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Listen Very Closely!

This week begins the final leg to the White House as the Party conventions begin.   I usually do not write about politics, yet this cycle I speak as a watchman.   A watchman was one who stood guard on the tower of the wall surrounding the city.   If the guard saw the enemy coming over the horizon he would call the alarm to warn everyone to grab their arms.   As servants of the Lord we have a responsibility to cry out to a culture, even when we do not want to.   It goes against the norm.   It goes against complacency.   You are ridiculed.   You are called a fanatical or religious wacko.   You are called out of touch.    I do not profess to have some power to see the future.   I do not proclaim to be a psychic!    So take this or leave it!   I write this as one who is taking a step back, looking at culture and asking the Lord, what is going on?  Why has our culture and way of life seem upside down.  I b...

Call to Me!

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win                                                        -G.K. Chesterton Jeremiah was locked up in prison. He had been speaking on God's behalf, yet the king did not like what he heard, and threw him in prison. While in prison Jeremiah prays and brings before God his need. Yet in Chapter 33 we see the following words...'Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.' In the midst of Jeremiah's woes, God said 'Call me and I will answer you!' God does not stop there though.....'I will tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know!'  Let that sink in!  So many times we try to do t...