It was a pleasure meeting you today at Southern Seminary. Your message in chapel was timely for me and my family as we pray over the next 12 months about God’s ministry plans for us as a family.
I look forward to following your ministry as God uses you in the SBC and HIS kingdom.
Many, many thanks, Rev. Redmond, for your kind words, which I sincerely appreciate. I’m gratified to know that somethng I’ve written has made a difference to you.
God bless!
Michael Bauman
This is a fascinating discussion. It helped me to understand better what is is to hurt over what was and is very wrong. I still have some big problems with it!
How should we then, er, vote? I would urge that Christians should vote in ways faithful to what we believe, and when neither party offers truly satisfactory choices, in ways designed to pragmatically oppose gross evil.
I would argue that a political party which militantly, relentlessly advances positions antithetical to the Christian faith should not even be seen as an option for Christians of any race, but rather, rejected as a force for gross social evil.
More broadly, I would argue that a political party which militantly advances positions antithetical to a broad concept of Judeo-Christian values, should not be seen as a reasonable or wise option for anyone, except those who are also militantly opposed to those values, whatever their skin color.
Presidential elections are not about conciliatory racial gestures. You want a president from your own ethnic group or gender? Put up someone prepared for the job. It is a tough, dangerous world out there. Weak leaders can lead to preventable wars, which kill without regard to skin color. It is not at all impossible that we might have to fight another war somewhere in the next eight years. We’re still in one now. Have some of you forgotten? Aside from the appalling Democrat ideological baggage, Obama is personally utterly unqualified for the awesome responsibilities of the Presidency. Everything about him just screams “Weak Leader”, at least to me. I’d vote easily for a man like J.C. Watts, if he had stayed in government and built up his experience, or for a woman like Margaret Thatcher, if America had such a woman. But not for a fellow like Obama, who does not even have the wisdom or integrity to keep himself from getting owned, and I used that word deliberately, by a corrupt lobbyist.
None of this is to give a free pass to the Republicans. They don’t own us. They are eligible for consideration and support only insofar as they keep earning it, by meaningful party-wide positive positions on issues, and by nominating persons who are better in our view on the issues than those nominated by the Democrats, or, sadly, given the prevalence of party line voting in legislature, just as a barrier to Democrats achieving their misguided, or even worse, cynical hold on power. Party-line voting is also a sufficient reason to vote against even relatively conservative Democrats, because, when push comes to shove, they’ll too often vote with their party.
about-bio-online-blog-2007.doc
October 25, 2007 at 6:02 pm
Rev. Redmond…
It was a pleasure meeting you today at Southern Seminary. Your message in chapel was timely for me and my family as we pray over the next 12 months about God’s ministry plans for us as a family.
I look forward to following your ministry as God uses you in the SBC and HIS kingdom.
–Bryant Owens
http://jesusmind.blogspot.com
November 8, 2007 at 7:35 pm
Pastor Redmond-I like your site. A good friend of mine told me about your site and I like what you have to say.
November 20, 2007 at 11:54 pm
Many, many thanks, Rev. Redmond, for your kind words, which I sincerely appreciate. I’m gratified to know that somethng I’ve written has made a difference to you.
God bless!
Michael Bauman
November 23, 2007 at 2:03 pm
Eric,
I have posted a link to “A Man from Issachar” on my website, and am proud to do so.
Best wishes, my friend.
Michael Bauman
March 16, 2008 at 1:56 am
Rev Redmond
I heard you preach this past week at Southeastern, really enjoyed you preaching. It edified me so, I’ll be putting you on my blogroll.
Soli Deo Gloria
July 12, 2008 at 9:35 pm
This is a fascinating discussion. It helped me to understand better what is is to hurt over what was and is very wrong. I still have some big problems with it!
How should we then, er, vote? I would urge that Christians should vote in ways faithful to what we believe, and when neither party offers truly satisfactory choices, in ways designed to pragmatically oppose gross evil.
I would argue that a political party which militantly, relentlessly advances positions antithetical to the Christian faith should not even be seen as an option for Christians of any race, but rather, rejected as a force for gross social evil.
More broadly, I would argue that a political party which militantly advances positions antithetical to a broad concept of Judeo-Christian values, should not be seen as a reasonable or wise option for anyone, except those who are also militantly opposed to those values, whatever their skin color.
Presidential elections are not about conciliatory racial gestures. You want a president from your own ethnic group or gender? Put up someone prepared for the job. It is a tough, dangerous world out there. Weak leaders can lead to preventable wars, which kill without regard to skin color. It is not at all impossible that we might have to fight another war somewhere in the next eight years. We’re still in one now. Have some of you forgotten? Aside from the appalling Democrat ideological baggage, Obama is personally utterly unqualified for the awesome responsibilities of the Presidency. Everything about him just screams “Weak Leader”, at least to me. I’d vote easily for a man like J.C. Watts, if he had stayed in government and built up his experience, or for a woman like Margaret Thatcher, if America had such a woman. But not for a fellow like Obama, who does not even have the wisdom or integrity to keep himself from getting owned, and I used that word deliberately, by a corrupt lobbyist.
None of this is to give a free pass to the Republicans. They don’t own us. They are eligible for consideration and support only insofar as they keep earning it, by meaningful party-wide positive positions on issues, and by nominating persons who are better in our view on the issues than those nominated by the Democrats, or, sadly, given the prevalence of party line voting in legislature, just as a barrier to Democrats achieving their misguided, or even worse, cynical hold on power. Party-line voting is also a sufficient reason to vote against even relatively conservative Democrats, because, when push comes to shove, they’ll too often vote with their party.