I will update this post occasionally with Bush endorsements around the blogosphere. The first is a funny one by Frank J. I was perusing my referrers log and decided to stop in at his site, IMAO. This post is LOL! My five year-old niece would be impressed.
You want my Bush endorsement? Read the whole blog. Seriously, I may write a magnum opus this weekend to cheer on fellow Bush supporters. This has been a very contentious and combative presidential race, but so have many others in our history. I want to assure you that the world will not end if Bush isn’t re-elected. He’ll go on, and we’ll go on.
Some of you are nervous, others confident. To every believer, no matter how you feel about this election, I offer the word of the Lord:
Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same. For he is God’s minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil.Therefore you must be subject, not only because of wrath but also for conscience’ sake. For because of this you also pay taxes, for they are God’s ministers attending continually to this very thing. Render therefore to all their due: taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor. (Romans 13: 1-7)
If the people want John Kerry, so be it. If he wins, it is God’s will. If Bush wins, it is God’s will. On election night, I’ll be praying that Bush’s re-election and Kerry’s defeat is God’s will. He may have other plans. I trust him.
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Will Osama endorse Kerry? See Power Line. More endorsements to come…
Update: Fascinating subject, man’s free will. A commenter says we are not puppets on a string. Although I have a biblical view on this, I will direct you to JollyBlogger, a Reformed pastor and blogger who I admire.
He blogged about free will a few months ago (and probably many other times). I believe exactly what he writes in this post. The relevant part:
So, the Reformed do believe in free will for the regenerate and the unregenerate. Yes, we believe that even the unregenerate have a fee will.Free will simply means that a person is free from external coercion. They are free to make whatever decisions they want apart from any external coercion. We affirm that even the unregenerate have that freedom.
Where we differ from others is that we also say that man’s will is bound by his nature. A person cannot will against his nature. Since human nature, apart from Christ, is dead in sin, bound to sin, the person is unwilling to believe savingly on Christ. A spiritually dead person cannot will himself to live anymore than a physically dead person can will himself to come back to life. If the dead person (spiritually or physically) is to come back to life he will have to be resurrected by God. In the spiritual realm this means he must be born from above.
Mankind’s bondage to sin and inability to will to believe savingly on Christ does not mean that he is unable to will to do “civic good.” “Civic good” is simply the practice of loving one’s neighbor, being a good neighbor, taking care of one’s family, being a good citizen, etc.. As Edwards has said, if only believers could do civic good, what a terrible world this would be.
Read the whole post. Solid stuff.
Update II: Jason Smith tells us why he’s voting for Bush. Also see Captain’s Quarters and my blogbrother D.C. Thornton, who voted for Bush two weeks ago. 
Mad Mikey reports on an unusual endorsement for Kerry.
David Limbaugh, one of my favorite Christian writers, is blogging.
Please keep Phil Dillon and his family in your prayers.
Check out Hudnell’s Bush endorsement. The war against global terrorism is a recurring theme, it seems.
