The President's Allegiances

This past week, President Obama declared June Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual and Transgender month, fulfilling one of many campaign promises made to support the homosexual agenda. Interestingly, although he signed the legislation declaring May 7, 2009 the National Day of Prayer, he refused to host a prayer gathering at the White House as his predecessors George W. Bush, George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan had done. He said he prays privately. So his allegiance to the GLBT community is publicly carried out with pomp and ceremony while his allegiance to God is something reserved for a back room somewhere. Maybe it's because there is no allegiance to God at all! As this President continues to pursue the most radical agendas ever carried out by an American president concerning the issues of abortion, gay rights, the redistribution of wealth, the government take-over of private enterprise and the weakening of national security it is clear where his allegiances lie. Those allegiances are obviously not to the constitution, they certainly aren't to the American family and they in no way reflect an allegiance to God!

The class of 2009

In 1989 I sat down with Lloyd Zeigler at Carmen Hall in Phoenix, AZ and received a vision for starting a Master's Commission program in Lafayette. Twenty years later we are graduating the fifth class of this era's version of our Master's Commission program. They are an incredible group of young men and women. Twenty years ago I desired to see a program raised up that would help young people become true disciples while preparing for life and ministry. This graduating class personifies everything I dreamed a Master's Commission could be. I am so proud to be associated with the XMC class of 2009!

The Resistance

I love movies. Last night Chase and I took in the latest in the Terminator series: Terminator Salvation. It was everything I expected it to be: Unbelievable special effects, intense over-the-top acting (loved the casting of Christian Bale as John Conner), more explosions than any other movie I've ever seen - it had it all! The one thing I didn't expect was the effect it had on me spiritually. Yes, you read that right.

All through the movie John Conner communicates with pockets of human survivors across a devastated American landscape by means of radio. (It's 2018, after the rise of the machines and Judgement Day has already happened leaving... oh, never mind it's complicated.) The one thing from his broadcasts that I just can't get out of my head is how he signs off: "This is John Conner and if you're listening to this - You are the resistance."

It's not machines, but evil and sin that is taking over our world today and we are at war! Yet so often we offer so little resistance. What will I do to combat that evil? What will I do to rally fellow soldiers to fight in this spiritual battle? Believe it or not, that's what my first block-buster movie of the summer left me thinking!

This is Jeff Ables, and if you're reading this - You are the resistance.

Crossroads 2009 Easter Production "Proof"

Here's the video of the Easter Production I promised. Sorry it took so long but we had to get the file the right size to work with blogger. I hope you enjoy it and I'd love to hear back from you. It's real different from anything we've ever done but it was very effective and we had a lot of people make commitments to become Christ Followers.