Last week we discussed one of the primary ways that the church confronts darkness, which is through illumination or education. This is a basic way that we are called to be “the light of the world.” Now that the church in America thinks there is little chance to have righteous laws passed on some basic moral issues, we are now confronted with a state that most of the church worldwide has always existed in—we must use the power of prophetic proclamation of the truth.

The prophetic proclamation of the truth is the special domain of the church and should...

How is the church going to be strengthened by the Obama Administration? There are a number of ways, and possibly the main way is already beginning to happen—the church will not continue to rely on the government to do our job, so we should wake up and do what we are in fact called to do.

For example, laws have their place, and righteous laws reflect the devotion of a nation to righteousness and justice, which is doing what is right in the sight of the Lord. That is a good thing, and we should seek it, as well...

Yesterday I was talking to Dr. R.T. Kendall, the author of a number of modern classics such as: God Meant It for Good, Believing God, and Total Forgiveness.
Dr. Kendall had a dream a few nights ago in which President-elect Obama wanted to get close to him because of his knowledge of the Scriptures. When he shared this with Ricky Skaggs, he was surprised that Ricky had received a similar dream the same night, indicating that Obama wanted to get close to him because he had the Bible in his computer. So what does this mean? I think it...

We are going to spend the next few weeks examining the lessons from the recent elections because we probably will not get a greater illumination of the times than this for a long time.

The elections were an indication about the present state of the nation. We must understand how, but first we need to understand that an election does not necessarily mean that God’s choice won. As we are told in Psalm 115:16, “The heavens are the heavens of the Lord, but the earth He has given to the sons of men.” This is why the Lord will...

This is the day that the Lord has made—so don’t mess it up!

Really, we can mess it up or enjoy it. We can dwell in the presence of the Lord today if we choose. All we have to do is comply with the simple, easy, exhortation of Psalm 100: