Urban Reformation » Politics http://urbanreformation.com Reaching the Lost in the Urban Core Sat, 12 Mar 2011 06:14:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Alan Keyes: Stop Obama or U.S. will cease to exist http://urbanreformation.com/alan-keyes-stop-obama-or-us-will-cease-to-exist.htm http://urbanreformation.com/alan-keyes-stop-obama-or-us-will-cease-to-exist.htm#comments Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:35:56 +0000 Jason http://urbanreformation.com/?p=929 I only on rare occasions discuss politics, however the current political climate I find myself more and more amazed on a daily basis. It is as if we have lost our minds in America, I rarely watch TV other than a Youtube clip I receive or something I can find online later when someone suggest I see it…. This was one of those youtube links someone sent me. Logical thinking and reason have flown out the door and we think we will fix our problems by going radically to the left, to radical communism. We are on that path. Let us pray for revival.

After you see the video you can read through the worldnetdaily link

I have no conclusions only a sincere desire to seek God before persecution comes. I pray that we begin to pray now. Let this be a warning to the true church to quit playing church in America and to begin to pray.

James 5:16 Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

May we begin these things sooner than later!

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These remnant thoughts, or ideals were a heritage or legacy of our upbringing, and passed down through generations.  We have a culture of working class citizens who live for self entirely sacrificing their children for their prosperity, and then a large influx of immigrant population which is greatly influencing our faith based principles in the United States.  All of these factors and the harsh economic times caused by “the love of money / greed”, brings us to the reality of where our country is headed toward, as it drifts further and further away from the God it once acknowleged.

As I came in this morning to work, and the cool air hit me as I walked toward the building I had a heavy heart for our country.  This years election is devastating to say the least, when there is a choice between the most liberal socialist Dem candidate to walk the face of the U.S. and the most liberal Rep candidate that we’ve ever seen in the GOP, it leaves you with little earthly hope.

I am always encouraged however when I begin to have these thoughts, to lift my eyes and realize that this is not our home, and as our pastor put it last Wednesday, there will be no politician that will be the salvation of anyone.  Only Jesus Christ is the true living hope.

“….. Because I live, you also will live.” – John 14:9

We face the temporal realities of where we live, the evidence or fruit of our society leaving God, man constantly trying to be his own God and under our own authority, and where does this take us every time?

“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”  – Romans 6:23

We do not recognize that our own self-indulgence is killing us, harming our families, & children, as we earn our wages of death.  Blindness covers our eyes, and the media medicated blanket that has numbed and dulled our minds,  has captivated our hearts in anticipation for the next  morsel of T.V. gossip/news.    The world has made this place so inviting, appeasing every comfort and call of our flesh, and it keys upon the sin of man.  We fall prey to all of these enticements in our own lamb like stupidity, drifting drifting, drifting away…. often the church attached to the world verses being a change of society or a symbol of the Anchor we have in Jesus Christ, and the true faithfulness of God.

Most churches with believers have left the inner-city following the society, because it was easier, or more comfortable, there was less crime or social issues to actually deal with, however a few people recently @ FCC have been swimming against the tidal wave of society with one singular assurance, the the Gospel of Jesus Christ we know is the only eternal hope of men & women, and it it is in this one truth and hope that these families transplanted their families into the hood….

This picture was taken on Independence Avenue the same day a family moved down into the NE hood in viewing distance of their home.  This is one family of several families who’ve sold their home in the suburbs and moved down to be a part of ministering to the poor and needy in the city, not sewing financially into the the failing world market but sewing eternally into the lives of those captivated by sin and the world.

As believers we have the hope of Christ… so what are we doing with this hope? and how often have we let it out from underneath the bowl to let someone know where the true anchor is when everything else fails?  The only thing that will change a society is a change of the heart, and the only one who can change the hearts of men and remove a stony heart and replace it with a heart of flesh is God . . . . Ezekiel 36

I was driving to work through the city today, heavy with the nation yet with amazing hope for the things God’s doing in the city!  God is a good God…..

]]> http://urbanreformation.com/the-american-drift.htm/feed 0 2008 Faith & Politics Forum Information & Results http://urbanreformation.com/2008-faith-value-forum-information-results.htm http://urbanreformation.com/2008-faith-value-forum-information-results.htm#comments Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:36:07 +0000 Jason http://urbanreformation.com/2008-faith-value-forum-information-results.htm

1.Mike Huckabee received 32.73%
2.Ron Paul received 27.27%
3. Mitt Romney received 25.45%

5.45% Undecided
3.64% Obama
1.82% McCain
1.82% Guiliani

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll.

Dr. Armstrong’s Power Point Presentations available for Download.

( Please Feel Free to send me documentation explaining your candidates positions) Vote Nov. 5th.

Alternative Huckabee Paul Compare

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Iron sharpening iron is one thing when it comes to discussing society and political issues in the context of a Christian world view, but demolition derby is another. So in an attempt to refrain from our flesh banging and clanging up against one another, let us refocus on Christ, and Christianity?As well as we might want to spend time in reflection on Tim’s sermon this week. This is an article that demonstrates that the Gospel is truly the only way, to live in Freedom. If you have time to read it, it demonstrates the great experiment of the USA can only work when it’s built on a God centered foundation. Unfortunately this foundation is crumbling because we like so many other blessed nations, have forgotten who granted us these freedoms, and this prosperity, and we are proving the bible true once again, and we are in trouble. That said I believe in the article some things are understated and some are over but in general it gives an over all understanding of History and puts into perspective that the only true changer/transformer of mankind is God.

Moral foundations of society: a contrast between West & East.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-18469174.html

If you have time to read and then comment.

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Have a listen to “The Good Confession” this is part one, there looks as if there will be a part two.

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,308997,00.html

WayneGrudem – Supports the Mormon Mitt Romney
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WayneGrudem/2007/10/18/why_evangelicals_should_support_mitt_romney

  • Bob Jones III also endorses Mitt Romney
  • Dr. John Willke, founder of the National Right to Life Committee endorses Romney as well.
  • Conservative activist Paul Weyrich endorses Romney.

The desiring God group of John Piper support Mike Huckabee
Along with several other evangelicals.
http://www.desiringgod.org/Blog/885_the_case_for_huckabee/

And there is the notorious web guru, Ron Paul?
http://www.patriotbeliever.com/dnn/Home/tabid/37/EntryID/41/Default.aspx

With all of these Shepherds going in different directions, declaring the name of Christ who will lead their sheep when it comes to voting for the next president?

By what standard? To what end? What’s the measuring stick? And what are the key issues?

I confess with the media at any given moment portraying each candidate in a different light depending on the audience, with the multitudes of smears, whether there is truth in them or not, it makes it even more difficult to examine ones choices, in measuring what they say with how they’ve carried out their life. The obvious one at the top, should not be supported, but I’m more than an little surprised at the rest.

I would love to hear thoughts, and the “why” behind them?

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