“The Pilgrims — Overcoming the Hard Times”


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The Pilgrims - Overcoming the Hard Times 1Forefathers Monument, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, is dedicated to the memory of the Pilgrims:  Specifically to the memory of, “…their labors, sufferings, and sacrifices in the cause of civil and religious liberty.”  One of the five statues which make up Forefathers Monument is Morality.  This statue reveals the Pilgrims desire to live conforming their actions to the Bible.  They demonstrated how Christ could live His life through us if we were surrendered to Him as a living Master.  And that was true in hard times as well as good times.  Their story shows us this reality—even in the most difficult circumstances.

When they came together in a church covenant in 1605 to: “…walk together in all His ways…whatsoever it should cost them…” (Bradford, William. Of Plimoth Plantation), it would cost them dearly.  Several times over the next three years, English deputies would burst into their worship meetings, hauling the men off to jail; fining them and keeping them locked up for thirty days.  This cost them financially because they were unable to work their farms during those times.

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“But WHY Did The Pilgrims Come?”

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The Pilgrims landed in America nearly 400 years ago.  But do you know why they came to America?  Was it to start a new life?  Well, yes; but what kind of life?  Was it so they could be free?  Well, yes; but what kind of freedom were they looking for?  Because most of us don’t know the answer to these questions is why we continue to accept—or even vote for—more and more of the slavery from which they were fleeing.

Perhaps you would say, “They came here for religious freedom.”  And you would be right—but, what kind of religious freedom?  Did they come merely so they could sing songs to God and study the Bible in their own gatherings?  No, they came with a much broader desire than that.

You see, the Pilgrims understood they must be able to Continue reading

“The Stark Contrast of Socialists and Conservatives”

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At the Judge Kavanaugh swearing in ceremony, President Trump apologized to the Kavanaugh family for the “terrible pain and suffering” they were “forced to endure” through his confirmation process to the Supreme Court.  Despicable things were done against them.  Other conservatives have been attacked physically lately by people who are socialists:  Ted Cruz and his wife at a restaurant; Congressmen trying to board airplanes.  The left has said, “We will come after you…”

(Confirmed: Kavanaugh and the Left’s Intentions, Family Research Council (Washington, D.C., Oct. 8, 2018))

All this venom spewed out by the socialists in America is in stark contrast to how little of this kind of thing happened from the conservative camp when Barack Obama took the Presidency.  Though many of us felt Continue reading

“Americans Are the Guardians of Liberty”

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We should carefully take in the words of the Father of our country, George Washington. In his first inaugural address he stated words of such wisdom that they should sober and inspire every one of us who are Americans. If heeded, they will inspire us to become an instrument in the hands of Almighty God for the good of our children and the entire earth.

Just after Washington took the oath of office to defend and uphold the newly written Constitution of the United States, he spoke these words of wisdom:

“We ought to be no less persuaded that the…smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained;…the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered as…perhaps finally, staked [with] the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people…”

(Tim LaHaye, Faith of Our Founding Fathers (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, 1987), pp.63-64, 107)

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“Biblical Living: Our Only Security”

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Across America there is a growing desperation.  Older citizens fear for what their grandchildren are going to face.  Parents fear that their children will experience the violence of a street gang, or rapist, or satanist:  Or they fear their teenage daughter may turn up pregnant.  With more and more young people using drugs, parents fear their child may get hooked too.  Young people fear that their parents may be the next to divorce.  People are asking, “Is there anything in this world that is stable?!”

There is an answer to that question!  A resounding answer:  “YES!!”  And you might be surprised to know that, in the past, there have been those who’ve known this stability.  The Founding generation in America walked in this stability.  And though they were beset with war, economic woes, and having to build a new government in the midst of all this, they still knew where the “Rock” was.  They constantly turned to Jesus Christ and His Word as “the stability of their times”.  They believed “His Word was truth”, as the Bible taught (John 17:17).  They lived out the reality of the Scriptures as they sought to obey it in their personal lives and built it into their institutions.  Daniel Webster spoke of them and their faith when Continue reading

“Religious Acts by Our Government”

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Today we hear much about what is called the “Separation of Church and State”.  By that phrase is meant that the Bible, nor Christian ideas, have any right to influence government.  Groups such as the ACLU, who promote this idea, say that the First Amendment to the Constitution forbids Biblical ideas from influencing government.  But an honest study of the men who wrote the First Amendment will reveal just the opposite.

America’s Founders came from a long line of people who looked to God as the Source and Strength of their lives.  Prayer to them was as natural as breathing, and an absolute necessity in times of national crisis.  When the first major step toward war occurred, which was the blockading of Boston harbor, the first Continental Congress was then in session.  This gathering marked the first time the thirteen colonies had come together to discuss how to deal with the King of England’s tyranny over the American colonies.  Their very first act was to invite a minister to start their sessions with prayer and the reading of the Bible.

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“America’s Link with the Gospel”

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Is there any link between America and the Bible?  Was this nation founded on Biblical principles, or was it just “coincidence” that it came into being and grew to be the greatest nation in world history?  Though people without knowledge of, or respect for, the Bible would have us believe it was just “luck”, the historical record reveals just the opposite.

In speaking to a 4th of July celebration in Newbury, Connecticut in 1837, John Quincy Adams revealed our Biblical foundations.  Being one of our Founders and our sixth President, he was very familiar with the thinking of the Founders.  He knew what 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

“Patrick Henry – Voice of Liberty”


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A few years ago a State Senator said to me, as I was urging him to stand against the uprising of homosexuals in Kentucky:  “I tell you now, I just try to get along with everybody down here”, referring to people in Frankfort.  I often hear young people saying what they’ve heard in school or the music of our day:  “Let’s just compromise; everybody give a little so we can get along.”  I wonder if this state Senator and these young people know that they have been deceived by liberal thinkers of our day into thinking that the foundation of freedom is compromise.  This is not what America’s Founders believed!

Patrick Henry - Voice of Liberty 1They believed you must know the truth about every subject as the Bible revealed it.  Jesus had said, “If you continue in My Word, then are you My disciples indeed.  And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:31-32)  Then once you knew the truth, you must stand for that truth no matter what the cost.  This was true in your personal life and it was true in your state and nation.  They believed that your personal moral goodness, founded in knowing Jesus Christ as your Master and Savior, was the basis of being able to stand for liberty.  If you knew internal self-government of your bodily desires, then you were qualified and empowered to walk in liberty in your community and nation.  If you didn’t, you would have to be ruled by someone else.  If you couldn’t control yourself, someone else would have to control you.  Patrick Henry of Virginia summed Continue reading

“Pastors Taught America’s Founders”

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To any honest, diligent student of history it is obvious that the generation of America’s Founders was one of (if not the) wisest generations that ever walked this earth.  The Republic they gave birth to would rival the greatest nations on earth after only fifty years.  Many political thinkers would come here just to try to find the secret of the genius of this Republic.  Since then, probably more people have, of their own free will, immigrated here than to any other nation on earth; which shows us the greatness of what they created.

Where did America’s Founders get this kind of wisdom?  Who taught them as children and young people in such a way so as to produce the greatest nation in world history?  It was Continue reading