CULTURE WAR
We celebrated Columbus Day this week and many businesses and government offices were closed for the holiday. Honoring Christopher Columbus takes me back to a jingle we learned in grade school: “In fourteen hundred and ninety two Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” The name Christopher means “Light-bearer” and Columbus paved the way for the light…
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As we head into the final forty day stretch of the U.S. elections cycle, ads are being run everywhere before the American public on the “issues that matter.” In my previous column, I compared Vice President Harris and former President Trump on ten important policies that greatly affect our future. The positions of the two…
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On September 12 I have surgery (a Nissen fundoplication) to help correct a nagging throat/vocal cord problem and will need some weeks to recover. (Thanks for your prayers.) On September 10 the much-anticipated presidential debate between Kamala Trump and Donald Trump took place in Philadelphia. I hoped you watched it–and prayed. This year’s election is…
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Here’s the second article of a prophetic perspective–this time on the USA. As we approach the home stretch of the 2024 presidential election, it’s crucial that we choose wisely for the future of our nation. I will say much about this in coming weeks and encourage you to pray, act, and vote as if your…
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I have kept a personal diary since 1972. A year ago I turned it into an autobiography called One Small Life: Revival Adventures From My Fifty Year Journal. While writing and arranging the book, it seemed like an interesting idea to make a “Life Calendar” of the most important events and decisions I’d made over a…
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Last week I sent our Faith International University students a discipleship email on the importance of curiosity in our lives. Jesus called it the mentality of “asking, seeking, and knocking” (Matthew 7:7) in order to gain wisdom. When we stop learning, we stop living. When we cease to grow, we really begin to die. Here’s…
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If you take a road trip vacation this month, you might want to visit Tennessee (though it will be hot). God is on the move there and wants to multiply his work into every county of the nation. Legislators in the “Volunteer State” have called for a month of fasting and prayer during July. Here’s the exciting…
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As a student and teacher of United States history, I’m thrilled at how God took a “hidden continent” (The New World) three hundred years ago and created a nation/civilization never seen before in history. We call that miracle “American Exceptionalism.” Our biblical faith, melting pot unity, political institutions, social fraternities, political freedoms, and unparalleled blessings…
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Most members of my family were proud Democrats for generations. They revered FDR, thought the Democratic Party cared more for working people, and stood out as the party of “compassion. Then the party left us. In the 2020’s, the Dems have radically changed into the party of Big Business, Leftist policies, runaway inflation, and against…
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The Bible is clear that the destroyer in our world is Satan and his demons (John 10:10, Revelation 9:11). His main vehicle for destruction is force, which is human tyranny in many forms. The most obvious method of destruction is unjust war–such as religiously-tyrannical Iran firing 300 missiles at the sovereign state of Israel last weekend.…
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