Posted by Alexis Wallace on April 29, 2010 under Why | 
Which one is worse; the dumb chicken or the smart fox?
The wisest answer to this riddle might appear to be the smart fox, when we consider the culinary and tasty fate of all dumb chickens. But, when I ask this question about these two parties, I am not just asking for you to make an assessment based upon the end result of ignorance. This question is asking for you to also consider the evil that makes the fox smart.
At first glance it might seem that what the disciples described as, “Mary’s wasting of her costly perfume to anoint Yeshua”, was the main motivation behind Judas’ action of betrayal and departure from the Messiah’s leadership. It is bad enough when insubordinate followers question the right and discretion of their leaders.
The truth of the matter is that the roots of betrayal were planted long before Matthew’s dinner and Mary’s sacred act of anointing. Over ambition caused Judas to miss the whole Messianic message of the Messiah, as he saw in Him only the opportunity for the promotion of his own agenda. Read more of this article »
Posted by Rev Maxwell Diener on April 28, 2010 under Why |
This message is directed to Christ’s Churches.
My shepherds have abandoned their flocks.
You are my shepherds. You are responsible for the protection of the lambs. How has the fox entered into the fields? You were asleep? The Word was left for your guidance and to proclaim the laws for the Fathers children. Do you not see and understand the meaning of the Word? Nations have been lost. Multitudes of the Fathers children have not survived. Darkness covers the earth. The Fathers children have been deceived and are now asleep. You are to awaken them.
The Churches have been silent. Your silence is approval of injustice. You were told to love one another. To love is to correct. The good father that fails to correct his child, loses that child forever. Silence has destroyed the families. Silence has allowed the murder of millions of the Fathers children. Silence is approval. Love,or correction, demands that any injustice be corrected immediately. Every wrong word must be corrected. Forgiveness is for your benefit. Forgiveness prevents you from judging and therefor saves you from resentment. Resentment separates you from the Father. Your forgiveness does not excuse the sinner. Forgiveness is for your benefit. Only the Father can forgive sin. Read more of this article »
Posted by Chuck Baldwin on April 27, 2010 under Why |
Let me ask readers a question. What’s more important: freedom and its undergirding principles, or the entity meant to protect it? A word of caution: be careful how you answer that question, because the way you answer marks your understanding (or lack thereof) of both freedom and the purpose of government.
Thomas Jefferson–and the rest of America’s founders–believed that freedom was the principal possession, because liberty is a divine–not human—gift. Listen to Jefferson:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men.” (Declaration of Independence) Read more of this article »
Posted by Larry Miller on April 26, 2010 under How |
It’s easy to get caught up in the fight to keep our country free and forget our real purpose on earth. It was outlined when Jesus told his disciples, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
We see the shenanigans of the Obama administration and the machinations of SEIU, ACORN, NEA and the whole alphabet soup of other leftist groups looking to pick our pockets and run our lives. But we have to keep in mind who the real enemy is while we follow James Madison’s advice that “Resistance to tyranny is service to God.”
We may not have much of a chance of changing the leaders, but the voters that picked these leaders will only change when they have a change of heart. We see tea parties increasing in influence, but how much better would it be if the values of the founders were internalized once again by the American people? And how much better for them as well if many could be shown the error of the “social gospel” or “liberation theology” ways? Read more of this article »
Posted by Larry Miller on April 25, 2010 under Why |
This weekend, headlines jumped from from the screen of the FoxNews site about a shootout in Ciudad Juarez where drug gangs ambushed two police cars killing seven officers. They did not, however, jump from the screen to visitors of the formerly mainstream media. CNN noted that a 17 year old bystander was killed in a shootout south of the border. It wasn’t until the second paragraph that the article noted seven police officers also died. NBC made no mention and CBS made a small note of the event. Why would this be?
Then, over in Morelia, Mexico, Public Safety Director of the western state of Michoacan was attacked by gunmen armed with “assault” rifles and grenades. She was wounded, but survived, however four others did not. We have some extremely violent lawlessness taking place in our neighbor to the south.
The timing of this brutality was especially unfortunate for those whose current talking points included the trashing of Arizona which was taking steps to defend themselves against the importation of this Mexican violence. The President, who is actively working to legalize the illegal, called the states actions irresponsible. Others have called them unconstitutional and ill advised, threatening lawsuits. Demonstrations, some violent in themselves, sprung up criticizing Arizona’s efforts at self defense… but as of this writing, the law is still scheduled to go into effect this summer. Read more of this article »
Posted by Daren Gardner on April 22, 2010 under How, Why |
In one year our nation has come a long way. April of 2009 brought the beginning of what is proving to be a movement of American citizens definitely ready for the right change. Tea Party activists all across this land have come out to pound the pavement for a solid year now. Week after week, month after month, and rally after rally. It mattered not where, local, state, or at our Nation’s Capitol, our country is ready for a new beginning, but not the way our elected officials see it.
This new way is really the old way, the way our founding fathers envisioned our country. The sacrifices made by the fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, while putting to pen our unalienable rights. The vision of men like John Hancock of Massachusetts, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, and Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania. As stated;
“When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. Read more of this article »
Posted by James Agnew on April 21, 2010 under Why |
[Editors note: The local newspaper, Richmond Times Dispatch, refused to run this story. I thought this young man deserved at least this recognition. ldm]
On Monday, April 12, my niece, Sarah, received a call that all military spouses and family members dread. Her beloved husband, Ensign Zachary Eckhart, was missing as a result of a Navy plane crash in the mountains of northern Georgia. Navy officials told Sarah about 9:30 that night that Zach’s plane had crashed in rugged terrain. She learned that three servicemen were confirmed dead and one was missing.
As family members received the news, we prayed fervently and searched the internet for any information about the crash, all of us holding onto the remote chance that Zach, somehow, had survived the crash.
Unfortunately, we learned the next day that all four aviators had perished in the T-39 aircraft based at the Pensacola Naval Air Station. Sarah, married for a scant 18 months to the love of her life, was devastated by the news. Read more of this article »
Posted by Chuck Baldwin on April 20, 2010 under Why |
The report’s header reads, “Strategic Implications of American Millennialism, A Monograph by MAJOR Brian L. Stuckert, U.S. Army. This monograph was defended by the degree candidate on 01 May 2008 and approved by the monograph director and reader named below. Approved by: Timothy Challans, Ph.D., Monograph Director; Robert Taylor, COL, MI, Monograph Reader; Stefan J. Banach, COL, IN, Director, School of Advanced Military Studies; Robert F. Baumann, Ph.D., Director, Graduate Degree Programs.” The School of Advanced Military Studies, United States Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, produced the report.
Here is the TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Why Millennialism Matters
The Role of Civil Religion and Culture
Millennial Theologies in America
Post-Millennialism and the Founding of America
Civil War, World War and the Rise of Pre-Millennialism Read more of this article »
Posted by Larry Miller on April 19, 2010 under How |
Former President Bill Clinton had, to his mind, some sage advice for the American people, and that is, “We shouldn’t demonize the government or its public employees or its elected officials, We can disagree with them, we can harshly criticize them. But when we turn them into an object of demonization, we increase the number of threats.” He says he is concerned that there may be another Timoth McVeigh waiting in the wings to be egged on by aggressive rhetoric on the part of “right-wing media.” Never mind that McVeigh’s actions were in response to the slaughter of men, women and children at Waco, TX by agents of our national government.
This is coming from a man speaking in support of an administration whose stock-in-trade is the demonization of their perceived political enemies. We have seen this from his days as an ACORN attorney through the trashing of health insurance companies as the cause of all our health care woes. As a disciple of Saul Alinsky, who, not coincidentally, was an inspiration for Mrs. Clinton, the current president would make the late mentor proud as he follows his instructions to “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it.” It is unfortunate for Mr. Alinsky that his current place of abode does not permit him to enjoy the resurgence in his plans for world domination. Read more of this article »
Posted by Larry Miller on April 18, 2010 under How |
The recent ruling by a Federal judge that the National Day of Prayer is an unconstitutional exercise of the national government should come as a surprise to no one. The courts have been moving in that direction for the last hundred and forty or so years. They have moved from affirming the value of Christianity in maintaining the public good to neutrality to outright hostility at times.
The aptly named US District Judge Barbara Crabb noted that she was not opposed to prayer or that her ruling should not be interpreted as disparaging its value. However she was basing her decision on “case law”… and therein lies the problem. What she is really saying is that she is not looking at the constitution… she is not looking at statutes enacted by legislators… but that she is looking at the decisions of other judges. That somehow these men and women in black robes were equal, if not superior to our founding documents and the elected representatives, at least in their own minds and in the minds of those who choose to accept their self-serving pronouncements.
The rulings she cited came, for the most part, from people hostile to the founding principles and citizen values. These people, were of the opinion that laws and documents did not necessarily mean what their creators intended them to mean, but what the judiciary could decide they meant as whims took hold. For many of us this is called “legislating from the bench”, and is the reason selection of judges is vital. The results of this deification of the judicial branch are self evident. Read more of this article »
Posted by Alexis Wallace on April 15, 2010 under How |
It makes no difference how we turn the other cheek or, sign noble declarations of peace; some enemies will never be our friends.
1 Thessalonians 5:3: For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
Subtle and committed enemies will take our gifts but never change their focus. Regardless of the strength of our arguments to convert them into friends, they will remain oblivious to logic and focused on their opposition to us. The major difference between a constructive opponent and a destructive enemy is their relentlessness to not yield to wisdom and be changed by its enlightenment.
Time may pass but their hatred lasts, but we should not be shocked; we should just learn to discern who our enemy really is and what their main motivation, or unresolved issue is with regards to us. Read more of this article »
Posted by Larry Miller on April 14, 2010 under Why |
Today is the day all the economic and governmental theories come together to impact each of us personally. This is the day the waste in Washington and in the state capitols around the country comes out of our pockets. It is no longer an abstract concept that is the domain of academics with no real world experience. It is the day dollars are taken from your pockets and bank accounts and put into the hands of those who have not earned them.
Have a great day!
Posted by Chuck Baldwin on April 13, 2010 under How |
One would have to be a blind man to not see that America is fast losing the fundamental principles of liberty upon which our once-great country was established. And, without a doubt, the single biggest reason for this decline is the lack of concern and effort on the part of today’s Christians and pastors to resist it.
All over America, when one approaches our pastors and church leaders with the obvious decay and ruination of constitutional government and Declaration principles taking place in our land today, the response flippantly comes back: “God hasn’t called me to do that; I’m supposed to win souls and that’s it.” (Or words to that effect.) As if the call to Gospel preaching, evangelism, and missionary endeavor negates our responsibility as citizens of a free land.
Of course, this call to “win souls” doesn’t interfere with these preachers’ golf games; it doesn’t interfere with their family vacations; it doesn’t interfere with their active membership in whatever local civil organization they happen to belong to; it doesn’t interfere with their hiring of a lawyer if they are falsely accused or defrauded; it doesn’t interfere with their invitations to celebrity politicians for special church recognition on patriotic holidays; it doesn’t interfere with them going to the polls to vote; it only seems to interfere when they are personally asked to take a stand in the gap for our country’s liberties. Then, all of a sudden, they haven’t been “called,” or “God will take care of it,” or “Jesus is coming soon,” or “Religion and politics don’t mix,” ad infinitum, ad nauseam. Read more of this article »
Posted by Larry Miller on April 12, 2010 under How |
In the spring of 1932, thousands of veterans of the First World War and their families marched on Washington DC to demand immediate cash payment for service certificates Congress had issued to the veterans eight years earlier. The certificates were intended to mature after two decades, but in the depths of the Great Depression, with many of those veterans unemployed, the protestors (dubbed the “Bonus Army”) felt they should be able to redeem their certificates early as an emergency relief measure.
Around 15,000 men, women, and children camped out near the Capitol for months. On June 15, the House of Representatives passed a bill authorizing payment of the bonuses, but the Senate rejected it two days later. The protestors refused to leave. Another month passed, and tensions ran high. Some of President Hoover’s advisors were convinced that the marchers had become radicalized and would attempt a communist coup. In fact, the American Communist Party had attempted to infiltrate the Bonus Army, but the Bonus Army’s leader, Walter W. Waters, was a patriot and fervent anti-communist who organized his men to root out the radicals from their ranks.
Never-the-less, on July 28 President Hoover ordered the Washington DC police to evict some of the protestors from an abandoned building located on government property. A scuffle erupted and two veterans were killed. Panicked, Hoover ordered a military force under the command of General Douglas MacArthur to remove all the protestors. General MacArthur interpreted the order as blanket permission to run the Bonus Army out of the Capital. Cavalry, infantry, and tanks assaulted their encampment with teargas and fixed bayonets. When the smoke cleared, an 11-week old baby was dead, one child blinded, and hundreds of veterans were wounded. Read more of this article »
Posted by Larry Miller on April 11, 2010 under Why |
This weekend I took had several political meetings scheduled where we would once again plot and scheme about ways to retrieve our freedom form the clutches of the Obama regime. However, my wife and daughter had gotten tickets to take our four year old grandson to the circus. I had a choice to make. Sure there will be other circuses, and of course, there will be other meetings. For this time I had to consider what it is we are fighting for. If we are not fighting for these little ones to have the life we had, we have missed the point the point of the entire struggle.
Had I made the other decision, I would have missed the excited anticipation and the unmitigated joy in the young boy’s face as he watched the high flying trapeze artists, the clowns and the jugglers. It would be hard to imagine the boy having a better time, and this is one that I didn’t miss.
This is not to say we should be neglecting our civic duty and our debt to those who came before us and bore the pain and suffering to give us our freedom. It is to say that we to occasionally take a break from the battle and remember what it is all about. It’s not just the superiority of our intellectual arguments that should drive us. That would make us a humorless and clueless as our progressive opponents… they just think they are right. It is about the the people who are hurt by the fallacious policies. Read more of this article »
Posted by Larry Miller on April 8, 2010 under How |
One of Barack Hussein Obama’s favorite terms for the good old USA is “arrogant”. He continually preaches that we have stuck our nose where it did not belong and it has damaged our position in the world community… most of which hates us anyway and they are jealous of the prosperity our freedom has provided. One would think that our president would be disinclined to interfere in the affairs of sovereign nations. As far as nations that value government power over the rights of their citizens, he is behaving as expected. However, when it comes to the nation of Israel, he treats it like one of the fifty seven states he visited during the campaign and wants to control it in the same way.
He believes that Israelis building in their own cities and annoying the Palestinians who don’t live there is detrimental to the “peace process”. He overlooks the fact that Israel is a sovereign nation, and the Palestinians are breaking the tenth commandment by coveting land that is not theirs and their ancestors could not hold on to when confronted by the rightful owners. He ignores the fact that at various points since modern Israel’s formation they have confronted hostile neighbors and pushed them back in defending their people and land, only to have “world opinion” force them back to boundaries the anti-Israeli world desired.
The resident of our White House has cozied up to those who would see us fail… those in Venezuela, those in Iran, those in Korea and anywhere else around the world where strong men are glorified and the people downtrodden. He believes we have been bad stewards of the vast power and prosperity our country had… but really did not deserve. He is redistributing power on an international scale in much the same way that he is attempting to redistribute wealth at home. Read more of this article »
Posted by Michael LeCornec on April 7, 2010 under How |
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) owns the airwaves that we receive radio broadcasts and also has oversight on the internet. This weekend the FCC plans to make final policy rules on “Net Neutrality” which in essence establishes a requirement that “equal time” or equal access must be provided for all points of view on the internet. In essence this translate to violating free speech by limiting and controlling content. The victory of Comcast over the FCC may prevent the FCC from enforcing its Net Neutrality rules because there is no law being violated and therefore does not have the teeth to compel enforcement. Notwithstanding the FCC’s loss in Federal Appeals Court, the FCC continues to move forward with the release and enforce of Net Neutrality policies later this week.
US law grants power to the FCC to “directly regulate” the telecommunications industry. However, the FCC does not classify the internet (broadband) as telecommunications but as an “information service.” Due to this “distinction” the internet must be regulated differently. In a 2002 US Supreme Court decision, the FCC does have “limited” and “ancillary” authority to regulate the internet as an information service. Statist progressive FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is strongly committed to Net Neutrality and is proceeding forward despite court reversals. Read more of this article »
Posted by Elmer on April 6, 2010 under Why |
[Editors note: We read (and write) a lot about our founding fathers and their ideas that led to the greatest nation on earth. It is good, from time to time, to read their actual words, in this case James Madison, to understand the concept of federalism that drove most of the early patriots.]
Alleged Danger From the Powers of the Union to the State Governments Considered
Independent Journal
Saturday, January 26, 1788
[James Madison]
To the People of the State of New York:
HAVING shown that no one of the powers transferred to the federal government is unnecessary or improper, the next question to be considered is, whether the whole mass of them will be dangerous to the portion of authority left in the several States.
The adversaries to the plan of the convention, instead of considering in the first place what degree of power was absolutely necessary for the purposes of the federal government, have exhausted themselves in a secondary inquiry into the possible consequences of the proposed degree of power to the governments of the particular States. But if the Union, as has been shown, be essential to the security of the people of America against foreign danger; if it be essential to their security against contentions and wars among the different States; if it be essential to guard them against those violent and oppressive factions which embitter the blessings of liberty, and against those military establishments which must gradually poison its very fountain; if, in a word, the Union be essential to the happiness of the people of America, is it not preposterous, to urge as an objection to a government, without which the objects of the Union cannot be attained, that such a government may derogate from the importance of the governments of the individual States? Was, then, the American Revolution effected, was the American Confederacy formed, was the precious blood of thousands spilt, and the hard-earned substance of millions lavished, not that the people of America should enjoy peace, liberty, and safety, but that the government of the individual States, that particular municipal establishments, might enjoy a certain extent of power, and be arrayed with certain dignities and attributes of sovereignty? We have heard of the impious doctrine in the Old World, that the people were made for kings, not kings for the people. Is the same doctrine to be revived in the New, in another shape that the solid happiness of the people is to be sacrificed to the views of political institutions of a different form? It is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting that the public good, the real welfare of the great body of the people, is the supreme object to be pursued; and that no form of government whatever has any other value than as it may be fitted for the attainment of this object. Were the plan of the convention adverse to the public happiness, my voice would be, Reject the plan. Were the Union itself inconsistent with the public happiness, it would be, Abolish the Union. In like manner, as far as the sovereignty of the States cannot be reconciled to the happiness of the people, the voice of every good citizen must be, Let the former be sacrificed to the latter. How far the sacrifice is necessary, has been shown. How far the unsacrificed residue will be endangered, is the question before us. Read more of this article »
Posted by Chuck Baldwin on under Why |
Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal carried a story entitled “Obama Steps Up Confrontation.” It said in part, “On Thursday, the president challenged Republicans who planned to campaign on repealing his health-care bill with, ‘Go for it.’ Two days later, he made 15 senior appointments without Senate consent, including a union lawyer whose nomination had been blocked by a filibuster.
“At a bill-signing event Tuesday, he is set to laud passage of higher-education legislation that was approved despite Republican objections through a parliamentary maneuver that neutralized the party’s filibuster threat.”
Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) called Obama’s decision to federalize most student loans “really brazen” and “the most underreported, biggest Washington takeover in history.” Read more of this article »
Posted by Larry Miller on April 4, 2010 under Why |
This weekend, my daughter and I took the eighty some mile drive to the colonial capital of Virginia, Williamsburg. I try to make this pilgrimage at least once a year… sometimes more. Being a beautiful spring day, the old town was packed with visitors looking for a glimpse of life in the 1770s. For those who have never been there, the historic section of town has been meticulously restored to show the lives of the movers and shakers of the time along with the merchants who kept the early economy moving without the help of over-regulation and subsidies. Recently they have added a farm on the outskirts of the community to help understand more of how the less affluent folks lived.
Speaking with some of the costumed characters, one gets a feeling for the resignation of many of the people who may not have agreed with all the king’s governors were doing, but they knew their place was not to challenge the royal authority. Then one hears the likes of Thomas Jefferson or Patrick Henry who hold that the quest for liberty outweighs the human desire to live peacefully… even if it is under despotic rule.
I enjoy walking the grounds of the College of William & Mary where the spirits of Thomas Jefferson and George Wythe hover about. One can only wish that the current crop of students and faculty would catch the vision of our nations founders who studied within the institutions walls. As you walk down Duke of Gloucester Street toward the capitol building, you pass a series of shops and taverns where average colonists plied their trades and made a good living meeting the needs of their neighbors. Read more of this article »
Posted by Alexis Wallace on April 1, 2010 under Why |
Palm Sunday is probably one of my favorite parts of this holy season not because of the ritualistic and traditional side of “Easter”, but because of the universal multitude that are prophesied to truly be servants and worshippers of our king and that will wave their palms in acclamation of the revelation of His kingship:
Revelation 7: 9 – 10: After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; 10. And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
Easter is the most important religious holiday for the traditional Christian church, as it commemorates the death and glorious resurrection of Yeshua as the basis for the salvation of mankind. But, as powerful as this understood meaning and significance is, there was a strong Pagan influence that gave birth to the unusual name of “Easter” and even several of the traditions that are joyously celebrated by many Christians in ignorance. Read more of this article »
