Monkeying Around With Health Care

From the pen of Jim O’Neill: Let me give one well known example of left-wing obfuscation, misdirection, and lies. The so called Scopes “monkey” trial took place during the decades when the left wing was passionately promoting eugenics. Eugenics includes race purification, and euthanasia. In the movie “Inherit the Wind,” which is about the Scopes [...]

Human Understanding

Quoting John Calvin: “A simple external manifestation of the Word ought to be amply sufficient to produce faith, did not our blindness and perverseness prevent. But such is the proneness of our mind to vanity, that it can never adhere to the truth of God, and such its dullness, that it is always blind even [...]

The Secret Of America’s Success

Quoting President Ronald Reagan: “The intellectual establishment [is] so busy demanding more power for government, more bureaucracy, regulation, spending and — oh, yes — more and more taxes, they forgot all about the secret of America’s success — opportunity for people, for all the people. … Will we heed the pessimists’ agenda of higher taxes, [...]

Allah’s Cause

“He who fights that Islam should be superior fights in Allah’s cause”(Muhammad, prophet of Islam) Islamic terrorists have carried out more than 14,606 deadly terror attacks since 9/11. 2009.12.30 (Pattani, Thailand) – Two volunteers guarding teachers are taken down in a Mujahideen bombing. 2009.12.30 (Khost, Afghanistan) – Eight American civilians are murdered by a Shahid [...]

What Is Your View Of Scripture?

From the pen of John MacArthur: Wisdom with regard to spiritual life, time and eternity is all found in the Word of God. The Bible is the source, and the only source of divine wisdom. And it is a tragic thing to realize that the Bible is under assault from so many, many angles. There [...]

The Value Of An Oath

In the words of economist Thomas Sowell: “Adam Smith [once] said, ‘Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.’ That lesson seems to have been forgotten in America … where so many people seem to have been far more concerned about whether we have been nice enough to the mass-murdering terrorists in our custody [...]

Christianity And Reason

Quoting B. B. Warfield: It is the distinction of Christianity that it has come into the world clothed with the mission to reason its way to its dominion. Other religions may appeal to the sword, or seek some other way to propagate themselves. Christianity makes its appeal to right reason, and stands out among all [...]

Unauthorized Use Of Power

Quoting Thomas Jefferson: “On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a surrender of that power to them? If so, how many rebellions should we have had already?”

Washington’s Ten Most Corrupt Politicians

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released its 2009 list of Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians.” The list, in alphabetical order, includes: 1. Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT): This marks two years in a row for Senator Dodd, who made the 2008 “Ten Most Corrupt” list for his [...]

Does God Change His Mind?

From the desk of R.C. Sproul: Does God Change His Mind? If God is immutable, if He does not change at all, does that mean He never changes His mind either? This is a very thorny problem. The Bible appears to say at times that God changed His mind. Consider, for example, the following episode [...]

Defending The Constitution

In the words of Mark Alexander: At the close of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin was asked if the delegates had formed a republic or a monarchy. “A republic,” he responded, “if you can keep it.” To that end, as a warning for future generations to beware of “cunning, ambitious and unprincipled men,” [...]

John Owen On Temptation

Quoting John Owen: “Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction”

Fascism And Utopia

Quoting economist Thomas Sowell: “‘Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.’ We have heard that many times. What is also the price of freedom is the toleration of imperfections. If everything that is wrong with the world becomes a reason to turn more power over to some political savior, then freedom is going to erode [...]

ED And End Times

In the words of Joel McDurmon: End-times Dysfunction, also known as Eschatology Dysfunction, or ED’s Syndrome (named for Ed Smith, Captain of the Titanic), affect tens of millions of Christians worldwide. Afflicted by the mental and psychological effects of years of indoctrination by premillennial and dispensational views on Bible prophecy, these victims suffer from a [...]

Such Is Life!

From the writings of Charles H. Spurgeon: Such is LIFE. A bubble, brilliant with rainbow hues, delighting the eye of youth for a moment and then gone for ever, leaving not a trace behind. Man wilt thou risk thine all upon that bubble? Be wise and seek substantial good, and since this can ne’er be [...]

When We Breathe We Pollute?

News from the Patriot: Talk about taking the concept of “man-made pollution” to the next level: The Environmental Protection Agency, an unelected bunch of power-mad bureaucrats, is on the verge of declaring carbon dioxide and five other alleged greenhouse gases “dangerous pollutants,” which will require the federal government to regulate them, even absent cap-n-tax legislation. [...]

A Poor Sermon

Quoting George Whitefield: It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

Politics And Guilt

Quoting President Theodore Roosevelt: “When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘present’ or ‘not guilty.’”

Thirty-Nine Republican Senators Vote That The Health Care Bill Is Unconstitutional

Prior to the passage, this morning, of the mega-spending health care bill – the US Senate voted on a constitutional point of order raised by Senators Jim DeMint and John Ensign. They challenged the constitutionality of the Democrats’ health care legislation which will overhaul medical treatment in the US. All 39 of the Republican Senators, [...]

Why Is Bible-Reading So Important?

From the pen of Bishop J. C. Ryle: God has mercifully given us a book which is “able to make [us] wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus” (2 Timothy 3:15). By reading that book we may learn what to believe, what to be, and what to do; how to live with comfort, and [...]

Just The Bible Please

Recently, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America voted to allow homosexuals in same-sex relationships to serve as clergy. Although congregations will not be forced to hire homosexual clergy, ELCA conservatives are concerned that many members will leave and rightly so. The Episcopalian Church has also deviated from Scripture with similar actions that have caused strife [...]

Character And The Man Who Weeps

Will Rogers was known for his laughter, but he also knew how to weep. One day he was entertaining at the Milton H. Berry Institute in Los Angeles, a hospital that specialized in rehabilitating polio victims and people with broken backs and other extreme physical handicaps. Of course, Rogers had everybody laughing, even patients in [...]

The Second Oldest Profession

Quoting President Ronald Reagan: “Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.”

Sarah Palin On Politics And Health Care

Quoting Sarah Palin: Last weekend while you were preparing for the holidays with your family, Harry Reid’s Senate was making shady backroom deals to ram through the Democrat health care take-over. The Senate ended debate on this bill without even reading it. That and midnight weekend votes seem to be standard operating procedures in D.C. [...]

Law And Grace

In the words of John Calvin: When he taught that the whole law is contained in two articles, our Lord Jesus Christ declared to us clearly enough what is the real purpose of all the commandments of the Law. The first article is that we should love the Lord, our God, with all our heart, [...]