Well, Sam Brownback dropped out of the '08 presidential race.

I normally don't speak up a ton about politics but my roommate has been telling me to take a look at Mike Huckabee for the next president. He is a former governor of Arkansas with lots of good convictions about righteousness and truth and the ways of Jesus. He does not support the murder of babies in the womb and firmly believes in the covenant of marriage is for a man and a woman only. While I do believe the economy, the war in Iraq, terrorism, and border control are important issues to consider, I believe our nation has a bigger problem on our hands - it's God Himself. If we don't turn and repent and walk in righteousness, we'll end up under the judgement of God. We need a righteous leader that understands that God is our greatest problem and leads our nation from that perspective.

But really though, I won't be fully satisfied until Jesus is president of the whole earth from Jerusalem and His glory covers the entire planet.

I’ve been helping facilitate David Sliker’s FSM class “Biblical Foundations of Eschatology” this week. It’s like the 4th or 5th semester I’ve helped him with it, and I always end up provoked to pursue the Lord even more. Yesterday he was talking about the forerunner ministry and what the Lord is raising up on the earth today, and it really stirred me so I figured I’d get some of my thoughts down.

The Lord is going to produce an expression of Christianity on the earth that will silence all of the accusers of the name of our God.

There will not even be a contest on the earth as to which religion or system is truly authentic. Jesus promised that the world would know with certainty that He is God and that the Father loves us in the same way that He loves the Son (John 17:21, 23).

What the Bible reveals about the nature and expression of the church in the days to come before Christ’s return is very clear. She will be pure and white, mature in holiness, blameless, full of meekness and humility, and she will not love her life, even to the point of death. She will exhibit Christlike character in everything she does, eagerly waiting for Jesus’ return to the earth. (Rev. 12:10, Rev. 19:7-8, Rev. 22:17)

All of the other options the world has for fulfillment will be shattered one by one. There will only be two choices before all is said and done.  read more »

My theology geek hat is on and the theology geek goo is oozing out of this post.

I've got a poll running on this topic but the quiz I found deserved a full post.

Take this quiz if you want to know what your end-time millennial theology is. If you have any idea what I am talking about, then you already probably know what you believe.

Some of the questions are pretty funny, although certainly valid :)

Of course, I am a die hard premillennial. What are you?

I've been super busy with my kitchen renovation the past couple of days - painting, painting, and more painting. It's amazing what some fresh paint and new cabinet hardware (courtesy of IKEA) will do to a kitchen! I'll post some before and after pics on my photo gallery when I've completed everything.

Well, this coming Monday starts a 3-week-long change in my schedule. I'm helping David Sliker as a teaching assistant for his "Biblical Foundations of Eschatology" class at FSM. This semester we have almost two hundred students taking the class. David lectures Monday through Wednesday, but my favorite part of the class happens on Thursdays when we split up all of the students into small groups for discussion. It's amazing to see how even over three weeks the students are stirred to greater hunger to understand the leadership of Jesus at the end of the age.

I'm a big end-times guy, but not for the reasons you might expect. I am not interested in a bunch of facts, figures, and charts about when Jesus is coming back or how intense the sixth seal will be. But I am interested in understanding the Man behind the facts and the sixth seal. The study of the end-times can't be diminished to charts, timing, and who goes where, when. The book of Revelation is not the revelation of the antichrist or the revelation of the judgments of God. Revelation 1:1 tells us exactly what the whole book is about. "The Revelation of Jesus Christ". The study of the end-times is not just for the scholarly or learned. It's for every believer, because the knowledge of Jesus is for every believer. Studying it should give us zeal to pursue the first commandment - it should propel us into deeper love and devotion to Jesus.  read more »

I was reading this article earlier in which President Bush was quoted as making the following alarming comment:

"Well, first of all, I believe in an Almighty God, and I believe that all the world, whether they be Muslim, Christian, or any other religion, prays to the same God. That's what I believe.

Apparently Mr. Bush made similar comments back in 2003.

The church really has to pray for this man. I always thought he was more godly than some of our recent former presidents, but by his comments, I'm having a hard time sticking to that belief.

The God of Christianity is not even close to the same god of the Islamic faith. We're moving towards religious syncretism and the rise of the Harlot Babylon of Rev. 17 faster than we think...

Lord, I ask you to encounter this man with the truth about who you are. Show him Jesus and give him understanding of you!

UPDATE: Brent just posted as well.

With an utterly underwhelming lack of response to my last post on "what action hero are you", I've decided to go back to my prophetic music series. If you haven’t read the first two posts in this series, read here and here first.

Satan has a far greater understanding of the power of music than we do. It’s why he is giving so much time and effort into making sure all sorts of music that directs men away from Jesus gets thrust into the ears and hearts of men today. According to the Psychology Press, “music is a complex acoustic and temporal structure that induces a large variety of emotional responses in listeners.” Scientists and psychologists have debated much over the issue of music and its affect on human emotions. Practical investigations have demonstrated that basic emotions, such as happiness, anger, fear, and sadness, can be recognized in and created by musical stimuli. Some hospitals are even using “music therapy” to make people feel better and heal faster . The simple question which continues to baffle scientists is simply “how can vibrating air and sound waves affect human emotions?”  read more »

Time for a little fun before I dive back into my prophetic music series this week. Ron recently posted this 10-question quiz to determine which action hero you are. Some of the questions were a little... umm... interesting, but I pressed on nonetheless because I wanted to see if my superhero could beat out Ron as MacGyver.

What are you?

I, apparently, am Chuck Norris.

"You are Chuck Norris. You fight for truth and justice with a custom truck and a never-ending supply of roundhouse kicks to the face! At the peak of your career you had your own cartoon, but what you'll be remembered for is a never ending supply of internet one-liners."

AH! I would want to be MacGyver any day over Chuck Norris! MacGyver probably has a better chance of making it through the Great Tribulation by hiding himself in some magnetically shielded underground super tank, avoiding all the antichrist forces and demon locusts... :)