Quote of the day: “The West has lost Christ, and that is why it is dying; that is is the only reason.” —Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notebooks
1| Prayers go out to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott responds after being burned, who held a press conference about the Dallas shootings, even as folks did not know of the 2nd and 3rd-degree burns he was suffering from after a vacation accident.
Less than 24 hours later, Abbott was with Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and other Texas officials at a news conference in a city on edge and in mourning.
“Today, on this day, and in the coming days, the primary message is one word, and that is unity.”
And he talked of healing, giving not the slightest indication of how his own ravaged body was, even as he spoke, struggling mightily to heal from fresh and grievous wounds.
2| Pastor Tony Evans: America’s current violence can be traced to Christians’ failures
In 2 Chronicles 15:3-6, it says that society was falling apart, and God troubled them with every kind of distress because they continued to reject the knowledge of God. These recent spates of violence – like all our worldly problems — have happened because Christians have failed to advance God’s kingdom, to spread the faith and to do so in a loving, unified way.
Gone must be the days of only pointing fingers at others to fix what they may never fix. Our nation’s ills are not merely the result of corruption or racism, although these are evil. Our troubles can also be traced directly to ineffective Christians.
3| Donald Trump’s God whisperer |POLITICO
“I don’t know who she is, I don’t have any contact with her, I’ve never met her, never talked to her; the most prominent her name has been is, she’s tied to Trump,” said David Lane, an influential evangelical leader with whom many of the Republican presidential candidates cultivated a relationship. Adding that her brand of faith does not represent the mainstream among more traditional Christians, he said, “She can’t move evangelicals.”
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