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Creating a Christian Environment for Learning

Creating a Christian Environment for Learning

We must be as knowledgeable about principles as the enemies of freedom are knowledgeable about issues. Verna Hall While our nation wrestles with the national COVID-19 pandemic, many parents find they are faced with the opportunity and challenge of...

Thinking and Reasoning Biblically in 2020

Thinking and Reasoning Biblically in 2020

One of the most critical changes we have witnessed in American education has been the change away from the reasoning, writing and reflecting ability so prominent in the generations that produced our nation’s founding documents. Rosalie J. Slater, Nation Makers...

Thinking and Reasoning Biblically in 2020

Thinking and Reasoning Biblically in 2020

“For over one hundred fifty years Americans have not known or learned of America’s Christian history.”  The result?  We’re fighting for the hearts and minds of our children.   Principles—Biblical principles—are the operative cause of American...

Thinking and Reasoning Biblically in 2020

Thinking and Reasoning Biblically in 2020

Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God.  Hebrews 6:1 NKJV Noah Webster’s 1828 American Dictionary...

The Wonderful Commercialism of Christmas

The Wonderful Commercialism of Christmas

By Rod Martin (first posted on December 24, 2015)Top photo: Christmas in Beijing Since long before I was born, people have been decrying, bemoaning, lamenting the so-called commercialism of Christmas. Stop it. Right now. Christmas is an absolutely singular holiday:...

Equality versus Inequality

Equality versus Inequality

Personal equality is one thing and the equality of attributes is another. Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, existing in the form of God did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a...