Today the vast majority of ministers are success oriented. Success means church growth, larger congregations, bigger buildings, bigger offerings, burgeoning statistics, greater notoriety, praise, invitations to speak at conferences, not to mention the financial perks and benefits that come with…
Tag: 1st Amendment
Rebel, Revolutionary or Slave?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” John F. Kennedy When a parasitical government muzzles the citizenry, herds them, brands them, whips them into submission, forces them to ante up the sweat of their brow while…
Falling Out of Love With Free Speech
Free speech is dying in the Western world. While most people still enjoy considerable freedom of expression, this right, once a near absolute, has become less defined and less dependable for those espousing controversial social, political or religious views. The…
Woke Christianity
God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it. Daniel Webster Loving, guarding, and defending liberty is the full-time responsibility of every American but unfortunately, not every American loves the freedoms guaranteed…
Useful Idiots
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am – not stuck in the middle, but hovering above the entire farcical spectrum, weeping as I behold my fellow man’s devotion to political illusion and self-destruction. Robert…
Imagine a World Without Religious Freedom
Imagine, if you can, a nation where the President can reject the entry of the Pope or any religious leader who opposes same-sex marriage. That sounds chilling, right? Democrats are working on a bill to do just that. The Global…
The Age of Mass Delusion
Delusion is an important element in the destruction of our nation. Tyrants cannot stand up to logic or the free exercise of expression and association. It is important to the left that they organize isolate, and manipulate with talking points,…
When honesty is outlawed
Words that reference the last days, the end times, the latter days or, times of the end, number well over thirty. Details of these events take up nearly a quarter of the entire Bible. For most people it is easier…
Silencing the Lambs
“Civil societies are necessarily tolerant to a degree, and intolerant to a degree; they punish what they cannot afford to tolerate and tolerate what they cannot afford to punish.” Oliver O’Donovan The mark of a good citizen at one time…
Deep Pockets And Hired Guns
Political Scientist Thomas R. Dye once said that “politics is about battling over scarce government resources [taxpayer money]; who gets them, where, when, why and how.” And he’s right. Washington is dominated by the elite. Politics have become an insider…
Why Freedom Of Speech Should Apply To Google, Facebook & The Internet
“But, it’s a private company.” It’s a familiar argument. Bring up the problem of Google, Facebook and Twitter suppressing conservative speech and many conservatives will retort that it’s a free market. The big dot com monopolies created their own companies, didn’t they?…
Identity Politics and the Death of Liberty
America started a “great experiment” in human history, that being the ideas of individual freedom and limited government. All of history before this assumed that the individual was subservient to the tribe, and governments had nearly absolute power over people…
EU Dictates Freedom of Speech
Regulations have huge effects on your life. Tougher car safety standards, for example, may save your life but they also make your car more expensive to buy and operate. Obscure food regulations could cost you hundreds, maybe thousands a year. …
The Throne and the Pulpit
There was a time in America when we had pastors and preachers in the similitude of Old Testament prophets. They were men who helped forge a land of freedom. Furthermore, they helped insure that in the United States there was…
The American Church Is Clinically Dead
“Christians must vote for honest men and take consistent ground in politics. God cannot sustain this free and blessed country, which we love and pray for, unless the Church will take right ground. Politics are a part of religion in…