Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at culture from a Christian worldview.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

In a nation's like ours are set up so that typically we get the leaders that we deserve.

Elections reflect cultural realities of a particular time and place.

Biblically we also know that God is sovereign over leaders and over nations. In light of these two things,

my prayer, each election has long been that God would be merciful, that he would not give

us what we deserve. Like Nehemiah and others of the Old Testament, it would be appropriate

for us to pray for our nation with a posture of repentance. Today I'd like to share with you this

kind of a prayer from historian, author, friend and colleague

Dr. Glen Sunshine.

The words are his, but are worthy words to be adopted and used as we pray together for our nation

at this time. Here's Dr. Glenn Sunshine.

Lord, these are dark and dangerous times for our country. Our politics is full of

hate and it's spilling over in how we think of and treat each other.

And like any nation, we have guilt for the evil we have done and permitted.

We have the blood of over 65 million unborn children on her hands. How do you even begin to atone for

this? No political party is willing to defend the unborn, and some of those who speak up for

them have even been imprisoned. We can only

appeal to your mercy and pray for an end to the slaughter of the innocence.

We have dismantled your design for marriage and sexuality and given into a spirit of confusion over simple biological facts.

We are engaged in a destructive project to do the impossible and transition people from one sex to another, and more victims will pay the price for our

folly. We have deep injustices in our criminal justice system against the

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