The Inside Problem And The Outside God

Quoting Michael S. Horton: The problem, of course, is that we have an outside God and an outside redemption. Everything inside of us is the problem. The good news, however, is that the God who is completely other than we are became one of us, yet without succumbing to our selfish pride. He fulfilled the [...]

Reagan On The Constitution

Quoting Ronald Reagan: “The Constitution provides the structure of our federal system and a system of checks and balances that applies equally to each branch of government, to relations between the states and the Federal Government, and, as importantly, to each of us. It protects the rights of all Americans to ‘life, liberty and the [...]

Are Obama’s Executive Orders A Threat To Freedom?

The Weimar Republic of Germany was protected by a written Constitution that was as strong as the Constitution of the United States. The Weimar Constitution clearly directed the President and Chancellor of Germany to go before the members of the Reichstag to receive approval before taking any action not specified by the Weimar Constitution. Once [...]

Guarding Your Heart

The heart is key to holiness concerning the eyes, the mouth, and the feet, and disciplining our minds and bodies. Jesus told us to love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength (Matt. 22:37). David says, ‘Thy word I have treasured in my heart, that I may not sin against Thee’ (Psa. 119:11). [...]

The Media Seeks To Control What You Think

What The Loss Of Egypt Means To America

In 1979, I was teaching and finishing up a Master’s Degree when I first heard about the student riots in Iran that eventually deposed the Shah. The Iranian government was quickly usurped by the followers of Ayatollah Khomeini. Khomeini hated both America and Israel. We lost a major ally in the Middle East that is [...]

What Would Your Community Look Like If Satan Took Over?

The article below offers contrasting results of Satan’s war on Christianity. The warning to us here is to beware of the cultural church as much as we would avoid the obvious sin. Michael S. Horton writes: What would things look like if Satan actually took over a city? The first frames in our imaginative slide [...]

Charles H. Spurgeon On Preaching

The supernatural force that brings us to salvation is the power of the Holy Spirit. However, it is wonderful that God should condescend to work this miracle of grace through men. God speaks the illuminating word of salvation by our lips. Charles H. Spurgeon reminds preachers that: [T]hrough the instrumentality of our ministry [preaching]: our [...]

The Violent Left

In the last century, Marxist revolutions were achieved by a bloody minority. 200 million innocents were killed by leftists like Mao and Stalin making secular-progressivism the most violent and murderous belief system in history. The heretical Inquisition may have killed 30,000 people, but Chairman Mao, by himself, murdered 77 million. Murder is seen by such [...]

Christopher Love

Christopher Love was born in Cardiff, Wales, in 1618. At the age of fourteen, he went to hear William Erbury, vicar of St. Mary’s in Cardiff, who would later stray into mysticism. His wife later wrote how Love reacted to that sermon: “God met with him and gave him such a sight of his sins [...]

When The Lesser Overturns The Greater

Quoting columnist Tony Blankley: “[I] was struck [recently] by the words of the great Christian theorist and historian of the last century, Hilaire Belloc, that I read in his 1916 book ‘The Elements of the Great War, the Second Phase.’ He observed that when the most profound issue may face a nation, there is the [...]

There Is A Need For Guilt

Only those who are humble in heart will enter the Kingdom of God. Modern philosophy and psychology tell us that we must believe we are “OK” and that others are “OK” also. Thus, modern man would avoid being confronted by the consequences of his sins. The truth, however, is that I am not “OK”. I [...]

Franklin On Preparation

The Truth Is Needed In Congress

Quoting The Patriot Post: House Republicans plan to bring back the “Truth in Testimony” rule, requiring anyone who testifies before Congress to declare any money they receive from the federal government in the form of aid, loans or grants. The rule was created by the Contract with America bunch in 1995 and it exposed a [...]

The Man God Uses

Quoting H.A. Ironside: “God is not looking for brilliant men, is not depending upon eloquent men, is not shut up to the use of talented men in sending His Gospel out in the world. God is looking for broken men, for men who have judged themselves in the light of the Cross of Christ. When [...]

The Butterfly Agenda

Quoting Victor Davis Hanson I know Obama has a liberal agenda, but more recently he seems to have no agenda, as he flits about, trying this and trying that, in the manner of a forty-something academic who found out his faculty utopianism does not quite work outside the quad. Is Putin now “on our side” [...]

Unless God Works In Us

Our salvation is by grace and by grace alone. Why is it that so many reject the Word of God at first glance? Why do others believe and follow Christ? John Calvin offers the explanation as he preaches in this excerpt on Galatians 1:6-11: I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that [...]

Washington On Defense

The Constitutional Freak-out

Why is it that some people have a problem with the Constitution meaning what it says? The Constitution puts strict limits on government power and the only way to change the Constitution is to follow the procedures outlined in the Constitution. Of course, this would mean that secular-progressives (liberals) would have to get a huge [...]

Sometimes We Need Wise And Courageous Division

  Quoting A.W. Tozer: “In a fallen world like ours unity is no treasure to be purchased at the price of compromise. Loyalty to God, faithfulness to truth and the preservation of a good conscience are jewels more precious than gold of Ophir or diamonds from the mine. For these jewels men have suffered the [...]

Thoughts On The Tucson Shooting

We barely knew all the facts in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, though, before this vicious act was being milked for political advantage by ghoulish opportunists on the Left. Their argument was that the suspect, Jared Loughner, was effectively sent from the Tea Party. … The irony of criticizing the overheated rhetoric of your [...]

The Consequences Of An Incorrigible Disposition

He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy (Proverbs 29:1). The Scriptures tell us that Pharaoh’s heart was hard even though he was often reproved by Moses, and by the judgments of God. When his conscience was aroused he silenced its voice, and hardened his neck. At [...]

A Message To Ministers From C. H. Spurgeon

In this excerpt from a sermon preached at a conference for pastors, Charles H. Spurgeon reminds ministers where their strength, wisdom, and knowledge must come from. As Spurgeon explains here, it is much too easy for a teacher of the Gospel to put himself forward in the place of God: In order to have power [...]

What Is It To Be Born Again?

There are people who deceive themselves and imagine that they have been regenerated. Now, they have forsaken God, yet believe they will once more be born again. They know nothing of this matter as Charles Spurgeon points out from the verses below: “For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world; and this is the [...]

What’s Wrong With Reading The Constitution?

Evidently, there are some lawmakers who think reading the Constitution is “a waste of time,” or that it is “out of date” and “too difficult to read.” These are the cries of the power hungry who do not believe they should be limited by the rules this nation was founded on. Columnist John Hayward thinks [...]