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- Popular articles on
School Prayer,
the Roots of our Constitution,
Contending for the Faith,
Fractional Reserve Banking,
The Founding Fathers' View of Natural Law, and
Libertarianism, Conservatism, and Christianity.
- The Law of God Revealed in
the Scriptures by Christ as Mediator, James Willson
- President Reagan's Greatest
Domestic Legacy, Mark Hamilton
- Excerpt from Wholesome
Severity Reconciled with Christian Liberty, George Gillespie
- The General Equity of the
Continuing Debate, George Gillespie's Wholesome Severity
Reconciled With Christian Liberty, Christopher
Coldwell
- A Review of On the Solid Rock, William
Einwechter
- Scripture is normative for all areas of human
activity, including public policy. The state, although institutionally
separate from the church and engaged in different activities, is just
as subject to God.
- National
Religion--What Is It?, R. Z. Wilson
- It is not
requisite that a numerical majority should have and profess this true
religion; but that the brain, the heart or the governing portion of
the nation should be actuated by it.
- God's Law, Not Natural Law,
John Lofton
- But what Arnn and Jaffa say is not
true. I reiterate: Nature is fallen, imperfect, twisted by
sin. Thus, "nature," in and of itself, is the basis of
nothing and tells us nothing about whether sodomy is
right or wrong.
- The Gauntlet is Thrown: The
Church Must Oppose the Sin of Women at War, Douglas
Phillips
- We proclaim that it is biblically impermissible and a
profound judgment upon our nation for men to abdicate their role as
protectors and warriors by permitting and perpetuating the practice of
women in the military. We argue that women in the military is
not simply a bad idea, it is a categorically unbiblical idea. We
further argue that the issue is not simply women in combat, but women
taking up arms at any level as members of the armed forces. We argue
that the military is for warfare, and warfare is for men.
- Christ's Kingdom Not of this
World, J. S. Buck
- When it is said that Christ's kingdom is
not of this world, it is by no means meant that this world is not of
Christ's kingdom.
- Are You Really Opposed to
Violence Against the Weak? Mark Hamilton
- He said, I
believe it is a private decision that a woman must make for
herself. Sounds a lot like, but the slave is the master's property and
he has the right to a private decision to do with his property
whatever he wants.
- Testimony of the RPCNA
Concerning the Civil Magistrate
- Conservative or
Christian? William Einwechter
- Governor Among the
Nations, Samuel Carlisle
- The people are invested, by their
Creator, with the right and duty of carrying out the social principles
of their nature for their own government: this investiture includes
the designation of the persons into whose hands the ruling powers
shall be distributed; but these individuals become divinely appointed
magistrates--ministers of God.
- Scripture and Natural
Rights, Christopher Alexion
- We would then, on Adler's
theory, have no more rights than the carbon atom. If we accept the
biblical justification for human rights and the limitations of
government, we are compelled by intellectual honesty to accept its
further limits on both rights and government--even if this goes
against our prejudices. Adler, for one, is right to insist that
government is limited (though he cannot justify this view), but the
state is far more limited than he imagines.
- Incarnations of the Messianic
State, Gary North
- Whenever a state moves from defense to
offense, from keeping the peace within its borders to extending
justice to all, including people living beyond its borders, who have
never covenanted before God and man to be under its authority, we see
another incarnation of the messianic state.
- The Incomplete Program of the
National Reform Association, Robert Emery
- The Unwavering Program of the
National Reform Association, William Einwechter
- Classical Natural Right
Versus Modern Rights, John Fielding
- One of the most
striking contrasts between natural law theory and more recent
political theories which will be familiar to you is that the former
speaks rather of duties and little of rights
- Shall We Succeed? R. W. Sloane
- Classical Natural Law: Cicero
and the Stoics, John Fielding
- Classical Natural Law, John Fielding
- Toward a Christian Theory of
Rights, Part I, John Fielding
- The Christian
Statesman, Then and Now, William Einwechter
- Civil
society is a divine institution; Nations are moral persons and are
bound by the moral law; The fealty and service of nations are due to
Jesus Christ; The Holy Scriptures are the supreme law of nations;
Civil office cannot wisely or safely be intrusted to immoral and
wicked hands
- The Continuing Mission of the
National Reform Association, John Fielding
- the deficiency
of any constitutional safeguarding of man's rights that does not
ground the protection of these rights in God and His law
- The Need for Christian,
Constitutional Plowboys, Louis Sette
- constitutional
ignorance by Christians has caused them to go astray in their
views
- Christ's Government of the
Nations, R. C. Wylie
- Christ rules the nations now. What is
yet future is the willing submission of the nations. He is already
enthroned and is using His authority for the accomplishment of His
purposes. It is under and by virtue of His reign that nations are to
be brought into willing submission to His scepter.
- Political Polytheism, Part
2, Brian Schwertley
- God condemns and hates political
polytheism, and charges the civil magistrate to uphold, in relation to
his sphere of jurisdiction, both Tables of the Ten Commandments. In
this final segment, Brian surveys the NT evidence against political
polytheism and answers objections to his thesis.
- Political Polytheism, Part
1, Brian Schwertley
- The humanist says, 'You shall have no
other gods beside me,' and, astonishingly, most professing Christians
in principle agree.
- Orwellian Religion,
Christopher Alexion
- if we identify the various religions with
the propositions they assert--"God is sovereign," "People are
reincarnated," "Westerners must die in jihad," etc.--it would be
difficult to see how all religions could be equal. It would be
difficult because elementary logic tells us that a proposition and its
negation (or its contrary) cannot both be true at the same time and in
the same sense. If Islam asserts monotheism and Hinduism asserts
polytheism, then one or both must be false. So while we might say that
all religions are equally false....
- Judge Moore's Stand,
Gary North
- the state of Alabama's own voices of authority--the
judges of the state's supreme court--have joined with a Federal
district court to deny their visible subordination to God's
Bible-revealed law
- Evangelicals, Pluralism, and
Judge Moore, William Einwechter
- Judge Moore is more
biblically, historically, and constitutionally informed than the
evangelical pluralist. He understands that Scripture calls for the
public honoring of God and His Bible-revealed law by the civil
magistrate (Ps. 2:10-12). He understands that true liberty and justice
are found only under God and His law. He also knows his history, and
he understands the true meaning of the First Amendment of the
U.S. Constitution. If only our evangelical brethren were so
informed.
- An Introduction to
Neoconservatism, Gary North
- Foreign policy is the
traditional monopoly of the Establishment. After all, the Council on
Foreign Relations is not called the Council on Domestic
Policies. Any invasion of turf by outsiders is therefore resented by
the Establishment. The neocons are turf-invaders
- A Christian Perspective on
Just War, William Einwechter
- every war comes about
because of the evil in the heart of man; the taking up of arms to
stop that evil can be righteous
- The Debate Over Charity and
Self-Preservation, John Fielding
- if the rich have a duty
to share with the poor, does this duty carry with it a concomitant
right of claim? This is to say, if a rich man has a duty to share
with the poor, do the poor have a claim against a rich man that
fails to do so?
- Election 2004: A Christian
Post-Election Analysis, William Einwechter
- Conservatism
is not Christian; that is, it is not submissive to Jesus Christ and
does not take the Bible as its standard of social and political
ethics.
- The Tyranny of
Anti-Discriminationism, Christopher Alexion
- Christians
hold that discrimination, in certain cases, isn't wrong; the problem
lies with behavior that violates God's law. The fundamental issue is
not whether some people should discriminate against others. Rather,
the question is to what extent the government should regulate the
conscience of the individual.
- Christianity and Politics,
Christopher Alexion
- By Christ all things spiritual,
philosophical, and political consist; there simply is no neutral turf
over which His reign does not extend. Christians should do political
theory, not because political theory is great in itself, but because
Christ is Lord.
- The Balance of Liberty and
Law, unsigned article from Volume 1 of the Statesman
- Setting forth the equality of
all men as members of the same family, and endowed alike with
immortality, the Word of Revelation at the same time demands respect
and honor for government as the ordinance of God Himself.
- Here I Stand, Chris
Yokel
- we see the importance of standing for
principle. Abraham Kuyper, the Apostles, Athanasius, William Wallace,
and Martin Luther were all faced with the choice of standing for what
they knew to be right versus compromising those principles for the
sake of peace, or popularity, or personal safety. They all chose
principle, and some of them paid dearly for that choice. In this age
where we face temptations every day to compromise our beliefs, to
forsake our Lord for popularity or peace, let us remember their
example.
- The Secular Assault on Christian
Civil Government, David McAllister
- The Authority of the Old Testament
in the State, William Einwechter
- A Crime by Any Other
Name, Christopher Alexion
- What exactly is
a hate crime? (Some of us believe that
since assault and murder are already
illegal, we have all the legislation
we need.)
- A Government of Charades and
Imbalances, Louis Sette
- These inferior courts
not being constitutionally required,
congress may, simply by majority vote,
abolish all or part of them.
Congress and the judiciary are not equal.
Congress is the judiciary's master.
It holds over the lower United States
courts the power of life and death;
the power to create them, the power
to abolish them, the power to limit
them.
- Thy Kingdom Come,
J. R. W. Sloane
- The petition is both
a prayer and a prophecy--a prayer
that the kingdom of the Redeemer may
be established throughout the world,
a prophecy that this will be accomplished.
- Judge Roy Moore Is Right,
Larry Pratt
- The judges need to be
reminded that they are under law. It
is time for impeachments to begin.
- Samuel Rutherford on God's
Law and Political Authority, Oliver Woods
- Rutherford's
work represented a direct challenge to the 17th Century theory of the
Divine right of kings, but neither he nor Knox had much direct
influence on the founding fathers of America. Their indirect
influence, however, was profound.
- "Gods and Generals": A Review,
Raymond Joseph
- there was enough Christianity exhibited in this film to lead any
serious inquirer to examine what it was that made these men
tick. These were godly Christian men committed to what soon proved to
be a hopeless cause, all the while claiming God's promise to bless a
righteous enterprise.
- There Is One Lawgiver,
William Einwechter
- James teaches that it is not our place to be judges of God's law,
but to be doers of the God's law
- The Brute Facts: An
Introduction to the Theology and Apologetics of Cornelius Van Til,
John Fielding
- in order to reason at all, assumptions must be
made about reality, our ability to speak about it or interpret it, and
the nature of our common ground, if any
- The Scriptural Basis of the
National Reform Association, David McAllister
- Granting that the Bible is the revelation of the will of the
Moral Governor of this world, we are constrained to accept its laws as
authoritative in every department of human life. It would not be the
perfect and adequate revelation of the will of God to our race if it
did not give us all the principles of conduct in so important a
department of human life as that of the state.
- America Is Drifting, Larry Pratt
- As we depart from spiritual
self government led by the Spirit of
God, we also depart from political self
government. We end up depending on a
huge civil government to rule each individual.
- False Pluralism, John Fielding
- Based upon the response to Secretary Paige's comments, all is to be permitted in the name of pluralism; all, that is, except for Christian morality, which is the only system not permitted under this version of pluralism. This pluralism is not a true pluralism but a false pluralism.
- Response to Associated Press
Article on the 2002 NRA Conference, William Einwechter
- Lara Jakes Jordan's Associated
Press article, Pitts cancels speech
in front of radical religious group, is filled
with falsehoods and inaccuracies concerning
the National Reform Association (NRA)
and what it believes and promotes.
- Educational Dishonesty,
Christopher Alexion
- Whether we study biology, history, or
sexuality, our underlying presuppositions
are hard at work interpreting reality
in the context of ultimate worldviews.
Both the Christian and secularist worldviews
lay claim to these disciplines, and
both systems exclude the other.
- The Need for God's Law Today,
John Fielding
- The Lawrence decision reeks with moral teaching. It has become obvious
that the federal judiciary needs more guidance than the laws
of nature and of nature's God to supply God's view of the
limits of government.
- Principles of a Christian Political
Science, Part 1, David McAllister
- the nation, or the state, in the sense of that word in international law,
is a moral agent, or a being with true moral character and accountability.
The promulgation of the great doctrines of religion, the being and attributes
and providence of one Almighty God; the responsibility to Him for all our
actions, founded upon moral freedom and accountability; a future state of
rewards and punishments; the cultivation of all the personal, social, and
benevolent virtues;--these never can be a matter of indifference in any
well-ordered community.
- The King of All Liberty,
John Fielding
- The Christian faith is the faith that produces liberty; the faith
of those who would divorce the state from God is the faith that
destroys liberty.
- Two Cheers for Fanaticism,
John Fielding
- Or is bin Laden right? Is
the United States a decadent society that cannot even muster
the unity to defend itself against a group of people who have no
doubt that they are right and are willing to do and spend what it
takes in service of that view?
- Politics: Limits and Uses,
Gerry Wisz
- Some of us, enervated by the Reagan
revolution and finally coming to understand
that politics is, firstly, local, got
elected to school boards or city councils.
Some even made it to state assemblies.
We were energetic, idealistic.
Zeal for the House consumed us.
But that's tiring,
and we're older now.
- Rule of Law or the Rule of Men?,
Ovid Need
- The king is a minister of God, bound by his oath on the
Christian Bible to uphold the law as embodied in the
Constitution as originally meant, based in Scriptural law.
- Christian Evangelism Against
Statism, Timothy Terrell
- some Christians have thought of
"democratizing" a nation as an intermediate step on the
way to "Christianizing" it (if they think in terms of
"Christianizing" a nation at all). Very often, democracy will
result in a loss of liberty, as well as a reduction in Christian
influence. The framers saw the political and moral disaster
of the French Revolution, and shunned democracy in favor
of a republic.
- Government is a Package Deal,
Gary DeMar
- all authority comes from God. Rulers, therefore, only have
limited authority to govern.
God delegates this limited sovereignty
to every government (family, church,
and civil). All governments represent
(accountability to the rule of
another) the sovereignty of a superior.
All governments follow an ethical code (law), whether
perverse or righteous.
- Proverbs and Politics, Part 2,
William Einwechter
- a listing of the
verses in Proverbs that directly relate to politics
- For Renewed Vigor!
Jeffrey Ziegler
- We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first great Reformation.
Therefore, we are resolved that the word shall go forth from the National
Reform Association, to both friend and foe alike.
- Abraham Kuyper: God's Renaissance
Man, Oliver Woods
- The key lesson that emerges from
the life of Abraham Kuyper is the futility
of even the most effective political
reforms apart from covenantal commitment.
- Statesmen Versus Politicians,
Mike McHugh
- A king has the right and responsibility to commission his servants with
specific tasks and duties. The problem is that most elected officials
view themselves as being in the position of king.
While they will never say that the people serve them, they
certainly act like it in a multitude of ways.
- Principles of a Christian Political
Science, Part 2, David McAllister
- "Stoning Disobedient Children?" Revisited, William Einwechter
- Stoning Disobedient Children?
William Einwechter
- This objection to the use of the Old Testament case laws is based on a
shallow reading of the law, a misunderstanding of the actual
case law requirement, and an attachment to sentimental
impulses.
The son in view is not a child, for the sins brought forth in
testimony to show his contumacious manner are gluttony and
drunkenness; hardly the sins of the average 6 or 10
year old.
- Proverbs and Politics,
Part 1, William Einwechter
- As Proverbs indicates, all who reject the fear of
God are fools who are wise in their own eyes; and
they are fools because they reject the wisdom and
authority of God's Word! If Christians would heed
the political wisdom of Proverbs, then they would
give their political support to men who fear God,
and they would stop seeking to place fools into
positions of authority over them.
- Quiet Revolution: The
Christianization of the Republican Party, Rod Martin
- Christian conservatives now hold a majority of seats in 36% of all
Republican Party state committees (or 18 of 50 states),
plus large minorities in 81% of
the rest, double their strength from a decade before.
- Biographical Sketch of John
Winthrop, Oliver Woods
- English gentleman, Puritan, governor and deputy governor,
author of the City Set on a Hill sermon and of the Little Speech
on Liberty
- A Look at National Reform Association
History, Raymond Joseph
- But, yes, we still maintain, though spoken humbly from
a heart in total submission to the
King of kings, that, we must say even today that the
world is indeed opening to the
truth--the truth of biblical Christian civil government
that Jesus Christ is Lord of the
state and His Word is the basis of civil law. It is the
church that is the problem; the
church's grasp of this truth has just been delayed for a
century or more, while her failure
to believe and teach it has resulted in today's societal
fling with apostasy and unbelief
- From Whence We Came: A Background of the
National Reform Association, Anthony Cowley
- What can we learn from the past 133 years in regard to theologically
motivated political movements? A specific focus is necessary. Without
that, a movement becomes so broad that it does not attract attention,
and cannot hold the interest of its own supporters. Both the National
Reform Association and the Christian Amendment Movement had moments of
great glory and some success. Neither has yet attained their objective.
- What Can the Righteous Do?,
William Einwechter
- We can and must pray. One neglected weapon in the arsenal of prayer is
the imprecatory psalms. We can and must work to rebuild the foundations.
We can and must take our place and our stand in the gates of the land.
- The True Life:
Faith, the Assault against Maturity,
and Its Political Impact, Jeffrey Ziegler
- The Master Himself said that "in this world, you will have
tribulation." Such tribulation is not confined to physical
persecution, imprisonment, or political tyranny. In fact,
Scripture places far more weight and stress on our battles
with sin, being sinned against, heartbreak, loss, and
emotional hardship than it does on political oppression.
- The Grandness of the Great
Commission, William Gregory Strawbridge
- The Great Commission
is the predictable Messianic restatement of multitudes of
Old Testament commissions and promises and prayers for
all the nations to be made disciple-nations
- A Review of: A
Republic, Not an Empire, review by John Pafford
- While it is true that the United States is a multiethnic
country, it has not been and must never become a
multicultural country. To proclaim that this is a
multicultural country, that the basis of our culture is
diversity, is meaningless
- Flying the Flag,
daniel lance herrick
- U.S. Law calls for the United States flag to
occupy the place of superior honor and prominence and authority
when it is displayed with the Christian flag.The Bible
says Jesus is King of kings, thus
requiring that His emblems be given higher honor
and prominence and authority than the emblems of
any earthly kingdom.
- The Biblical Model for Civil
Government, William Einwechter
- The model
of the Hebrew Republic calls
for a civil government that officially
recognizes the authority of God over
it and operates in view of His sanctions;
for a government that is local and decentralized;
for a people who act responsibly and
choose wise and godly men for civil
rulers, and then hold their rulers accountable
to govern justly; and for civil magistrates
who are zealous in the pursuit of pure
justice (i.e.,
the justice revealed in God's law),
and who refuse to recognize persons
or take a bribe because of their commitment
to the rule of law.
- Messiah, Governor of the Nations
of the Earth, Part 2, Alexander McLeod
- III. Examination of Objections and IV. Conclusions
- The Marginal Existence
of Christian Politicians, John Fielding
- their task, in the
current configuration of interest-group politics,
is to put together a coalition of enough generally
supportive interest
groups to equal 51% of the voting public. Thus,
their job is to do as little for us as is
necessary to ensure our support in
the next election
- The Conflict between Christianity
and Islam, Ethan Foltz
- Islam, as a religion, has
consistently articulated a worldview that is comprehensive and is inimically
opposed to Christianity, Judaism, and Western Civilization
- The Challenge of Islam,
Don Walker
- The power that Islam exercises over the minds of its followers is derived
from "stolen truth." Its "roots" are found in Judaism and Christianity. In
fact, it is the contention of Islam that it is the "fulfillment" of God's
revelation, which began with Abraham and came to its completion in Muhammad.
It may very well be that our Sovereign Lord is using Islam to
"press" the Western world into a spiritual reawakening.
- Topical Questions for the Resurgent
National Reform Association, Jeffrey Ziegler
- Does media attention and fuss destroy message of NRA?
Does this activism represent an abandonment of NRA history?
- Messiah, Governor of the Nations of
the Earth, Part 1, Alexander McLeod
- Prince of the kings of the
earth (Rev. 1:5) means Christ,
as Mediator, rules over all the nations
of the earth.
- The Mount of Blasphemy,
Richard McBane
- specifically, Israel was condemned because
the people continued, or pretended to
continue to call on Jehovah, while,
in actuality, they were worshipping
other gods. And what are they told?
The calf of Samaria will be broken
in pieces. They have sown the wind
and will reap the whirlwind.
- Government, William Einwechter
- God's Government; Self-Government; Family, Church, and State
Government; Liberty and Government; Interdependence of Governments
- Security, Authority, and
Restoration, Thomas Beresford
- the Christian also prays to the Triune God for divine protection, in
acknowledgment of his absolute need and reliance on His protective hand.
- The Prophetic Voice and Campaign
Finance Reform, Jeffrey Ziegler
- Hays-Sheehan so-called campaign finance reform, is
a case of the rulers against
the ruled, of incumbent career politicians
consolidating power and silencing potential
adversaries.
- Protecting Our People, Rod
Martin
- Protecting our people is the most basic of the duties of
our government, yet, from the MAD days of mutual assured
destruction up until the present day, the American people
remain defenceless.
- Polytheistic Antagonism Countering
Theistic Reformation, Thomas Beresford
- The law of God was given as absolute and binding upon all
men, as both King Nebuchadnezzar and King Darius (Dan. 5
and 7) affirmed following a gracious wake up call
- Lessons of 9/11,
Howard Phillips
- Our only safety is in the Lord.
We must pray that God will be merciful, and we must repent
and rid ourselves of conduct and beliefs that are offensive to God.
- A Biblionomic National
Confessionalism, Andrew Sandlin
- we do know what a society explicitly governed by
the Lordship of Christ would look like in outline.
It would be a society in which Christian men,
families, and churches would govern themselves by
the written law of God. It would be a society in
which the individual freedoms of the unregenerate
would be respected within the perimeters of
biblical law. It would be a society in which the
civil magistrate enforced biblical law appropriate
to the civil sphere. It would be a society that
permitted maximum individual freedom under God's
law
- Political Propaganda: Not
the Exclusive Domain of Tyrants, Jeffrey Ziegler
- We who support the mission of the National Reform
Association think in terms of the full
mobilization of resources, skills, and application
of the same to convey our message on as many
different levels as possible. The Christian
propagandist seeks to change the current
conditions.
- Christ's Political Authority
and the Church's Witness and Service, William
Einwechter
- Jesus Christ is the prince of the kings of the
earth. The kings under His rule are each and every
chief magistrate in the world. In short, a vital
aspect of the church's commission is to preach of
and witness to the crown rights of Jesus Christ in
regard to politics.
- The Lutheranization of Calvinism:
Michael Horton's Two Kingdom Retreatism, P. Andrew Sandlin
- The Christian family, church, state, and other
spheres of human life should be independent but
cooperative institutions--all Christian, all
operating under God's authority. What Horton
really argues for is a distinctively non-Christian
society in which the Christian church is permitted
to exist and exert a measure of influence on that
society.
- Origins of American Covenanter
Political Theology, William Chellis
- Thy Kingdom Come,
Larry Pratt
- There Is Another King,
William Einwechter
- Two Views of Civil Government:
Puritanism vs. Pietism, Jay Rogers
- Puritan New World Thinking vs.
The Nativistic Urge, Jeffrey Ziegler
- Can We Legislate Morality?
Rousas J. Rushdoony
- Redemptive History and Christian
Politics, P. Andrew Sandlin
- Blessings and Curses of Civil
Government, Tom Rose
- Thomas Jefferson and the
Declaration of Independence, Dennis Woods
- Murder and
the Death Penalty, William Einwechter
- Y2K: False
Alarm or Real Problem? Tom Rose
- Evangelical Political Compromise,
William Einwechter
- The Impact
of Calvinism on Culture: A Challenge to the NRA, Jeffry A. Ziegler
- Freedom of
Religion and the Religion of Freedom, Kevin Clauson
- A Defense
of the State's Duty to Confess Its Allegiance to Christ,
David McAllister
- Do
We Really Want a "Fully Informed Jury"?, Charles P. Huckaby
- The
State: Inescapably Religious, Andrew Sandlin
- Wise as
Serpents, Harmless as Doves, William Einwechter
- Take Me Out to the Ball Game: How
to Build a Christian Political Farm Team, Jeffrey Ziegler
- A Rationale
for Conservative Christian Politics, Mark Hamilton
- Good
Governance and Godly Authority, Gregory Hogan
- Actions Have
Consequences: How to Advance Your Beliefs by Helping a Candidate,
Rod Martin
- A City on a Hill,
Kevin Clauson
- Taxation and Apostasy,
Andrew Sandlin
- The Cultural War Begins in
Earnest, Rod Martin
- The acquittal draws the antithesis starkly. We will save our
nation by knowing who we are, by standing on principle, by endlessly
drawing the contrast with our opponents, and by submitting ourselves
to the God who gave us our nation in the first place.
- The Dissident's Bookshelf: review of
The End of Democracy: The Celebrated First Things Debate,
William Gould
- Why the Senate Is Corrupt,
Llewellyn Rockwell, Jr.
- Debased Politics: Is There an
Answer? Tom Rose
- Biblical Freedom and the American
War for Independence, Timothy Terrell
- The American
War for Independence, then,
was an effort at regaining
what had been until the mid-1700s a free
society enjoying a substantial amount of
self-rule. It is more accurately described
as a secession, a withdrawing from the British
Empire, conducted under duress.
- Training the
Murderers: Religious Nuts with Guns, William Gould
- The Dangers of Nativism in the
Religio-Political Sphere, Jeffrey Ziegler
- False Prophets of the Fourth
Estate, Richard McBane
- Why Should I Study Theology?
Robert Fugate
- State Grants to Faith-Based
Organizations: Some Questions to Ponder, Mark Hamilton
- Unrighteous Legislation,
William Einwechter
- The True Idea of the State,
David McAllister
- Presidential Election of 2000:
Any Lessons? Tom Rose
- Why the Electoral College?
Andrew Sandlin
- The Image of God, the Incarnation,
and the Spirit of Herod, Jeffrey Ziegler
- Rule of Law,
William Einwechter
- The Fall of America,
David Henreckson
- the church began giving in to modernism,
to follow popular opinion instead of directing it
- Should Civil Government Enforce
the Sabbath? Gordon Keddie
- Schizophrenic! The Muddled World of
Egalitarian Media Politicos, Jeffrey Ziegler
- Federalism and Covenant: The
Historical Contribution of Covenantal Thinking to American Federalism,
John A. Fielding III
- The Tenth Amendment - State
Sovereignty Resolution, William Einwechter
- The Tenth Amendment: Its Historical
Background and Importance Today, Tom Rose
- America's King,
William Einwechter
- God's Law or Chaos,
William Einwechter
- A Review of A Defence of the
Christian State by Stephen C. Perks, John Fielding, III
- Let's Gut the Political Community,
P. Andrew Sandlin
- Righteousness Exalts a Nation,
W. Gary Crampton and Richard E. Bacon
- Intolerance, Andrew Sandlin
- Executive Order #13083--
Attack on Federalism Suspended (Temporarily?), Tom Rose
- Executive Order 13083: As Dangerous
as the United Nations, William Gould
- Decentralized Christian
Civilization, Andrew Sandlin
- Review of Obedience to the
Laws of God The Sure and Indispensable Defense of Nations by Ashbel
Green, Raymond Patton Joseph
- Review of The Trinity by
Gordon Clark, Doug Comin
- Symposium on A Christian Political
Party, Howard Phillips
- The America That Once Was, and Could
Be Again!, Tom Rose
- First Steps to Political
Influence, Gregory Hogan
- Principled Reasons for Compromise,
and Practical Reasons for Protest, William Gould
- Culture: Do We Abandon It, Join It,
or Change It?, Andrew Sandlin
- Cultural Sanctification: The Promise
(and Limits) of Politics, Rod Martin
- Of Reformers, Separatists, and
Election 2000, Jeffrey Ziegler
- Important Political Questions,
William Einwechter
- The fate of the nation does not hang on
the next election. Rather, it hangs on the
faithfulness of Christian men and women who
live righteously, and who are committed to
building strong Christian homes and strong
Christian churches.
- Declaration of Dependence: A Strategy
to Reclaim America, Jay Rogers
- Declaration of Independence and
National Renewal, William Einwechter
- Natural Law and Revelation,
Gordon Clark
- Inflation: Made Understandable,
Tom Rose
- The Declaration of Independence:
Christian Masterpiece or Humanist Tripe? Jeffrey Ziegler
- Let's Hear It for Social Justice,
P. Andrew Sandlin
- Declaration of Independence as Moral
and Constitutional Law: Whatever Happened
to the Bible? Kevin Clauson
- Back Into the Closet!,
John Kistler
- American Right to Bear Arms,
Tom Rose
- What Does the Bible Say about
Gun Control? Larry Pratt
- Asian Flu: Worldwide Inflation or
Deflation? Tom Rose
- Gun Control Advocates - Get Real!
Tom Sullivan
- Introduction to the 1999 Edition of
Messiah the Prince, Raymond Joseph
- Biblical Standards for Choosing
Civil Magistrates, William Einwechter
- Hamartiology and Gun Control,
Andrew Sandlin
- To Arm or Not to Arm?,
Richard Knodel, Jr.
- Lordship of Christ and the Separation
of Church and State, William Einwechter
- Interview of Andrew Sandlin,
Eric Holmburg (from video series, God's Law and Society.)
- We strongly support the separation of church
and state. We do not support the separation
of the state from God.
The church is under the authority of the
law of God just as the state is.
- The Many Faces of Tyranny and How
to Establish Godly Rule (Part 2), Tom Rose
- Biblical Economics: Its Spiritual,
Economic, and Political Aspects, Tom Rose
- Dissident's bookshelf - Review of
Discipling the Nations, William Gould
- Providence of God and Patriotism,
William Einwechter
- the country in which a Christian
lives and has his citizenship was determined
by the providence of God. God has a purpose
for him in the particular nation where He
has placed him.
- Political Vision of Christian
Patriotism, Jeffrey Ziegler
- it is imperative that the Christian
patriot realize that all of life (including
politics) is religious. It is never a question
of religion or no religion, only a question
of whose religion. Thus, one must acknowledge
the impossibility of divorcing religion from
the civil sphere. Civil government will
reflect the notions and ideas of the dominant
religion of that day.
- Definition of Patriotism,
Tom Rose and Robert Metcalf
- Patriotism, Robert L. Dabney
- Biblical Patriotism,
Steve Wilkins
- We must cease worshiping the gods of politics
and power. The true patriot worships God
and stands for righteousness.
- The Throne of Iniquity,
William Einwechter
- Attempts to deal with the issue of political dissent in a way
that is clearly tied to the text of Scripture.
- Looting Under the Guise
of Patriotism, Andrew Sandlin
- Pat Buchanan has been a true,
rock-ribbed conservative: pro-Christianity,
pro-individual liberty, pro-free enterprise,
anti-Communist, anti-big government, anti-abortion.
He's not repudiated these views, but he's
seriously muted most of them. He's
replaced conservative rhetoric with
socialist rhetoric.
- Intentions Versus
Consequences, Andrew Sandlin
- In today's sentimental climate, the liberals usually win the
battle for public opinion. Good intentions are considered more virtuous
than good consequences. Liberals appeal to compassion, while
conservatives appeal to consequences.
- Politics as Usual or Biblical Law?
Jay Rogers
- If we want to build a society without abortion, without
homosexuality, with family values, and with godly schools, then we are
wasting our time if we adopt any other strategy besides the standard of
God's holy Word.
- School Violence: Littleton
Revisited, Tom Rose
- It is true that guns have been used in many of the violent
incidents reported--but so have knives, blunt instruments, and even
teeth. But, strangely, most of the focus by the federal government and
its agencies and the mainline news media has been on the alleged need
to remove guns from the hands of citizens.
- Biblical Law and Self-defense,
William Einwechter
- Our Reformed Educational Heritage,
Gregory Hogan
- Establish Judgment in the Gate,
William Einwechter
- According to God's design, the civil ruler should be a terror to
evil doers and an encouragement to those who do well. The citizen
ought to find the sweetness of justice and protection from the wicked
- God's Plan for Accruing Wealth,
Jeffrey Ziegler
- The power and abilities which God gives His children to get
wealth are not get rich quick schemes, but, rather, diligent, purposeful
work, investment in the kingdom of God, and the principle of
covenantal inheritance. It is through these divinely chartered means
that covenantal dominion is effected in the earth.
- Guilt of Innocent Blood,
William Einwechter
- Christianity and the Death
Penalty, Kevin Clauson
- The Bi-Polar World of Death Penalty
Politics, Jeffrey Ziegler
- Why Execute Murderers?
daniel lance herrick
- The Bible not only imposes the death penalty, it also gives
reasons for requiring that we execute murderers.
- For Whom May Christians vote?,
Douglas Comin
- Election Tuesday, Anthony
Cowley
- President's Swan Song, Anthony
Cowley
- Social Witness and Christian
Voting, Andrew Sandlin
- aren't you splitting the vote by voting for the Christian, and
thus assuring that the worst of the three, the liberal, will be elected? In
some cases, yes, but I am not responsible to God for how other people
vote, only for how I vote. I must do what is right no matter what the
consequences, which are in the hands of God.
- Strange and Wonderful Pennsylvania
Politics, Steve Frezza
- But Samson, You Don't
Understand, daniel lance herrick
- Most of the reasons offered for voting for evil candidates are
humanist reasons, and they have been around for a long time.
- The Founding Fathers' View
of Natural Law, John Fielding
- Natural Law: A Summary and
Critique, William Einwechter
- The Historical Course
of Natural Law Theory, Andrew Sandlin
- Natural Law and God's Law:
An Antithesis, Rex Downie
- The Founding Era and Christianity,
Steve Wilkins
- it is unjust to criticize the Founders for not knowing what we
know, not seeing what we see. And it is equally wrong to portray the
Founding Era (or any era for that matter) as an idyllic time that, if we
could only return to it, would solve all our problems. They were men
who sought to create a country where true freedom could be preserved.
The loss of freedom should not be blamed on them but on their faithless
followers who despised the foundations and pulled down the ancient
landmarks and to the Church which has refused faithfully to preach the
faith once for all delivered to the saints
- The Problem of Populism,
Andrew Sandlin
- Even insightful statesmen who support democracy in a general
sense recognize its dangers and limitations. The Founding Fathers were
not committed to democracy, but to republicanism; and in the decade
after the American War for Independence, many of them framed the
Constitution to protect against the will of majorities.
- Strategy for Invasion and Conquest:
Biblical Principles for Christian Political Action in the New Millenium,
Joseph Morecraft, III
- When was the last time you heard of a national group of
Reformed, Evangelical, or Fundamentalist preachers publicly and in
detail confess their sins as ministers and acknowledge that their
unfaithfulness in life and in the pulpit has been a major contribution to
the bringing down of God's judgment on our nation? This is where we
must begin in our Christian political action.
- He Who Reads, Leads!, Jeffrey
Ziegler
- What about our children and the young people within our
churches? Do they know the difference between the economic theories
of John Maynard Keynes and Ludwig Von Mises? Have they read the
Communist Manifesto? Have they ever heard of the New Deal or The
Great Society? Do they know what the Cold War was all about? What
was Luther doing nailing things to church doors anyway? How did
Cromwell's political views evolve?
- The Crime of Abortion and Its
Just Punishment, William Einwechter
- ...the foetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is
already a human being (homo) and it is almost a monstrous crime to
rob it of the life which it has not yet begun to enjoy. If it seems more
horrible to kill a man in his own house than in a field, because a man's
house is his place of most secure refuge, it ought surely to be deemed
more atrocious to destroy a foetus in the womb before it has come to
light....
- The Evolution of Natural Law,
Kevin Clauson
- Secession: A Biblical Defense
of Localism, Kevin Clauson
- argues that secession is "a legal-political remedy that is
warranted in Scripture as a means of protecting 'localism'
- Refighting the Civil War: The
Case against Secession, John A. Fielding, III
- This article takes the position that the founding documents of this
country do not permit the unilateral secession of one or more states
from the Union, antebellum or postbellum and, thus, even before the
passage of the so-called 'Civil War Amendments' (the 13th, 14th, and
15th).
- Symposium on A Christian Political
Party, Niles Campbell
- Symposium on A Christian Political
Party, James Jordan
- Christ's Mediatorial Kingship,
Gordon J. Keddie
- review of Handbook for Christian Living: A
Resource Manual for Applying God's Truth in a Mixed-Up World,
Gerald L. Bowyer
- Symposium on A Christian Political
Party, Jerry Bowyer
- Symposium on A Christian Political
Party, Thomas Atwood
- Symposium on A Christian Political
Party, Bill Brown
- The Dissident's Bookshelf: review
of Political Polytheism, reviewed by William Gould
- Table of Contents and Editor's preface of
Messiah the Prince by William Symington
- The Christian Statesman Press has just reprinted, for the
second time, Messiah the Prince by William Symington. Here is the
Table of Contents and the editor's preface to this new edition.
- The Christian Colonial Foundation of
America, William Einwechter
- The Christian Character of the
Colonial Governments, David McAllister
- When the Righteous Are in
Authority, William O. Einwechter
- Creeds and the Cultural Mandate,
Jeffrey A. Ziegler
- Hidden Facets of the Littleton
Tragedy, Tom Rose
- More Judgment Please,
Kevin Clauson
- Biblical Law and Covenant Nation,
Andrew Sandlin
- Once a Reactionary, Always a
Reactionary: A Critical Review of "Blinded by Might", William Gould
- Two decades of Christian political activism have failed.
Culture war participation harms the evangelistic ministry. Primary
need for Christians to reform their own families and churches first.
Gives no guidance about how to pray for leaders
- Babes Shall Rule Over Them,
William Einwechter
- 1998 News of the National Reform
Association - New subscription policy for The Christian
Statesman
- New subscription policy for The Christian Statesman
- The Many Faces of Tyranny and How
to Establish Godly Rule (Part 1), Tom Rose
- Goliath's Sword in Righteous Hands,
Richard Bacon
- Obey God or Men?, William
Einwechter
- "We ought to obey God rather than men" does not indicate that
our only response to tyranny is civil disobedience. The apostles did not
mean that the government of the Sanhedrin was illegitimate and all its
commands should be ignored. The first good work spoken of by Peter in
I Peter 2:13-15
is submission to the laws of men.
- A Prayer for Ohio,
Jeff Ziegler
- An invocation of the Lord's blessing upon the deliberations of
the Ohio Legislature.
- On Being a Dissenter, a book
review by William Gould
- Civil government is an institution from God, and we are to
measure this institution by the Word of God. Because the magistrates
are ministers of God, they are in office to promote moral order as well
as social order. Willson exposits the mutual duties of both citizens and
rulers because supporting righteous government is a way of honoring
God.
- Jonesboro, Rod Martin
- Doomsday Economics,
J. Andre Weisbrod
- The Roots of Our Problem,
Raymond Joseph
- The Art of Being a Taxpayer
Patrick Poole
- National Covenants William
Einwechter
- New England Puritanism, Theonomy,
and the Foundations of American Government book review by Jay Rogers
- Review of Explicitly Christian Politics
by Chuck Huckaby
- Ramparts Rightward, book
review by Andrew Sandlin
- Horowitz became an editor of the prestigious Ramparts
magazine, literary flagship of the American student Left in the sixties.
To the conservatives who thought that the sixties were really bad,
Horowitz today furnishes a needed corrective: they were not merely
bad, they were much worse than you ever thought. Horowitz
documents the true hypocrisy and deep radicalism of the era. He notes
further how coldly and harshly the Left treated those among their
number considered "softening up" or surrendering somewhat to the
establishment.
- All About Gold Tom Rose
- Fractional Reserve Banking
Murray M. Rothbard
- Just Weights and Measures
William Einwechter
- Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a
small. The use of a false weight or measure involves both deceit and
theft. The monetary policies and practices of the United States and
other countries clearly violate the law of just weights and measures
because through the manipulation of the money supply they deceive the
people and steal their wealth through inflation.
- Honest Money Robert M. Metcalf
- Inflation of the money supply is an important means of
manipulation and control by which the few dominate the many. The
discipline of an absolutely unchangeable gold standard is a necessity
(gold, it must be stressed, serves as a disciplinary agent; it is not to be
an idol).
- A Theonomic View of Civil
Law William O. Einwechter
- Abraham and Melchizedek Raymond P. Joseph
- Interposition:
Lawful Resistance to Tyranny, Larry Pratt
- Legitimate political interposition occurs when a magistrate
ends rebellion of a people or another magistrate. Jesus stands between
God's holy wrath and those who by grace accept His death on the cross
as salvation for their sins. Christ interposes politically. He uses the
agency of men He calls, to warn rebellious peoples and rulers.
Watchmen, if not magistrates, are to warn and call to repentance. The
magistrate is called to heed the warning of rebellion against God's law,
and avenge those oppressed by the rebel peoples or magistrates. Rulers
are no more above the law than the people. Only the magistrate is
ordained to bring to bear the sword of justice against all who rebel
against God's law. Thus he serves God and man. Today magistrates
need to interpose themselves even in cases where superior magistrates
rebel against King Jesus. Historically Americans have done this. The
electorate needs to vote for such interposition.
- preface of Explicitly Christian
Politics, William Einwechter
- In place of the pluralistic mess of pottage advocated by these
"Christian" political and social policy organizations the National
Reform Association advocates, as the title of this book indicates, an
explicitly Christian approach to politics and social policy. Since 1864
the NRA has sought to teach the principles of Christian civil
government and to call this nation to submit to Christ the King. The
starting point for the NRA's approach to politics is the recognition of
the mediatorial reign of Jesus Christ over the nations;
- The Battle We Face, Andrew Sandlin
- The ambit of Christ's jurisdiction cannot be limited. It applies
no less at the shop or school on Monday than the church on Sunday.
But Christ's jurisdiction is neither fancy rhetoric nor imponderable
abstraction. It means something concretely. The source of that
concreteness is the Holy Scripture, the very word of Christ. To assert,
therefore, Christ's jurisdiction, is equally to assert the authority of the
Bible. It is authoritative in all areas of life: education, church, family,
economics, eating, science, music, politics, media, and so forth.
- The Doctrinal Cornerstone
of the National Reform Association, William Einwechter
- Christ is Lord of all, and His present authority extends to all
men and nations, and to all spheres of life, including the sphere of civil
government. Christ is, therefore, "King of all the earth"; "the governor
among the nations"; "the Prince of the kings of the earth"; and "the
King of kings and Lord of lords".
- Princess Diana and the Legitimacy of Civil
Government, William Gould
- The adulation of Diana, even in the former American colonies,
provides an object lesson in legitimacy. The British government traces
its legitimacy to the crown, and Diana, Princess of Wales, has been a
very visible symbol of the crown in recent years. Legitimacy is
indespensible. Legitimacy is the difference between a State and an
organized crime syndicate. I can confidently predict that, as irrelevant
as the monarchy is to actual British government, and as unworthy is
the conduct of most of that royal family, Britain would become
ungovernable if the monarchy were abolished.
- The Christian
Statesman: A Unique Publication, William Einwechter
- clear understanding of Christ's present position as King of the
Nations, and the implications of that truth for political action by
Christians
- Icy Facts Beat Fiery
Rhetoric, Andrew Sandlin
- It is true that the Founders relied somewhat on classical
(mainly Roman) jurisprudence, even more so than an inherited Puritan
ethic, and did not fashion a specifically biblionomic (Bible-based) state;
neither did Calvin and Zwingli for that matter. The fact that they did
not is no justification for the charge that they were disingenuous
secularists.
- Libertarianism, Conservatism,
and Christianity, John A. Fielding, III
- Toward a Christian Balance: Libertarianism loses the unity of
society in the multiplicity of the individual. Conservatism loses the
multiplicity of individuals in the march of the development of the unity
of civil society through history. Neither really has a principle of
transcendence. The biblical model of ethics and covenantal political
structure possesses the only true balance between the one and the
many.
- The Christian Libertarian
Idea, Andrew Sandlin
- Libertarianism manifests certain distinct features of
biblical-Reformed religion, and, when anchored to biblical Faith and
shorn of its sinfully autonomous impulses, points toward a fully
legitimate orientation to life: maximum freedom under God's law.
- Biblical Conservatism,
James L. Sauer
- Although not all Conservatives are Christians, there is a sense
in which all Christians, at least all consistent, orthodox and Biblical
ones, are Conservative. By Conservative in this sense, I mean a person
who recognizes a fixed and absolute worldview concerning human
origins, nature, purposes, roles, and ends. Christianity has cultural
implications. Christians who confess Christ but deny the social
implications of Christianity are being unfaithful to their creed. Biblical
Conservatism, therefore, reflects the social, cultural, and political
implications of divine revelation concerning Jesus Christ as Sovereign
Lord, Creator, Lawgiver, Redeemer, and Judge.
- Bribery--The Bane of Nations,
Myron Stoltzfus
- Bribery perverts judgment. It hides the truth. God's wrath is
on those who participate in the sin of bribery. God blesses those who
refrain from bribery. Rewards for good deeds or service are not bribes.
Apologies by way of gifts are not bribes. The sinful nature can blur
these differences. Avoid appearance of evil.
- A Letter to James Dobson,
William Gould
- The Constitution's framers knew limited government requires
the Ten Commandments' Christian morality but neglected to recognize
Christ. Thus they neglected King Jesus's crown rights and a defense of
the future of limited government. NRA proposes remedial amendment.
It is biblical. It exposes militant statists and secularists. We have
nothing to lose.
- Principled Resistance to Civil Tyranny: One
Man's View, Andrew Sandlin
- Christians in the United States, for instance, should spend
more time practicing civil obedience (writing, voting, petitioning,
working precincts, preaching, praying imprecations, etc. ) than civil
disobedience (sit-ins, tax revolts, revolutionary militias, and so forth). I
repeat: the Bible does indeed justify civil disobedience, but only when
civil government prohibits what the Bible requires or requires what the
Bible prohibits. We must meet injustice with justice, not greater
injustice.
- Criminalizing Justice, Andrew Sandlin
- In both the Old and New Testament the terms
&34;justice&34; and &34;righteousness&34; are virtually synonymous.
Modern secular culture has transformed the meaning of justice. Justice
now denotes conformity to the political sentiment and sentimentality of
secular elites. A society in which a ravenous state may steal private
property from its citizens is not a just society. It is, quite pointedly, an
unjust society.
- God's Works of Providence in History,
Fred Pugh
- The first error they wanted to exclude was the error of
thinking that events occur by chance. The second error they wished to
exclude was the error that events occur by some kind of blind
mechanical necessity or fate. It is this very idea that events occur by
chance or by fate that has led to a culture that is unable to find any
basis for distinctions between right and wrong or any basis for any
meaning in the normal activities of life.
- Chalk Up One More for Religious Pluralism,
Andrew Sandlin
- One thing is certain: Alan Keyes wants nothing to do with
Christ's Lordship over the Nations. He wants nothing to do with a
"cultural war." He wants nothing to do with what the National Reform
Association wants to do.
- The Necessity of an Exclusively Protestant
Social Protest, Andrew Sandlin
- Re: Evangelicals and Catholics Together: That is, the
participants want to speak as Christians but do not wish to speak as
Christians. They abhor the idea that "religion should be excluded from
the public square" while denying that they have a "religious agenda." ...
We Protestants wish that the signatories would be consistent. We
support an explicitly Christian commonwealth, a society based explicitly
on the message of Holy Scripture.
- Normalcy in Scriptural Anthropology,
Andrew Sandlin
- secular psychological help for the unconverted is ultimately
futile. If man is deemed normal in his present state, there will be no
attempt to solicit solutions to man's problems beyond the sphere of
human thought and activity. According to the Biblical view of
psychology, the unconverted require conversion-the beginning of the
process of sanctification, originating external to man-in God-and
imposed supernaturally on him. At best, secular psychology can perform
a cosmetic service-mask the inner disease of sin. At worst, it can
exacerbate that sin.
- Federal Constitution, Product of a Christian
Ethos, Andrew Sandlin
- What we really observe in the late eighteenth century is a slice
of a period of great theological transition from orthodox Calvinism to
generic Christian orthodoxy to Enlightenment rationalism to
pantheistic Transcendentalism to mechanistic naturalism to secular
humanism-a transition that occurred later in the United States than in
Europe. I chronologically pinpoint the founding somewhere between
generic Christian orthodoxy and Enlightenment rationalism.
- Social Witness and Christian Voting,
Andrew Sandlin
- Christians should vote exclusively for Christians-that is, those
who with an explicit Christian profession dedicate themselves to
applying their Faith in public office. I am less enthusiastic about the
two-party system in the United States, and am a firm supporter of a
fledgling third party, the U. S. Taxpayer's Party, whose platform, if not
perfect, nonetheless observes that, "Our republic is a nation governed by
a Constitution which is rooted in Biblical law . . . ."
- Any way you cut it, the Billy
Graham crusade just doesn't make sense, Andrew Sandlin
- But Billy Graham's message of salvation by faith alone is
quite the opposite of the Roman Catholic mass. This has been one of
the chief points of contention historically between Protestants and
Roman Catholics. The Roman churches are going to take the list of
converts they receive from the Graham crusade and, naturally, try to
make good Roman Catholics out of them. That is, they are going to
teach these converts the way of salvation just the opposite of what
Graham teaches. If he believes his message is so important, how can
Graham gloss over this huge difference?
- Ideology and Lordship, Andrew Sandlin
- The NRA is on a collision course with these ideological
visions. We hold that our blessed Lord and Savior as presently King of
kings and Lord of lords speaks the only infallible word to modern pagan
and apostate culture and that submission to his Person and therefore
law-word is paramount. Ours is not one among a number of competing
ideologies. Ours is the only answer to the evil--including the political
evil--that surrounds us.
- A Christian Carpe Diem,
Andrew Sandlin
- We are entering an era not unlike that of Europe between
1520 and 1660: several competing world views grappling for social
dominance. There is no longer the pretended neutrality and objectivity
of Enlightenment rationalism to impede the conflict. Over the past two
centuries, Enlightenment liberalism has been able to maintain that it is
merely a procedure, a matrix in which true democratic debate can
occur. It rose condescendingly and benevolently above the fray, with the
implied attitude: "Let the best man win; but we are preservers of the
truly free society."
- Nailing Down the Flap Over School Prayer,
Andrew Sandlin
- at certain times the conservatives reflect the residue of
historic, virile Christianity while denying in the most vehement terms
any attempt to return the nation to historic, virile Christianity. They
favor the effects of godly faith but do not wish in the face of fanatical
fascist liberals to support that faith.
- Playing It Safe Can Be Dangerous,
Andrew Sandlin
- We need to stand up boldly in pulpits, on courthouse steps,
outside abortion clinics and declare to God-haters, "What you are
doing is not lawful." We need to pray public imprecations against the
enemies of Christ and His Word--by name. We need to bombard the
media with the message, "Except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish."
We need to expose public sins of public God-haters publicly.
- Theocratic Fools for Christ, Andrew Sandlin
- We are pressing for the revival of the recognition of the claims
of the crown rights of King Jesus and of the eternal validity of his
law-word. We are pressing for the re-involvement of Christians in the
task of applying the word of God to all areas of life-especially the
socio-political. In short, we are pressing for the return to Christian
civilization.
- The Judgment is God's, William Einwechter
- Governors and rulers must seek to establish the justice
commanded in God's law and they cannot permit anything to stand in
the way of their duty; not the identity of the persons concerned, nor the
fear of revenge or the dread of giving a decision that will be unpopular
with the people, for the judgment is God's.
- Biblical Welfare Reform, William Einwechter
- The NRA stands for the Lordship of Christ over this nation
and for the authority of biblical law. True reform is based on
submission to Christ and His Law-Word. We contend for the reform of
welfare according to the principles of God's law. We are not at all
satisfied by Republican tinkering with the current humanistic system of
"aid" to the poor. We call for the complete demolition of the current
ungodly practice of statist welfare so that we can reconstruct in its
place a biblical system of charity.
- The Sure Path of Political Destruction,
William Einwechter
- puts the Republican Party in a precarious position, which
simply stated is this: deliver on their promises or else! As Human
Events noted, "Now they must make good on their conservative
promises, or risk losing everything two years hence".
- The Covenant Context of Christian Education,
William Einwechter
- This concept of the covenant and the believer's responsibility
in the covenant to obey the commandments of God is critical for a
proper understanding of Christian education. Christian parents must
place the issue of the education of their children in the context of their
covenant with God!
- Christian Politics: Contending for the Faith,
William Einwechter
- This duty to earnestly strive for the truth of Scripture is
incumbent upon all true Christians at all times and in all
circumstances. Christians must stand for the truth and openly seek to
advance the cause of Christ in private and in public, in the church and
in the state, in their family and in their community.
- Where is Your Hope?, Fred Pugh
- No king is saved by the multitude of an army; A mighty man
is not delivered by great strength. A horse is a vain hope for safety;
Neither shall it deliver any by its great strength.
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