Sometime ago while Lindsey Williams was chaplain for one of the big oil companies he was told by a big-wig fellow that an incident would happen that would allow John McCain to win. Williams himself never made any predictions about the election. (That 'incident' might have been the controversy over Obama's birth certificate, who knows.). In one sense, Obama's win was a good thing because if such conspiracies are real, then they don't always win and Americans do have a voice. However-stay tuned!
Meanwhile I am going to give politics a rest and focus more on the Christian life. For it is my contention that many in America have a distorted idea of what it means to be 'Christian'. One quick example of a common falsehood about Christianity is the idea that one must be good to get to heaven. That is not found in the Bible. What you will find if you read the Bible enough with an open mind is a means to be at peace with God and yourself. The Bible talks about such peace being so powerful that it abolishes the fear of death! Now if you want proof that the Bible, and hence the Christian life can abolish the fear of death then pick up two books: "Foxes Book of Martyrs" and "The Last Words of Saints and Sinners." If you decide to read these books you will find true life accounts of people of all ages who looked death in the eye and smiled! They smiled not because they had a death wish, but because death was and is a doorway or curtain to eternal blessing, painlessness, and a troubled free eternal life! For these martyrs it meant spending eternity with the person they love the must uninterrupted! (No, heaven is not some dull place where you sit on clouds forever strumming harps! Get that out of your head right away. ). Heaven means a fulfilled life. One point of clarification before I go: Keep in mind that I am talking about the pain free eternal life happening in the presence of God in heaven, not here right now.
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