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On January 21, 2025, President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance attended the Prayer Service for the Nation at the National Cathedral.
As a believer, I attended the service with the purpose of praying for our nation, President Trump, the president’s family, and the success of his administration.
I deliberately left the prayer service early after realizing how the pulpit was being used for left-wing activism and not for true worship of God, to seek His will and wisdom. Mr. President, what was addressed to you during the prayer service was political, not biblical.
When we tolerate lies, we are promoting a distortion of the truth. It is time for every believer to take a stand, get in line and leave the services where the entire counsel of biblical truth is being distorted.
Many know the faith of our Founders and the biblical influence on our nation. Even as recently as the 1950s, President Eisenhower and Congress declared “In God we trust” as our nation’s motto and added “one nation under God” to our Pledge of Allegiance.
A man of faith, President Eisenhower’s heart was set on this path from an early age when prayer saved him from death after his leg became infected and required amputation. The Lord answered these prayers, saved young Eisenhower’s leg, and thus our future president set out on the path of attending West Point and becoming the Supreme Allied Commander during World War II. This would never have happened if President Eisenhower had his leg amputated.
In 1953, President Eisenhower, acknowledging that he was not the first to say so, said: “I looked for the greatness of the United States in its comfortable harbors, its wide rivers, its fertile fields and its boundless forests, and it was not there… I looked for it in its democratic Congress and its incomparable Constitution, and it was not there until I entered the churches of America and heard its pulpits burn with righteousness. and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever stops being good, America will stop being great!
We must make America great again
Unfortunately, one day after President Trump pledged that his administration “will not forget our God,” Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde distorted the truth and used her position at the National Prayer Service to seek political fame and selfish gain. By ignoring the biblical teachings that God made humans clearly male and female (Genesis 1:27), that we should go to someone in private before approaching them in public (Matthew 18:15-17), and that we should obey the law of the earth (Romans 13:1-3), Budde ignored biblical truth.
In his sermon, Budde cited a bible verse commonly used in leftist arguments, that “We must be merciful to the stranger.” To understand this verse, we must understand the word strange in its full meaning, taken from the original Hebrew language.
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This particular Hebrew word is used specifically to describe a foreigner who fully submits to the customs and culture of his or her country of refuge. Illegal aliens do not submit to the laws of the country, but defy them.
The Rev. Mariann Budde leads the national prayer service attended by President Donald Trump at the Washington National Cathedral, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Ecclesiastes 8:11 warns us against ignoring broken laws, saying, in effect: When the law is not enforced, people’s hearts are moved to do more evil. Let us not forget the murders, rapes and gang violence that the lawless southern border has perpetuated.
The left often ignores these teachings, taking scriptures out of context and use half-truths to justify their policies. Don’t fall into this trap! A half-truth is always a total lie.
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The pulpit did not burn with righteousness during Budde’s sermon, but instead promoted principles that inherently contradict biblical truth.
If we want our country to become one nation again under God, we must speak the truth in love. Love without truth is not true love.
