According to Howard Dean of the Democratic National Party, one of the reasons his movement took back the House of Representatives was due to capturing 1/3 of the evangelical Christian vote. Interesting... the Democrats even marketed on Christian radio, typically thought of as a Republican playing field. Perhaps the social issues Democrats often care about can one day be merged with the pro-life platform of the Republicans (among other issues on both sides).
While I'm not that pleased with how my local election turned out, I nonetheless recognize the opportunity to pray for my leaders. So in case you needed a few more names in your prayer list, I thought I'd throw out some inspired by recent events in our world.
Pray for:
- Newly elected politicians
- Incumbents who don't have a job anymore
- President George W Bush
- Pastor Ted Haggard and his family
- Mel Gibson and other Hollywood Christians
- The last waiter/waitress/salesperson you didn't see beyond his/her role to serve you
- Anyone in the media looking for a juicy story (that currently doesn't have one)
- The poor and the widowed in your own neighborhood
- That guy about to throw some trash out his car window
- Children trying to understand why there is sin in the world
- Adults trying to understand the same thing
3 comments:
I have also noticed how often dems were doing adds on conservative radio stations. I heard they were trying to be more centrist. Think this is true?
I haven't listened to a lot of radio recently, so I couldn't comment with any accuracy. I do know, though, that watching CNN revealed the intentions I mentioned in the original post.
Great prayer list. Thanks, Tony.
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