Franklin Graham took to social media to urge the American people to pray for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris during this tumultuous time.
Franklin Graham took to social media to urge the American people to pray for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris during this tumultuous time.
Both Democratic candidates were declared the winners of Georgia's runoff elections on Wednesday.
Former and current Republican lawmakers are collectively condemning the violent insurgency that occurred on Capitol Hill Wednesday afternoon.
After Joe Biden was officially certified as the next president of the United States on Wednesday, President Donald Trump shared that he will peacefully transition out of power on January 20.
Yesterday, when President-elect Biden said that the actions of the mob did not reflect America, I wish he were correct. But he wasn’t. We are not a moral nation. We are lawless. We are not a nation that cultivates the kinds of families able to produce good citizens. Our institutions cannot be trusted to tell us the truth or advance the good. Our leaders think and live as if wrong means are justified by preferred ends. Our churches tickle ears and indulge narcissism. Our schools build frameworks of thinking that are not only wrong, but foster confusion and division.
Early this morning, the U.S. Congress certified Electoral College votes, making Joe Biden the forty-sixth president of the United States. Just hours before, however, the US Capitol was breached for the first time since the War of 1812.
Late Wednesday afternoon, Trump supporters attending a “Stop the Steal” rally-turned-violent-riot, stormed the U.S. Capitol building stalling the certification of Joe Biden as the next president of the United States. Amid the uprising, many faith leaders have taken strong stances, offering statements condemning the actions of the rioters.
Trump supporters stormed Capitol Hill on Wednesday bringing the certification of the 2020 Presidential Election results to an abrupt halt.
Vice President Mike Pence released a statement today asserting that, despite what some may believe, he does not have the constitutional power to stop the certification of Joe Biden as the next president of the United States.
Long after the political events of this week are over, every person you know will still need the eternal life only Jesus can offer. Our political engagement, even when motivated by a desire for truth and integrity in our political system, can be so divisive and caustic that nonbelievers will judge Christ by Christians and reject both.
This is why it is imperative to “let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear” (Ephesians 4:29).
