Last week we briefly discussed how many of the trends in the meltdown that have been occurring in America are following a very definite pattern of God’s judgment on a nation. However, we must keep in mind that there are several different types of God’s judgment in Scripture, and only one is condemnation or destruction. God’s judgment is His discipline, and He disciplines those He loves. The worst thing that could happen to us is to go astray and for Him not judge us. We need to consider that our present troubles are the result of answered prayer for the...

Last week I tried to make the case for why we need to seek the Holy Spirit first, especially when we seek to present our message. It is better not to have anything else but the Holy Spirit than to have everything else without Him. Even so, we do not have to make that choice. The greatest advances of the gospel have come when the state-of-the-art technological advances of the times were used for it.

    One good example of this is the printing press. The first thing printed on it was the Gutenberg Bible, which began to shatter...

I have strong evidence that I am a political, social, and economic moderate. The evidence is that I can look to the left and to the right and see people who are equally as far away from me in both directions, so I must be in the middle. That the Department of Homeland Security named me, and basically all other evangelical Christians, as well as all veterans, as potential “right wing extremists,” shows how far to the left they really are. Because so many who are in the center look so far to the right, they consider moderates as extremists....

At this writing, one of the questions being asked about the economy is the following: Has it bottomed out or will it continue to slide even further? When the government throws several trillion dollars into the economy, you have to expect a short-term spike or at least a checking of the fall. However, if it does not accomplish this, then it is wasted as far as bringing true economic recovery. The most basic problems in the U.S. economy have still not been addressed. The basic vehicle of the economy remains stalled and will likely fall even further into a deepening...

We are continuing to address the following three questions in relation to world events:  

1) What is happening?

2) What is not happening?

3) What can we do about it?

    From the perspective of our calling to be “the light of the world” (see Matthew 5:14), we should have answers from the Lord concerning the world’s ultimate problems. We are taking a bit of time to address the world economic issues because these will be some of the ultimate issues at the end of the age, which is why the “mark of the beast” is an...