“Why We Remember”

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For Memorial Day, a restaurant in our town displayed a message on their marque that read:

“‘Thank you’ to those who never came home.”

Why We Remember 1Why do we remember our fallen military heroes? This was the original purpose for Memorial Day when it was begun during the War Between the States. We remember for two reasons: One, God tells us to remember our past as a nation, so we will see His Providential Hand in it; and thus, He will become more real to us. When we remember His work in the past, it aids our faith in believing Him for miracles now. The Bible commands us to remember our history. It states,

“Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will show thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.” (Deuteronomy 32:7)

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“The Key to Preserving Liberty”

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It really amazes me how so many people continue to sleep in the midst of this crisis, which, without revival, will end in the loss of our liberty.  Yet most Americans  continue on and on with no serious thought that our nation could be forever changed.  It is the fault of our education process that we continue to sleep, as we did on the morning when we were attacked at Pearl Harbor in 1941.  This is not to place all the blame on school systems either; education is much more than just the classroom.  The television programming, the internet viewing, the music we listen to, are all major contributors to the way we now think.  Without careful study of the Bible, believing that its teachings are true and thereby should be lived by, we simply follow the inclinations of our own thinking—and that’s the root problem.

The Bible says, “There is not a just man upon the earth that doeth good and sinneth not.” (Ecclesiastes 7:20)  It reveals that our “…heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; [but] who can know it?” (Jeremiah 17:9)  This is because there is a root of sin in us which releases in us the attitude of “I want what I want when I want it.”  To get what you want, you have to be able to control your circumstances.  That means you have to fight someone else for control.  This desire for control is what has caused every hurt and every war in history.  Thus, those who haven’t surrendered their will to Jesus Christ, and had His life replace theirs in this world, cannot Continue reading →

“Do We Like Our New Socialism?”

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In 1976 a Russian pilot in the Communists’ Air Force flew a Russian MiG-25 Foxbat—believed to be the best jet fighter they had then—to Japan, asking for asylum in the United States.  He had been schooled in the best Russian schools of socialism and was considered to be one of the best models they had of a completely socialistic man.  But as he got a little older he began to see the inconsistencies in what the Communist Party leaders had told him.  His material gains and his lifestyle were not anything like what they had promised him.  And, while they had taught him that America was the “land of darkness”, he felt that, if he could keep this new MiG fighter intact, our government would want to dissect it and know its capabilities; thus, he would have something with which to bargain and hope to gain a better position in life in America than he had known in Russia.  President Gerald Ford immediately granted him asylum; and our government assigned to him a man who began to show him our American way of life.  The pilot later talked about how he just couldn’t believe how the meat markets here were full of all different cuts of meat and fresh vegetables; because in Russia, under their socialistic system, they could only get fresh meat once in a while—and had to stand in line for hours to get into the food stores to get some of it.  Over time, he came to realize that life here was much, much better than it was in Russia; simply because people were free to make their own decisions about what they would work at, where they would work, and who they would work with.  That gave people the incentive to work, and thus, our lifestyle of free enterprise was so very much better than those under socialism.  He figured out that the socialists had lied to him about which system was best.

Socialism is Continue reading →