We seem to have many Christians …

But not many truth tellers.

Over the years, my wife and I have ministered to literally thousands of individuals trapped in life-controlling bondage.

Addiction, sexual perversion, gender confusion, abuse, violence, despair, chronic homelessness …

We’ve been there helping others, up close and personal.

In the jail, in the woods, in the ‘hood and in other places where polite society seldom goes …

And seen God redeem many lives.

We have yet, however, to meet anyone who’s there simply because of poverty or racism.

Although those are real issues, they are more often symptoms than root causes.

For the vast majority, the key issues go back to dysfunctional upbringings due to dysfunctional or absent fathers …

Often affecting multiple generations.

Although the power of the Cross can heal individual wounds …

Without restored fatherhood, there’s not much else a nation as a whole can do to actually prevent most social ills.

If the righteous remain silent …

Nations which elevate public sin over private virtue will not long endure.

When nations forget God:

Liberties orginally adopted to protect virtue become twisted entitlements for sin …

Until liberty itself is lost.

Mercy can be an amazing wellspring of good …

Or a naïve enabler of evil.

Discernment makes all the difference.