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During today’s daily walk I wanted to discuss politics and faith. No matter if you like our president’s policies or not, we are called to pray. Pray for the government and the leaders. As we enter the election year and the politics are flying in the news, we need to focus on praying. Pray for the country, pray for the best leader to be elected to the country, and pray for the new president no matter if you wanted that person elected or not!

The Bible tells us to obey our authorities as long as our authorities are not directly interfering with our commission to spread the Gospel. Pray and keep the two party American political system OUT of the church.

On today’s walk, I want to discuss a pet peeve I have…BIBLE TRACTS! I hate these things. Though I have encountered a few good ones, most of the tracts I have looked at (and that is many) are sloppy in their theology. They simply want to get a little prayer accomplished and then declare you saved! No matter the fact you have not repented, are not seeking to please God. If the prayer is done…you are SAVED!

Lets recall some theology and stop leaving these things littered around town. Listen to my discussion on Bible Tracts

On this daily walk I am discussing why theology is important and then I give some practical steps to learn theology.

Some great free resources can be found here:
Grace to You – http://www.gty.org/
Ligonier Ministries – http://www.ligonier.org/
Desiring God – http://www.desiringgod.org/
Moody – http://staging.moodymedia.org/
Oneplace – http://www.oneplace.com/

Remember you should be studying all points of view, particularly in the controversial views. Ultimately, you should come to your own conclusion on theological matters.

The Bible is not as difficult a read as many books that we Americans like to stick our nose it, but simple reading can have deep impact on our daily life. We should be striving to reading the Bible quickly over the course of a year, but also to doing some in depth study in addition to that.

In this daily walk I build an argument for why we should read the Bible every day and then I lay out my strategies for how I accomplish that task.

Some of us are better at praying and others not so much. I am very academic so reading the Bible comes naturally to me, but when it comes to prayer, I often struggle. I make the effort and put in my time, but sometimes we misunderstand what we are trying to accomplish with our prayers. Do we seek to get things as if our Father is a cosmic vending machine? You know the prayer, “Give me this, give me that, give me this, give me that…time for bed!”