Welcome to culture and Christianity.

We seem to have survived the blizzard of 26, or at least the first one.

God has kept us, yay.

This is also the one-year anniversary of President Trump's inauguration.

And it seemed like a good opportunity to reflect a little bit on what's happened and where we are,

some good. Still plenty of challenges remaining. There's a line that I use frequently, and I think

I'll use it for our theme today, that God is moving.

God is moving in the earth. He's moving in our congregation. He's moving in Middle Tennessee.

God is moving in the earth. I say that a lot across a lot of different platforms, and I'm

always a bit curious. It is challenged. People come up to me or send me emails or communicate

in some platform and say, Pastor, you like to say that God is moving. I don't see it. Why do you say

that? So I want to take a few minutes with you and unpack a little bit of why I believe God is moving

in the earth. I'll tell you first and foremost, I think

our vision is too narrow. We tend to think of it in terms of a revival service, or maybe

increasing attendance in the congregation where we worship, or I don't know what those imaginations

are, baptism numbers, but God moving in the earth in my imagination really has to do with God restoring expressions

of righteousness and godliness and biblical values and biblical worldview,

finding their way back into practice in our world and being celebrated in the public square.

For a long time, we've been watching those things diminish in about every

imaginable place. And I'm grateful to say, I see God moving, and I'm going to list some of those

for you. But I want to start with a couple of passages of scripture that I think are appropriate

for this season. One, I think has been a pretty accurate diagnosis of our culture for a good many years,

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