pray for the nation

January 31, 2025

Targeted Prayer: tips from a 93 year-old warrior saint

You're ready to see the citadels crumble around unbelieving loved ones, and the furnace fired up in the lukewarm. You're longing to see the supernatural override natural law "far as the curse is found." You hunger and thirst for righteousness and are no longer content to live in the deficit. This is the year the tide turns.
July 9, 2024

Have we neglected God’s heart of prayer for our homeland?

Why does Paul attach so much importance to praying for those holding positions of authority in the land? Should we really even bother with those corrupt kings, prime ministers, presidents, judges, magistrates, and legislators? The answer comes in the verse that follows. "This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth." (1 Timothy 2:3-4, ESV).
August 11, 2015

Christ’s Government: Jesus, the Mediator of a Better Covenant

In my last post, we examined the nature of covenant. The Hebrew word used for covenant is beriyth and means “alliance,” “constitution,” or “pledge.” It goes deeper, however, than our […]
June 27, 2015

“They were equipped…but turned back in the day of battle”

It was a tough week for all Americans who love liberty and love God’s laws on which the nation’s Constitution was founded. The Supreme Court of the United States handed […]
July 17, 2012

Bonhoeffer – Hitler and these United States

Reading Eric Metaxas’ blockbuster biography on Dietrich Bonhoeffer has stirred my spirit.  It reads like a thriller more than a work of nonfiction, and I find myself agonizing over the […]