‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart’… The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself....' Mark 12: 30-31 Little Women is one of the most beloved American classic novels. The story celebrates a family of girls growing up in Concord, Massachusetts, during...
Discerning Moment
Trailblazer of the Seas
“There must be natural paths through the seas–the best routes for man to travel.” Commander Matthew Maury, Trailblazer of the Seas, children’s biography of Matthew Maury by Jean Lee Latham Sailing the seas depends upon knowledge of sea currents – the pathways in the...
Warning Voices: Will We Listen This Time?
"The danger to all well-established free governments arises from the unwillingness of the people to believe in...the influence of designing men...This is the old trick of those who would usurp the government of their country. In the name of democracy they speak,...
Do Words Have Power?
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain meaning of words. Sam Adams 1722-1803 When leaders change the meaning of words, we should ask, “Why? Words are how we think, reason, discern, and make decisions. Is the meaning of a word being...
God’s and Ours: The Necessity of Property to Liberty
“There is not a single instance in history in which civil liberty was lost, and religious liberty preserved entire. If therefore we yield up our temporal property, we at the same time deliver the conscience into bondage.” John Witherspoon “The Dominion of Providence...
What is Essential to Liberty?
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. Ephesians 6:11 Today, we are surrounded by a culture steeped in “solving crises” or “fixing problems” such as inflation, crime, illegal immigration, corruption,...
God’s Great Endowment of Natural Rights
“Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws; that is to say, no human laws should be suffered to contradict these.” Blackstone, William, Commentaries on the Laws of England, Vol. 1, (Dublin: Printed for John Exshaw,...
America’s Vision of Hope: The National Symbol – Part II
…walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. Ephesians 4:1-3 The Great Seal of the United...
Republicanism – Will We Keep It?
“We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible; for this divine book, above all...






