Category Archives: Freedom

We serve no sovereign here

A Sovereign One – unlike all other would-be Sovereigns. Continue reading

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Four servants of God who battled fierce despair

Four servants of God. Each one reached an extremely low point in life. All of them felt that life was no longer worth living. Continue reading

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Obama Administration warns every public school in America

What does it tell us about the Obama administration when they act as if the most urgent matter facing our country is the transgender debate? Enough is enough! They’re coming for our children. We cannot allow this intolerant coercion to control our schools and our lives! Continue reading

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A call to speak up for freedom

We must find every way possible to graciously but firmly stop this militant intolerance. How long will we sit silently by and be manipulated, bullied and coerced by this radical agenda? Continue reading

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A danger to ourselves

Our demand for freedom without limits has contributed to profound short-term thinking and devolved into forms of self-serving individualism that threaten the stability and future of our communities and, perhaps even, our nation itself.
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Only one response to Bruce Jenner’s sex change is allowed

Our society is increasingly controlled by a small group of people who tell the rest of us what we’re allowed to think and say on select moral issues. Continue reading

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Refresher on the First Amendment

Those who want to force God and religion out of public conversation and policymaking, shouldn’t pretend that it’s about the First Amendment. It’s not. Continue reading

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Faith in science?

Naive young people are vulnerable to the impression that science has conclusively proven that nothing beyond nature could have any conceivable relevance to what happens in nature. Continue reading

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Does grace lead to responsibility?

Mercy is not effectively received unless it is shown, for God’s mercy transforms. If God’s mercy does not take root in the heart, it is not experienced. Forgiveness not shown is forgiveness not known. Continue reading

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Do you forgive or enable?

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