If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the whore with many lovers; and would you return to me? declares the LORD. Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been ravished? By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers like an Arab in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your vile whoredom. Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come; yet you have the forehead of a whore; you refuse to be ashamed. -Jeremiah 3:1-3 Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. -Jeremiah 6:15 Friday, November 17th, 2011 marks one of those very rare times in my life. It was one of those times when proclaiming Christ a particular event happened, and when it did, I knew it was going to stick with me like a traumatic event I just couldn't shake. You never forget the atmosphere. You never forget the place. You never forget your feelings. You never forget the faces. Never the faces. You know, I talk to a lot of people about Christ and I get a lot of different reactions. Everything on the emotional, intellectual, and spiritual scale you can think of I believe I've seen. Some are more frequent than others. Reactions of apathy, self-righteousness, plain 'ole unbelief, and anger are run of the mill in the south. But this one reaction Friday night was a rare one. I can only think of a handful of times this has happened and I bet out of a line of 500 people I could pick those same people out 10 years from now. Their faces are stuck in my brain. Those moments have been etched there and I've often asked God why. It was a normal Friday night outreach and the night began for me with refuting basically a whole church youth group and older woman from...

A friend once shared, "We pray more to keep saints out of Heaven than we do to keep sinners out of Hell." How many times do we pray for God's hand rather than God's heart? The truth of the matter is most of us would shun the health, wealth and prosperity gospel, but we sure don't pray like it. Our prayers sound just like those heretics preach! We're too busy praying for safety, health and ease. Christ's gospel will never advance this way. We don't pray for lighter loads but the strength of Christ to carry what He has given us! (Colossians 1:29) Listen, Christian, your Lord has saved you to a life of war. Christ has not saved you to sit in the barracks, giving your opinions about war strategy when you've never stepped foot on the battle field. The strategy has already been written. The General has already spoken. Look at yourself in the mirror. Don't you see you are fitted for war? You already have the weapons, the armor, the commission and the promise of victory. You know the enemy. You know there is no guarantee of your safety. You know what you need to do. You know why you've been delaying. Stand up soldier. Don't you hear the bombs dropping? Can't you feel the rattle of the enemies guns? Don't you hear their shouts and taunts? Are you not jealous that men are still robed in enemy garments!? Resolve in your mind to die to yourself and go fight. The blood of brothers before you has advanced the cause. Now yours is needed. Great reformation calls for great sacrifice....