A book everyone should read...

Hitler's Cross 

by Erwin Lutzer

Swastika banners in churches.  Pastors and leaders who tried to serve two masters.  

A country seduced and hypnotized by a demon possessed leader.  This was Germany under the rule of Adolph Hitler in the 1930's and 1940's.  

This book tells how Hitler rose to power, scheming to eliminate the church in Germany and set up his own ‘religion’ after his own image, and what we can learn for today from this deception.   Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer saw that following Christ was to focus on the message of the cross without shading the message to fit the political zeitgeist (spirit of the age). Sadly, most of the German pastors did just the opposite and the church lost it's influence in the country.  Nationalistic pride clouded their minds and many churches and pastors (although not all) looked the other way when Hitler began his elimination of the Jewish people.  It's hard to believe how this could happen, and this book examines how the church was deceived, and the lessons we can learn from this as our own nation becomes increasingly secular.  A nation that rejects it's solid moral foundation in God is a nation adrift and capable of much evil.

God let Satan loose to shake the whole German church to separate the wheat from the chaff. Hitler was a powerful man, but God is in control and nothing that happens is a surprise to Him.  He sets up rulers and takes them down.

I highly recommend this book.

~Alyssa W