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On February 9th, 2016, a group of Kentucky Legislators revealed the shenanigans of politics by politicians instead of government being operated by statesmen.  Senate Bill 7 would have stopped Kentucky tax dollars from going to that dastardly organization which is misleadingly named “Planned Parenthood”.  Planned Parenthood probably commits more abortions across this nation that any other single organization which does abortions.  The bill to defund Kentucky’s Planned Parenthood was stuck in a House committee, so advocates presented what is called a procedural bill in order to bring SB 7 to the House floor for an “up or down” vote.  The vote to bring out SB 7 so it could be voted on went like this:

• 47 voted for SB 7 to come to the House Floor for an up or down vote.
• 10 voted against it coming to the Floor.
• 39 did not vote at all!!

When no vote is cast at all in the Legislature that inaction is counted as a vote against the bill.  Continue reading →

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Some years back, I had a very revealing conversation with a Pastor. This good man, who believes and preaches the Bible to be the truth, had served as a school board member in his community for many years. Finally, he lost an election by one vote! I wonder how many good Christian people wished they had gone to the polls to vote in that election, instead of doing something they thought was more important! They counted on others to protect their children by re-electing him, while others counted on them! Every election in America sees 3/4 of the people who say they are committed to the Bible not show up at the polls to vote. Evangelicals could easily elect Biblically thinking people if they would vote for the Biblical values they say they believe. They could even elect a third party candidate—If they would register to vote and vote for Biblical values! The people of God who do not vote are responsible for the devastating slide of our nation toward dictatorship.

James A. Garfield, our 20th President, warned us in 1876,

“If the next centennial does not find us a great nation…it will be because those who represent…the morality of the nation (i.e., the Church) do not aid in controlling the political forces.” Continue reading →

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The ship rode the waves in Cape Cod Bay in a restless sort of way. The voyage just completed had lasted 66 days. The last six weeks had been in unbelievable storms. At one point, the Mayflower had nearly gone to the bottom. Only by a miracle was a broken beam repaired with a tool that was supposed to have been left on the dock in England. There were other difficulties and the hard voyage had left the Pilgrims sea-weary and sick. And yet, before they got off the ship, a document had to be written and agreed upon by all those who would be making their home in America. The document would come to be known as The Mayflower Compact. It declared the laws they would live by and how they would be governed. Common men established their own government, and those governmental principles make America the oldest living Republic in world history.

This government form was not new to the Pilgrims, though it was not the form of government used in their previous homeland. They were familiar with it because it was their form of church government. Their Pastor, John Robinson, had taught it to them from the Bible and they had walked in this type of government in their church for 15 years. Now all who agreed on the form of civil government they would use, and the laws by which it would be operated, should be allowed an equal voice in it. They believed this because they had discovered Continue reading →

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Saturday, America lost one of her best friends of liberty. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead at a West Texas resort. Appointed by President Reagan, Scalia was respected by both friend and foe on the Court. His ability to reason from the original intent of the Constitution by America’s Founders made him one of the best ever Supreme Court Judges. His ability to dismantle liberal, “smokescreen” arguments made him the feared enemy of liberal attorneys. He was one of two great champions on the Court for the truth of the Biblical positions on life in the womb, marriage, and religious liberty. With Scalia, the law, as our Founders gave it, applied to all. He literally changed the direction the court had been going before his appointment in the mid 1980’s by exposing the foolishness of interpreting law by what was called “legislative history.” His aim was always to stand by the Founders’ original intent for the Constitution. Few attorneys think like him today. It will take a work from God to give someone like him to fill his place on the Court. Let us pray for the Scalia family and others who were friends. Their loss is great. Let us likewise pray Continue reading →

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Thomas Sowell is one of my favorite political analysts, and the fact that he happens to be of African descent makes his exposing of Mr. Obama’s lies even more pertinent. He gave a glowing analysis of Mr. Obama’s theatrical performance last month when he announced his executive orders to further control gun ownership. I want to quote from Mr. Sowell extensively today because he lays out in such simple terms the foolishness of gun control. He writes,

“Those who have been marveling at Donald Trump’s political showmanship were given a reminder of who is the top showman of them all, when…Barack Obama went on television to make a pitch for his unilateral actions to restrict gun sales and make a more general case for tighter gun-control laws…As political theater, it put Donald Trump’s rantings in the shade…As for the substance of what Obama said, there was very little substance, and much of it false…

“Like most other gun-control advocates, President Obama invoked scenes of mass shootings, as if what he is proposing would have prevented those tragedies. But, almost invariably, mass shootings occur in gun-free settings. Yet gun-control zealots seem determined to create more gun-free settings… Continue reading →

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Mr. Obama is at it again. Using the several attacks by gunmen across the nation last year as his reason, he is reportedly about to issue an executive order which would further strip from us our right to have weapons to defend ourselves. Aside from the fact he is violating the Constitution by issuing executive orders to do what only our Congress would have the power to do (and that only if the people approved an amendment against guns which the Congress had drafted) Mr. Obama is disagreeing with the Bible in trying to disarm the citizens of this nation. Secondly, he is disagreeing with our Founding Fathers on whether we have the right to bear arms as citizens. And thirdly, he is siding with dictators like Adolf Hitler, when he works to disarm us.

So what does the Bible say about the right to defend one’s body against an attacker? On the night Jesus was arrested, He told his disciples, Continue reading →

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Should churches teach concerning government? The real question is: What does the Bible say about civil government? Because if something is in the Bible, we who are the teachers in the Body of Christ are under God’s call to teach it. We must declare “the whole counsel of God”. (Acts 20:27) So let’s look at what the Bible teaches concerning the reason for, and the structure and spirit of, civil government.

God’s reason for creating civil government is stated very plainly in 1 Peter 2:13-14,

“Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.”

God created civil government for “the punishment of evildoers”. God knew that once we rebelled against Him in the Garden of Eden, the selfishness that entered mankind would move one man to take away the rights of another man. Thus, civil government is God’s minister to punish the one who would take away another’s “life, liberty, or [property]”. This is the only way to slow down the selfishness in man and Continue reading →