Standing for Truth and Defending Your Freedom
Standing for Truth and Defending Your Freedom
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A U G U S T 3 1 “These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also.” — Acts 17:6

Turning the World Right Side Up

The apostle Paul and Silas had been preaching in Philippi (in modern day Turkey) where many people had been converted. There was a great tumult and they were cast into prison. Finally released, they went on to Thessalonica (in Greece), where they went into the synagogue and preached the Gospel with great power. Numbers of the Jews were converted to Christ. A great multitude of devout Greeks also were converted, as well as a number of the... More
A U G U S T 3 0 “All the believers were of one heart and one soul, and no one said that what he possessed was his own. But to them all things were in common.” — Acts 4:32

Does the Bible Teach Socialism?

Some people like to say that early in the book of Acts we see an early form of socialism. The early Christians shared what they had, in some cases even by selling their houses and sharing the proceeds so no one had need. But I believe a close look at that passage will reveal that it is in fact antithetical to socialism. A husband and wife team, Ananias and Sapphira, decided to sell their property, but they kept back a part of the price,... More
A U G U S T 2 9 “The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.” — Proverbs 22:7

A Bankrupt Future If We Don’t Repent

We have given up the free enterprise economy the founders of this nation gave to us. We have followed the socialists, albeit a number of paces behind them, down that disastrous road. We are suffering the consequences right now. But we haven’t even begun to see the consequences that will be coming one day. Our politicians are recklessly spending money like there is no tomorrow. The federal government spends regularly more than we take... More
A U G U S T 2 8 “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be given to you.” — Matthew 6:33

Priorities

I always remember the admonition of Charles Spurgeon who said that Christ never told us to seek the kingdom of God. He is right. Christ never told us to seek the kingdom of God. He told us to seek it first. Instead of being worried about “all these things,” that is, what to eat, what to wear, providing basic necessities, Jesus tells us to make His kingdom and righteousness our top priority. When we get so consumed with all... More
A U G U S T 2 7 “It is God who clothes me with strength...” — Psalm 18:32

Don’t Believe the Lies

“You’re a dunce.” That’s what she said. “You’re a dunce, and I am going to fail you,” and the teacher failed Einstein in mathematics. Who was the dunce? “I’m sorry, we don’t want you in our choir. You can’t sing, so don’t come back,” but Jerome Hines became the greatest basso profundo the Metropolitan has ever known. We believe the lies of our past. Our own... More
A U G U S T 2 6 “For though by now you should be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God and have come to need milk rather than solid food.” — Hebrews 5:12

Arrested Development

Babies are universally loved and we are drawn to them at whatever their age. But if we visit a newborn and then come back in six months and that baby is still the same size as he was at birth, we know something is seriously wrong. Something is interfering with that baby’s development. I’m afraid there are some people in our churches today who are suffering from arrested development. They haven’t grown much. Oh, I think the... More
A U G U S T 2 5 “Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image’…in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” — Genesis 1:26a-27b

Were Adam and Eve Real?

When you come to discuss Adam and Eve, you immediately run head on into the great wall of evolution. This view has so permeated our society and indeed the society of almost the whole world, that there are few people today who are even willing to give an intelligent hearing on a true Adam and Eve. As well we might examine something from Aesop’s Fables, they say, as to examine Adam and Eve. Well, it is my conclusion after decades of... More