Leadership
Why Is Communism Raising Its Ugly Head in America–Again?
November 11 is a trifecta date for celebrating courage. It’s Veterans Day in the USA, (honoring vets), Armistice Day (end of WWI), and St. Martin’s Day. Martin of Tours was a 4th century bishop who famously became a “soldier for Christ.”
Thirty-six years ago today I was attending a YWAM leaders conference in Niagara Falls, New York, where we watched the fall of the Iron Curtain. Communism failed in Russia and part of the world was liberated–some nations for the first time.
Past generations understood the horrors of communism–100 million people cruelly killed in the 20th century. Today’s younger generations are largely ignorant.
Communism is raising its ugly head–again–and we must courageously defeat it.
Is Your Pastor MIA in the Cultural War?
I am deeply concerned we are losing Western Civilization (and its faith-based freedoms) because of fearful pastors who are not preaching the whole Gospel.
I shared those qualms recently at a pastors gathering. There was mostly silence.
Then I ran across two articles that confirmed my fears.
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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.