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Tentative Contents
Introduction – A Growing Sense of Urgency
Chapter 1 – Silence Is Not Golden
Chapter 2 – Balancing on a Highwire
Chapter 3 – “One Nation, Under God”
Chapter 4 – A Wisdom Checklist
Chapter 5 – We Need the Holy Spirit!
Chapter 6 – Prepare for Battle
Chapter 7 – The Fight for Life Is Not Over
Chapter 8 – All Life Is Precious – The Disabled, Mentally Ill, Aged
Chapter 9 – Jesus Loves the Little Children
Chapter 10 – Sticks and Stones – Growing Up in a Dangerous World
Chapter 11 – No Child Should Go to Bed Hungry
Chapter 12 – My Family Too
Chapter 13 – The Plight of the Poor
Chapter 14 – Love Is the Answer – Racial Reconciliation
Chapter 15 – Light in the Darkness
Chapter 16 - The Ten Commandments Are Not Suggestions
Chapter 17 – Grafted into the Vine
Chapter 18 – Peace at Any Price?
Chapter 19 – Take Up Your Cross
Chapter 20 – Be Ready for His Return
GO DEEPER – contributions by others
21 – Laura Shaffer – Heal Our Land
22 – Peter Lundell – Your Voice in a Hostile Climate
23 – M.K. Gantt – Cry Mercy, Cry Repent
24 – Bruce Porter – What Must We Do?
25 – Writing Editorials
26 – God-giveh Duty – D.J. Gudger
27 – Charlene Giles – Under Attack! Marriage and Family
28 – Catherine Jacobs – Mourning to Ministry
29 – Esther Bandy – Our Children Need Jesus
30 – Joan Benson and Marjorie Wingert – Arming Our Children to Stand
31 – Lori Wildenberg – Messy Hope: Help Your Child Overcome Anxiety, Depression, or Suicidal Ideation
32 – Sandy Austin – B.I.O.N.I.C. Believe It Or Not I Care
33 – Robert Cook – Make Every Effort
34 – Toni Campbell – Leaving the Building
35 – Emily Chase – Open Door Policy
36 – T.L. Scheffler – Human Trafficking
37 – Angie Bass Williams – Racial Reconciliation and CRT
38 – Terry Brennan – Hunger
39 – Carolyn Byers Ruch – Four Fearless Seps Parents Can Take to Protect Children from Sexual Abuse
40 – James Watkins – It’s About Obedience Not Orientation
41 – Barbara Winters – The Online Pornographic World
42– Ted Baehr – Redeeming the Media and Protecting the Eyes of Innocence
43 – Rick Marschall – Christians: Stop Asking God to Send Revival
44 – Leona Choy – Resist the Counterfeit Lion
45 – Michael Gantt – The Power of the Gospel
46 – Victgoria Dorshorn – Assurance of Victory
47 – Leona Choy – Things to Come ...
Angie Bass Williams – Poem, “America Must Bless God”
RESOURCES
Biblical Guidelines for Addressing Controversial Issues
The Work of the Holy Spirit
Recommended Reading
Now Is the Time
Now is the time
to say yes to God’s call,
the time to seek Him
and His will,
the time to prioritize
what’s really important
and put Him first.
Now is the time
to discern
what slows us down
and trips us up,
to confess our sins
to Him and each other,
and to cast aside our doubts.
Now is the time
to fix our eyes on Jesus
and to run with perseverance
the race set before us,
to proclaim the Good News
to the lost—now
while there is still time.
Introduction
A Growing Sense of Urgency
Don’t be afraid, for I am with you.
Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you.
I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.
Isaiah 41:10 NLT
During my seventy-eight years, I’ve seen a lot of changes—some amazing, others deeply disturbing.
Man has walked on the moon, but we have not learned to walk with one another in peace.
The twelve-inch black-and-white TV of my childhood is now a huge flat screen that brings the horror of the war in Ukraine and the Middle East into my living room in full color. When will it end? Or is this just the beginning of the end?
Our doors are now locked at night, but locked doors cannot protect us from the evil that invades our homes through multiple devices that access the Internet.
Mobile phones and artificial intelligence have replaced rotary phones and live operators. Even young children get connected, addicted, and exposed to things they should never see. They spend more time looking at a screen than playing outdoors. People online who pretend to be “friends” lure them into deadly relationships.
Marriage is no longer a lifetime commitment between a man and a woman as God intended, and sex outside of marriage is no longer frowned on, even by some Christians.
The rights of the LGBTQ+ are protected and often given priority. Meanwhile, the rights of parents to protect their children and question what they learn in school are threatened. Boys have the right to identify as a girl and use bathrooms and locker rooms that should be a safe place for girls. Tomboys are encouraged to believe they really are boys. In some states, parents do not have the right to deny their children hormone-changing drugs and body-altering surgeries or even seek counseling for them.
Our culture has “become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity” (Rom. 1:29 NIV). How long, Lord? How long before Your judgment falls on the United States of America? Surely, You cannot ignore our sin much longer. Or will You stand by silently and watch our nation self-destruct?
But this is not a doom and gloom book. Rather, it is a call to action. “For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns” (Rev. 19:6 NLT). “He isn’t really being slow about his promised return, even though it sometimes seems that way. But he is waiting, for the good reason that he is not willing that any should perish, and he is giving more time for sinners to repent” (2 Pet. 3:9 TLB). He is raising an army of believers to reach the lost—to write and to live His answer. Will you enlist?
Call to Action
