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The Lord saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time

(Genesis 6:5). Bonus Reading: 2 Timothy 3:1-5, 10-13

A hundred years ago Christians in this country anticipated the greatest century the world had ever known. Technology blossomed on every hand. Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and a host of other inventors busied themselves creating devices that would lighten the load for millions. These were days of unbridled optimism, and the slogans of this era reflected this. You heard Christians say things such as "ever onward and upward," or "the evangelization of our world in our generation."

In the early days of 1900, a number of broad-minded souls launched a new journal they called The Christian Century. That's what these Christian journalists thought they could look forward to in those dawning days of the twentieth century: a hundred years of peace, progress, and Christianization.

Now we're at the end of that century, looking back. And oh, how different the view appears from this vantage point! It has been an era of unparalleled brutality and moral meltdown. It might even be said that it has been the most un-Christian century since Jesus walked on earth.

David Jeremiah in Jesus' Final Warning

Pray that God will help the church be strong in the coming 100 years.

The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.

Billy Sunday (BASEBALL PLAYER AND EVANGELIST)

Credits: Adapted from--Monday: Jesus' Final Warning (Word, 1999)

1999 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity. For reprint information call 630-260-6200 or e-mail mail@menofintegrity.net.
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