Is God on America's Side?

With typical wisdom and lucidity, Erwin W. Lutzer addresses a question that often arises after disappointing elections or events in our nation: "Is God really on America s side?"

To answer, the reader is carefully led through seven vital principles of a biblical understanding of judgment.

God can both bless and curse a nation. God judges nations based on the amount of light and opportunity they are given. God sometimes uses exceedingly evil nations to judge those that are less evil. When God judges a nation, the righteous suffer with the wicked. God s judgments take various forms. In judgment, God s target is often His people, not just the general population. God sometimes reverses intended judgments. Provocative questions for individual reflection or group discussion complete each chapter of the book.Throughout, Lutzer s insights into how Christians should view government equips them to think "with the Bible in one hand and a newspaper in the other. "