Tag: Christianity

Moral Decay

The late Allan Bloom wrote in “The Closing of the American Mind” that contemporary talk of “values” is what is left when society accepts the notion that there is no genuine right or wrong.   Moral issues are reduced to matters of…

Christians: Expect to Be Hated

I have read a lot of comments online. One time I saw one that particularly intrigued me, though not in the way its writer intended. I don’t remember what the story was about, but it dealt with one of those…

The Left Hates Religious Freedom

Today’s Democratic Party is the greatest threat in American history to each and every one of those 280 million Christians. The Party seeks, in the name of political correctness, to take God out of every aspect of our public lives. …

Losing Security, Comfort, and Freedom

“It is not our duty to leave wealth to our children, but it is our duty to leave liberty.” John Dickinson Imagine if you will a country, that in the first two paragraphs of its founding document, implemented a nation…

The Moral Fall of Civilization

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” John Adams Civilizations fall slowly due to a moral catastrophe. A moral catastrophe is not a failure of arms…

Satan Loves Chaos

Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.  Matthew 12:25 Satan loves chaos. Throughout history humanity has chosen the devil’s path to division and destruction rather than the…

The Voice of God Defines Reality

Despite a popular myth perpetuated by Cecil B. DeMille’s classic film “The Ten Commandments” starring Charlton Heston as Moses, the Ten Commandments were not simply given to Moses on tablets of stone by Almighty God and then delivered by Moses…

Are You a Watcher?

Thus says the Lord of hosts, “Harken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you worthless: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the Lord. They…

Does Your Work Matter to God?

Since many of us spend so much time and energy in our work, it’s good to reflect on vocations (and avocations, that is, voluntary work) – since we recently celebrated Labor Day. This pandemic has caused many to not be able to…

The Cancel Culture

Now that the Pandora’s Box has been opened and the cancel culture has been turned loose, there is no hiding its scope. It is unrestrained and unrelenting. If you dare cross it, even in the slightest, you will be targeted…

It’s the Morality, Stupid

The cultural elites have led us down a path of unbelief, and now we are reaping the consequences. I’m reminded of the story about Voltaire, the famous French skeptic, who helped grease the skids for the bloody French Revolution. When…

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…

Has Socialism Harmed No One?

 JERRY NEWCOMBE APRIL 23, 2021 George Santayana famously said that those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it. That was demonstrated when a Florida representative made a remarkable claim last week on the floor of the state House of…