Obama, Notre Dame and Abortion

Here is a link to a very fine lecture given by Professor Francis Beckwirth at the 2009 Notre Dame Collegiate Right to Life Conference on March 28. It deals with Notre Dame's planning to award the President an honorary degree 'for cause.' The professor takes the university to task for the invitation to speak at commencement, given the Roman Catholic Church's clear teaching on pro-life issues. Read it here.

Sin & Greed

The exceeding sinfulness of the human heart never ceases to amaze me. I know the depths of my own sinfulness and so in many respects nothing surprises me. Yet the case of Illinois Governor Blagojevich is breathtaking in its scope. It does lead me to question the integrity of and connection with the President-elect. Couple that with the death at WalMart on Black Friday caused by a greed stampede. But then, our sin sent the Savior to the cross; our sin of greed.

Borrowed Thoughts

I came across the Thirsty Theologian website through Tim Challies site. Thirsty makes the following comments: "The fact that vast numbers of people, by their own admission, voted for Obama because of his color, and that others who could not vote for him wish that they could have because of his color tells me that color holds a place of significance that it should not. When the day comes when people no longer speak of “race” at all, especially as a factor in making choices between individuals, then I will recognize that something important has happened. I do not think of Obama as a black man. I think of him as an extraordinarily evil man. There’s nothing exciting about that. [snip] I will be praying for this new President, and I hope you will, too; but I will not simply be praying some vague prayer that God will bless him. I will be praying ... for his salvation. I will be praying that God will remove his heart of stone and give him a heart of flesh and grant him repentance. Until that happens, I will be praying for his failure. I will be praying that God will restrain him and prevent him from accomplishing any part of his evil agenda." Something to consider.

Post Election Comments, part 2

Dr. Ligon Duncan, President of the Association of Confessing Evangelicals, has a great piece over at the Reformation 21 blog.You will find some good reading on the blog.

Comments on the Election

I, like many, was sincerely disappointed by the outcome of the election. I continue to believe the substantive issues escaped many voters and we have created an underclass of entitlement people who vote with their feelings and not with good sense. That being said, we have a President-elect and we need to heed to words of Dr. Albert Mohler:

"Evangelical Christians face another challenge with the election of Sen. Obama, and a failure to rise to this challenge will bring disrepute upon the Gospel, as well as upon ourselves. There must be absolutely no denial of the legitimacy of President-Elect Obama's election and no failure to accord this new President the respect and honor due to anyone elected to that high office. Failure in this responsibility is disobedience to a clear biblical command.

Beyond this, we must commit ourselves to pray for this new President, for his wife and family, for his administration, and for the nation. We are commanded to pray for rulers, and this new President faces challenges that are not only daunting but potentially disastrous. May God grant him wisdom. He and his family will face new challenges and the pressures of this office. May God protect them, give them joy in their family life, and hold them close together.

We must pray that God will protect this nation even as the new President settles into his role as Commander in Chief, and that God will grant peace as he leads the nation through times of trial and international conflict and tension.

We must pray that God would change President-Elect Obama's mind and heart on issues of our crucial concern. May God change his heart and open his eyes to see abortion as the murder of the innocent unborn, to see marriage as an institution to be defended, and to see a host of issues in a new light. We must pray this from this day until the day he leaves office. God is sovereign, after all.

Without doubt, we face hard days ahead. Realistically, we must expect to be frustrated and disappointed. We may find ourselves to be defeated and discouraged. We must keep ever in mind that it is God who raises up nations and pulls them down, and who judges both nations and rulers. We must not act or think as unbelievers, or as those who do not trust God.

America has chosen a President. President-Elect Barack Obama is that choice, and he faces a breathtaking array of challenges and choices in days ahead. This is the time for Christians to begin praying in earnest for our new President. There is no time to lose."

I've copied the salient points from today's blog post.

Something To Think and Pray About

My friend Tim over at Gairney Bridge has posted at letter from Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family of what things might be like for Christians in 2012 after four years of a Obama presidency. It is a sobering letter and a call to prayer. The letter is here.