“Thankful for Biblical Civil Systems”

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In 1623 the Pilgrims celebrated a time of Thanksgiving with their Indian friends, Chief Massasoit and his Wampanoag tribe.  The Pilgrims were grateful to God for their Indian friends.  The peace treaty into which they had entered helped both peoples to go on with their daily lives in an ordered manner.  This is, of course, the purpose of civil law; to protect the God-given rights of life, liberty, and property.  When this is done, the resulting order allows society’s institutions to function without the interruption of chaos.  The Pilgrims’ Pastor, John Robinson, had taught them that this order flowed from Biblically based civil government, and thus, the first thing they did when they arrived was to write the Mayflower Compact; which instituted this type of government.  I believe their new civil government was one of the things they were most thankful for on those first Thanksgiving Days.

And the Pilgrims’ new civil government was working.  Their original economic system failed because it was Continue reading →

“The Pilgrims and The Sovereignty of God”

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Though common men, the Pilgrims who came to America in 1620 were some of the wisest people who ever lived.  They came together about 1605 in a covenant which meant they each believed that the Bible was completely true; and that it could be trusted to meet one’s need in this world, just as it could be trusted concerning eternal things.  They believed the God of the Bible to be sovereign, or “supreme in power”, as Noah Webster would define the word in his first American dictionary.

The Pilgrims and The Sovereignty of God 1They believed when church leaders disagreed with the Bible, those church leaders were always wrong, never the Bible.  They believed when the King disagreed with the Bible, the King was always wrong, not the Bible.  They believed when church writings disagreed with the Bible, those writings were always wrong, not the Bible.  They lived this out in their daily lives and proved that the teachings of the Bible were far superior to any ideas of men about how to build a nation.  To put it simply, they believed Continue reading →

“When Tragedy Comes”

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The tragedy is heart wrenching.  A Sunday morning in Texas filled with hope and joy, becomes the last day twenty-six people would be on this earth.  Another twenty or so were in critical condition, wounded by a gunman who entered the church and began firing while the people were worshiping.  The gunman evidently killed himself after wrecking his vehicle, while being chased by two men from the scene.  Only God knows the pain of families and friends and the little Texas church in Sutherland Springs.  All of us hurt for them.  We pray for their comfort by “the God of all comfort”.

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At a time like this we ask, “Why?”  Some ask “why” because they are heart-broken at their loss.  This is a natural response to a tragedy that touches us personally.  But the truth is, we may never, in this world, know the answer to that.

But others ask “why” because they want to avoid having to explore this realm of “the shadow of death” in which they find themselves so uncomfortable.  It’s easier to Continue reading →