A standing ovation greeted Preacher Franklin Graham as he took the podium at the National Day of Prayer on Capitol Hill last Thursday. He gave the keynote address. The son of one of the greatest evangelist of modern times—Billy Graham— Franklin didn’t back down because of criticism that he had disparaged Muslims. Graham told the crowd at the Capitol Hill gathering that he is a Christian minister who preaches the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
And he had a positive attitude about a federal judge’s ruling that the law instituting the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional. Many observers believe the judge’s ruling resulted in even more participation in the National Day of Prayer than if there had never been a court fight over it in the first place. In 1952 Congress unanimously passed the law declaring a National Day of Prayer. And President Harry Truman gladly signed it.
With many Christians today feeling as though they are second or third class citizens in their own country, a rallying point like the judge’s ruling may indeed have been a boost to weary Christians. They are by and large tired of their views and values being gagged in public while the nation sinks into a deeper and deeper moral morass. Divorce has become so common now that even evangelical Christians have a divorce rate that’s about the same as those who have no allegiance to Jesus Christ.
While God and his son, Jesus, espouse principals of fidelity in marriage, saving sex until marriage, being honest, being compassionate and being servants to others, the rest of the world goes in the completely opposite direction. Psalm 33:12 says, “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.”
This is Carl Ramsey and that’s Another View of the News.
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