Thankfulness for a vacation and this nation

I did have a chance to preach on Thankfulness yesterday, Sunday, the 12th. This whole month, believers should be thankful for just breathing air in this great nation. All the other 11 months, we all should be thankful. That we get caught up in the mundane affairs of everyday living is natural but if one is a believer in the Biblical God and Savior Jesus Christ, thankfulness for just being able to live in the USA is a must. Sure, the election for me and for many Christians was a huge disappointment. And if the Party that won is truly the liberal socialist pacifist Party as I know them to be, our whole nation is facing many problems via the ongoing war against Islamofascism. Still, 300,000,000 Americans live in a free land and many of these value freedom and our democratic capitalisistic system.Yet, we all know that our Judeo-Christian foundations are slowly being reduced here in America. How then shall we live? How will Americans recapture their faith, their liberties, their courage in this time of appeasement, socialization, and fun, fads, and fundamental changes toward a more humanist secular society? Frankly, I can only fall back to the answer of sharing the Gospel with our fellow citizens. Sure it is tougher nowadays since so many either compromise the Call of Jesus on one's life, or our citizens simply resist and reject any call for throwing off our narcissism and selfishness and loner mentality. And nowadays, sin is not to be uttered. But, if Christians do not spell out the Bad News as well as the Good News, how can one be saved? With God, even in 2006, all things are possible. Will the Christian Church , will Abundant Hope really accept that and go to work? I pray so or our future will really be dark and lonely. Even in this blessed nation .