Should America Be More Like Sweden?

Lund University economist Andreas Bergh explains how Sweden has managed to increase economic productivity by becoming increasingly capitalistic. Bergh says that despite popular mythology, Sweden is not a socialist success story.

We Are Christians On Whom The Eyes Of The World Are Now Turned

Elias Boudinot served as President of Congress and signed the Peace Treaty of Paris to end the War for Independence. He was a framer of the Bill of Rights and respondent to Thomas Paine’s The Age of Reason with The Age of Revelation. He also called on Congress to begin each morning with prayer: “Let [...]

Thomas Jefferson On Conviction

Clinging To Guns And Church

Quoting Joel McDurmon: Imagine the following scenario: At church this Sunday, while reviewing the list of announcements and upcoming events for your church, your pastor added, “Oh, and don’t forget: on Sundays we have our regular target practice. Make sure to bring your rifles. Make sure to bring your pieces to church.” Absurd, right? Not [...]

Preaching The Gospel Invitation

What is the most Scriptural and edifying way to preach gospel invitations to sinners? God and Christ are never exalted more than when full weight is laid on the free omnipotence of the mercy from which salvation flows. It looks, indeed, as if the old Reformed preachers of the gospel are the only people whose [...]

Character And Great Men

The Intent Of The Founding Fathers concerning A National Government

There was nothing in the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, or the ratification process of the federal Constitution that created a national (rather than a federal) government.

Energy Myths

You know President Barack Obama’s energy and climate strategists do not want to face the real facts of America’s energy problem. The truth is anathema to Al Gore and other secular progressives promoting renewable energy sources which will save the world from the “evil” of fossil fuels and stop global warming. The “tree-huggers” fuzzy thinking, [...]

The Free Market Is A Friend To The Poor

Do the poor benefit most under a socialist, state-directed economy or are they more likely to prosper in a land of free markets and capitalism? While secular progressives continue to demand more government control over the American economy, Walter E. Williams – who serves on the faculty of George Mason University as John M. Olin [...]

Samuel Adams On His Personal Faith

Samuel Adams was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, who also helped ratify the Constitution, and was a governor of Massachusetts. He is quoted below concerning his Christian faith: “I . . . [rely] upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins.” “I conceive we cannot better express ourselves [...]

The First American Constitution

Virginia’s state constitution of 1776 was the first American constitution (and the first written constitution adopted by the people’s representatives in the history of the world).

Public Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer

A Proclamation For a Day of Public Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer signed by Samuel Adams included the following: [That] “the peaceful and glorious reign of our Divine Redeemer may be known and enjoyed throughout the whole family of mankind”; “we may with one heart and voice humbly implore His gracious and free pardon through Jesus [...]

The Loss Of Confidence In The Word Of God

The Word of God must be taught and applied to us consistently. The church must encourage and facilitate such teaching whether in preaching, Bible studies, reading, or conversations. We must always be growing in the Word. It is not just information, however, that we are to be gathering from our Bibles. We must be growing [...]

Muslim Leader Endorses Violence Against The West

MUSLIM LEADER SAYS ISLAM IS A RELIGION OF VIOLENCE!

Spurgeon On Rejecting the Gospel

In the words of Charles H. Spurgeon: When the gospel was first preached, instead of being accepted and admired, one universal hiss went up to heaven; men could not bear it; its first preacher they dragged to the edge of the cliff, and would have sent Him down headlong; yes, they did more-they nailed Him [...]

The Administrative State’s Attack On The Constitution

From the pen of Joseph Postell: The Founders confronted a basic problem: How to vest government with sufficient power to get things done without giving it the instruments to exercise tyrannical control? To protect individual liberty and rights, they established (among others) two basic principles at the center of our constitutional order: representation and the [...]

Be Merciful To Me

Quoting Thomas Watson: “Christ heals with more ease than any other. Christ makes the devil go out with a word (Mark 9:25). Nay, he can cure with a look: Christ’s look melted Peter into repentance; it was a healing look. If Christ doth but cast a look upon the soul he can recover it. Therefore [...]

Independence Lost

Quoting political analyst Michael Barone: “The tea partiers … recognize, correctly, that the Obama Democrats are trying to permanently enlarge government and increase citizens’ dependence on it. And, invoking the language of the Founding Fathers, they believe that this will destroy the culture of independence which has enabled Americans over the past two centuries to [...]

Worship Devoid Of The Word Of God

What happens when the church becomes satisfied with platitudes, pop psychology, and entertainment? Such worship is devoid of the Word of God. R. C. Sproul writes: Among what I see as the three most critical perils the church faces today are, first of all, the loss of biblical truth. When the truth of the gospel [...]

Rally in Support of “Aid” Flotillas to Gaza

A Turkish Religion of Peace Rally in Support of “Aid” Flotillas to Gaza. (The Banner Translates to a Common Expression of Gratitude)

The Importance Of A Pastor’s Love For His Congregation

From an article by the Reverend Dr. Ron M. Garwood: When a congregation has elected a new pastor, they await his coming with great expectation. And the pastor, too, is looking forward with good and positive expectations as he prepares to begin service to the new congregation. Then, after the new relationship has begun between [...]

Spurgeon On God’s Sovereignty

Quoting Charles H. Spurgeon: The worm is not to complain, because God did not make it an angel, and the fish that swims the sea must not complain because it has no wings to fly into the highest heavens. God had a right to make his creatures just as He pleased, and though men and [...]

Preaching For Emotion Or Understanding?

From the desk of John MacArthur, Jr.: Amusing Ourselves to Death is the name of a perceptive but disquieting book by Neil Postman, a professor at New York University. The book argues powerfully that television has crippled our ability to think and reduced our aptitude for real communication. Postman says television has not made us [...]

John Dickinson On Christianity

John Dickinson, a signer of the Constitution, who also served as governor of Pennsylvania and Delaware wrote of his personal faith in Christ: “Rendering thanks to my Creator for my existence and station among His works, for my birth in a country enlightened by the Gospel and enjoying freedom, and for all His other kindnesses, [...]

Jefferson On Big Government

Quoting Thomas Jefferson: “I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.”