The idol behind all other idols is the “my will first” sinner. It was Satan’s first lie: “You shall be as gods, determining good and evil for yourselves.” It remains his most attractive lie, elevated in our land to the status of unquestionable right – to reserve for myself the right to make the final decision about what I do and think. This is a claim to be God. As our own masters, we ask all the wrong questions: Do I want this? Does this please me? What will others think of

It is humiliating before the Lord to face that your own national government is an extension of Satan’s kingdom of lying, theft, and murder. The majority of citizens are complicit, for they pursue their own lives and pleasures. Our spiritual deadness and unrighteousness are the poison soul from which the beast of totalitarianism has sprung up. Unbelief breeds revolution and tyranny, if given sufficient leash from the reigning King, whose “ways are past finding out.” This beast

Some years ago, I corresponded with a murderer. While in prison, the Lord saved him. He said something to me I will never forget. “I know the Lord has forgiven me, but I deserve to die. If the penal system feared the Lord, they would put me to death for my crime.” The Holy Spirit taught this man the truth about sin, repentance, and restitution. He understood that repentance concerns not simply personal peace and restoration in broken human relationships. Repentance is chiefly

God’s providence is his “preserving and governing all his creatures, ordering them and all their actions, to his own glory.” Ezekiel pictures God’s providence as constantly moving wheels, wheels within wheels, purposes within purposes (1:16), huge wheels lifted up to heaven and then descending to earth by the ceaseless activity of the cherubim (1:19-21), filled with eyes and hands (1:18; 10:12), seeing all and doing all God’s purposes. God’s providence is not passive. He is c