"For what if some did not believe? Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid: yea, let God be true, and every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged."—Romans 3:3-4

"We began our coverage of this final round just about three hours ago and when we did it was our intent to begin the coverage of this U.S. Open Championship with a feature that captured the patriotism of our national championship being held in our nation’s capital for the third time. Regrettably, a portion of the Pledge of Allegiance that was in that feature was edited out. It was not done to upset anyone and we’d like to apologize to those of you who were offended by it.”

Offended - No.   Shocked - No.   Surprised - No.

Saddened - Yes. That we as a nation could, with such ease, "edit out" our God is a tragedy of monumental proportions.  Coincidence?

Barack Hussein Obama speaking in response to a U.N. resolution on human rights, sexual orientation and gender identity said:

“This marks a significant milestone in the long struggle for equality, and the beginning of a universal recognition that LGBT persons are endowed with the same inalienable rights, [clearly an allusion to the language of the Declaration of Independence]  and entitled to the same protections -- as all human beings.”

This statement was the third time this year that the president has used the “inalienable rights” language and omitted the word “Creator.”

When God devised the great plan of salvation by grace; when He gave His own Son to die as the Substitute for guilty men; when He proclaimed that whosoever believed in Jesus Christ should have everlasting life; you would have thought that everybody would have been glad to hear such good news, and that they would all have hastened to believe it. Christ is so suitable to the sinner. Why does not the sinner accept Him? The way of salvation is so simple, so suitable to guilty men, it is altogether so glorious, so grand, that if we knew and understood the depravity of the human heart, we should expect that every sinner would at once believe the gospel, and receive it gladly. [edited from sermon by C.H. Spurgeon]

But, sadly, some have not believed!