for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
Well, that's over. A bad night for the GOP, but a good night for traditional marriage. I hope that the next four years go by quickly, with no major national disasters, and that the GOP rights its ship. One thing it needs to do is to jettison the identity politics that brought the disastrous Sarah Palin nomination. More on that later, but she is one of the two primary reasons that McCain lost (the other being his biffing of the financial crisis).
In any case, some Christians in the public eye are looking ahead to persecution.
Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, believes Senator Obama was elected, in large part, because the church in America has failed to address sin in its own ranks and also in society.
Perkins says Christians should pray for and return to a biblical model of holiness and righteousness. And believers in America, he adds, should prepare for persecution."We are going to see, I think, unprecedented attacks against our faith through measures like the hate crimes [legislation] to the Employment Non-Discrimination Act," he says. "We're going to see attacks on innocent human life through the Freedom of Choice Act, trying to erase all the gains that have been made in the pro-life movement. And I think even our freedoms are going to come under attack."
May the Lord bless and keep His people in the years ahead
