Monday, November 24, 2008
Friday, November 21, 2008
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Sunday, October 05, 2008
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Chuck Baldwin Speaks On Abortion
Thursday, September 04, 2008
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Monday, August 04, 2008
Understanding the South
When many people think of the South, the mental image they see is a caricature. They see racists, rednecks, trailer park trash, and ignorance. Now, most of us native born Southerners will own up to being rednecks. But we resent in the strongest terms being caricatured as unintelligent. (The rest of you are just jealous of our beautiful, slower way of speaking!) The South is a unique cultural region whose society is an intricate tapestry of education, intellect, faith, progress, resilience, shame, and heartache.
We Southerners are proud of our heritage. We have no need of your pity, your scorn, your condescension, or your moralizing. We are aware of our peculiar history with its great moral stain. But that history is more than just its stain. And history is more than the propaganda of 143 years. Mr. Lincoln’s War changed America forever, and in many ways for the worse. Even the freeing of the blacks was not fully realized until a century after his death. In his war, we lost our unique republic and it was replaced by an ideology of empire. And you cannot blame that on the South.
One of the best articles I’ve read recently about the South is on Newsweek’s website. I offer it for your enjoyment. Read Southern Discomfort by Christopher Dickey.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Rescuing the Federal Budget
There are only two ways to fix the federal budget deficit over the long term: pursue a less agressive foreign policy and reform the major entitlement programs. The Heritage Foundation opens a discussion on the second way, which is where most of our savings could be realized.
View the entire video
View the entire video
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Superficial Christianity
Carnal Christianity is almost synonymous with contemporary Christianity in America. The church's morals are unremarkably different from those of the society at large. Since morals are an outgrowth of spiritual understanding, one cannot but wonder about the authenticity of a Christian whose affections are world-oriented and flesh-oriented to the degree that we see in today's Church. Phil Johnson at Pyromaniacs does us all a great service by posting excerpts from Spurgeon every weekend. This week's article is
Shallow Conversions;Shallow Religion
Shallow Conversions;Shallow Religion
Though I rejoice in sudden conversions, I entertain grave suspicions of those suddenly happy people who seem never to have sorrowed over their sin. I am afraid that those who come by their religion so very lightly often lose it quite as lightly. Saul of Tarsus was converted on a sudden, but no man ever went through a greater horror of darkness than he did before Ananias came to him with the words of comfort.
I like deep ploughing. Top-soil skimming is poor work; the tearing of the soil under surface is greatly needed. After all, the most lasting Christians appear to be those who have seen their inward disease to be very deeply seated and loathsome, and after awhile have been led to see the glory of the healing hand of the Lord Jesus as he stretches it out in the gospel.
I am afraid that in much modern religion there is a want of depth on all points; they neither deeply tremble nor greatly rejoice, they neither much despair nor much believe. Oh, beware of pious veneering! Beware of the religion which consists in putting on a thin slice of godliness over a mass of carnality. We must have thorough going work within; the grace which reaches the core, and affects the innermost spirit is the only grace worth having.
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