"He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit." Titus 3:15 ESV Themes of regeneration appear throughout classic literature. The word “regeneration” means “to...
Good people obtain favor from the Lord, but he condemns those who devise wicked schemes. No one can be established through wickedness, but the righteous cannot be uprooted. Proverbs 12:2-3 NIV Our great wealth of classic literature is rooted in Biblical principles and...
I will walk at liberty, for I seek Your precepts. Psalm 119:45 The Pennsylvania State House was hot, humid, and charged with emotion in June and July of 1776, when representatives for the thirteen colonies came together for a second time to redress their grievances...
"Now the Lord is that Spirit and where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” 2 Corinthians 2:17 America’s heritage of Christian character is beautifully detailed in William Bradford’s History of Plimoth Plantation. He records the Pilgrim’s trials and...
“And that you study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands.” I Thessalonians 4:11 One way to teach character to children is by reading aloud together a classic biography. A biography is the story of a person’s life told by another...
“Since the civil ruler has the authority to wield armed might, a unity of civil powers in one body tends to corrupt it toward tyranny. God has also created man to be self-governing, that is, to diffuse authority among men, to maximize the extent of man’s...
Thinking and Reasoning Biblically in 2023 Part Two of Two The blessings of liberty in America cannot be perpetuated unless the principles of that liberty are re-identified and re-affirmed in each generation.Verna Hall Many sermons of our pastors in the 1700s and 1800s...
“Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side, my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.”Attributed to Abraham Lincoln In context, the "wall of separation" was to protect the church from a tyrannical government, not vice versa. ...
Thinking and Reasoning Biblically in 2023 Part One of Two America’s founding and establishment was the result of a people educated in Christian principles. Verna M. Hall Churches in the early Colonial period “birthed” Federalism—Christian self-government...
