Prophesies of Godlessness: Predictions of America’s Imminent Secularization from the Puritans to the Present Day

This a book recommended by Scot McKnight at Jesus Creed. It looks like it would be worth the read. I am now almost 60, and I have lived my whole life with the “sky is falling” scenario played out a million times. Sounds too biblical not to say, doesn’t it? And yet, it is a great tool to get somebody else on your side if the reasoning itself doesn’t work. And that is how it has been used.

I have heard that John Haggee has a new book, a book that “God enabled him to write in three weeks.” Responds to the recent financial collapse. Three weeks? Good grief! Reminds me of the books by the “end of time at any time” pastors during the oil crisis of 1973. Dallas Seminary saw all their eshatolog coming true right before their eyes. The stuff sells. And then no one remembers. It doesn’t occur to many that this is a “doomsayers’ mill” churning out end-time-scenarios to keep the faithful, well, churned.

Though I am amillenial I believe there should be plenty of stirring up of hearts through focus upon the second coming of our Lord. But the awful, awful catastrophes of other times (the fall of Rome, the class of the Turks and Western Europe, the world wars, etc.) that did not end in the second coming should make us take pause and think about a better way to grope with catastrophe.

Many evangelicals see the election of Obama in such terms. My response? The fight goes on. In the meantime, let’s stay busy with getting word out on Jesus to the peoples of the world.

Is that really in the Constitution?

Jay Severn of 96.9 FM Boston mentioned the other day that a survery was taken of adults who were given a portion of the Constitution (not telling them that it was in the Constitution) and asked if they agreed or disagreed. The majority disagreed with it. The question Jay posed is comes to our minds naturally: if a President’s job is to uphold and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign or domestic, and a majority of Americans don’t even recognize a Constitutionally valid assertion, how can they elect a President whose job is to defend it? Does it really matter that the one running for President upholds the Constitution? Not in the mind of a majority of Americans.

What Teachers Make

A video posted at YS Marko. It gets a little blue at the end, but we are all big boys – we can get the point and not make too big of a deal about the way it is said. After all, if you have listened to Driscoll enough, you’re ready for this.