Reading material for the road trip to Babylon

Realizing that I cannot make it rain. I have thought of, and meditated on this passage a lot lately and on one night in particular I needed it so bad. Psalm 4:8 I will both lie down in peace and sleep: for you alone, o lord make me dwell in safety. Neither gold, riches, armies etc can make us dwell in safety. We might think its safe, but unless the Lord....

From 1994,the journal of Christian reconstruction. Vol XIII "Symposium on the decline and fall of the west and the return of Christendom" This issue has been meaty, lots of stuff from Otto Scott and "doony." They were laying out, why we are seeing, what is happening around us in the culture, banking and government today. Its kinda weird in a way. Like reading one of the prophets on the way to Babylon.

Why read this old stuff? Because I can see that the biblical solutions to our issues are the exact same today as they were then.It is hard to find people today, saying it as clearly as they did then.

I am talking about believers. Praise God for Vision Forum, Swanson, Sprouls, Wilson, Botkin etc. The first three talks on the DVD series from the 2007 “From script to cinema” work it well. Thats good material to help see straight when we read, listen or watch something. AAA+++But what a wilderness it was in 1994. Just nibble on this paragraph it is so true.

pg143...The grim fact is that today the political theories of the humanists are public confessions set forth in political platforms, whereas Christians have no such public confession. The idea of a confessional Christian now simply means one who subscribes to certain creeds, not one who applies them to every sphere of life. Every society, however is an expression of faith, whether good or bad. ".....

It was on parade tonight on national television. The Liberals will loudly today confess their faith and do not hesitate to impose their morality on everyone else through new blasphemy laws etc. They wouldn’t like it being called a religious faith but it sure is. We Christians have been trained to see it as just politics.

So we don’t call them on it.Who has a stronger faith? Too many Christians see ours, as pertaining to the personal areas of life. Their faith leads them to offer a solution to anything, nothing is outside of the reach of their humanistic belief. There's is a big enough faith to say "give your kids to us, we know what’s most important to learn about life" We have the book of life but too many think big chunks are now "non-operative" so we don’t see an alternative to what the pagans offer, other than, what used to be. Not realizing that what used to be, conservative values etc, will take you to where we are today, because it had already been separated from the faith that birthed it, a long time ago. We need to embrace the whole book again, like the Reformers did, it’s the only way.

We dont see it. Is it because they never play dulcimer cymbals, harps and horns and tell us to bow down at a certain time? So long as we only have to breathe it in and out twenty four/seven, like it is so much Muzak constantly around us in the background. This has been a case of the frog in the pot. But I think its because they are in the pot with us and let us add a little more water now and then....

Reformation. Because if the Salt looses its savor....

Yes I am a broken record. I keep working it, saying it, writing it in hopes that with Gods mercy and grace, our generation may really use the sword given us, as our Lord intended. I confess my ineptness first, my scribbling is for me. Rats! I cut myself again....