Come, Thou long-expected Jesus / Born to set Thy people free. — Charles Wesley, “Come Thou Long Expected Jesus” (1744) The Redeemer has broken every bond: / The Earth is free, and Heaven is open. — Placide Cappeau, O Holy ...
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What Native Americans Can Teach Us About Sustainability
We know that the earth and all of creation came into being by God as designer and creator. God put in place a number of finely tuned systems, cycles and physical parameters that sustain life. Adam and Eve were given ...
Read More »4 Reasons America Is STILL The Greatest Nation On Earth
With all of the turmoil and controversy in our nation over the last few decades, it’s easy to criticize the USA. However, it is times like these that we need to gird up our loins, fight for what we believe ...
Read More »Did The Pilgrims Really Come To America To Worship As They Pleased?
“The conscious or unconscious relationship to God in a man’s heart determines both man’s cultus and his culture.” —Henry Van Til What’s a Pilgrim? The Pilgrim Fathers, like Thanksgiving itself, are quickly slipping down the collective memory hole of American ...
Read More »What Type Of Liberty Are We Really Celebrating On The 4th Of July?
So What Exactly Is Liberty? The French Revolution handed Western civil government a radically new conception of liberty. It had been percolating along for some time in the journals, books and coffee house discussions we call the Enlightenment. But the ...
Read More »Defending Trinitarian Christianity
And the catholic faith is this: That we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity. . . —The Athanasian Creed (c. AD 500) The entire Christian belief system, all of special revelation, stands or falls with the confession ...
Read More »Teaching History As Story
Real, vital historical understanding requires someone to bring the facts “to life” through the animating power of proper interpretation. —E. Wayne Ross, The Social Studies Curriculum (2006) One has to go back, behind what appear to be the “facts” of ...
Read More »Peace On Earth?
All men are born and remain free and equal in rights. —Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789) Never did He make two things the same; never did He utter one word twice. . . All is righteousness ...
Read More »The 7th Commandment: Why Does God Care Who I Sleep With?
It is no secret that people are getting married—if they’re getting married at all—later in life than in generations past. Why do you think it is? Are they waiting because they feel they can be better prepared for marriage? Perhaps ...
Read More »Christianity And The Arts
The only artist who is perfect in all forms of creativity . . . is of course God—the God who is Personal. —Edith Schaeffer, Hidden Art (1971) Come with me to the Alps and look at the snow-covered mountains. ...
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