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What difference do words make anyway?  So what if one says ‘isn’t’ and someone else says ‘ain’t’?  As one comedian said, “Saying ‘ain’t’ is sure better than saying ‘aresn’t’!”  While people’s expressions can be humorous, the reality is:  Words are important.  The Bible says, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue…” (Proverbs 18:21).

Words are important!  Words communicate ideas.  Ideas in our thoughts produce actions in our bodies.  Those actions will produce life or death for us and others, particularly the next generation.

The ‘watering down’ of our language is doing great harm to our American way of life.  Knowing fewer definitions to words keeps us from understanding the language of our Founding Fathers.  Their writings were powerful because they could communicate such profound truth with so few words.  Many of the words they used we now have no clue what they mean.  This means we likely will Continue reading →

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In April of 1917 the United States entered into World War I.  While all wars are caused by the selfishness of man, the desire of our people as a whole was not our gain.  Rather, it was our desire to protect the liberty which God had entrusted to us.  And our people responded in great numbers to the request of President Woodrow Wilson to observe a Day of Public Humiliation, Prayer and Fasting on May 11, 1918.  He requested our people to:

“…humbly and devoutly…acknowledge our dependence on Almighty God and to implore His aid and protection…with religious solemnity and the offering of fervent supplications to Almighty God for the safety and welfare of our cause, His blessings on our arms, and a speedy restoration of an honorable and lasting peace to the nations of the earth…”

(American Minute by William Federer, April 6, 2015)

Our prayers “were heard and graciously answered.”  Few would argue that it was American arms which won the day for liberty in the nations of the earth and brought this mighty scourge of war to an end.  And while Continue reading →

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The dying mother called her young son to her side.  The nine-year-old boy would remember these words the rest of his life.  She said to him, “Son, I want you to live as I have taught you; to love your Heavenly Father and keep His Commandments.”  Later, after her memorial service had just ended and everyone was walking away from the grave, the little boy ran back and threw himself down on her grave sobbing, crying out to God to help him live like she had requested.  That little boy was Abraham Lincoln.  He would later say, “All that I am, my angel mother made me.” (Abraham Lincoln:  The Man and His Faith, Frederick Owen (Tyndale House, 1976), p.5)  His earliest memory of her was her teaching him to memorize the Ten Commandments as he sat as her feet (Ibid, p.6).

This was the kind of education that produced generation after generation of respectful, productive, people who made America the most prosperous nation in world history.  This way of educating produced government that was the freest in the world.  In fact, it is attributed to Abraham Lincoln to have said, “The philosophy of education in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”  No nation can be greater than its method of education.

America’s early education system was Continue reading →