Church
Praying for The Midterms
I never thought much about midterm elections. They were the “B” game after the “A” game of presidential years. Choosing a president was important–directing the entire ship of state for four years. But the measly midterms? I always voted in them, but many of my friends didn’t bother.
For decades, the midterm elections made little impact because America operated out of a Judeo-Christian worldview. The Democrats championed the working classes and the poor, and Republicans supported business and the military. But both parties believed in God and generally anchored their platforms in the Ten Commandments and Golden Rule.
No longer.
Two worldviews are vying for cultural supremacy in the USA and Western World: biblical freedom and totalitarianism. The 2026 midterms will swing the pendulum one way or the other.
We need to increase our prayers for the midterm elections.
Easter Awakening
Today in my morning devotions (YWAM Prayer Diary) I started what theologians call the “History Books.” There are 12 that begin with Joshua and end with Esther.
Eugene Peterson (The Message) says in his preface that, “history is attentive to the conditions in which people encounter and experience God ” and that history is important because “the only reason for paying attention to people and events is to stay alert to God.”
This past Easter weekend I hope we were all attentive to people and events–which were amazing.
Let’s call it an Easter awakening.
An Open Letter to Pastors About Charlie Kirk’s Death
Three weeks after the Charlie Kirk assassination, a spirit of violence seems rampant in America. Yes, hatred and violence have been with us since the murder of Abel in the Garden of Eden.
But throughout U.S. history, the flourishing of violence was generally kept in the closet by the predominant Judeo-Christian worldview. Ninety percent of us believed that murdering innocent people was wrong.
Not anymore. And the Church must shine God’s light into the darkness.