Chuck Norris (yes, THE Chuck Norris) writes an incredible article debriefing Rev. Rick Warren’s inaugural prayer. The best article on the prayer that I’ve read to date.
Chuck Norris impresses again!
Chuck Norris (yes, THE Chuck Norris) writes an incredible article debriefing Rev. Rick Warren’s inaugural prayer. The best article on the prayer that I’ve read to date.
Very very good!
Following is the invocation prayer offered by the Rev. Franklin Graham at the inauguration of President George W. Bush, January 20, 2001, in Washington, D.C.
“Let us pray.
Blessed are you, O Lord, our God. Yours, O God, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor; for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, O Lord is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all. Wealth and honor come from you; you are the ruler of all things. In your hands are strength and power to exalt and to give strength to all.
As President Lincoln once said, “We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the offended power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.”
O Lord, as we come together on this historic and solemn occasion to inaugurate once again a president and vice president, teach us afresh that power, wisdom and salvation come only from your hand.
We pray, oh Lord, for President-elect George W. Bush and Vice President-elect Richard B. Cheney, to whom you have entrusted leadership of this nation at this moment in history. We pray that you will help them bring our country together, so that we may rise above partisan politics and seek the larger vision of your will for our nation.
Use them to bring reconciliation between the races and healing to political wounds, that we may truly become “one nation under God.”
Give our new president and all who advise him calmness in the face of storms, encouragement in the face of frustration, and humility in the face of success. Give them the wisdom to know and to do what is right and the courage to say no to all that is contrary to your statutes of holy law.
Lord, we pray for their families and especially their wives, Laura Bush and Lynne Cheney, that they may sense your presence and know your love.
Today we entrust to you President and Senator Clinton and Vice President and Mrs. Gore. Lead them as they journey through new doors of opportunity to serve others.
Now, O Lord, we dedicate this presidential inaugural ceremony to you. May this be the beginning of a new dawn for America as we humble ourselves before you and acknowledge you alone as our Lord, our Savior and our Redeemer.
We pray this in the name of the Father, and of the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.”
What a huge difference in my mind compared to Rick Warrens wishy washy prayer. Rick Warrens prayer is lacking of spiritual clarity. I thought Rick Warren was a Christian Pastor, but from his Inaugural Prayer he seems as if he is the “Pope of the Universal Church”. If he is “Christian”, why bother praying to and referencing all the false Gods in his prayer. For the sake of “political points” he did a great diservice in reducing sound Biblical Theology by accepting and communicating the eqaulity of all gods and all religions. I wonder if Rick Warren actually believes that Salvation is only through Jesus Christ?
I respectfully disagree with Mr. Norris’s analysis.
Oh boy here we go again!!!
I just hope “the brown can stick around and the white will do what’s right”.
You guys wanna argue about a “prayer” I would start with that one…
Yeah, let’s stone the Neanderthal and the light up the Bar-B.
“Can’t we just all get along?”
-Rodney King