Aug 26

Get Ready for November

President Biden recently called Americans who believe in the governing philosophy advanced by President Donald Trump, “semi-fascists.” One thing you can know for sure about the Socialist-Democrats is that whatever they accuse you of is simply a projection of what they, themselves are, or are doing. The recent announcement of a $10,000 or $20,000 giveaway to his woke sycophants who need to repay college loans they freely incurred is yet one more example of an unconstitutional order by one who believes he has total authoritarian power, and who will stop at nothing to maintain that power including raiding the home of a previous president in order to find something to prevent him from running in the next election.

Now that the primaries are over, and the teams have chosen their players, we must gear up for a clean-sweep of leftist Socialist-Democrats, and replace them with “America First Republicans.”  This is no time for wishy-washy Republicans motivated by selfish ambition. This is a fight for the future of liberty. Remember what Reagan told us in his 1975 speech to CPAC,

“Our people look for a cause to believe in. Is it a third party we need, or is it a new and revitalized second party, raising a banner of no pale pastels, but bold colors which make it unmistakably clear where we stand on all of the issues troubling the people.”

Against all odds, and against the opinions of the “political experts,” Donald Trump experienced continual victories because he proudly acknowledged that in this country we worship God, not government.  Because he openly, an unapologetically acknowledged the sovereignty of God over our land, God gave him favor and victory over political enemies who seek to advance a godless agenda, thus placing themselves in the position of the ultimate authority. This is simply the age-old battle between God and Satan. There is nothing new under the sun.

So this November, every believer has a responsibility to pray and vote for candidates at every level of government who will publicly affirm our national motto, (In God We Trust, in case you forgot it), and who will seek to govern according to our Judeo-Christian heritage. If we hope to see God’s grace “shed on Thee” again, we must pray like it all depends on God and work like it all depends on us to see Godly men and women occupy seats of leadership.

Every pastor must preach and teach his people to be faithful witnesses, and to give unto Caesar what is due unto Caesar in this nation where “We the People” govern. If the people of God don’t govern, the people controlled by Satan, certainly will.

If our children and our grandchildren grow up not knowing the blessings of liberty, it will be because the Christian pastors and church leaders did not preach the whole counsel of God, which includes the faithful stewardship of liberty. God has entrusted the “Truth” to us. If we don’t teach it, the father of lies will win– we will lose this world’s last best hope.

So, get ready. Pray like it all depends on God, but work like it all depends on you. For the benefit of the next generation, and for God’s glory. We will be, once again, “One Nation Under God.”

Jul 29

Being the Salt

Being the Salt – Howell’s Church July 17, 2022

Jun 23

Jane’s Revenge, and What it Says.

“But they mingled with the Gentiles and learned their works; they served their idols, which became a snare to them. They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons, and shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood.” –Psalm 106:35–38

The young ladies in the above photo…

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May 26

UVALDE, WILL WE EVER GET THE MESSAGE?

While we mourn the innocent lives lost at the hands of an evildoer in Uvalde Texas, I’m still hearing the cries of concerned Americans, and political opportunists, calling for answers to this murderous epidemic we have seen since Columbine in 1999. For the first time, however, I heard a political leader address the issue head-on when Lt. Governor Dan Patrick said on several TV shows that we must return to God. He referenced 2 Chronicles 7:14 which is the formula for national healing and revival. We must return to God.

I remember when I attended elementary school in Brooklyn, New York, the problems we dealt with were things like chewing gum and running in the hall. Today we’re talking about violence, drugs and even mass murder. How far we have fallen!

What else can we expect when we have taken God out of the classroom, along with such principles as “Thou shalt not murder.” Our children are brought up to believe that there is no God, that they are just a product of evolution with no particular meaning or purpose. We are raising a nihilistic generation, and yet the primary driving emotional need for males is a sense of significance. So, if they can’t find that sense of significance, because they don’t know why they were created by the God, and in His image, they will look for that significance wherever they can find it, even if it means dying in the process. After all, if there is no heaven or hell to be concerned about what does it matter?

The root of the problem is spiritual at its very core. The secular psychologist deals only with the mind, but is incapable of addressing what controls the mind, and that is the very spirit of man. It’s pretty simple. In the absence of God who is love, the mind is occupied with hatred and envy stirred up by demonic forces.

It’s time to bring God back to our public schools, and to our public life. Leaders at every level of government must go back to the principles that have made us the greatest nation on the face of the earth, remembering what Abraham Lincoln taught us, that, “those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.”

Yes, we have freedom of religion; that is not freedom from religion. Every nation and people will practice a religion either theistic or atheistic, but everyone believes in a highest authority even if it may be themselves. If we continue denying God His rightful place in the life of our nation we will surely sink into the depths of depravity and eventually experience the same end experienced by Sodom and Gomorrah as the historical record confirms.

We are “One Nation Under God.” To the degree that we return to the meaning of that motto, we will see healing and restoration. That must be our North Star, the rallying banner for all Americans to gather under, as we continue our journey to the “more perfect union.”

The question is, will we ever learn? For the benefit of our posterity and God’s glory, I pray we will.

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May 16

The Spiritual Forces Driving the SCOTUS Leak.

Why was it thinkable for someone on the U.S. Supreme Court staff to think it was okay to leak confidential information as the recent Alito draft, for the first time in the history of the Court? It’s actually pretty simple.

George Washington gave us the answer in his Farewell address intended to instruct Americans on the dangers that would present themselves challenging the continuance of the republic. He said,

“Let it simply be asked, where is the security for prosperity, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in the courts of justice?”

If the sense of religious obligation deserts the oath of office there would be no security. You see, for the first time in American history, in the struggle to manage competing factions and ideologies, one side has renounced the sovereignty of God. In the absence of God, the oath keeper becomes his own ultimate authority, and will make any oath in order to advance his own cause. The ends justifies the means. After all, they are the final authority, and whatever will advance their higher goal is certainly justified.

We, in this nation, have survived under one stable form of government, under one Constitution, longer than any other in world history, because even during such trials as our Civil War, both sides of the conflict had a general reverence for the God of the Bible, and despite their imperfect understanding, they were both restrained by their accountability to God as they understood Him.

Today’s Left has renounced the sovereignty of God, and has, by default, assumed the position of the highest authority. They have become their own god subscribing to the Humanist Manifesto that declares independence from God; man will save himself.

In all of American history we have never experienced a significant segment of our population challenge the importance of the general acknowledgement of God, and our allegiance to pursue a more perfect union in accordance with His rules of order and right.

The danger we face today is that the leftist mindset, being accountable to no higher authority, will assume for itself the power to judge right and wrong, good and bad, who lives and who dies. The left becomes the host for every diabolical power to continue the Luciferian struggle that commenced long ago to dethrone God.

The only solution is a reaffirmation of our national motto: “In God We Trust.” That must be our north star, our rallying standard around which we must all join to continue our pursuit of that more perfect union. A house divided cannot stand. We must reaffirm our unity as “One Nation UNDER God.”

We must learn from our history, and from those leaders who led us successfully through challenges such as Abraham Lincoln who told us,

“… it is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God… and to recognize the sublime truth announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.”

The fissure in our nation will only be healed by a return to God who alone can heal our national wounds and ensure peace and prosperity for our posterity.

Apr 11

Public Schools Sexualizing our Children. What’s a Parent to Do?

New Jersey public school second graders will be getting lessons related to gender identity this fall under state sex education guidelines that will take effect in September. According to Foxnews.com. one school district already distributed sample lesson plans indicating first graders could be taught they can have “boy parts” but “feel like” a girl. We’re talking about six and seven year olds.  If my pastor started talking to my seven year old daughter about her body parts I would have him arrested for sexual child abuse. What makes these educators think they have any right to sexualize my children according to their unnatural and immoral perverted standard? These woke curriculums are nothing less than an attempt to program our children to realize a Sodom and Gomorrah society here in America. They must be rejected by New Jersey parents. Furthermore, we must sound the alarm throughout the nation to be on the lookout for these insidious attempts to steal the innocence of our children. The psychological wellbeing of our children has already suffered, as indicated by the increase in suicides for gender confused children. This new pagan moral standard is literally, killing our children. Parents must exercise their authority to re-establish a standard of morality and decency that reflects natural law and the Judeo-Christian philosophy upon which our nation was founded, a philosophy generally shared by every western civilized society.

We must no longer simply go on the defense to put out these fires when they erupt like the proverbial “whack-a-mole,” but we must go on the offensive to positively reassert the truth of the motto “One Nation Under God.” This national motto suggests that a Biblical standard of morality is to be advanced in all our government institutions. Private schools may teach whatever they like, but public schools must serve the moral standards of the general public, that is still a Biblical worldview.

Someone’s particular moral standard will necessarily prevail in our public schools. That’s not the issue; the issue is whose standard of morality will it be, a pagan uncivilized standard or a Judeo-Christian standard that has produced more peace and prosperity than anywhere in the world.

Parents must go on the offensive to first examine their school’s curriculum, and if there is any attempt to indoctrinate children to a standard that rejects, or disrespects our Judeo-Christian standard, it must be challenged.

What’s the alternative? Take your child out of the government school system, and enroll them in a private school that will reflect your values. What we must not do is to surrender our children on the altar of wokeness, or we will see the same end that was visited on Sodom and Gomorrah. It is true: there is nothing new under the sun.