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December 1, 2010

Dear Friend,

Someone needs to write an update to the classic song, The Times, They Are a Changin written in the early 60s

and sung by Bob Dylan. Do you remember the words?

If your time to you is worth savin

Then you better start swimmin

Or youll sink like a stone

For the times they are a changin.

But the stuff that bothered Dylan then is not the stuff we face today. However, his words are strangely

prophetic. After the year 2005 when the terrible riots happened in France, there should be no one left, surely, who

is not painfully aware that the times are changingin many ways, faster than we can swim.

Many are now trying to tell the United States that we had better consider what happened to France in 2005 as

a wake up call for us. The time is now to do something about the very same issues that threaten France, and are

beginning to rise to crisis points right here in the USA. Good intentions, and the desire to be open-minded, to not

discriminate, to have a multi-cultural society where we are all valued for our differences, sounds so wonderful.

But as someone once said, Dont worry, it will never happen.

Voices are being raised to warn us that we are headed down the same road as the French, and if we dont startswimming, we will sink like a stone.

A warning comes rumbling out of the distant past: The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee

very high; and thou shalt come down very low. He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be

the head, and thou shalt be the tail. Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and

overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his

commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee (Deuteronomy 28:43-45).

This is very much the point of what has happened across Europe and is happening here right now in the early

stagesit is a rejection of God altogether.

There was a time when Europe was the absolute heart and soul of what was called Christendom. But nolonger: Timothy Garton Ashe, writing in the Guardian, observed: Atheists should welcome the election of Pope

Benedict XVI. For this aged, scholarly, conservative, uncharismatic Bavarian theologian will surely hasten

precisely the de-Christianisation of Europe that he aims to reverse. At the end of his papacy, Europe may again be

as un-Christian as it was when St. Benedict, one of the patron saints of Europe, founded his pioneering monastic

order, the Benedictines, 15 centuries ago. Christian Europe: from Benedict to Benedict. RIP.

Europe is now the most secular continent on earth. The phenomenon of the last pope masked the underlying

trend. We saw the great crowds of enthusiastic young people on St. Peters Square, or at open-air masses on his

many journeys, and half-forgot the plummeting figures for church attendance and the recruitment of priests. An

American Baptist missionary website puts things in perspective. Western Europe, it states, is. . . one of the

worlds most difficult mission fields. Most missiologists compare it to the Muslim-held Middle East when itcomes to responsiveness to the gospel. Voltaire would be proud of us.

The secularization of America has been going on for a long time. Do we really want our faith excluded from

the public square? Should the good old USA be envious of Europe? You need to know who we are as a people.

Do we have to imitate things European, or can we forge our own future in our own way? It couldnt be more

urgent that you order this FREECD, Goodbye to God, right now. Its an eye-opener and could help you in days to

come. To get your FREECD, just check the card and return it to us without fail.

Looking out for your faith,

Allie Dart

PS. This letter was written from notes of aBorn to Win broadcast previously recorded by Ronald L. Dart.

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Speakers Choice #67Practice Your Faith - After years of marriage, we can take one another for granted at some level. At thesame time, love calls on us to be attentive to one another. All too often we half-listen to what our mates are

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