How Should We Now Live?
The Challenges and Opportunities of Living in a ‘Post-Christian’ America

by Jefrey Breshears

Christians who understand what has happened in American society and culture over the past 50 years realize that we are entering a precarious new phase of history. In lieu of some unforeseen revival of moral-based sanity, not only is our economic system in peril but much of what has distinguished American civilization in the past. The Christian influences in our culture are rapidly eroding, and the fact that many Christians either don’t see it or refuse to acknowledge the gravity of the situation doesn’t alter the reality of it.

In Mere Christianity C. S. Lewis wrote of what he called the “key to history:” Over time, terrific energy is expended building civilizations and cultural institutions, only to have it all ruined as the most selfish, ambitious and cruel people claw their way to the top and eventually bring the whole system crashing down. In the end, greed and the lust for power corrupts most of the good that institutions and civilizations stand for. Sound familiar?

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Days of Decision

by Jefrey Breshears

The next three months will be extraordinarily tense as the 2012 election approaches. Throughout the media and blogosphere we read dire warnings such as, “This is the most crucial election in American history” – just as we’ve heard for the last several election cycles. Unfortunately, I have to agree. The reason why many knowledgeable observers regard each recent election as “the most crucial in our nation’s history” is because each election is the most crucial one yet. The stakes get higher the closer we approach the End, and by all indications we are approaching the End – at least, the End of America as we’ve known it as the most exceptional nation in all of human history.

Although the specific issues and dynamics change from one election to the next, the greatest challenge to our nation remains the same. It’s not an external force such as radical Islam but the more insidious internal threat of secularism. Like a cancer, secularism eats away at the spiritual and moral fiber of our nation, and in the process it corrupts those key institutions that most influence our culture: corporate America, education, the media, the legal profession, government, and the entertainment industry.
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