Obama's Re-election: Opportunities for Christians in the 21st Century

Kevin Swanson conducts a fun and fascinating 28-minute interview on Generations SermonAudio with Doug Phillips as they discuss the re-election of President Obama and cast a vision for Biblical manhood and womanhood in the 21st Century.

Listen here: Surviving the Next 40 Years: The Character of the 21st Century Man

Christian Election Sermons from Morecraft and Otis on Theonomy Resources Blog

Theonomy Resources blog has featured two Election Day sermons for the edification of Christians:


A Short Election Day Sermon article from John Otis.

Election Day Sermon 2012: Hope for the Future video sermon from Joe Morecraft.


Highly recommended!!

May we His people who are called by His name humble ourselves, and pray and seek His face, and turn from our wicked ways, that He will hear from heaven, and will forgive our sin and heal our land. 2 Chron. 7:14

Christian Principles for the Ballot Box

Three election resources for the Christian voter in 2012:

1) I can highly recommend these articles as we move closer to election day here in the U.S. They are collected by Vision Forum. From Doug Phillips' blog:

"To go to our fully-updated Ballot Box section — which features all ten articles on biblical voting principles — click here.

Flip-Flopper-in-Chief: Should Mitt Romney Be Trusted to Serve as President?

By Wesley Strackbein
Article Summary: Gov. Mitt Romney’s record as a chronic flip-flopper on the issues is well known. In view of this fact, the following question must be addressed by wise voters: If a candidate running for public office says one thing on an issue and then repeatedly changes his views, should he be trusted with our vote? In “Flip-Flopper-in-Chief,” Wesley Strackbein explores Romney’s roller-coaster record on various issues Christians should be concerned about and explains the biblical case for electing “trustworthy” magistrates.
Click here to read the article.

Practice not Platform: Party Platforms are Irrelevant to Candidates’ Actions

By David Noor
Article Summary: Party platforms have historically been the bones thrown to the more principled members of the party base — those who think about issues and read more than slogans. They are also the bait, promising that the grassroots’ priorities will be pursued. Christians need to look beyond the platitudes contained in the Republican and Democratic Party Platforms and evaluate the candidates themselves. Look at the real predictors of their behavior if they are elected — their actual record and policy. Don’t blindly swallow the bait.
Click here to read the article.

Are We Electing a Pastor-in-Chief? How History Will Remember the Election of 2012

By Geoffrey Botkin
Article Summary: If you’ve followed American politics over the last several presidential elections, then you’ve probably heard this popular slogan: “We’re not electing a pastor-in-chief; we’re electing a commander-in-chief.” Yet what are the implications of this catch-phrase for the Christian and for our nation? In this insightful article, Geoffrey Botkin relates his own encounters with this slogan in 1992 while serving as a consultant for George H.W. Bush’s reelection campaign, examining the characteristic thought-process behind it in light of Scripture.
Click here to read the article.

The 2012 Elections: A Death Knell for the Christian Right

By Kevin Swanson
Article Summary: Why do Christians fear Obama more than they fear God? How should we best focus our resources during election seasons in view of a long-term strategy for Christ-honoring cultural engagement? Kevin Swanson hits these and other key questions head-on in this insightful article.
Click here to read the article.

Our Forgotten Birthright: The Pulpit’s Cry for Civil Liberty under God

By Dan Ford
Article Summary: In this helpful historical overview, author Dan Ford demonstrates that Christian ministers in colonial days called on their congregations to exercise their civic duties through active engagement in the affairs of the state. Ford’s conclusion is this: The men in our pulpits today must boldly embrace this legacy of America’s colonial clergy or else our liberties will be lost.
Click here to read the article."

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2) A timely election sermon (a rare species now in our pietistic church culture) from Steve Bradley--Vote-Worthy Candidates Part 1. (Be sure to check SermonAudio this Sunday (11/04/2012) for Part 2!).
Updated 11/05/2012: Click HERE to listen to Vote-Worth Candidates Part 2.


3) Steve C. Halbrook at Theonomy Resources blog has a very good 5-part series on the upcoming election: "Reasons Not to Support Mitt Romney." Read the series HERE.

The Dominion of Providence over the Passions of Men by John Witherspoon

For those of my brethren who are longing to hear a pastor give a political sermon from his pulpit, but find none to be heard--only treatises on the heart's piety (though nothing at all of the issues of life which spring from it)--I present this link to a political sermon given by John Witherspoon in 19976, entitled, The Dominion of Providence over the Passions of Men. John Witherspoon's Biblical text is:

Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain. Psalm 76:10

There is not a greater evidence either of the reality or the power of religion, than a firm belief of God's universal presence, and a constant attention to the influence and operation of his providence. It is by this means that the Christian may be said, in the emphatical scripture language, "to walk with God, and to endure as seeing him who is invisible."

The doctrine of divine providence is very full and complete in the sacred oracles. It extends not only to things which we may think of great moment, and therefore worthy of notice, but to things the most indifferent and inconsiderable; "Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing," says our Lord, "and one of them falleth not to the ground without your heavenly Father"; nay, "the very hairs of your head are all numbered.["] It extends not only to things beneficial and salutary, or to the direction and assistance of those who are the servants of the living God; but to things seemingly most hurtful and destructive, and to persons the most refractory and disobedient. He overrules all his creatures, and all their actions. Thus we are told, that "fire, hail, snow, vapour, and stormy wind, fulfil his word," in the course of nature; and even so the most impetuous and disorderly passions of men, that are under no restraint from themselves, are yet perfectly subject to the dominion of Jehovah. They carry his commission, they obey his orders, they are limited and restrained by his authority, and they conspire with every thing else in promoting his glory. There is the greater need to take notice of this, that men are not generally sufficiently aware of the distinction between the law of God and his purpose; they are apt to suppose, that as the temper of the sinner is contrary to the one, so the outrages of the sinner are able to defeat the other; than which nothing can be more false. The truth is plainly asserted, and nobly expressed by the psalmist in the text, "Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee; the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain." READ MORE