Patrick Henry: The Voice Of A Patriot!

Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death! Patrick Henry March 23, 1775 There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free–if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending–if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have [...]

Was Jesus Just A Great Moral Teacher?

Quoting British author C.S. Lewis (1898-1963): “I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. A man who [...]

The Unknown History Of The Founding Fathers and Slavery

David Barton, who has recently gained a wider reputation on Glenn Beck’s “Founders Fridays”, writes this article “The Founding Fathers and Slavery” to supplement the reconstructed American History you were indoctrinated with while attending public schools: “Even though the issue of slavery is often raised as a discrediting charge against the Founding Fathers, the historical [...]

Ronald Reagan: He Really Was What He Said He Was

Quoting President Ronald Reagan (1911-2004): “I still can’t help wondering how we can explain away what to me is the greatest miracle of all and which is recorded in history. No one denies there was such a man, that he lived and that he was put to death by crucifixion. Where … is the miracle [...]

The Best Security For The Republic

Quoting Charles Carroll of Carrollton (Signer of the Declaration of Independence): Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime & pure, [and] which denounces against the wicked eternal misery, and [which] insured to the good eternal happiness, are undermining the [...]

The God Pleasing Man

Quoting Richard Baxter: See therefore that you live upon God’s approval as that which you chiefly seek, and will suffice you: which you may discover by these signs. 1. You will be most careful to understand the Scripture, to know what doth please and displease God. 2. You will be more careful in the doing [...]

Truth Redefined

Kelly O’Connell is an author, attorney, and radio show host. In his article “Who Defines ‘Truth’ When Politicians Re-Write the Dictionary?” he points out three areas of American life – Education, Church, and Political Correctness – where the false has been declared true: The very notion of truth itself has been tied, stretched out and [...]

Give Me That New Time Relativism. . . .

37 Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.” 38 Pilate said to [...]

Memorial Day: An Observation

Memorial Day 2011 will be observed on the last Monday of May (May 30, 2011). Formerly known as Decoration Day, it commemorates American soldiers who died while serving their country. The day was first enacted to honor Union soldiers after the American Civil War. After World War I it was extended to honor Americans who [...]

Apart From Godliness – All Religion Is Utterly Vain!

Charles Spurgeon writes the article below based on Joel 2:13: “Rend your heart—and not your garments.” (Joel 2:13) Garment-rending and other external signs of religious emotion, are easily manifested, and are frequently hypocritical. True repentance is far more difficult, and consequently far less common. Unsaved men will attend to the most multiplied and minute religious [...]

Anti-Oil Policies Are Destroying The American Economy

Jason Bradley has written an excellent article in BIG GOVERNMENT that explains the politics and economics of the anti-oil, secular-progressive politicians in Washington. The title of the article is clear and to the point: “The Reality Is, We Need Oil”! I hope you will read the entire article by clicking the link at the bottom [...]

What Is Your View Of Heaven?

Quoting John Owen: We may hereby examine both our own notions of the state of glory and our preparations for it, and whether we are in any measure “made meet for the inheritance of the saints in light.” Various are the thoughts of men about the future state,-the things which are not seen, which are [...]

Liberty Depends On. . . .

Quoting Fisher Ames (Framer of the First Amendment): Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in the heart, and on the influence all these produce on public opinion before that opinion governs rulers. (Source: Fisher Ames, An Oration on [...]

Do You Understand The Doctrine Of Original Sin?

Charles Hodge, D.D. was the principal of Princeton Theological Seminary between 1851 and 1878. A Presbyterian theologian, he was a leading exponent of historical Calvinism in America during the 19th century. In the excerpt below, Hodge helps us to understand original sin: [O]ur Confession [Westminster Confession of Faith] teaches the doctrine of original sin. That [...]

True Faith And Humility

A. A. Hodge, in the following article, discusses how the assurance of salvation and humility go hand-in-hand: I think the first essential mark of the difference between true and false assurance is to be found in the fact that the truth works humility. There is nothing in the world that works such satanic, profound, God-defiant [...]

Theodore Roosevelt: “To Bear The Name Of American Is To Bear The Most Honorable Title”

Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt was not only the 26th President of the United States (1901–1909); he is famous for a range of interests, and his “cowboy” image of robust masculinity. He was a naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier. In What So Proudly We Hail: The American Soul in Story, Speech, and Song there is a [...]

Reaching For Satisfaction in God

Quoting Cotton Mather: Our continual apprehension of God, may produce our continual satisfaction in God, under all His dispensations. Whatever enjoyments are by God conferred upon us, where lies the relish, where the sweetness of them? Truly, we may come to relish our enjoyments, only so far as we have something of God in them. [...]

Sinai And The Law

Quoting John Quincy Adams (Sixth President of the United States): The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code; it contained many statutes . . . of universal application-laws essential to the existence of men in society, and most of which have been enacted by every [...]

Election And Holiness

The extracts below were taken from A Door Opening Into Everlasting Life by Andrew Gray, modern edition ©1989 Netherlands Reformed Book and Publishing Committee. We may very seriously ask ourselves, “What has been the result of election in our lives?” Andrew Gray warns us to examine the degree of holiness in our lives: If God [...]

When Democracy Means Mob Rule

Quoting commentator Chuck Colson: “What’s missing in all the talk about the ‘Arab Spring’ and ‘democracy’ is any examination of what democracy means and whether it necessarily makes things better. . . . Authoritarian regimes or strong democracies enforcing the rule of law, can offer these minorities some protection against the anger of the mob. [...]

Harold Camping: The Countdown Continues

Harold Camping’s much publicized Judgment Day prophecy went by unfulfilled on Saturday. Camping, 89, now says he miscalculated. Instead of a physical destruction of the earth on May 21st, he thinks his prediction was spiritual in nature and the actual end of the earth will take place on October 21st. Camping issued his correction during [...]

A Pastor’s Confessions

The following article is composed of excerpts from “A Pastor’s Secret Heart” published by The Banner of Truth Magazine, no. 235, April 1983. I think that it is good for those of us who are laypeople in the church to consider the reality and difficulty of a minister’s life. Toward this end, I suggest you [...]

Teddy Roosevelt On Americanism

Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States (1901–1909). He is noted for his energetic personality, range of interests, and his “cowboy” image of robust masculinity. Roosevelt’s achievements as a naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier are as much a part of his fame as any office he held as a politician. [...]

Substituting Zeal For Piety

Quoting John Angell James: Amidst much that is cheering, there is, on the other hand, much that is discouraging and distressing to the more pious observer. We behold a strange combination of zeal and world-mindedness; great activity for the extension of religion in the earth, united with lamentable indifference to the state of religion in [...]

Religion And Freedom

Quoting John Adams: [I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue. (Source: John Adams, The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States, Charles Francis Adams, editor (Boston: Little, Brown, 1854), Vol. IX, p. [...]