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“Good Tidings Are Out There”

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There’s plenty of bad news these days if you allow it to dwell in your mind:  The unfounded impeachment proceedings in Washington; the socialists hoping to recapture the White House again, as well as the U.S. Senate, through these impeachment proceedings.  In my opinion, here in Kentucky, we’ve just replaced with a socialist, the best Governor we’ve had in my lifetime.  Also, in that same election, many of our small towns fell to the liquor industry.

All of this reveals how weak the church is in our state and nation.  It reveals how many, many church leaders are either ignorant of what our Founders created, or, they lack the courage to speak the truth about it to God’s people.  The very system our Founding Fathers enacted, which gave the greatest amount of liberty to the greatest number of people ever, is now being trashed by the socialists who control the media and the teachers unions.

But, America has seen threatening times before.  In the War for Independence, by September of 1777 the American cause looked hopeless.  The American army had Continue reading →

“Columbus and the Gospel”

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In just the last few days we have celebrated Columbus Day.  But why do we celebrate this day?  I remember learning in school that Columbus discovered America, but I don’t ever remember hearing why Columbus discovered America.

When we read Columbus’ own writings, it becomes obvious he decided to make his journey because of inspiration from God, his Creator.  Columbus wrote,

“It was the Lord who put into my mind (I could feel His hand upon me)…that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies.  All who heard of my project rejected it with laughter…[But] There is no question that the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit, because He comforted me with rays of marvelous inspiration from the Holy Scriptures…”

(Columbus, Christopher. August 3, 1492, as recounted by Bartolome’ de Las Casas. Samuel Eliot Morison, Admiral of the Ocean Sea (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1942), p. 149. | John Eidsmoe, Columbus & Cortez, Conquerors for Christ (Green Forest, AR: New Leaf Press, 1992), p. 106.)

While there are those who reject the idea that God can lead us in this world and make plain to us what He wants us to do, the Bible is Continue reading →

“Why Drought?”

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“It’s hot!”  I must have heard that a hundred times this summer—including all the times I said it to myself.  The small amount of rain over a lot of weeks is quickly moving us toward a crisis with our water tables.

But while we’re quick to complain about the dry weather, we’re much slower to consider why the rain has been withheld.  I hear Pastors sometimes quote that “God sends the rain on the just and the unjust”, as Jesus stated.  And that is His normal course of action.  However, there are other Bible passages that shed further light on this subject.  For instance, 2nd Chronicles 6:26, when King Solomon prays to God and says, “When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against [God]…”  Solomon obviously believed rain could be withheld because God’s people were in sin.  This was also proven with the prophet Elijah.  God told Elijah that He would withhold the rain because of the wickedness of King Ahab and his Queen Jezebel.  Moses warned Continue reading →

“Is Sunday Sad?”

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Recently, I read a magazine article which so illustrates the thinking of our day.  The subject was what might be called the “Sunday sads”.  I used to get it in the pit of my stomach when I was a small boy; Sunday evenings this sadness would creep over me because I had to go to school the next day.  Playtime was over.  The feeling said, “Back to the old grind, boy; fun’s over!”  But in this article, I couldn’t help noticing how much the so-called, “Sunday sads”, illustrate the humanistic thinking of our day.

First the article identified the symptoms of this experience.  They spoke of how, as Sunday evening draws nearer, feelings of regret for good or bad done that day start descending like a black cloud.  Then there’s the fear of what this coming week might hold; in other words, worry.  It can all make for a sad Sunday evening.

But when reasons for this and solutions for it were put forth, not one person interviewed even mentioned Continue reading →

“The Judgments Promote Just Living”

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Everything from parental disrespect, to chaos in the schools, to mass shootings, can be laid at the feet of one missing truth in our society:  Accountability to God, our Creator.  And yet, I seldom hear a sermon from the passages in the Bible which teach that we will face God as our Judge of what we’ve done with this life.  Yet the Bible is so clear about it!

The final judgment, the one for those who haven’t surrendered to Christ as their Master, is found in the book of Revelation, chapter twenty.  It tells us:

“And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away…And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works…And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.” (Revelation 20:11-15)

God is going to open “the books” (Rev. 20:12); that is, the Books of the Bible; and He is going to reason with every single lost person about why they should have surrendered their lives to Christ, until they bow their knee and say, “Yes, you were Continue reading →

“Why Mass Shootings?”

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Mass shootings seem to be escalating.  And while the political pundits always try to pin the blame on their political enemies, the truth is the numbers of shootings have been increasing no matter which political party is in power.  The news media, psychiatrists, and talk show hosts, have tried to answer the question, “Why do tragedies like this occur?”  And, as usual, most of them aren’t even close to the right answer.  But there is a simple, “root” reason for things like this occurring; and it’s found only in the Bible.

The Bible explains that because of our refusal to allow the life of God to enter us in the Garden of Eden, so we could be a channel of the life of God in this earth, we received a “sin principle”.  That is, a root of sin that colors the thinking of all who do not walk with Christ.  It produces the attitude:  “I want what I want when I want it.”  This causes a man to lash out at others when he doesn’t get what he wants, when he wants it.  This attitude is the foundation of all the political philosophies in the world—except God’s original plan for government revealed in the Bible.

It becomes obvious, contrary to the way the secular media tries to spin it, that the root thinking of mass killers is Continue reading →

“Our Founding Fathers: Christian”

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Sometime back, there was a letter to the editor of one of our newspapers in this region, which sadly expressed the lack of understanding of some people in our land.  This man began by saying, “Our state is under the spell of a myth, the myth of a Christian nation.”  He goes on to assert that most of our leading Founding Fathers were deists.  In particular he names Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and George Washington.  He then goes on to define deism:  “Deism is a way of looking at the world and believing there’s a god who created it, but then left things alone (i.e., no miracles, no son of god, no divine intervention).”

I fear this man represents some in America who simply misrepresent the facts about our Founders, either by ignorance or design.  Why don’t we do a novel thing?  Let’s let the Founders speak for themselves!  Wouldn’t that be a different approach to education?

As to Kentucky being under the “myth” that we are a Christian nation:  The Patriot, Patrick Henry, let Continue reading →

“Why America Declared Independence”

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In declaring our Independence from England, were our Founders rebels, pushing against God-ordered government? Or were they revolutionaries, re-establishing God-ordered civil government? It’s way past time we again considered the twenty-seven reasons they listed for declaring Independence. They stated:

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King George III

“The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

“He has refused his Assent to Laws…wholesome and necessary for the public good.

“He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance…

“He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature…

“He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual…for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

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“God Aids Those Committed to Liberty”

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In the first two years of our War for Independence from England, George Washington’s army had very few victories. They were out-manned, out-gunned, and out-supplied. Yet they refused to give up and clung tenaciously to the hope of liberty. And some miracles occurred in the winter and spring of 1778 which would begin to fulfill that hope.

As they had marched into Valley Forge to establish their winter camp, Washington spoke of how this was a most remarkable army. Though just volunteer farmers, they had stood up to the British army, the greatest in the world, with dogged determination. Even now, as they struggled into their winter camp, their sacrifice was evident. Many had clothes which hung in threads, exposing their naked bodies to the cold. Washington recorded how one could trace their steps by the path of blood left by many who had no shoes of any sort. That winter over 2000 of the 6000 man army would die from lack of food and exposure to the elements. Yet, they stayed. Their love of liberty meant more than any physical hardship they were experiencing.

And in answer to prayer, God sent a man all the way from Prussia who would Continue reading →

“Our Freedom Document”

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The Bible says, “Stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.” (Galatians 5:1)

Ladies and Gentlemen: The following document is the reason you and I, in America, are free:

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitles them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. Continue reading →