Do not put your trust in princes, in human beings, who cannot save.
When their spirit departs, they return to the ground; on that very day their plans come to nothing.
Blessed are those whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord their God.
(Psalm 146:3-5)

The church has spectacularly and tragically failed to heed this bit of wisdom from the Psalms. And as I’ve outlined before, when I say “the church” I mean both the “progressive” left branch of the church and the “evangelical” right branch of the church. The book of Hosea has played out over and over again. The church has been a whore, and needs desperately to repent publicly, and before God.

Pray for the United States of America and its people. Pray for the world. The common – though often shallow – Judeo-Christian ethos that served as the foundation of the constitutional republic is all but gone. I believe that revival – of the supernatural, prostrate before God, gospel kind – is our only hope. And that happens from the bottom up, not the top down.

So I invite you to pray with me. It’s revival or bust.