Voted!

What an exciting Election!

Let's pray for our new president

Barack Obama!

Check out Al Mohler's website

Below is excerpt of what he had

to say about our President!

http://www.albertmohler.com/blog.php

We must pray that God would change President-Elect Obama's

 mind and heart on issues of our crucial concern. May God 

change his heart and open his eyes to see abortion as 

the murder of the innocent unborn, to see marriage

 as an institution to be defended, and to see a host of
issues in a new light. We must pray this from this day

 until the day he leaves office. God is sovereign, after all.

Without doubt, we face hard days ahead. Realistically, 

we must expect to be frustrated and disappointed. 

We may find ourselves to be defeated and discouraged. 

We must keep ever in mind that it is God who raises 

up nations and pulls them down, and who judges both

 nations and rulers. We must not act or think as 

unbelievers, or as those who do not trust God.

America has chosen a President. President-Elect Barack 

Obama is that choice, and he faces a breathtaking array 

of challenges and choices in days ahead. This is the time

 for Christians to begin praying in earnest for our new 

President. There is no time to lose.

My 12 year old grandson Brian Jr really got into the

election. He volunteered, and called many households

to encourage them to Vote!

Do we have a future Politician?

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I want to thank my son in-law Josh for putting Politics in Perspective!

Politics in Perspective

And the LORD said to Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people 

in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you,

but they have rejected me from being king over them. 

only you shall solemnly warn them and show them the ways

of the king who shall reign over them.” 1 Sam. 8:7, 9 (ESV)

This past election--and every presidential election--is

a good reminder to Christians that their hope is not, nor 

has it ever been, in human government. Here 1 Samuel 8

goes on to describe what the kings of Israel will be 

characterized by, including taking from the sons of Israel

to set up an army for himself, taxing excessively, and 

redistributing Israel's wealth for his own ends. In spite 

of this the people still respond in verse 19, "No, but there

shall be a king over us [...]" If ancient Israel's God-sanctioned 

human government wasn't the "answer," surely 21st Century

American government is not either.

Instead, the New Testament is overwhelmingly concerned

with the "Kingdom." Of the 158 times the word is used in 

the New Testament, only a few don't refer to the "Kingdom 

of Heaven" or the "Kingdom of God," which of course has 

nothing to do with human government, but what God will

establish in spite of failed human government. As Jesus

says in John 18:36, "My kingdom is not of this world." And 

Peter's admonition to "honor the king" (1 Pet 2:17) essentially

amounts to a command to pay your taxes, not to look to 

human government as any sort of answer for society's 

problems. Often government itself is the problem, as it often

was for ancient Israel.

Fear on the part of Christians over what the next few years

will bring is misplaced, and so is excessive happiness about

the results of the election. Even the best of human

governments (American) has proven its inability to bring 

about a positive moral climate, and we can be sure this 

trend will continue. Instead our hope lies completely 

outside the realm of human government. It lies in what

God will do when he abolishes government and brings about

his own kingdom--the kingdom John refers to when he says 

in Revelation 11:15: “The kingdom of the world has become

 the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign

forever and ever," reminding us that Jesus Christ is the only

one to whom we pay homage, and his the only kingdom in 

which we place our hope.

-Josh