I give you this charge: Preach
the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and
encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. For the time will come
when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own
desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what
their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth
and turn aside to myths. But you, keep your head in
all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all
the duties of your ministry.
2 Timothy 3:-5. (NIV)
Today
our courts at law are not allowed to display the Ten Commandments. Instead of freedom of religion, we have
freedom from religion. The
very tenants that gave us our laws and brought our forebears to our shores now
are hidden; not displayed, not taught, and thereby not followed by most of our
citizens.
Prayer
has been forbidden in all public places and the great old hymns of the Republic
can not be sung or performed if they honor Christ, or Christians, as it might
offend someone.
Marriage
is being defined as not only a relationship between a man and a woman, but also
between two men or two women.
Children now openly have two mommies or two daddies. That is, if there
are two grownups in a home any more.
Most children now in our country are not being raised by two traditional
parents. The home has dis-
integrated. No
wonder children are bewildered, confused, untaught, and undisciplined! Imagine how lost inside they must feel.
Most people say they believe in the Bible, but they cannot answer the simplest
questions about it, because they never read it.
More
children have been killed by abortion in our country in the last forty years
than the casualties of all our wars to date. More than 55,000,000 babies have been aborted since the Roe
vs. Wade court decision. It has
skewed our work force and changed our economy as well as our spiritual well
being.
But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, 1 Peter 3:15. (NIV)
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