Guest Essay by Ben Gilmore For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind–2 Timothy 1:7 It has been my honor to write these columns since August 3, 1981 (32 years). Theme topics have, I trust, aimed at presenting sound principles upon which […]
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Our Confession
PRAY ALOUD IN UNISON Almighty God You are the Rock, all Your works are perfect and all Your ways are just. You are a faithful God who does no wrong. Yet we your people and this nation are covered with shame because of our unfaithfulness toward You. We have turned away from Your righteousness. Our […]
Remarks and Prayer
by Gerald Christian Nordskog This week, Thursday, May 2nd being the 62nd Annual National Day of Prayer observance in America—I look back at the 25 Prayer Breakfasts I chaired on the NDP in the past quarter century: 21 in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles area, and 4 in Ventura, California. I also look back […]
Howard Phillips, RIP
Howard Phillips is a hero of mine. I followed and supported his work from nearly the start of his The Conservative Caucus. I invited him to speak at one of our Southern California Constitution Education Committee conferences during the Primary Election season in ’88 when he ran for President of the USA, along with other […]
Margaret Thatcher: 25 Greatest Quotes
by John Hawkins Margaret Thatcher has left us. Other than Winston Churchill, she was the finest leader to come out of Europe in the last century. She helped Britain recover economically, she stood shoulder to shoulder with Reagan against the Soviet Union and she set a fine example not just for Brits, not just for […]
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 […]
St. Patrick was a Proto-Protestant!—a Brief Essay
Guest essay adapted from a piece by Francis Nigel Lee, after James Akin. St. Patrick was born into a British Christian family circa A.D. 389. His grandfather was a presbyter. His father Calpurnius was a deacon. His real birth-name was the Brythonic Succat. The Irish Gaelicized his name to Padraic, suggesting his originally Brythonic name […]
A Letter from Hobby Lobby Stores CEO
By David Green, the founder and CEO of Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. Suit was filed Oct 15, 2012 When my family and I started our company 40 years ago, we were working out of a garage on a $600 bank loan, assembling miniature picture frames. Our first retail store wasn’t much bigger than most people’s […]
Newtown Massacre School carnage: Blame church, not God or guns
by William J. Murray If an individual is not afraid of the wrath of God, it is impossible to cause him to fear the justice of the state. The killing of young children at their school will be linked by many pundits to the availability of guns. Still others will blame the violent act on […]
Does the Republican Party have a future?
by Star Parker No matter how hard you squint and try to discern the values of Lincoln and Frederick Douglass in those now wielding the money and power at the top of the party, they’ve disappeared. The United States, from Day One, was a project about principles and ideals. The superpower that emerged and grew […]
REFLECTIONS ABOUT DR. FRANCIS NIGEL LEE, MY FRIEND
By Gerald Christian Nordskog—“Jerry” of Ventura, California, USA President/Owner of Nordskog Publishing Inc.—Publisher of Christian books: “Meaty, tasty, and easily digestible Biblical treasures!” Dr. Francis Nigel Lee (5 December 1934—23 December 2011) My friend Dr. Lee was one in a million, a diamond of the brightest quality, an amazing scholar who earned a huge number […]
A Christmas Story: Valley Forge 1776
by Marshall Foster We face…this year…a time as critical for the cause of freedom as that of the patriot cause in 1776. Although our adversaries may be more elusive, the same biblical strategy of victory rings through the ages if we will listen and learn from the small freezing remnant who camped on the shores […]
Roe v. Wade, 40 Years Later
by Star Parker The number 40 has great significance in the Bible. Perhaps best known is the 40 years that the Israelites were condemned to wander in the desert before being permitted entry into the Promised Land. Maybe this mystical quantity will bear significance as we note, this month, the 40th year since the Roe […]
Second Amendment Celebration, Jan. 19, 2013
“An Appeal to Heaven” – George Washington’s Flag & His Trust in God, 1775General Washington outfitted a squadron of six schooners at his own expense in the fall of 1775 for use in the coastal waters off the colonies. His secretary suggested using this flag, which linked the Founding Father’s love of God and freedom – […]