We are addressing the following questions: 

1) What is happening?
2) What is not happening?
3) What can we do about it?

This week we will address question 2: What is not happening?

    The first thing that is not happening is an economic recovery. As Christians, we need to understand the economy for a number of reasons. First, it has been estimated that from 30 – 50 percent of the biblical teachings on righteousness have to do with stewardship. In the Lord’s own teachings, such as in the Parable of the Talents, it is...

Our goal is to discern:

1) What is happening?

2) What is not happening?

3) What we can do about it?

    We might paraphrase Question 3: What can we do to be the salt and light we are called to be in our times? In order to be the light we are called to be, we must have it or have understanding of it. We are exhorted in Proverbs 4:7, “Acquire wisdom, and with all your acquiring, get understanding.” Every Christian should be compelled to understand their times. The Lord even rebuked those as hypocrites...

Newsweek Magazine recently boasted that Christianity in America was dead. This slap in the face to the church in America only served to wake her up. Many took the comment and held it up before the Lord as Hezekiah did with the boasts of the Assyrian general against the Lord. It is most encouraging to see so many Christians responding to the continuous assault from those who hate or reject God. Many Christians are arising to proclaim that this is not a post-Christian America, but a pre-Christian America, because we are going to have a revival in America that eclipses...

Nearly twenty years ago, Bob Weiner, John Elliott, and I were doing a radio show together when the Spirit came upon us and we were shown 500,000 small home groups being raised up all over America. These were places where new believers would come for salvation, healing, deliverance, and basic instruction in sound doctrine. These would also be used to raise up some of the great future leaders of the church, who not only discovered their purpose in these small groups, but were trained and equipped to walk in their purpose. In this way, these home groups would result in...

To briefly review the purpose of this study, we are addressing how to discern the times from the perspective of answering three ultimate questions:

1)  What is happening?

2)  What is not happening?

3)  What can we do about it?

    Using these three questions in a crisis can help us stay on course to rightly confront and overcome it. In answering the third question—what can we do about the situation—we are also considering the question many Christians are asking—what should they be doing—both as Christians and as citizens. Sometimes what we can do is different from what we...