Our Creator God has always, by grace, extended covenants to His children. To Adam, He clearly stated that he might eat of “every tree of the garden,” except “the tree of the knowledge of good and evil” (Genesis 2:16–17). God obligated Adam to mere faithful obedience. To Noah, who found grace in the eyes of […]
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God & Country: Christian Self-Government with Union— The Birth of American Federalism
December 2018 President Ronald Reagan and both houses of Congress united in proclaiming 1983 as the Year of The Bible.[1] The president and a Joint Resolution of the Congress undertook the dynamic purpose of embracing the influence of the Bible in the founding of our nation. Biblical teachings inspired our Founders to establish Christian self-government […]
The Battle for the Minds of Children: American Education at the Crossroads
[This article is an excerpted chapter from the timely and critically important book on America’s Christian heritage and the materialist effort to destroy it—Land that I Love: Restoring Our Christian Heritage. — ed.) Train up a child in the way he should go, even when he is old he will not depart from it. (Proverbs […]
What Is an American, This New Man in World History?
Patrick Henry, speaking in the Continental Congress, 1774, declared; “The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian, but an American.” In a letter to Rufus King, Alexander Hamilton expressed these same convictions. “We are laboring hard to establish in this country principles more and more […]
The Battle for the Mind
[This article is an excerpted chapter from the timely and critically important book on America’s Christian heritage and the materialist effort to destroy it—Land that I Love: Restoring Our Christian Heritage. — ed.) Before the proletariat fights out its battles on the barricades, it announces the coming of its rule with a series of intellectual […]
The Lord Hath Done Great Things for Us
The Lord Hath Done Great Things for Us; Whereof We are Glad.—Psalms 126:3 Guest essay by Bobbie Ames We will repeat the tragic lessons of History if we remove History from a nation’s memory, as it has been for several generations. Public schools replaced America’s Christian History with Social Studies nearly a century ago. How […]
The Declaration of Independence—July 4, 1776
The Christian Idea of Man and Government in America’s History Early in our country’s history, the mother country caused great distress among her children. American colonists opposed the English government’s Declaratory Acts, Stamp Act, and other measures. Counted among the opponents were the Whigs, Patriots, and the Sons of Liberty. Others submitted willingly to the […]
A Woman of Honor
The New York Times called her the “First Lady of a Political March to the Right.” I called her my treasured friend of more than 50 years. I also called her my inspiration and motivation, as I learned so much through the decades about political action and the passion required to “hang in there” in […]
The Coming of Christ: The Fulfillment of Covenant Promise
Our Creator God has always extended covenants to His children. To Adam, it was clearly stated that he might eat of “every tree in the garden, except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil” (Gen. 2:16-17 NLT). Adam’s obligation was merely obedience. To Noah, who found Grace in the eyes of the Lord, […]
They Preached Liberty!
Years ago, D. James Kennedy sent me a book he published through Coral Ridge Ministries, by this title. He had made a passionate search of particular sermons preached throughout New England by virtually all the ministers of the period, from the 1700s through the period of the American Revolution and beyond. They were titled Election […]
America’s Invasion by Socialism: The Road to Despotic Power!
The polity and government of these United States are original. Let us say it again, Original and Peculiar. It has two great elements of divisions of power: That of the States exercising local Self-Government, and That of the Nation, formed by a voluntary Union of States. The motto on the Great Seal of the Nation […]
America is at a Crossroad
The Agenda to Erase America All is not Well in America. The enemy is targeting Christianity, and is doing so through attacking political and religious liberty. Pastors and chaplains are threatened, even chaplains at prison systems where they are so badly needed. Crosses are removed as “offensive.” Such a thing would have been unthinkable when […]
America: A Christian Nation from Birth
Men in Black Robes: Then and Now In this year of 2015, it would be very interesting to know if any reader ever heard the name of David Josiah Brewer, an Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, 1889-1910. Or has any modern law student studied Brewer’s decisions on the Court? The most important […]
Civil and Religious Liberty Are Now In Peril
How do we reclaim the Legacy of Liberty which brought such Blessing to America? The more thoroughly a nation deals with its history, the more decidedly it will recognize and own an over-ruling Providence therein, and the more religious a nation it will become; while the more superficially it deals with its history, seeing only […]
The Inheritance of the Common Law in Western Civilization
Will We Live Under The Rule Of Law, Or The Rule Of Man? The concept of man in the Common Law of England is one of the most civilizing forces in all of History. For centuries the Common Law was recorded and declared as “the highest inheritance of the King, by which he and all […]