The Report On Fort Hood Does Not Address The Real Problem

The U.S. military’s report on the Fort Hood shootings spends 86 pages detailing various mistakes by Army officers without once mentioning the name of Major Nidal Hasan or if the killings may have had anything to do with the Hasan’s view of Islam. The report’s silence on Islamic extremism demonstrates the current tyranny of political [...]

Our God Will Provide

From the pen of Charles H. Spurgeon: When the church of God believes in God, and goes forward bravely, she need not trouble as to supplies. Her God will provide for her. He that gives the Holy Ghost will give gold and silver according as they are needed; therefore let us be of good courage. [...]

Does Congress Even Care About The Constitution?

In the words of Jon N. Hall: “America once made the required nod to the Constitution. When We the People wanted to make some fundamental change or expand the federal government’s reach, we did the right thing and amended the Constitution. … If we once thought that we had to amend the Constitution to ban [...]

G.K. Chesterton On The Christian Ideal

Quoting G.K. Chesterton: “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.”

Back To The Future?

Why Are Young Men Leaving The Church?

Church life today is suffering from the disappearance of young men between ages 20 and 25. Why is it that as long as the boys stay home with their parents, they go to church; but when they leave home between the ages of 18 – 20, they leave the church as well? Bojidar Marinov thinks [...]

The Coming Financial Collapse

Posted by Vasko Kohlmayer: “Is America’s Financial Collapse Inevitable?” asks the title of a recent piece by Patrick Buchanan. The article points out something we have repeatedly discussed here: There is no way the federal government can meet its financial obligations. If our government were ever to do so, it would first have to eliminate [...]

Hate Crime Laws Are Unconstitutional

From the pen of Jim Brown: Michael Marcavage, director of Philadelphia-based Repent America, was one of 11 Christians who were jailed and charged with a hate crime for carrying Bible verse banners and preaching at a 2004 homosexual pride event in Philadelphia. The charges were later dismissed — and in 2008, the state’s Supreme Court [...]

David Brainerd On Love For Human Souls

Quoting David Brainerd: “I care not where I go, or how I live, or what I endure so that I may save souls. When I sleep I dream of them; when I awake they are first in my thoughts – no amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence [...]

Private And Public Virtue

Quoting John Adams: “The foundation of national morality must be laid in private families. … Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics.”

The Greatest Question Of Our Time

From the pen of Dr. Albert Mohler: “The greatest question of our time,” offered historian Will Durant, “is not communism versus individualism, not Europe versus America, not even East versus the West; it is whether men can live without God.” That question, it now appears, will be answered in our own time. For centuries the [...]

President Obama Speaks To A Sixth Grade Class

Do you notice something out of place in this picture?

Money Or Morality?

Quoting author Chuck Colson: “Hard work and self-denial were part of our national character — actually our Christian heritage. In recent years, the ‘sound economic values’ have eroded. … But the problem, you see, is that values and the character they produce aren’t divisible. People will not exercise restraint in their economic dealings while casting [...]

Charles Spurgeon On Believing God

Quoting Charles Spurgeon: “If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all.”

The Limited Role Of Government

Quoting columnist Ken Connor: “The American people must regain the ability to distinguish between wants and needs and must shed the ridiculous notion that government exists to provide either. Our Constitution — drafted by men well acquainted with the abusive capacities of a centralized government — limited the roles and responsibilities of the federal government [...]

Ways To Destroy A Church

From the pen of D. A. Carson: “The ways of destroying the church are many and colorful. Raw factionalism will do it. Rank heresy will do it. Taking your eyes off the cross and letting other, more peripheral matters dominate the agenda will do it–admittedly more slowly than frank heresy, but just as effectively over [...]

Recruiting Terrorists In American Prisons

From the New York Post: According to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, intelligence indicates that some 36 Americans who converted to Islam in prison have departed for the al Qaeda hotbed [Yemen] in the past year, claiming to want to study Arabic. Intelligence officials told the committee that they’d lost track of some of the [...]

God Shall Cause Each Error To Fall

Charles H. Spurgeon writes: We may expect that God will work for His people in an extraordinary fashion if they will but be faithful to Him. Empires will collapse, and times will change, for the truth’s sake. Expect the unexpected, reckon upon that which is unlikely, if it be necessary for the growth of the [...]

Whatever Happened To The US Constitution?

From the desk of Walter E. Williams: At the heart of the American idea is the deep distrust and suspicion the founders of our nation had for government, distrust and suspicion not shared as much by today’s Americans. Some of the founders’ distrust is seen in our Constitution’s language such as Congress shall not: abridge, [...]

Blaise Pascal On Theology

Quoting Blaise Pascal: “Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”

Character Counts

Quoting Samuel Adams: “Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.”

The Biblical Basis For A Comprehensive Worldview

From the pen of Gary DeMar: Henry Morris explains in his book The Biblical Basis for Modern Science that the Bible’s approach to worldview issues is comprehensive and includes science, technology, the humanities, commerce, law, civil government, and education, in short, every facet of human culture: “[L]ong before [the Great Commission] another great commission was [...]

Be Blessed In Christ!

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5 he predestined us [...]

Obama Nominates Lesbian Activist To Employment Post

From the desk of Susan Brinkmann: President Barack Obama has nominated a lesbian activist lawyer to serve as a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. In a recent White House announcement, President Obama nominated Chai Feldblum, a professor of law (gay studies) at Georgetown University who formerly worked for the American Civil Liberties Union [...]

Augustine On Sin

Quoting Augustine: “I inquired what iniquity was, and found it to be no substance, but the perversion of the will, turned aside from Thee, O God, the Supreme, towards these lower things.”