remembered, not maligned, for their indispensable contribution to America as a “city upon a hill.”
The only poll that counts is the one you cast at election time. Don’t sit this one out. As the late Bishop Harry Jackson once declared, “Too many people died for the right of all people in the nation to vote.”
There is much at stake for Christians and people of good will on the ballot this time around. It is a critical midterm election.
