He Who Has the Guns Thomas Jefferson famously said (I paraphrase), “When the people fear the government, you have tyranny. When the government fears the people, you have liberty.” Whoever has the power to enforce their will is servant to the other. This same point was made by Carroll Quigley, the prolific Georgetown historian of [...]
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Restoring America One County at a Time Chapter 9: National Defense 9.1 National Defense in a Free Society (Cont’d.) Raising an Army Picking up from our review of the first major passage on preventing the warfare state, the second relevant passage covers both the laws for a militia and for waging warfare, all found in [...]
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Last week Richard Land, a pastor in the Southern Baptist Convention, former member of the George W. Bush’s administration, and president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, published an open letter to Newt Gingrich. In it he expresses his good feelings toward Gingrich, and also his concerns that Gingrich [...]
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‘Hugo’ is the astonishing adventures of a boy who lives in a Paris train station, and the enigmatic owner of a toy shop there. Hugo Cabret is a wily and resourceful lad whose quest to unlock a secret left to him by his father will transform Hugo and all those around him to reveal a secret and loving place he can call home.
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By Grace Balint I taught Grace when she was a senior in high school. I’ve known her for a very long time. I asked her to write this article to give you some idea what it’s like for a Christian to work in Hollywood and not lose your faith. — Gary DeMar “Hey, guys, thanks [...]
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Let’s get something straight. The only money that government has, it takes from people who work for a living. The only money government has to lend, it took from you and me. In a way, when these student loans are paid back, the money should go back to the people who had their money taken [...]
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While to today’s mind it presents a nearly radical picture, the biblical teaching on war and military are the only proper place to find foundations for the topic, “National defense in a free society.” Indeed, the biblical direction is so opposite from what we have known and come to accept as normal, that were it not God’s Own Word, many Americans would refuse even to tolerate hearing it for a second. But hear it we must, because change we must.
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‘Breaking Dawn Part 1′ is the fourth installment of the ‘Twilight Saga’, a love story involving an out-of-place teenage girl and her “vegetarian” vampire love interest. Does this series donate fresh blood to the tired vampire mythos, or is it merely a sappy melodrama intent on sucking your will to live? Find out now on Movieology!
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In the previous article, when discussing the question of elderly care for parents for the specific case when the parents are either covenant-breakers or their actions reveal unredeemed heart, we started a discussion over the very nature and function of the family in the plan of God for dominion. We answered the following three questions: [...]
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Last week a good friend of mine asked me for advice about his situation of caring for a widowed parent who for years asked my friend and his brother for money. Apparently, the money asked for is far above the normal support, otherwise my friend wouldn’t see it as a problem. Obviously this is a [...]
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