Essays & Ideas

If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good. Joshua 24:20 You know I’m not quick to decry the death of America. But if you read your Bible you know that God didn’t just drop judgement on…

Listen to what is being taught in California in a public school program called “History of Culture”: They are required to adopt an Arabic name. They are made to chant “Praise to Allah” in response to their teacher. They are forced to memorize the Muslim profession of faith, “Allah is the only God and Muhammad…

I was born when Harry Truman was president. I was raised in America of the ‘50s. If you were around back then you remember that times were purer and things were simpler and America was far more innocent than it is today. Here is a “mental picture” of life in the Fifties. Dad, Mom and…

Over the years I’ve been preaching I have noticed, of late, a sad turn in the way people dress and act in church. So I thought I would try to help remind folks of where they are when they’re in church. I believe the local church is the vehicle through which God deals with His…

There was a time when Americans worked all day and then watched a little TV at night for entertainment. Those days are gone! Television is no longer a source of entertainment which we can take-or-leave. It has become an integral part of the lives of Americans. What I mean is that it is as much…

“I have thought proper to recommend, and I hereby recommend accordingly, that Thursday, the twenty-fifth day of April next, be observed throughout the United States of America as a day of solemn humiliation, fasting, and prayer; that the citizens that day abstain, as far as may be, from their secular occupation, and devote the time…

Well, we ducked another bullet. Yep, that fateful day June 6, 2006, better known as 06-06-06 has come and gone without the “end of life as we know it.” It joins the ranks of those other “ends of life as we know it” dates that were also much heralded washouts. There was the great revolution…

Recently a pastor told about an airplane ride he took. As the plane was loading he took his seat next to the window. He looked over his shoulder to see a suspicious Mideastern man take a seat about two rows behind him. Just then an American man took the seat next to my pastor friend.…

Our pastors have two very large adversaries living in everyone of their church members. We are all rebellious against God by nature. We are Americans. Because we are rebellious against God by nature we hate being told what we can or cannot do. Because we are Americans we’ve made a doctrine out of “all men…

Liberals love to cry “The sky is falling!” concerning the earth’s oil reserves. Their argument seems to almost make sense, “Don’t pump all the oil or we won’t have anymore.” until you choose to use your brain rather than another CNN terror report. It’s like, “Hey Stupid! If we stop drilling now it will be…