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 […]
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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 […]
Understanding What the Constitution Stands for Is Key
By Star Parker If the government can dictate how I live and what I do, I begin to feel like they own me.I salute the Republicans of the 112th Congress for their initiative to restore the U.S. Constitution to its legitimate place of prominence in our public discourse. Reading it aloud at Congress’s opening session […]
Paulson on Principles—In God We Trust
by Terry Paulson To many secular Americans, God should be zoned out of public life and expressions of faith should be limited to the home and places of worship. Certainly, our Founding Fathers supported freedom of religion—the right to believe any faith or to not believe at all. But there was no desire to diminish […]
A Mother’s Influence
Lesson XVII, McGuffey’s Eclectic Fourth Reader “I was a dull boy,” said Judge B , in answer to some remarks of Mrs. Wentworth, referring to the usual precocity of genius, and hinting at the display which the learned and celebrated Judge must have made in his juvenile studies, “I was a very dull boy. Till […]
SIMAC TO CHALLENGE HOLPERIN
Contact: Pete Biolo, 715-966-3483 May 4, 2011 Press Secretary Rhinelander – Kim Simac, president of the Northwoods Patriots and a leader of the Tea Party movement in the state of Wisconsin, says she will challenge Jim Holperin for State Senate in the upcoming recall election. Over 23,000 voters throughout the 12th Senate district signed recall […]
Consider and Ponder in the American Christian Home
by Verna M. Hall Who should teach and learn America’s Christian history? In America, Christian homes played a major role in teaching the love of Christ and the Hand of God in our American history. Since the educational goal of the American Christian home in a republic is to build the foundation of American Christian […]
Last Call
by Neil McKinlay Though some may differ on some of the details of what happens before hand, Christians are united in the Biblical fact that the risen Saviour will physically return to this earth at some unknown future point. In relation to this, I have been asked where Jesus is right now. The answer is […]
CONCERNING EDUCATION OF CHRISTIAN CHILDREN
Affirmations and Denials (Topic No. 21) Copyright 2006, International Church Council ProjectPREFACE: We refer the reader to two documents that are foundational to these affirmation and denial statements. Those documents are “Concerning Biblical Inerrancy” and “Concerning Christ’s Lordship” and are downloadable at our website, www.ChurchCouncil.org. The Statements set forth in this document assume what is […]
Christian Education—A Testimony
by Juliette McGuire The easiest way that I can explain as to why I believe in Christian education is to give my testimony. I grew up on the East Coast of the U.S. in a little town about one hour outside of New York City. I went to college in Boston, Ma. In the late […]
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 […]
Dear Higher Education, Pardon the Disruption
Consider if you will that Harvard was once a bastion for cultivating biblically-minded individuals. Burning with a passion to instill doctrinally-sound principles and practices, the first colleges of America made no qualms about their purpose. Where are Harvard and the whole of the higher education system now? Fueled by billions of secular humanist dollars, higher […]
The Character of George Washington
by Richard Brookhiser The following is adapted from a speech delivered at the dedication of a statue of George Washington on the Hillsdale College campus on May 9, 2003. The statue is the first in a series that will form the Hillsdale College Liberty Walk. I want to talk today about two qualities of George […]
The Life of General Washington
Edited by The Reverend C.W. Upham, 1851 The history of the world, in all its scenes, and at every period, impresses upon the thoughtful student of its records a solemn sense of the amount of good and ill that has flowed from the lives and actions of a few individual men. Much, indeed, has been […]
Bob Fu’s Remarks at Congressional Press Conference on ‘Human Rights in Hu Jintao’s China’
The following is the full text of ChinaAid founder and President Bob Fu’s remarks at a congressional press conference on Jan. 18, 2011 on “Human Rights in Hu Jintao’s China.” Thank you, Congressman Smith and Congressman Wolf. Thank you all for coming to share this moment. First of all, I commend the speech made by […]