With tomorrow being election day (here in the US), I found this prayer for our nation by Billy Graham that I wanted to share.  I believe, as citizens of this country AND citizens of Heaven, our most important responsibility is to pray for our own hearts, our nation, our leadership and our culture.  One cool benefit of our heavenly citizenship is that even though in the US we have to be 18 to vote, there is no age restriction on prayer!!

OK, here it is:

Hey everybody.  Just wanted to give you a heads up that Lori and I just recorded a podcast!!!!  Look for it to be posted later today or first thing tomorrow.

I also want to give you a heads up that this would be an ideal podcast for all of you kids to listen to WITH your parents if possible.  Lori and I wanted this particular podcast to be a chance for us to talk about just general things that God had put on our hearts, so one of the things I felt the Holy Spirit prompting me to talk about was internet safety.  Don't worry, I didn't go into any gory details, but just talked about the importance of families having open dialogue about how to handle use of the internet and what constitutes appropriate interactions on the web.

With that in mind, I referenced some resources for parents to help keep their families safe on the internet.  Here are links to those resources: