Obama's Daily Devotionals

[Jerome]

"Obama's Spirituality is Largely Private", Washington Post

The "daily devotionals" Obama receives via e-mail from Joshua Dubois, director of the Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, offer him a line to that faith, officials said.
The messages come from "a range of sources," an official said -- sometimes a passage of Scripture or, on an upbeat day, a psalm. At other times the daily message will come from a book that Dubois thinks the president would enjoy. More than once the devotional has been culled from the work of Reinhold Niebuhr, the Protestant theologian who wrote extensively on the "just war" theory, which Obama has cited in his thinking about Afghanistan and in his Nobel prize acceptance speech. Other devotionals come from the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer, which Obama was given as a gift at last year's prayer breakfast.

 

[rbell]

Can't wait till he gets to the passage, "I would not have you, ignorant brethren..."

 

[SBCPreacher]

Maybe he'll finally read Psalm 139:13-17.

 

[Johnv]

We can disagree with our POTUS until we're blue in the face, and, for the most part, rightly so. But I won't even begin to use my diagreement with him as an excuse to mock his personal faith. That's just not appropriate.

 

[Mexdeaf]

I'm surprised no one has said, "The problem is he isn't using the KJV!!"

 

[preachinjesus]

I wonder why this kind of thing is such a big issue. We didn't elect a Pastor-in-Chief. Who cares if he has daily devotions or not.

The Presidency of the United States is not a spiritual office. Why do we make such a big deal about it?

I dunno.

 

[SBCPreacher]

I wonder why this kind of thing is such a big issue. We didn't elect a Pastor-in-Chief. Who cares if he has daily devotions or not.

The Presidency of the United States is not a spiritual office. Why do we make such a big deal about it?

I dunno.

True, but I'd still rather have a godly man in office?

 

[Revmitchell]

I am sure his devotionals consist of stuff like the following:


"Thou shalt not spew CO2 into the heavens for this is an abomination."

 

[Marcia]

Isn't Reinhold Neibuhr neo-orthodox?

 

[preachinjesus]

True, but I'd still rather have a godly man in office?

Well, the quickest lie that is told by too many politicians is that they are "Bible believing" Christians...then they go out and have affairs and cheat people out of money.

While having godly people in office or business is nice, it isn't a deal breaker. We so often forget that according to the NT our rulers are placed over us by God. Doesn't matter much to me if a man does or doesn't have devotions. It is far more interesting to me if a person says they have them in order to trick people into thinking them better, but doesn't actually do them.

 

[NaasPreacher (C4K)]

True, but I'd still rather have a godly man in office?

Like which president, for example?