Visions And Angels With Bags Of Golden Dust

The music is a driving beat – strong, loud, and almost mesmerizing.  Some in the audience faint or laugh hysterically as emotional fervor is driven to a fever pitch.  The unconventional preacher is covered in tattoos.  Sometimes he wears a t-shirt that states, “JESUS GAVE ME MY TATTOOS.”  He wears earrings, eyebrow rings, and a [...]

Have You Separated Your Heart From The Influence Of The World?

What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?  What agreement has the temple of God with idols?  For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and [...]

North Carolina Government Funds Movie With Rape Scene Of Child

Why are North Carolina state funds being used to finance a movie with a child rape scene?  The movie is “Hounddog,” starring Dakota Fanning.  Fanning was 12 years old when they filmed the movie, but she plays a nine-year-old who was raped by a 20-year-old man.  There was no stand-in actress for Fanning during the [...]

Do You Possess A Holy Boldness?

Has God made you bold in the Gospel since your conversion?  On the other hand, do you worry about being offensive to this friend or to that acquaintance if you share the good news of Jesus Christ?  Is boldness a spiritual quality we should seek or is it inappropriate for our culture and times? After [...]

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Strikes Down “Hate Crime” Laws

WorldNetDaily reports that the Supreme Court in Pennsylvania has declared the “hate crimes” laws used to jail the Philadelphia 11 in 2004 violated the state constitution.  The Philadelphia 11, a group of Christians, had been giving their testimony on public property at the city’s tax-funded celebration of homosexuality in the city’s downtown in 2004.  They [...]

Do You Want To Make Your Church Relevant?

The hardest thing to change in the church is the people who say, “This is the way we have always done things.” The counter part to this, however, is that some people love to change things just for the sake of change or to put their personal imprint on their job.  We have all heard [...]

Saudi Academics: An Education In Hatred Only Leads To Violence

Most of us have had to take a multiple-choice test at one time or another.  Here is a sample question from a Saudi Arabian fourth grade textbook on Monotheism and Jurisprudence which teaches one to recognize true or false belief in God: Q. “Is belief true in the following instances: (a) A man prays but [...]

Do You Live As If There Is No God?

“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.  For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.  For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly [...]

For Those Of Us Who Love God’s Creatures Great And Small

This is the video diary of Christian the lion, a big cat who lived in a London antiques shop.  John Rendall and Ace Berg, two Australians, had bought the lion cub from Harrods in 1969.  The trio became stars in Chelsea, playing football in a park.  Christian, however, began to grow too big and so, [...]

Charles H. Spurgeon On New Doctrines

When at any time I am cast down and dejected, I always find comfort in reading books which are strong on the doctrines of the faith of the gospel; if I turn to some of them that treat of God’s eternal love, revealed to his chosen people in the person of Christ; and if I [...]

What Would Teddy Roosevelt Do? The Border And Immigration

Former President, Theodore Roosevelt, was also a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate winner because of his leadership in the negotiations of the Treaty of Portsmouth, which ended the Russo-Japanese War in 1905.  He is considered a notable and heroic American leader.  He advised us to “Speak softly,” “carry a big stick,” “and you will go far.”  [...]

Has Your Church Compromised The Gospel?

“Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it and laid incense on it and offered unauthorized [strange] fire before the Lord, which he had not commanded them.  And fire came out from before the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord.” (Leviticus 10:1-2, ESV) [...]

Harry Reid And Nancy Pelosi: Holding America Hostage To Environmental Fascism

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have effectively undermined all efforts to lift the ban on drilling for more oil.  Despite growing public support for ending the ban, Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said she won’t even allow a vote on lifting the ban.  Pelosi even boasts that in the [...]

Why Is It Important To Read The Bible?

The Bible is the Word of God written through man.  The human words we read in the Bible are God’s words.  Since the Bible is God’s Word, it is beyond human criticism.  It is the foundation of absolute truth.  The Bible is self-authenticated by God and does not really need other forms of verification. Every [...]

Could You Pass The United States Citizenship Test?

One of the great failures of our modern secular progressive educational bureaucracy is the dumbing down and rewriting of American History to make it more politically correct.  As a result, many citizens born in the United States don’t know the fundamentals of our own history. Here is a selection of questions that immigrants to our [...]

Christian Or Materialist: Which Chair Do You Sit In?

Francis Schaeffer wrote that: “Christianity is not just a mental assent that certain doctrines are true — not even that the right doctrines are true. This is only the beginning. This would be rather like a starving man sitting in front of great heaps of food and saying, ‘I believe the food exists; I believe [...]

Bob Barr: The Libertarian Alternative For President

One might ask, “Who is Bob Barr?” with the same puzzled expression of a character in an Ayn Rand novel asking – “Who is John Galt?”  Bob Barr, however, is not a character in a fictional novel.  He is a former Congressman from Georgia who is running for President of the United States of America [...]

Do You Struggle To Press On With Your Life?

“Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.  Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies [...]

Senator Tom Coburn Needs Your Help Fighting Wasteful Government Spending

Gary Bauer writes in his July 21st End of Day Report: I’m glad to report that at least one senator understands the need to prioritize spending. Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) is one of the best friends the American taxpayer could ever hope to have. He has taken on pork-barrel spending in the Senate, earning the [...]

Deception And The Politics Of Oil

The secular progressives in Congress say they believe that high gasoline prices are bad. Their constituents are angry over gasoline prices that are exceeding $4.00 a gallon. These progressives complain about the high gas prices but they really don’t want to do anything to help fix the problem.  Instead of changing irrational policies they point [...]

Have You Ever Wondered If You Are A Cultural Christian?

The cultural Christian believes he is open-minded; not double-minded. He believes that Christianity is true as long as it does not conflict too much with his own ideas.  He is religious, but cautious about how others see him. He is inconsistent in many ways. He bases his personal righteousness on works that look good.  He [...]

Al Gore Benefits From Advancing Global Warming Hysteria

Last Thursday, Al Gore sought to whip up declining global warming hysteria in Washington, D.C. by challenging our nation to produce every kilowatt of electricity through wind, sun and other Earth-friendly energy sources within the next 10 years.  Gore not only doesn’t care about how much more this is going to cost taxpayers and consumers, [...]

Charles Spurgeon In The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death

“It is a fact we do not often think of-that we shall all be dead in a little while. I know that I am made of dust and not of iron. My bones are not brass, nor my sinews steel-in a little while my body must crumble back to its native elements.  But do you [...]

Barack H. Obama Believes The US Is Responsible For Islamic Jihad

Robert Spencer writes an interesting article on the interview that Barack Obama recently gave to Fareed Zakaria on Sunday CNN.  During the interview, Obama basically blamed the US for Islamic jihad. Spencer points out that Obama seems to believe that in addition to US policy, poverty causes Islamic jihad.  This is a failure to grasp [...]

Who Is The Master Of Your Mind?

“Lord and Savior, true and kind, Be the master of my mind; Bless and guide and strengthen still All my powers of thought and will. While I ply the scholar’s task, Jesus Christ be near, I ask; Help the memory, clear the brain, Knowledge still to seek and gain.” (By Bishop H. G. C. Moule [...]