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“Why the Pressure?”

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The winter of 1623 had been especially hard for the Pilgrims.  At one point they had been reduced to five kernels of corn per person, per day.  That’s right; only five kernels of corn each day to live on!  Somehow, they had survived.  Spring finally came and they anxiously planted their crops.  They now had great hopes of having a good harvest and storing it up to avoid hardship this coming winter.

But then, the rain stopped.  Twelve weeks would go by with hardly any rain at all.  They finally realized God was trying to get their attention.  They called for a day of fasting and prayer to seek God’s face to find out the cause of the drought.  They worshiped and prayed earnestly for God to show them their sin.  As He did, they began to confess their wrongs toward Him and toward one another.  As they honestly opened their hearts and revealed selfish attitudes toward a neighbor and ask them to forgive them, the joy began to flow.  They knew they were meeting with God and He was pleased with their confessions to Him—and to one another.  It was then they simply asked Him to let the rain return.

When they left the meeting house that afternoon about 5 p.m., the clouds had already gathered on the horizon and by the next morning, were Continue reading →

“Why so Much Talk about Government?”

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The newscast is full of it.  The newspapers’ main stories are about it.  Bestseller books are often discussions of it.  Why is there so much talk about government?  What’s so important about government?

Well, like most things in today’s world, we generally talk around the topic instead of defining it.  Why not go to the root of the issue and actually learn what we’re talking so much about.

The word government comes from the word govern.  The word govern is defined in Noah Webster’s original American dictionary as control.  Thus, government is the exercising of control.  The first form of government we must learn is self-government.  The art of governing ourselves means we control our appetites of the mind and the body.  Self-government in the mind means we exercise control over our thoughts and think on what is “…noble…just…and pure…” as the Bible teaches us to (Philippians 4:8).  This necessarily means we must Continue reading →

“Restoring America from the Bottom Up”

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Can we stop abortion in America?  Can we stop the homosexuals from forcing their lifestyle on our children?  Can we ever turn the divorce rate back?  What about our economy?  Can we get it going again?  Is there any hope that we can see our education system once again teaching our children both academics and discipline?

I want to say a resounding “YES!” to these questions.  But the method I want to put forth to accomplish this may surprise you.

First, I urge you, as a citizen, in America, stop looking to Washington to fix things.  Most people in our national government don’t have a clue as to what it will take to solve these overwhelming problems.  Their answer generally is just to throw money at it; that fixes nothing and creates a whole new set of problems.  So how do we go about restoring our nation to the greatness it once knew?

Are you ready for this?  We fix ourselves!

We choose to come back to the Biblical foundation on which America’s Founders built this nation.  This means I start—and you start, as an individual, to Continue reading →

“Let His Kingdom Come”

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Recently a young friend of mine sent me an article he was disturbed about.  A man who, no doubt, is a sincere believer, was saying Christians should not be involved in government because, as he said, “God’s kingdom isn’t here on earth”.  He went on to put forth the idea that our work as Christians is to share the Gospel with the lost, not to lobby in government.

This is a common mistake I hear believers make.  They divide life into the ‘spiritual’ and the ‘secular’ parts.  In their thinking, neither is supposed to affect the other.

Is God’s kingdom only in heaven?  If that were true, why did God say in Genesis 1:26 that the reason He made us was so we would be “…in His image, after His likeness, and have dominion over…all the earth” (emphasis added)?  If we were made to look like God, live like God, and rule like God, as this verse teaches, whose kingdom did He desire to be on this earth?

Perhaps you’re thinking, “But that was Continue reading →

“Education Determines the Nation’s Thinking”

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One of America’s most important Founding Fathers made the following statement about education:

Education Determines the Nations Thinking 1“We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education…We’ve become accustomed of late of putting little books into the hands of children containing fables and moral lessons…We are spending less time in the classroom on the Bible, which should be the principal text in our schools…The Bible states these great moral lessons better than any other manmade book.”

Thus spoke Fisher Ames, the Founding Father who authored the wording of the First Amendment to the Constitution.  Could this Founder have possibly wanted the “separation of church and state” that liberals now say that Amendment supports?

But to continue with our thoughts on education:  Since education teaches children how to think; and since those thought processes become Continue reading →

“True Prayer Is Our Hope for America”

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It had been extremely hot and dry. There had hardly been any rain for twelve weeks. The corn and other crops had wilted and looked to be beyond reviving. This would mean starvation come winter. There was no hope in their own ability to fix this situation. But this group had learned to trust God, their Creator, as God, their Sustainer. Thus, they called for a day of fasting and prayer to seek God’s face as to why He had withheld the rain. After genuine repentance and worship that day in 1623, the rain began to fall that very night and to their astonishment, their corn revived and produced wonderfully that summer. The Pilgrims proved, once again, that prayer to God Almighty, the Father of Jesus Christ, is the way to move things in this world!

True Prayer is Our Hope for America 1In the midst of our current crisis, we must remember that it is not up to us, but the Lord Himself, to change our hearts and forms of government. While our part is to work with Him in what He’s doing, our praying will be what ultimately wins this battle. God stirs us to prayer, reminding us,

“…you have not because you ask not. You ask, and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may consume it on your own desires.” (James 4:2-3)

Others, beside the Pilgrims, have Continue reading →

“Foundational Ideas of America”

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Four generations of Americans have now been taught that this nation was birthed out of ideas from many different cultures:  That America is the great ‘melting pot’ of ideas.  While it is true America has descendants from many nations which make up her citizenry, the men who birthed this nation were very much alike in their basic view of life and the world.  The effort to hide from us their beliefs is designed to destroy the very liberty we cherish.

In 1843, Emma Willard, educator and historian, identified both the characteristics of the young republic of the United States and the reason for its emerging greatness.  Her words give us insight, which, if taught to our children, will Continue reading →

“Triumph Will Come Out of Tragedy”

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While this has been the worst year in American history, God is yet at work.  The story He is writing through the course of time is filled with triumphs that came out of tragedies.  One of these was when the Jews were carried away to Babylon for seventy years.  Their temple was torn down and the palaces of their kings destroyed.  Nothing was left of their previous civilization.  And yet, in that darkest of all days in their history, God was still writing His-Story.  He promised them that this tragedy would be used to work their repentance, which would bring them back to His order—and, in His order, there is always the flow of His blessing.

At this, the lowest moment in all their long history, God gave them an encouraging word through the prophet Jeremiah.  He boldly declared to the nation that, out of this tragedy, He would,

“…give them a heart to know Me, that I am the Lord: and they shall be My people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto Me with their whole heart.” (Jeremiah 24:7)

He said, “I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the Lord…”  They had gone into captivity because they had forgotten He was “the Lord”; that is, He was the Owner and Master of everything—including them!  He owned their possessions; and those should have been used for bringing their children and others into agreement with God’s way of thinking.  Instead, they had Continue reading →

“The Christmas Story”

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Ladies and gentlemen, the following story is why we have Christmas:

The Christmas Story1 “Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found with child of the Holy Spirit. And Joseph her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away [privately]. But when he thought on these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, ‘Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. And she shall bring forth a son; and thou shalt call his name JESUS; for…he…shall save his people from their sins.’ Now all this is come to pass, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, ‘Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel; which is, being interpreted, God with us.’ And Joseph arose from his sleep, and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took unto him his wife; and knew her not till she had brought forth a son: and he called his name JESUS.” Continue reading →

“Born to Raise the Sons of Earth”

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At this time of year we probably hear the Name of Jesus spoken more often than at any other time.  We thrill to the story of His miraculous birth and the way He arose out of very humble surroundings to become a Man who helped so many hurting people.  But there, most people’s thoughts of Him stop.  And we miss the reason for all His background and upbringing.  We miss what the great hymn written by Charles Wesley captured so well when he wrote in the 1700s that Jesus was:

“…born to raise the sons of earth; born to give them second birth.” (Hark the Herald Angels Sing)

So how does Jesus raise the sons of earth?  Well, He starts by bringing us into what the next phrase of the hymn calls the “second birth.”  He has the Holy Spirit convince us that we have rebelled against God and His order for our lives; thus, the Bible reveals to us that we are each sinners.  Then the Holy Spirit convinces us that Jesus has Continue reading →