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 […]
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Who were the Pilgrims?
Guest Essay by Sylvia Vrabec This Thanks giving we honor the Pilgrims who set our country on a new course that we should follow for as long as our country would survive. As the Mayflower left Plymouth, England her sails filled with a breeze, the breeze of freedom. They left behind authoritarianism, restriction, government from […]
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 […]
Want to Win the Culture? Focus on Human Flourishing
Guest article by Summit Ministries The American Revolution has had a lasting, positive impact because its leaders focused not on angry vengeance (like in the French Revolution) but on freeing people from the barriers that prevented them from living out their full potential as image-bearers of God. They believed humans were made to create and […]
Nudge, Push, Shove, Shoot
Guest article by Ben Gilmore “The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing” [Edmond Burke] “ …a Freeman contending for Liberty on his own ground is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.”—George Washington, General Orders, 1776 Last weekend in Washington, American vets were contending for Liberty on […]
The Non-Jesus Religion
Guest Essay by Jerry Newcombe The Supreme Court has heard arguments this week about whether prayers at government meetings, for example, a town council, can include the name of Jesus. The case is Galloway v. City of Greece (which is a suburb of Rochester, NY), and it will likely be decided in the summer (or […]
31 OCTOBER IS REFORMATION DAY
31 October is the birthday of all Evangelical and Bible-believing churches. On 31 October 1517, Dr. Martin Luther launched the Protestant Reformation with his bold stand at the Castle Church in Wittenberg. Freedom and Productivity Western civilisation has been blessed with the greatest freedoms, productivity and prosperity ever known in history. The liberty, standards of […]
A BIBLICAL RESPONSE TO HALLOWEEN
“Test all things; hold fast to what is good. Abstain from every form of evil.” 1 Thessalonians 5:21-22 A Celebration of Evil Halloween is a religious day, but it is not Christian. Tom Sanguinet, a former high priest in Wicca has said: “The modern holiday that we call Halloween has its origins in the full […]
A Letter to President Obama
Dear Mr. President: As the temporary slowdown in government operations enters its second week, I write to explain why conservatives have insisted on making the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act the prime source of contention. Speaking for our organization, I can tell you we’re in this fight because of the harm the law is […]
The Motives of Exploration
Now, America, from the moment it was discovered has had a history in terms of the faith of its discoverers. The evidence is increasingly mounting that long before Columbus, America was discovered over and over and over again. We know now that Leif Erickson and other Viking explorers came to the Americas. There were very […]
From Reformation Day to Election Day: a Legacy
by Dr. Paul Jehle, Executive Director When Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Wittenberg Church in Germany on October 31, 1517, no one knew the cataclysmic fruit that would grow from that tiny seed. After all, they were 95 points he only wanted to discuss; inconsistencies he saw in the […]
Liberty, the Gift of God
Guest Essay by Belinda Beth Ballenger We invite you now to enjoy a moment in the record of American Liberty. The title of our story is: Liberty, the Gift of God Long, long ago in a faraway land across the great oceans, in a city on a hill, stood a beautiful, magnificent, gleaming, white building. […]
Lest We Forget the Lessons of September 11, 2001
Guest Essay by Eugene Elander While living in the Emergency Operations bunker under the headquarters of the New Hampshire Office of Emergency Management during the few days following the September 11, 2001 terrorist tragedy, I wrote these new verses for America the Beautiful, which were read into the Congressional Record by my friend, Connecticut U.S. […]
The Butler from Another Planet
Guest essay by Michael Reagan There you go again, Hollywood. You’ve taken a great story about a real person and real events and twisted it into a bunch of lies. You took the true story of Eugene Allen, the White House butler who served eight presidents from 1952 to 1986, and turned it into a […]
Why Celebrate the Reformation?
To the Ends of the Earth Many years ago a Frontline Fellowship Mission team was approaching a remote village in Cuando Cubango province (what the Portuguese refer to as the ends of the earth) in Angola. The team heard the sound of enthusiastic singing. They immediately recognised the tune, even though they could not understand […]