Playing The “Hate Card”

There are people in this country who advocate silencing traditional and conservative views in the public square. In doing this they are attacking a key right the First Amendment was designed to protect. The free debate of controversial ideas is a right, as well as a tradition, in the US. The strategy being used to [...]

The Knowledge Of His Will

Quoting G. Campbell Morgan: “To the individual believer indwelt by the Holy Spirit there is granted the direct impression of the Spirit of God on the spirit of man, imparting the knowledge of His will in matters of the smallest and greatest importance. This has to be sought and waited for.”

The Blessing Of A New Year

Quoting Debbie Carroccio: We should take advantage of His faithfulness and make every day a fresh start. Resolve to make each day the beginning of a new year, a new morning, a new adventure. He wipes the slate clean and goes back to zero so we can be filled up again with His spirit and [...]

Freedom To Choose Your Destiny

Quoting Ronald Reagan: “Sir Winston [Churchill] led his people to great victory in war and then lost an election just as the fruits of victory were about to be enjoyed. But he left office honorably, and as it turned out, temporarily, knowing that the liberty of his people was more important than that of any [...]

Opinions Matter

  Have you ever heard someone say, “Don’t give me doctrines, just give me Jesus”? Perhaps they said they were tired of hearing the opinions of preachers. Perhaps they just wanted the preacher to “motivate” them to feel good about Jesus. There are lots of ways of saying we don’t want to get too deep [...]

Jim Elliot On The New Year

Quoting Jim Elliot: I pray that the Lord might crown this year with His goodness and in the coming one give you a hallowed dare-devil spirit in lifting the biting sword of Truth, consuming you with a passion that is called by the cultured citizen of Christendom ‘fanaticism’, but known to God as that saintly [...]

A New Year’s Blessing

Author Unknown: May God make your year a happy one! Not by shielding you from all sorrows and pain, But by strengthening you to bear it, as it comes; Not by making your path easy, But by making you sturdy to travel any path; Not by taking hardships from you, But by taking fear from [...]

Treading Into The Unknown

Quoting M. L. Harkins: I said to a man who stood at the gate of the year: “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown”; and he replied, “Go into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than a light and [...]

Dinesh D’Souza And Obama’s Rage

Why has Dinesh D’Souza, who is Indian-born, been denounced as a racist, liar and many other things? D’Souza, a conservative author, has recently provoked a firestorm of liberal anger and name calling with his new bestseller, The Roots of Obama’s Rage. Even Glenn Beck has called The Roots of Obama’s Rage a “must read.” If [...]

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”

The Government And Your Food

Quoting economist Walter E. Williams: “We Americans have given federal, state and local governments the right to interfere with any aspect of our lives when it comes to issues of health. So should we be surprised when an emboldened Congress enacts Obamacare, even though most American were against it, that not only mandates that we [...]

The Restoration Is Coming

15 He [Jesus Christ] is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. 17 And he is before all things, [...]

Grace For The New Year

Author Unknown: The New Year is a time to learn to rely more heavily on the grace of God. Now I’ve met a few self-made men and women and so have you, but so often these people seem proud, self-centred and driven. There is another way: beginning to trust in God’s help. One secret from [...]

The Object Of The New Year

Quoting Gilbert Keith G. K. Chesterton: The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make [...]

Seeking A Year Of Usefulness

Quoting Matthew Simpson: If this is to be a Happy New Year, a year of usefulness, a year in which we shall live to make this earth better, it is because God will direct our pathway. How important then, to feel our dependence upon Him!

Congress And Our Money

The Declaration of Independence, particularly the second sentence, provides us with a sweeping statement of individual human rights: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” The implication [...]

Man Is The Same

Quoting Donald Grey Barnhouse: “Man is the same today that he has always been. He is a rebel against God. He may, in some generations, hide his rebellion a little more carefully than at other times, but there is no change in his heart. The men who builded the city against God back in the [...]

Someone Americans Can Trust

Quoting historian Paul Johnson: “What the midterm elections proved is that the American people do not trust Barack Obama to lead them. And trust, that magic five-letter word, is the most important element in the relationship between a nation and its government. … The scars from the financial crisis are still raw and unhealed; unemployment [...]

Discontent Is A Disease

Quoting Thomas Watson: Discontent is to the soul as a disease is to the body: it puts it out of temper and much hinders its regular and sublime motions heavenward. . . . For my part, I do not know of any ornament in religion that more bespangles a Christian, or glitters in the eye [...]

The Power Of Propoganda

A new exhibit at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., examines “how the Nazi Party used modern techniques as well as new technologies and carefully crafted messages to sway millions with its vision for a new Germany.” Reason.tv’s Michael C. Moynihan visited with museum historian and curator Steve Luckert to discuss the [...]

Renewing The Spirit

Quoting Seán Kearney: How extraordinary to find the common bond of love expressed in a shared poverty. On this basis He could speak to us of shared values, of a vision and a mission we could make our own. From the manger this Child of the virgin Mary could speak to us of our destiny, [...]

Recapturing Conviction

Quoting J. B Phillips: If New Testament Christianity is to reappear today with its power and joy and courage, men must recapture the basic conviction that this is a Visited planet. It is not enough to express formal belief in the “Incarnation” or in the “Divinity of Christ”; the staggering truth must be accepted afresh… [...]

The Spark Of Desire After God

Quoting William Law: When therefore the first spark of a desire after God arises in thy soul, cherish it with all thy care, give all thy heart into it; it is nothing less than a touch of the divine loadstone, that is to draw thee out of the vanity of time, into the riches of [...]

A Christmas Blessing

Quoting Wilda English: God grant you the light in Christmas, which is faith; the warmth of Christmas, which is love; the radiance of Christmas, which is purity; the righteousness of Christmas, which is justice; the belief in Christmas, which is truth; the all of Christmas, which is Christ.

Knowing That I Know Christ This Christmas

6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. (Isaiah 9) From a sermon by Charles Haddon Spurgeon on Christmas Eve: If unto us a Son is [...]