When President Trump went to Israel to celebrate moving the US embassy to Jerusalem, he took a couple of preachers with him.
He took one who says Mormons, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Catholics (and bunches of Methodists and Presbyterians) are all going to hell.
That’s Robert Jeffress of Dallas.
He took another one who says Hitler was doing God’s will when he put Jews in the gas ovens.
That was John Hagee.
Jeffress did the opening prayer. Hagee did the closing.
“Now why,” folks ask, “did he take those two preachers?”
Most people don’t know the answer.
He moved the embassy mainly to please them.
The president’s base of fundamentalist followers applied the pressure for the move.
They want to “speed up” the Second Coming.

Moving the embassy, they believe, will do that.
They believe when Jesus comes back, he will take up residence on earth and rule the world as king from Jerusalem.
I’m not sure why the Lord would want to do that. He is King of the universe—the power that drives all existence.
Why would he want to be an earthly king—in Jerusalem, or Chicago, or even Azle?
Bad theology here.
And something else bad.
Someone has broken down the wall between Church and state and religious folk are calling the shots in Washington.
And their religion ain’t nothing like my religion.
“Put prayer back in schools,” people holler.
Whose prayers? Mine? Or John Hagee’s?
We don’t pray to the same kind of God.
The president wants a wall. I hope he will rebuild the one between Church and state.

….I am not talking abortion here. And I am not talking politics. I am talking relationship between body and soul.

….Legislators are introducing “personhood” bills in some states. These declare that an egg and sperm become a person at the moment of conception. There is a problem with this: It’s wrong.

….These legislators are actually (although inadvertently) agreeing with materialists and atheists who say that all we are is physical material. All that we are, they say, comes from that union of sperm and egg. Our “personhood,” our “self,” all grows out of that physical, material union. Continue reading →

The song says the world doesn’t need another mountain. It has enough.
I wonder if the world also has enough blogs?
It probably does. But here’s another one.
And the world has never gotten a blog from me before. This is the first one.

In future blogs, I will be sharing stories with you about how God works in the world. And I will be telling you that GOD DOES WORK! Continue reading →