I have been following your posts for quite some time pastorbill, and this one is outstanding!
Good, balanced essay, Pastor. Thanks!
Constantine(Trump) vs. Diocletian(Hillary)
Reading part of article.. not the whole .. but I will comment. The problem is NOT with Trump.. it’s with those who put this stuff out for the reason of stopping Trump from winning... and the alternative is the most corrupt woman.. the liar in chief.. a criminal.. is who they’d put in if not Trump.
That is the problem... Trump didn’t do any more than most of congress and all of the left who put this out.. they are hypocrites and worse.. if you are offended by words.. you will be worse with what they DO...
Talk is cheap, as they say... but actions speak loud and louder. bill clinton raped more than one woman and hillary followed with threats to keep them quiet.. ruin them too.. for her future goals of power. she sold parts of America to fill her pockets while she was Sec of State.. everything she did was illegal.. and before Washington, there was Arkansas.. where there is as much dirt on them there as there is in Washington..
For anyone to say Trump is not fit because of his words some 11 years ago... I find that person so narrow and so off base that they must be ignorant.. and only can see what is in front of them.. not the whole. Words.. potty mouth.. hillary has a worse potty mouth than Trump ever dreamed of... she has a vocabulary that rivals any man..
So what is the beef with Trump? His words?.. he didn’t attack anyone.. bill did and hillary has... Trump has done a lot of good helping others .. hillary takes.. bill and hillary threaten anyone in their way to get what they want. and it has worked.. but Trump is the first one who is not afraid of them..
The media is her protector.. she and bill have compromised the FBI, the state dept, the justice dept .. they are all corrupt now too..
plus the next President will select more than one supreme court judge.. and if it’s hillary, you will be living in the worst state of the United States that has ever existed and the last presidential election you will ever see. if you don’t understand who they are, then you’d better wise up...
google has taken all they can find off the search of hillary and bill... it’s a set up from top to bottom...
read about saul alinsky.. that will tell you who they are and who obama is.. alinsky is their guide and this country will be a communist country if hillary is elected. I will want the LOrd to come and get us.. for it will be that bad.
God might save America by choosing another Cyrus.
As an aside, I think God is placing a burden on Trump. You can see its evolution if you look closely. Trump is changing
He has changed a great deal from the Trump of yesteryear.
Don't underestimate our Lord. He might have picked a heathen cum Apostle to go to battle for us...
Those who know for sure are always those who are wrong.
God's intentions cannot be deciphered.
Particularly by men who consider themselves Godly (He confounds them first).
I don't include you, Pastor Bill, in that lost group of pastors.
That said, I think we are watching God's handiwork...a creation for our own times...for our own eyes.
He is always at work...not some distant creator, but a Player...getting down into the mud with us (didn't Jesus get down in the mud with us? In fact, didn't Jesus/Yeshuah draw all the mud to Himself for our sins").
He isn't some distant being...He is here with us...in spades.
We have bit parts...He has the starring role.
Even Trump is beginning to realize that he is just a bit player in a larger, eternally greater drama.
Christian support of Trump makes perfect sense. They know evil when they see it and Hillary is evil and horrible.
DJT supports their issues. No need for 10000 words.
Both George Washington & Thomas Jefferson owned slaves. Jefferson had around 200.
James Madison had around a 100.
Would they be elected today? Where would our country be if not for them?
Would JF Kennedy be re-elected today if he were alive and running? How many mistresses did he have on the side? JFK said, “If I don’t have sex every day, I get a headache.”
Samson was a bad guy too.
Trump’s appeal is that, on the issues, he is saying what the rest of us are thinking.
And 11 years ago he was crass?
Big deal.
I’ve said things and used words, even as a Christian, that I would not want repeated. Sometimes things like that happen in a moment of weakness. Not a one of us is perfect.
One of Trump’s redeeming virtues is his honest and humility.
He owned his words and apologized, something that garners a lot of respect from Christians.
When Hillary is confronted with her stuff, she immediately resorts to *He’s lying*. Like Ambassador Stephen’s did NOT request help 600 times?
Trump comes across as real and down to earth and most Christians I know are still aware enough of their humanity that they are willing to forgive someone for their own faults when they deal with it appropriately.
Not one single person I know can sit on their moral high horse and point fingers at Trump for his choice of words 11 years ago.
This is why Evangelicals come across as holier than thou and out of touch with everyone else.
Everyone seems so shocked by their support of a man like Trump? We’ve all been there.
And besides, just who else is there to support to take down Clinton? Do we just let Clinton win because we can’t find a candidate who is *pure* enough* in our eyes to run?
NOBODY is. We ALL have our skeletons.
I'd say both Bill and Hillary Clinton are worse than Donald Trump in that regard. Neither of the Clintons will even admit to their failings, let alone attempt to change for the better in a Christian sense. Compare and contrast to Donald Trump.
We need to be able to discern between human frailties and actual evil intents.