The Important Thing Is that We Interpret Him in the Context of His Era — Not Ours Here Are Some Things You Might Never Have Heard About Christopher Columbus The Anchor of an Accurate Understanding of History Columbus Day: An Accurate Perspective of History Is Vital top image credit: […]
Part 1: A Sobering Assessment 1/5/18 After Adam and Eve had disobeyed God and eaten of the forbidden fruit in the garden of Eden, God approached Adam with a searing question: Adam, where are you? Today, Americans—and American Christians in particular—also need to assess where they are in relationship to God and His commands. This article poses […]
NOTE: This series has been streamlined, updated, and rereleased in three parts. Titled “Return to the Founders’ Perspective on Rights,” it is available here. This deserves wide attention. Read the series on rights here and then share it with many others. —E. Calvin Beisner, Founder and National Spokesman for the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of […]
You can access all the articles in this series from this page. The Duty to Warn Can we really even begin to appreciate God’s grace without comprehending what would happened to us without it? Grace is God’s undeserved favor. We have it because God loves us and because He initiated a process whereby we could experience […]
Initiating Reform The only real security that you can have for all your important rights must be in the nature of your government. If you suffer any man to govern you who is not strongly interested in supporting your privileges, you will certainly lose them. —Founding Father Roger Sherman— Some are turned away from Christianity […]
Eight Reasons Obergefell Has Derailed America The Importance of Rediscovering the Authentic American Way [F]or avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy…the only ground of hope must be on the morals of the people. I believe that religion is the only solid base of morals and that morals are the only possible support of free governments. —Gouverneur […]
How the Government Is Bulldozing Over Conscience Rights to Secure All the “Rights” Associated with Same-Sex Marriage Our Constitution—like the Declaration of Independence before it—was predicated on a simple truth: One’s liberty, not to mention one’s dignity, was something to be shielded from—not provided by—the State. Today’s decision casts that truth aside. —Supreme Court Justice […]
How True Rights and Genuine Liberty Are Becoming Casualties of the Supreme Court’s Redefinition of Marriage Marriage as existing solely between one man and one woman precedes civil government. Though affirmed, fulfilled, and elevated by faith, the truth that marriage can exist only between one man and one woman is not based on religion or […]
Negative and Positive Rights Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty. —Thomas Jefferson— If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the […]
From Liberty to an Entitlement Mentality: The Deadly Enticement of Government Help Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. —George Bernard Shaw— I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. —Thomas Jefferson— You […]
The Revolutionary War Was Over, but not the Struggle to Establish a Free and Stable Country For the first time in human experience, the legislative power of a nation was forbidden from legislating the conscience of man. —Stephen Mansfield on the first ten words of the First Amendment—“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment […]
In 2017, I wrote a series of articles titled “Myths that Led to the Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage in the United States.” A printable summary of the series is available here. One of the myths we explored is the idea that “Homosexuality is on par with heterosexuality.” Among other things, we did a deep dive to […]
A PDF file of this article is available here. An expanded version of this article is available here. In their excellent volume titled Understanding the Times: A Survey of Competing Worldviews (Manitou Springs, CO: Summit Ministries, 2016, p. 100), Jeff Myers and David A. Noebel describe contrasting economic systems as part of their discussion on […]
Highlighting the Bedrock Tenets on Which the United States of America Was Founded The 4th of July is the first great fact in your nation’s history — the very ring-bolt in the chain of your yet undeveloped destiny. Pride and patriotism, not less than gratitude, prompt you to celebrate and to hold it in perpetual remembrance. […]
From God creating us male and female and ordering marriage toward procreation, to Jesus’ reaffirmation of natural marriage in Matthew 19, to Paul’s clear language in his epistles, to the marriage supper of the Lamb, not to mention the way the Old Testament dealt with sexuality and sexual sin, the Bible consistently and unambiguously teaches […]
These qualities originally were named in parts 4, 5, and 6 of the series titled “Upholding God-Ordained Marriage Is One of the Greatest Ways to Uphold the Gospel.” We highlight all twelve in this single post to make it easier for users to read and share. Key point: Because marriage is about the gospel, the […]
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