Many Christians seem not entirely satisfied with the mainstream of musical church worship today. Our readers may know that this subject is dear to our hearts here at Nordskog Publishing. We are honored to publish Dino and Cheryl Kartsonakis’s Hymn Restoration—an excellent and important contribution toward guiding the future of individual and church musical worship. […]
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Columbus the Man
By Ron Kirk What was Christopher Columbus like at the “dangerous age” of thirty years? Historian and scholar Samuel Eliot Morison says thirty is dangerous “to youthful ambition, to ideals and visions; the age that makes rovers settle down, drains the fire from ardent youth, turns men into tabby-cats content to sit by the fire.” […]
A Binary Choice for President?
Essay by Ron Kirk I often hear complaints these days from conservative Christians over what Glenn Beck recently called “the binary choice” for president. Why should we limit ourselves to two choices? The more democratic process we typically see in European politics presents many more choices for high office. Isn’t competition healthy? Why doesn’t the […]
Get Wisdom! A Biblical Christian Philosophy and Method for Education
Essay by Ron Kirk Finally, let us not forget the religious character of our origin. Our fathers were brought hither by their high veneration for the Christian religion. They journeyed by its light, and labored in its hope. They sought to incorporate its principles with the elements of their society, and to diffuse its influence […]
Powerful Evangelical and Culture Changing Work in Uganda
Guest essay by Ronald Kirk What if you could help powerfully redeem a long-broken but promising African nation to Christ, to see a significant answer to Christ’s prayer—God’s will be done on earth? A little explanation… Back in the early 1980s, my wife and I started a pioneering Christian day school called the Master’s School. […]
An Advent Devotional
Guest essay by Ronald Kirk Contrary to the Scriptures’ broad portrayal of Christ’s coming dominion, most Christmas advent devotionals focus strictly upon what we like to call spiritual matters. These typically focus on Christ’s coming as our personal Savior. Oh, yes! Christ did come to save us from our individual sins. But the Bible claims […]
Isaiah 58 and the Book Thy Will Be Done: When All Nations Call God Blessed
By Ronald W. Kirk I suppose that Isaiah 58 is not a Bible passage on everyone’s lips, but it is a powerful and instructive one. Partly out of inspiration from this passage and after a lifetime of application to its message, I wrote a little book called Thy Will Be Done: When All Nations Call […]
Wild in the Streets—a Prophecy of Today?
Essay by Ronald W. Kirk This was one of those eerie déjà vus. (What is the plural of déjà vu?) The Obama administration had arrived. The day after the election, I sadly but animatedly exclaimed to a beloved older relative that this was the end of historic America. A liberal, he didn’t believe it. It […]
The Making of American California
Essay by Ronald W. Kirk Imagine a vast, empty California! Alta California, under Spanish rule through the American colonial era remained virtually empty and undeveloped. The Spanish finally established missions to the Indians, the first in 1769 in San Diego, to counter Russian colonization on the northern coast. The Russians sought furs. Then came the […]
Noah Webster on Politics and Government
by Ronald Kirk Noah Webster was America’s original and sole Bible-minded dictionary maker. Young Noah was a Puritan by heritage and upbringing. The Lord converted a middle-aged Webster’s heart and soul to Christ when Mrs. Webster dragged him, er, uh, persuaded him to attend a revival meeting—which he had before dismissed as emotionalism. He received […]
Was the United States Constitution a Good Idea?
by Ronald W. Kirk The Constitution is under constant erosive attack by the Left, and has suffered so for many decades. As R.J. Rushdoony often stated, it is a war between two kingdoms: The kingdom of man versus the kingdom of God. The kingdom of man will allow no limits over it. The State is […]
A Gloss on the Pledge of Allegiance
by Ronald W. Kirk Here is a summary of the explanation we used to teach our school students… I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE… I promise to be a friend. TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA… The flag represents the people. They are my neighbors. By faith I love them as I love myself. AND […]
A Remembrance
Mary-Elaine Swanson (1927-2011) Black Mountain, North Carolina—Mary-Elaine Swanson, 84, Nordskog Publishing author, editor and dearest friend passed away Thursday, May 19, 2011 at the Memorial Campus of Mission Hospital. She was born May 21, 1927 to the late Charles Augustus Lowden and Myrtle Ann Jersey Adams in Orlando Florida, and was the wife of the […]
What Education Ought to Be
by Ronald W. Kirk For anyone who cares about the Gospel, true education is critical. Not a luxury. Not merely a nice blessing. Not merely a meal ticket. A comprehensive and Biblically faithful education is a necessity for the very life of Christianity. Education and the Great Commission Jesus Christ commands us in the Great […]
A Christmas Message in Scripture
The Early Promise And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life. And I will put enmity between thee and the […]