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Reasoning

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Why do we make so many mistakes in life?  How can it be we are so deceived about so many things?  It all has to do with our reasoning processes…

When Noah Webster wrote our first American Dictionary in 1828, he defined the word reason as “to deduce inferences justly from premises. Brutes do not reason; (he wrote) children reason imperfectly.”

A premise he defines as “a first or antecedent proposition.”  In other words, it’s the foundational idea.  In reasoning (to deduce inferences justly) we either state a conclusion based on the foundational idea we know; or we examine ideas we know, in order to find the foundation idea on which they are based.

In the former we show what can be expected because of what we know.  In other words, because we know a root, we can predict the fruit.  We call this inductive reasoning.  In the latter, we trace back through the ideas or events we do know (the “fruit”), in order to discover what we do not know (the “root”).  We call this deductive reasoning.

So where did reasoning, itself, come from?

It came from the God who made us.  He thinks this way.  He stated in Isaiah 1:18, “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD…”  Continue reading →

“The Foundation Of Our Nation Is Covenant”

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“The Miracle Which Birthed Our Constitution”

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Praying For Our Nation…

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Consider Praying For Our Republic This Way:

  • Thank God for our history and original educational, economic, and governmental systems.  Ask Him to help you re-learn them!
  • Pray for a revival of morality (Internal Self-Government).
  • Pray for a revival of His Institutions:
    • Structural –
      • That He will restore the Home according to Ephesians 5:18-6:2
      • That He will restore the Church as in Ephesians 5:22-23
      • That He will restore Self-Government as in Ephesians 5:18
    • Operational –
      • That He will restore Education according to 2nd Timothy 3:16 & Psalms 78:5-8
      • That He will restore Economy according to Deuteronomy 8:18 & Matthew 6:33
      • That He will restore Civil Government according to Matthew 28:19-20

Commitment:

  • Will you commit to daily pray that God will restore you, your home, and your church?
  • Will you ask Him to join you with another believer or several believers who will pray together at least once a week for revival and reformation in America?
  • Will you ask Him to make you aware of tasks you can perform to bring revival and reformation among those you know and in your local community?

4th of July Thoughts

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It is July the Fourth and my heart is torn between joy and sorrow.  I’ve never felt so patriotic, so proud, so grateful to God to be called an American.  Nor so frightened- I am “trembling for my country” even as I dance for the joy of our liberties.  I am weeping simply because my heart is overwhelmed.  I want to eat cake and celebrate for the joy and giddy excitement in my heart but I can’t seem to get it past the lump in my throat.  I feel like cheering and mourning, playing and fighting, laughing and weeping, all at once…

One thing I have determined: I am a Christian.  I am an American.  For me that is not an oxy-moron but a united truth.  I am BOTH.  I am an American BECAUSE I am a Christian, and to deny America is shirking a huge duty to my Jesus.  It is not “either, or” for me but “both”.  I am a patriot, I love this land, and BY GOD’S GRACE I am praying to not let the enemy have her without a fight!  If America fall I pray it would only be OVER MY DEAD BODY and that God would still resurrect her for HIS glory.  But, more than anything, I just pray for revival, for mercy, that this great country might become what she was intended to be all along: a beacon for the Gospel to spread, and a picture of the Kingdom of God to the world!

That is my living sentiment, and, by God’s grace, it will be my dying sentiment!  Independence now and independence forever!  Give me liberty, or give me death!

In Jesus’ name, amen.

Christis Joy

P.S.  NO KING BUT KING JESUS!