(Although written in the middle of “The Cold War”, this article on government-sponsored medicine is relevant to the health-care debate going on today. –Ed.) An important book published recently is Alexander Podrabinek’s Punitive Medicine.1 The author is now serving a sentence of exile in Siberia. This is a careful and documented account of the use […]
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The Demise of the Golden Goose?
By Nordskog Publishing on September 14, 2009 in Elizabeth Skoglund, Guest Essays, Publisher’s Corner
by Elizabeth Skoglund As children many of us became familiar with the Aesop fable about the goose that laid the golden egg. A man and his wife owned this very special goose who morning by morning deposited a golden egg at their feet. From it the couple grew very rich. But then one day they […]
American Education: Curriculum for a Constitution
By Nordskog Publishing on September 13, 2009 in Guest Essays, Publisher’s Corner, Rosalie J. Slater, Verna M. Hall
by Verna M. Hall and Rosalie J. Slater One of the modem myths, due to our ignorance of history, is that the educational level of our pre-Constitutional period was very low. Consequently it follows that most Americans believe the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States were written by and were representative […]
Healthcare and Life
by Randall Terry It is Our Duty before God to End Child-killing. God will give us the Grace. We Can use the Healthcare Debate as one of the Steppingstones to Victory. I often fear that we fail to grasp the magnitude of our duty to end child-killing, and that we often doubt the inevitability of […]
SOLEMN ASSEMBLY
By Nordskog Publishing on September 1, 2009 in Guest Essays, Publisher’s Corner, Richard Owen Roberts
by Richard Owen Roberts The Sad Fact Most professing Christians have never heard of a Solemn Assembly. Of the relatively small number who have, a substantial portion consider it as merely an Old Testament practice of no particular relevance today. THE BIBLICAL BACKGROUND There are not less than twelve revival movements in the Old Testament. […]
Solemn Assembly in Ventura County, California 2002 — A Case Study
by Gerald Christian Nordskog Shortly after 9/11/01, the Lord began to work on my heart about the country’s need for repentance. I began reading some of Richard Owens Roberts’ and Coalition on Revival (COR) materials. The burden got heavier during the autumn as I continued to pray about it. I asked for prayer and got […]
“NEVER AN UNFREE MAN”: THE NORWEGIAN “VIKING ROOTS” OF FREE LUTHERANISM
by Lars Walker, author of NPI Noble Novels fiction book West Oversea. The following anecdote is not my own, but our president Loiell Dyrud’s. Loiell reports a conversation with a Lutheran of Swedish ancestry. They were discussing the ministry of Hans Nielsen Hauge, the Norwegian lay evangelist, when the Swedish gentleman said, “Hauge couldn’t have […]
Time to Pack Up and Leave Our Chief
By Terry Paulson Obama’s an articulate bull roaming the china shop President Barack Obama is no horse whisperer wooing America into embracing change. An articulate bull has been unleashed in America’s china shop. His sweet talk and promises of bipartisanship have given way to a radical liberal bent on transforming America into a socialistic nightmare […]
Economics, Justice, and Preaching
Martin G. Selbrede In his Systematic Theology, R. J. Rushdoony sets forth a crucial insight concerning economics that is often missed: A man, when free from the corruption of modern humanism, will work in terms of God’s calling, and, under God, for his family, for the personal realization of his abilities, and more. These are […]
The tale of the pastor and the beauty queen
BY TIM WILDMON, AFA, president OneNewsNow.com It was rocking along as a normal beauty pageant in late April. The Miss USA Pageant was broadcast live to the nation via NBC. Then Perez Hilton, one of the judges, asked Miss California how she felt about gay marriage. Hilton is an entertainment gossip blogger and is proudly […]
AMERICA’S CHRISTIAN HISTORY: It’s Distinctives and Importance
Excerpts from an Address By Verna M. Hall, December 1980 There is indeed a stirring in the land—the Lord’s stirring of His people for the preservation and rebuilding of America—the world’s first Christian Republic. It is like unto Haggai 1:14, “And the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of […]
Government Schools, Parents & Kids: How Will We Answer the Lord, and What Will He Say?
How will we answer the Lord, and what will he say?About 85% of children from Christian homes attend government schools. In so-called public schools Christian children (all children) are continually taught (implicitly or explicitly) that there is no Creator God, or that if there is a Creator out there somewhere, it is not worth the […]
Education for the Kingdom of God “Cultivating Reverence in the Home”
by Ronald Kirk The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.—Proverbs 14:27 In this age of democratic equality-of-outcome and rights-as-entitlements, reverential regard for God and corresponding honor for men are rare. This should not be so. The Scriptures supply plenty of reason to cultivate an attitude […]
Meaning in the Folding of the American Flag
The following was received in a circular email. Many sources bear witness to the fact that the folding of the American flag at solemn military assemblies, such as funerals, has for a very long time held a Christian significance. In light of the wonderful documentation in The Book that Made America: How the Bible Formed […]
Flag Day 2009, a Remembrance
by Ronald W. KirkThe Banner of the Cross and Flag of Our UnionAnniversary Meeting of the American Sunday School Union in Boston, May 27, 1852. Let the Banner of the Cross go forth side by side with the Flag of our Union wherever it is carried; let the Spirit of the Lord be invoked to […]