A recasting of the American Financial System? What Next?

On Sep 11, Treasury officials declined to rescue Lehman Brothers. In the following weeks financial institution stocks plummeted at a mind numbing pace, which accompanied soaring credit default swaps and massive shorting. AIG Collapsed triggered a government seizure for 85 Billion of taxpayer money. Panic spread to Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, Washing Mutual went belly up and other financial institutions in Asia an Europe collapsed, what next? Looks like tough, tough days are ahead. Keep the helmet fastened, head down and don't put your head up until the shelling stops could be tough sledding for some time..

Alexander Solzhenitsyn 1919-2008

Who today, now, will speak truth to power? Who carries the banner, going forward?

"He has shown you oh man what the Lord requires, To do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with thy God."Micah 6:8...

May it be YOU (the one to carry the banner going forward...)

Intimate, Satisfying, Knowledge of God

"Sound Bible teaching is an imperative in the church, but it can be carried out wrongly. The Bible is not an end in itself, but rather, it is a means to an end. That end is to bring us into an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that we might enter into with Him, that we might delight in His presence, that we might taste and know the inner sweetness of God Himself at the center and core of our being. Until and unless we find God in this kind of personal experience, we are not any better for simply having heard the Bible".
A.W. Tozer.. The Pursuit of God

Update on photos from 2008 Ethiopian Trip

Click this link to see our two albums of our Ethiopian 2008 Trip. You can click on the first album, then run a slide show @

http://picasaweb.google.com/curtjohnson26

Enjoy,

(for later there will be a link in the upper right corner of this blog.)

On this day August 12, 1961

On this day August 12, 1961 Communist East Germany further divided the city of Berlin by erecting the Berlin Wall effectively isolating West Berlin from the rest of the world.

Off to Ethiopia

Tomorrow, 14 of us (5 from the Johnson household), begin a very long flight from Charlotte NC to Frankfort Germany (via Chicago!), then a layover, then off to Kartooun, Sudan, another layover, and then finally to our destination in Addis Abbaba Ethiopia. after 30 hours or so, we will arrive and begin our missions trip to Ethiopia. On the calender we will first visit the inner city of Addis to participate in a Sports Friends soccer event with a local Ethiopian Sports Minister, then a half a day spent at the Mother Teresa Aids orphanage in Addis,which has 460 HIV positive children in it (many with full blown aids) to play with and love on for the afternoon. Next day its off to the tribal region of Southern Ethiopia to Camp Langano to participate in a soccer camp with 45 or so Ethiopian children brought in from the 4 corners of Ethiopia who are currently being discipled by Sports friends in their local community. Please pray for safety i travel, and for God to use this special time in the lives of all involved.

Last week in Washington D.C -

Last week I was in Washington DC with Nathan Ross attending a Campaign Manager School. It was excellent. The leadership Institute (http://leadershipinstitute.org/ ), is an excellent organization for training conservative leaderships accross America.

When I go to Washington, I'm always reminded of its "top down solution" . Its a wonderful picture of a model which is siginficantly flawed and actually stands in antheisis to the Gospel Vision. The gospel vision requires;that real change; is accomplished; one person at a time. Through each of us living out the gospel, the world is affected through what John Calvin called, Common Grace.