“Why the Pressure?”

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The winter of 1623 had been especially hard for the Pilgrims.  At one point they had been reduced to five kernels of corn per person, per day.  That’s right; only five kernels of corn each day to live on!  Somehow, they had survived.  Spring finally came and they anxiously planted their crops.  They now had great hopes of having a good harvest and storing it up to avoid hardship this coming winter.

But then, the rain stopped.  Twelve weeks would go by with hardly any rain at all.  They finally realized God was trying to get their attention.  They called for a day of fasting and prayer to seek God’s face to find out the cause of the drought.  They worshiped and prayed earnestly for God to show them their sin.  As He did, they began to confess their wrongs toward Him and toward one another.  As they honestly opened their hearts and revealed selfish attitudes toward a neighbor and ask them to forgive them, the joy began to flow.  They knew they were meeting with God and He was pleased with their confessions to Him—and to one another.  It was then they simply asked Him to let the rain return.

When they left the meeting house that afternoon about 5 p.m., the clouds had already gathered on the horizon and by the next morning, were Continue reading →

“Why so Much Talk about Government?”

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The newscast is full of it.  The newspapers’ main stories are about it.  Bestseller books are often discussions of it.  Why is there so much talk about government?  What’s so important about government?

Well, like most things in today’s world, we generally talk around the topic instead of defining it.  Why not go to the root of the issue and actually learn what we’re talking so much about.

The word government comes from the word govern.  The word govern is defined in Noah Webster’s original American dictionary as control.  Thus, government is the exercising of control.  The first form of government we must learn is self-government.  The art of governing ourselves means we control our appetites of the mind and the body.  Self-government in the mind means we exercise control over our thoughts and think on what is “…noble…just…and pure…” as the Bible teaches us to (Philippians 4:8).  This necessarily means we must Continue reading →

“Restoring America from the Bottom Up”

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Can we stop abortion in America?  Can we stop the homosexuals from forcing their lifestyle on our children?  Can we ever turn the divorce rate back?  What about our economy?  Can we get it going again?  Is there any hope that we can see our education system once again teaching our children both academics and discipline?

I want to say a resounding “YES!” to these questions.  But the method I want to put forth to accomplish this may surprise you.

First, I urge you, as a citizen, in America, stop looking to Washington to fix things.  Most people in our national government don’t have a clue as to what it will take to solve these overwhelming problems.  Their answer generally is just to throw money at it; that fixes nothing and creates a whole new set of problems.  So how do we go about restoring our nation to the greatness it once knew?

Are you ready for this?  We fix ourselves!

We choose to come back to the Biblical foundation on which America’s Founders built this nation.  This means I start—and you start, as an individual, to Continue reading →