LIFE, LIBERTY, and THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS…


Our Founding Fathers were adamant that all people, all Americans, had certain inalienable and unalterable rights that came directly from our Creator, not the government.  In our Declaration of Independence, this was specified.  The words, “We hold these truths to be self-evident…” leave no question as to their recognition of certain rights and their unwillingness to accept less.  Why should we be any different today in America?

Those incredibly wise and detailed men continued saying, “…that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”  It is astounding to me that some in politics today believe that government has the right to trample, suspend, or modify those rights.  THEY DO NOT! 

The government has no right to tell any American citizen what they can think or even what they can say.  The only caveat is that if what we are saying is inciting riots and inducing sedition thereby endangering our Republic and our people the government can and should intervene.  Intervention is a difficult assertion because it can only mean keeping the public safe not developing a politically correct thought and speech police force.  If anyone becomes a threat to others, they are impeding that person’s right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. 

The government that our Founders established was intended to always be recognized as ‘by the consent of the governed’ not ‘vice versa’.  The government exists and operates, with the consent of the governed.  We are the ones charged with the oversight of the government, not the government charged with the oversight of us.  That is what the federal government has morphed into and poses a serious threat against our liberty and our designed system of government.

Politicians, of all stripes, seem to have developed or adopted the idea that they are our overseers and in the words of some, “the guardians of our democracy.”  The fallacy in that view is, in part, so few seem to understand that we are not a ‘direct democracy’ but a ‘republic’ with a representative government.  A second, fallacy in that line of thought is that the elected politicians seem to think that they are our lords and ladies.  They are not!  They are elected to represent us not rule us.

One of the roots of the development of this type of thinking is found in our modern educational system where Civics, Government, and History are taught incorrectly and inadequately if at all.  I have discussed our system of government with people holding Ph.D.’s in history. Some of them teach in our universities and do not understand our system of government.  Let me rephrase that and say, they may understand, but disagree with it and believe it antiquated.  Their disagreement leads them to become members of the Cancel Culture and Revisionist seeking to sanitize history to their liking.

Historic sanitization only results in the lesser informed being bereft of the benefit of the awareness and lessons in the failures and successes of our forefathers.  America like every other nation has made mistakes and has skeletons in our closet.  History should be taught as it is, not sanitized reinvented, or rewritten to fit a political or ideological narrative.  It is what it is and what it is should be our schoolmaster to help us avoid the mistakes and build upon the successes.

Our Founding Fathers offered the vision of a republic where all people were recognized as being created in the image of God and endowed with inalienable rights.  Every person has the God-given right, a right to be protected by our Constitution, to enjoy Life, Liberty, and the freedom to pursue happiness without government infringement.  That speaks of limited government, not the all-powerful nanny state that is being advanced in today’s political circles. 

Somehow, we have adopted the erroneous view that there must be a complete separation of ‘church and state.’  That view expanded requires a complete separation of moral moorings and moral absolutes from the political.  The desire to silence those who teach and preach the Gospel and the precepts and principles of the Bible relegating them to the confines of the four walls of the church is misguided.  That is not what transpired during our formative years and should not now.  The 19th-century Russian philosopher Vladimir Soloviev, in his work Politics, Law, and Morality wrote: “A complete separation of morality and politics constitutes one of the prevalent errors and evils of our century.”  That is still true today in the 21st-century.  It is a universal truth that is timeless.

The American nation was based on the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God.  I use that archaic English term coined by clergyman Richard Hooker in The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (1593).  Thomas Jefferson in his declaration, “in the Course of human Events, it [became] necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands [with an oppressive government] which have connected them [to each other] and assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God entitle[d] them.”

Joseph Ellis explained in his book The Character of Thomas Jefferson, “Thomas Jefferson, linked American Independence to grand and great forces that transcended the immediate political crisis and swept the imagination upward toward a purer and more principled world.”  We need that today.  We need a return to our moral moorings and a recognition of God’s sovereignty and His bestowal of inalienable rights on mankind.

The right to Life is darkened and tainted in the pro-abortion view.  We claim that everyone has the Right to Life but when it comes to the unborn, their right to live is subordinated to the right of the mother to opt for ending that life.  The juridical parting point is how life is defined by pro-abortion advocates and justices.  The term life is semantically poor.  The Romans did little but Latinize various Greek terms for life. 

Bios: life, in as much as a being, is born and dies in its precariousness and morality. Zoe: eternal life, which has no beginning and no end.  It is a dimension of life that is different from bios, such as divine life.  Psyche: life in motion or movement and is more than bios because it brings things like character into the mix.  Soma: a dimension of life that is inseparable from bios, but which is not reducible to the soma; it can be translated as a body.  Words have meaning. Life is the ability to Live and pursue that which makes us complete in every dimension.  That is God-given Right!

Liberty is more than not being in chains it is the freedom to think, express, develop ideas, dreams, and plans for the pursuit of Life.  Liberty includes freedom from overt and covert governmental infringement upon our ability to live the life that God has granted us.  God gave us liberty and through His Truth, we are liberated.  It is through educational and historic ignorance that our chains are forged, and we are imprisoned by the tyrannical.  It is expressed in censorship and deprogramming of anyone not agreeing with the mandated ideological philosophy.  That strips citizens of the Freedom of Speech and Opinion.  It seeks to make us mindless followers rather than innovators and initiators.

It is stated possibly erroneously that Jefferson changed the third term of John Locke’s trinity “life, liberty, and property” with “the pursuit of happiness.”  That phrase may have been an importation, not an origination by Jefferson.  Our Founding Fathers believed that “pursuing happiness was the foundation of liberty.”  Our founders adamantly sought to protect private property from government infringement. 

Our Founders believed that God has given to every person the right, the undeniable and inalienable right to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.  Unless we return to those founding principles, we will watch our republic become a memory and our liberties become controlled and restricted by the government. I continue to trust God, not the Government.

God bless you and God bless America!

IS EVERY POLITICIAN ELECTED ARBITRARILY PUT THERE BY GOD?


I realize that I am about to embark on a journey that will possibly receive criticism and critique from those who normally agree with me and those who never do.  I may find that I have become anathema to both sides of the political aisle and find myself odious to some of my fellow believers.  That being said, I will try to say what I believe the Bible teaches and my view, formulate from that interpretation on the subject.

In Daniel 2:21, the passage that I have heard quoted often regarding political elections.  It says, “It is He (God) who changes the times and the periods; He removes kings and raises up kings; He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding.”  I do believe that God is the Living God, the One True God, the Sovereign God of the universe!  I believe He puts people in political positions or allows them to ascend to whatever office they occupy! 

In the Book of Daniel, we have the record of Nebuchadnezzar, ruler over the Babylonian Empire 600 years before Christ.  This powerful ruler had a dream or a night vision and after seeking the interpretation from the soothsayers of his realm, Daniel gave him the true interpretation.  In Daniel 4:17, Daniel told the king that God gave the dream, “in order that the living may know the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, gives it to whomever He will, and sets over it the lowest of men.” 

Nebuchadnezzar was not a nice person.  He was a vicious tyrant who threw people alive into a furnace to be burned.  Imagine that, a dictator or tyrant having people burned alive.  Does that remind you of anyone in modern history?  He even threatened his advisors with mass murder if they didn’t give him the dream and the interpretation. 

We know from scripture that God hardened the heart of Pharaoh in Egypt until Egypt was brought to her knees because they persecuted the Hebrews.  In Exodus 9:16, God sent Moses to inform Pharaoh, “Indeed for this purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.”  In Daniel 2:20-21, we find Daniel declaring that God controls world events, removing and setting up kings.

The apostle Paul told the Christians in Rome, “All authority comes from God, and those in positions of authority have been placed there by God.”  (Romans 13:1) I would be remiss if I did not ask, “Does that mean that God endorses evil leaders with all their flaws and sordid agendas?”  I would insist the answer is NO!  I believe that it means that God has a purpose for humanity, and with America in mind, a purpose for America.  I believe that Romans 8:28 is applicable and that God takes the choices of people and events of life to blend them together with the end in view.  He works all things together for His purposes and our good.  Each thing nor each leader is not good but God as He has done throughout the Bible and history uses them for His purposes.

There are times that God arbitrarily decides who is going to be the leader of any given nation.  I believe that more frequently, He allows people to decide who will lead the nation.  He allows us to make choices, not always good choices, and elect or select people to govern who do not follow the precepts and principles of God’s Word.  I am reminded of Psalms 106:15 referring to the people of God who had been delivered from Egyptian bondage.  In previous verses, we discover the people rebelled against God, forgetting His works, not depending upon Him for guidance, but pursued their own desires.  In verse 15 we read, “And He gave them their request, but sent leanness to their souls.”

Sometimes, in our bad choices or selfish desires, we select or elect bad people to govern us.  God said in Hosea 8:4, “They set up kings, but not by Me; They made princes, but I did not acknowledge them.”  I am not speaking people prophesying that a particular candidate would win the election.  If God said, “Candidate X is going to win, candidate X is going to win!”  The only caveat to that would be if God said, “Candidate X is my desire, and if My people will be obedient and pray, he/she will be elected.” 

I am speaking to the issue of whether we have any choice in who is elected and if God wants someone in the White House or any other office they will occupy that position. He could arbitrarily do that! He is God.  God can do anything He pleases and none of us could question that.  He owns it all, He created it all, and He is LORD over it all.  However, like in the Garden of Eden, He gives us choices and it is in those choices that events transpire.  The fact that something happens does not mean that is His will, it means that is the path we chose.  Sometimes we open the door to evil by making wrong choices or in disobedience.  If we obey, we eat the good of the land.

The apostle Paul in 1 Timothy 2:1-2 gave some incredibly wise and godly advice to all believers.  It is applicable for today’s America and those of us wonder what God could be thinking in allowing the destruction that is being pressed upon us as a consequence of the 2020 elections.  He said, “Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings, and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence.”  I shout Amen, Paul, Amen!

I believe it is necessary that believers everywhere pray for those who are charged with leading the government.  We are not to pray for them to succeed in their agendas if those agendas are converse with the principles of the Constitution or the Bible. 

I am going to tread on thin ice and say that the slaughter of over 61 million unborn babies, the trampling on moral principles, the gender nullification, the assault on the home and family, and the anathema shown toward God and the Bible makes it understandable if God judges this nation.  Peter declared in 1 Peter 4:17, “For it is time for judgment to begin with the household of God, and if it begins with us first, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the Gospel of God?”

In biblical and world history we can see that God has used evil rulers to accomplish His plans and draw His people back to Him.  Habakkuk 1:5-11 is a prophecy in which God relates His intention to raise up Babylon, a ruthless and dreaded nation, to achieve His purposes.  I say that with Romans 8:28 echoing in my heart and encouraging my spirit.  We must never forget the truth of James 1:13 that “God cannot be tempted with evil, and He Himself tempts no one.”

I take comfort in the revelation given in Scripture of the Finished Work of Jesus and His total triumph over the forces of darkness.  People make bad choices and allow evil to prevail but that does not mean that God wanted the evil to transpire or the tyrants to rule.  I believe that He uses those situations to allow people to come to the end of themselves, repent, and realize their need for Him. 

No matter who is in the White House we must never allow fear to reign in our hearts.  We must continue to be rock solid in our belief and confidence that God is God and trustworthy.  I take great comfort in the account in 2 Chronicles 20:1-37 with Jehoshaphat and Israel.  It looked as if certain doom was their fate.  I love the king’s prayer in (vv.6-13).  He reminded God of His promise and the people of their responsibility.  Then a prophet stood and declared the Word of God.  We need to hear God clearly and correctly and then follow His word no matter how things look.  The miracle is incredible and the victory complete!

When we trust God there is no reason to fear!  I do not believe that it was God’s desire for Joe Biden to be president of the United States of America.  However, through many circumstances including bad choices or misguided choices, he now occupies the Oval Office.  What I do believe is that, as in many accounts in the Bible and history, what is meant for evil, God can and will turn for good.  God just may be allowing us to see the depth of corruption, the total abandonment of moral sanity and the Constitution, and when we reach the end of ourselves and turn to Him, He will move!

I believe the most important thing the believer can do today is “Seek God and His Kingdom.”  I believe that we must stand in the gap and make up the hedge.  We must pray and intercede for America.  We must not cast away our confidence in God and make it the purpose of our hearts to “Do His Will.”  We are to be salt and light and we are to influence the world rather than the world influencing us.  Stop listening to the voices that detract from God, His purposes, and promises.  Turn to God’s Word and to God in Prayer and allow your spirit to be refreshed.  We are commissioned to ‘pull down strongholds’, to do the works that Jesus did and greater works.  We are authorized and commissioned to destroy the works of the devil.  We do that with spiritual weapons and trust!

God bless you and God bless America!

TOTALITARIAN AMERICA…


Only a few years ago, I would have railed on anyone saying that America is or is about to become a Totalitarian state. That was only a few years ago. But in 2021, I confess I was wrong and under the current administration, the Democrat-controlled Congress, and the Swamp-filled Supreme Court we are there. You may disagree and insist that I am overreacting and to that I say — I Hope So! I pray that you are right and that I am having a classic knee-jerk reaction to the rapid and rabid assault on our liberties, freedoms, and the American constitution.

I heard something recently on the Tucker Carlson show that caused me great concern and at the same moment instilled a flicker of hope in my heart. What I heard came from the lips of a former Clinton adviser, Naomi Wolf. One of her many statements was that what is happening in the push to totalitarianism is beyond partisan and should unite those on the Left and Right to fight it. The operative word is ‘should’ not ‘would’. It should but from my perch, it seems that almost none on the Left and too few on the Right see, believe, or maybe even care.

I’m not sure that the condition of incredible apathy or non-involvement is due to not seeing or simply not caring. It seems to me that, for many, they have not been impacted sufficiently to be alarmed. The tragedy is that by the time that transpires it will be too late to fight back and the republic will have become a full-blown banana republic with the totalitarian dictators and oligarchs in control. The abdication of sanity by the Supreme Court over the election fraud cases makes it clear that the Deep State and Swamp are still in control.

I am more convinced than ever that our hope was another four-years of Donald J. Trump. You may find his personality as irritable as fingernails on a chalkboard. However, if you are capable of rising above the personality of the players and see the results, you should see the stark contrast in constitutionalism between Trump and Biden. Biden has shredded it daily and Trump fought for our liberties and freedoms. Biden is decimating our economy. The Trump administration produced an agenda that ignited it and benefitted everyone. Biden is erasing our borders and endangering our republic with his immigration policies and Trump made significant gains in protecting our borders and our national sovereignty. Biden is kowtowing to China, Russia, Iran, and others whereas Trump placed the world in a safer position by providing a strong America.

Ms. Wolf said, “America is becoming a totalitarian state before our eyes under President Biden’s leadership.” That came from a Democrat, not a Right-Winger. It came from a female, not the dastardly white male, well dastardly if that male was a conservative. Liberal Leftists white males are considered ‘woke’ sufficiently to be given a pass. Her view was that we are witnessing a ‘coup-like action that is creating a police state.’ This is the result of Biden’s ongoing coronavirus-related economic shutdowns and other actions.

Ms. Wolf declared what I and others have been contending for a long time, “This is beyond partisan. It transcends everything that those on the Right and Left might disagree or agree on.” It is a matter that should bring all freedom-loving Americans to the table of cooperation and ignite a fire of commitment to protect, defend, and preserve the Constitution and our Republican Form of Government. Again, the operative word is ‘should’.

The Left and the manipulated on the Right have decimated businesses, issued edicts that prevented Americans from freely assembling to worship as is guaranteed by the Constitution’s 1 st Amendment. The 4th Amendment is being trampled upon and the 2 nd Amendment is in the crosshairs of the Leftists and seekers of Totalitarian governance.

Ms. Wolf has published a book that outlines the ten steps that would-be tyrants always take when they want to close down a democracy and she expressed her belief and concern that America is headed toward ‘step 10.’ The use of executive orders or emergency orders stripping us of our rights is unconstitutional and dangerous. The rights of property, self-defense, speech, and assembly are constitutional mandates that if lost, destroy the pillars of freedom required for America to remain free.

The Editor in Chief of Breitbart, Alex Marlow has produced an investigative book that exposes the deep corruption within America’s media establishment. That is not a surprise, but his research and documentation is and should shake every lover of freedom and patriot to the core of their being. Mr. Marlow said, “I’ve been immersed in research on America’s media conglomerates for a year and I’ve kept the material tightly under wraps.” That was wise because otherwise, it would likely have brought about his demise. He said, “What I have found is shocking even to me, and I’ve tracked these players and issues my entire career. ”

His expose contains well over 1,000 endnotes. He said, “Media bias does not begin to describe what is in the book.” He spoke of the weaponization by the media giants and the unbridled use of fake news to benefit the Left, the globalists, and the multi-national corporations that control much of our lives. It extends from cronyism to the China ties, to the unending web of lies and half-truths that are prevalent and deeply embedded in today’s media. He said, “This is the truth about the 2020 election story the powers that be don’t want you to read.” That makes me want to buy the book and hope it is not much ado about nothing and more hype and foam than substance.

We are witnessing the utter fakeness of the imbecilic presentation of a liberal utopia. When politicians gain power through fraud, everything that follows is also fake. We were inundated with fake news and fallacious stories about Russian collusion in 2016. That was debunked and disproven so succulently that it should have resulted in indictments and convictions, but it continued for FOUR-YEARS!

We have been bombarded with the fallacious rhetoric presented by the Left that America is on the brink of a second civil war. The divide is great and growing greater. The hate is so prevalent that one wonders how long it will be safe to step outside your own home. The tech giants have become the censor arm of the Leftists and now there is a determined effort to censor and silence ALL conservative news outlets. If you are a Constitutionalist, a Conservative, and often a Christian holding to traditional biblical and family values you are deemed to be a spreader of hate speech and thereby censored.

The video where President Biden repeated what he was being told in his earpiece or whatever device he receives instructions was revealing. He said, “salute the Marines.His handlers tell us we misheard him and that he actually said, “good looking Marines.” NOPE, he said what he said, and it is one of the myriads of incidents where he is clearing parroting what he is being told.

Some said that the ceremonies of his signing Executive Orders look more like a hostage situation than a person in control and making their own decisions. He is, in my view, a puppet, but a very dangerous one. I hesitate to say this because I do not want to judge another person’s faith, but to call Joe Biden a ‘devout Christian’ seems a stretch. You know the tree by the fruit and the fruit of support for abortion on demand, and the other agendas and actions that are contrary to the written Word of God causes me to wonder. That being said, in the end, that is between Mr. Biden and God.

America, if we have not become a Totalitarian State, we are not far from it. The handwriting is on the wall and it is time for all True Patriots regardless of political party to unite to stop this and preserve the Republic. Can we count on you?

God bless you and God bless America!

WHERE IS AMERICA?


I asked that question and had a follower of toxic liberalism say, “It’s on the map between Asia and Europe.”  Wow!  If I were asking a geographical question rather than a rhetorical one that might be a valid conclusion.  However, my question, “Where is America?” is not about geographic location but governmentally, socially, morally, and judicially.  I am asking, where this nation is with respect to constitutional governance and judicial integrity.  So, “Where Is America?”

We were told by Obama and Biden that there was not ‘one whiff of a scandal in their administration.  We were told that, but everyone including those two players in the scheme of ‘fundamental transformation’ knows it was light-years from the truth.  The more things are revealed the more we see the corruption of leading figures in the Democratic Party.  The tentacles of corruption do not stop at the Party line but there are prominent Republicans whose hands are dirty too. 

I don’t like the blanket charge of something be systemic such as institutional racism or whatever the PC Police and Snowflake world claim to discredit Trump and/or Conservatives.  However, I believe there are signs of ‘systemic corruption’ in government.  It is not relegated to the elected officials, if it were, that would be a relatively easy fix.  It reaches into the vastness of the Swamp and Deep State and is embedded in every government bureaucracy.

We watched the Department of Justice and the Internal Revenue Service become weaponized under Obama.  We watched the Intelligence Community and the Federal Bureau of Investigation become tools to target and attack those not following the ideology of toxic liberalism, globalism, socialism, and anti-Americanism.  If you were not a part of that team you were a prime target for attempted destruction. 

I have shouted from the rooftop for over two decades about the systematic implementation of schemes to make America something other than the Free Constitutional Republic we were given by the Founding Fathers.  I have cited the numerous incidents of indiscretion and playing free and loose with the rules, the constitution, and our national security by the Obama administration and his subordinates.  Some have charged that I have become a broken record.

Some claim I never cited any failures of Trump and the Republicans.  Those who know me know that is not the truth.  Unfortunately, perception often becomes a person’s reality and once they take a side, they refuse to acknowledge anything that discredits their position.  I am not always right. I know that is a surprise (tongue firmly planted in cheek). But, when I realize I have been wrong; I try to quickly rectify that position.  I repent where needed, recant my statements, and present the truth.  I do not care if a violator is on the Right or the Left, America is too valuable a prize to allow the corruption that now exists to continue.

I cite one more incredibly damning bit of factual information regarding the state of corruption in the Obama administration.  An administration that Joe Biden was an integral part of.  After years of investigation into Trump’s supposed violations of the law, the constitution, and complicity with foreign governments with nothing being produced the Left has ignored all the facts regarding their side.  The United States Senate has produced documented evidence of another improper action by former President Barack Obama.  His administration knowingly funded an al-Qaeda affiliate.  I guess his promise that if the political winds turned sour, he would side with the Muslims included siding with those who consider us the Great Satan every time.

The non-profit humanitarian agency World Vision United States improperly transacted with the Islamic Relief Agency (ISRA) in 2014 with the approval of Obama.  He allowed government funds to be sent to an organization that had been sanctioned over its ties to terrorism.  I may not be a legal scholar but that sounds like an act of sedition and treason, but then I’m just a dumb deplorable so what could I know?

The ISRA had been sanctioned by the United States since 2004 after it had funneled about $5 million to Maktab al-Khidamat, the predecessor to Al-Qaeda controlled by Osama bin Laden.  I keep trying to give the benefit of the doubt and acknowledging that World Vision works to help people in need around the world, an admirable activity, they might not have known ISRA was on the sanctions list.  But, and that is a big ‘but’, government officials specifically released at least $115,000 of the grant even after it learned of the terrorism connection sanctions.  AFTER it was fully aware it provided funds to our sworn enemy.

World Vison’s legal department was notified of ISRA’s status as a sanctioned entity in September 2014.  Let me see, who was President?  It was not George W. Bush or Donald Trump.  It was Barack Hussein Obama and his Vice President Joe Biden.  In May 2015, the Obama administration fully cognizant of the sanctions recommend OFAC grant World Vision’s request for $125,000 for ISRA. 

I am less concerned with what World Vision knew or did not know than what the Obama administration clearly knew.  His billions in cash to Iran, the systematic dismantling of our military and the purging of the upper echelon of various branches, and his weaponizing of bureaus and agencies trouble me.  His complicity and that of Joe Biden in the targeting of Trump and Trump associates in 2016 cannot be overlooked.  The questionable financial windfalls of Biden and his family in connection with foreign governments not all friendly to the United States is troubling. 

We have mountains of information in various investigations that implicate Obama, Clinton, Biden, and various members of that administration, bureaus of government, and even members of Congress.  Yet, all that seems to be deemed business as usual in Washington.  This present Democratic Congress dating back decades is willing to send billions in foreign aid to countries for purposes that border on the ridiculous while ignoring Americans and America.  That is troubling!

Back to my question, “Where is America?”  If we are talking about the America of the beginning, it has been tarnished and twisted into an unrecognizable state.  If we are talking about the America of my youth when even Democrats and Republicans acknowledged the validity and authority of the Constitution, it has been eroded so dramatically it may not be restorable.  America, as described and defined in our Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and the Bill of Rights no longer exists because of the systemic corruption of power hunger political elitists we keep sending back to Washington.

I do not know if America as established and envisioned by our Founders Established is recoverable without another revolution.  I pray that it is.  I only know that we cannot continue allowing politicians to go unscathed by corruption and allow them to infringe upon our inalienable rights and trample on the American constitution.  Everyone must be held to the same standard regardless of status or ethnicity. 

I believe that if we do not return to our moral moorings and a renewed valuing of the Constitution that America is gone forever.  I believe that the only thing, short of a full-blown revolution and a new government established is GOD!  I believe that God is sovereign and All-Powerful.  However, I also recognize that He gives us choices, and, in those choices, we determine the outcome.  I am praying for an outpouring of His Spirit, Word, Love, Grace, and Mercy on America and the world.  LORD, let it begin in me.  Transform me, I pray!

God bless you and God bless America!

THE LAST RESORT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE FIRST…


I had someone tell me that God was our Last Resort regarding America and our Republic.  I paused a moment and said, “He should have been our first.”  That was not well received, and I was castigated with, “Well, you know what I mean.”  No, frankly, I do not know whether you meant that after exhausting all other avenues we should now turn to God or having trusted Him all along and exhausted all other avenues He is now our only hope.  I hope it was the latter but for many, it was the former, and therein is part of the problem.

My friend Dale Gentry said, “We trusted the ballot box and that did not save us.  We trusted the courts and they did not save us.  Our only hope is God.”  Dale is right!  In a measure, we put our confidence in people, the voters, the courts, and Congress and each of those seems to have failed us. 

Obviously, if you believe God was so repulsed by Trump that he had to go, then my argument is moot to you and probably offensive.  If you have been paying attention, watching the antics and activities of the Left, and are tuned in to the dangers it should ignite a flame inside your heart.  We are in a place where we MUST not need to but MUST place our total trust in God.  No man, no court, no Congress, no Media, nothing, and no one is going to save this Republic but God.  He is our Hope.  In that sense, He is our Last Resort.

Some have asked me if I believed there were enough incidences of voter fraud and irregularities in the swing states to shift the election to the Democrats.  The simple and short answer is Yes!  I do not know the details and will not get into the wrangling of what happened.  It happened, the courts refused to hear the arguments and evidence, and Congress certified the election.  Joe Biden has been sworn in as the 46th President of the United States of America.  In that sense, the election is over.  What we do now, is the key and will determine if there is a republic in 2022 and 2024 for us to fight for a new administration.

I have had people tell me that whatever God wants to happen happens and there is nothing we can do about it.  His will is always done.  If I accept that premise, then God becomes the blame for the evil in the world.  If I accept that premise, how do I explain abortion, murder, rape, pedophilia, terrorism, and things like that?  I believe that God is the Living God, Omnipotent, Omniscient, and Omnipresent.  I believe that He can do all things.  I believe He could mash us all like bugs if he chose to.  However, I believe that He gives us choices and out of those choices we either follow in obedience or we engage in rebellion.

I don’t want to make this about what God can and cannot do, but if we are going to consider God as our Last Resort, we need to determine His authority and power.  The Bible informs us in 2 Peter 3:9, “The LORD does not delay [as though He were unable to act] and is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is [extraordinarily] patient toward you, not wishing any to perish but for all to come to repentance.” The sad reality is that all do not come to repentance, therefore, it would seem logical that all God wants is not etched in stone as an iron-clad guarantee of transpiring.  He makes salvation available to ‘whosoever will come’ but all do not come. 

We are repeatedly enjoined to pray, intercede, stand in the gap, and do spiritual warfare.  If everything is done as God wants it without any involvement from us that would seem unnecessary.  As a parent, I want my children, and now my grandchildren to be productive and successful.  I would hope that every parent wants that, yet we know that all are not.  The prisons are overflowing with those that did not achieve that condition or state. 

I am deeply concerned about our Republic.  We are more divided than I can recall in my lifetime.  There are more bitterness and anger than I have witnessed in my 70 plus years on the planet.  We are nearer to a second civil war than we have been since the first one.  People on both sides of the issue are filled with anger and anxiety and that has become a powder keg waiting for the right spark to set it off.  Will it within the next four years?  I hope not but have a lot of trepidation about where this is going.

The Democrats are chanting that it is time for healing and working together in one breath and in the next, they vilify those on the Right.  There is the ignoring of the mayhem, rioting, bands of marauders burning, looting, and doing physical harm by groups on the Left and branding those who committed the terrible act of entering the Capital without authorization and five souls lost their lives.  I consider it something to be condemned but so are the other events over the past year. 

When BLM, Antifa, or whoever it was, took over a police station and isolated a segment of the city declaring it was no longer the United States and outside the jurisdiction of America that was not called insurrection or sedition, but the events of January 6th were.  That is beyond hypocritical, provides no impetus for healing, and further divides.  The rhetoric by Joe Biden calling them thugs, insurrectionist, domestic terrorists, etc. but insisting that Antifa is just an idea does not bring healing but division.

America, if we are going to survive as the Free Constitutional Republic, we have been for over 240 years we must return to our founding principles and moral moorings.  We must hold all violators of the Law and the Constitution accountable.  That includes members of Congress, Presidents, Judges, Media types, and private citizens.  Everyone must be held accountable for violations of the Law and the Constitution.  If we do that, we will begin the process of healing and restoration.  If we do not, we will continue in discord, disharmony, and disruption.  The choice is ours!

I do not believe we can heal without divine intervention.  I do not believe the level of hate, misinformation, and deception can be simply talked out but will result in blood in the streets without a change of heart.  There are no laws that can be passed that will heal our nation.  There are no entitlements, freebies, or concessions that can be made that will produce healing and reconciliation.  The only thing that will bring about peace is a change of heart and that will only come through a move of God.

I realize that what I am saying will be considered more preaching than a presentation of a political argument and plea.  I can live with that for I believe in America and believe that if those who truly love God and are followers of the Bible and the Christian Faith will follow the directive of 2 Chronicles 7:14, we can see the healing of our land.

I hear some that are so disheartened they will no longer be involved in the political and that is suicidal.  I hear some who are so angry they will no longer vote for anyone calling themselves a Republican for they believe they are the same as the Democrats.  I believe that is wrong if you look beyond personalities to platforms and political platforms.  The Republicans, for the most part, are pro-life, pro-military, pro-law enforcement, and pro-constitution.  The Democrats are the party of abortion, desire to dismantle the military, and want to defund the police. The constitution has been an afterthought to them, and they ignore or reinterpret it to fit their purposes.

I plead with everyone to stay engaged and become more involved.  I urge all who pray to commit to intercessory prayer for the elected officials, the segments of society that are at odds with each other, and for our republic.  My desire is to seek ‘first’ the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness.  I refuse to hate and desire to exhibit the Love of God to everyone.  I may not agree with your position or your actions, but I refuse to hate you based on actions, political views, or ethnicity.  You are a fellow human and therefore created in the image of God.  We are of the same family.

God bless you and God bless America!

AMERICA DESTROYED – By Hate, Fear, and Apathy…


I have lived long enough to see the America I have known and loved literally destroyed and is in the process of being ‘fundamentally transformed’ into a Socialist nation.  I acknowledge that we are not fully there yet, but with the whole of government in the hands of the Leftists, we will be in a very short time.

I predict that, within the next two years, there will be, at a minimum, an attempt to add Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico as the 51st and 52nd States in the Union.  That would mean an immediate increase of 4 Liberal Leftists Democrats in the Senate.  It would also mean the reapportionment of Congressional Seats affording them their allotted number.  That would mean states such as Texas and Florida would lose at least one Congressional seat.  The balance of power would be shifted to the Left possibly irreversibly.

I also predict that there will be an attempt, which will likely become a reality, to increase the number of Supreme Court Justices.  With the Democrats in control of the Senate, the likelihood of any Democrat breaking from the Party Line is remote.  That would mean that those new justices would be political activists calling themselves jurists.  That would shape the agenda for America leftward for the next several decades if not permanently. 

I am stunned that the America I have known and loved has drifted so far Left and appears blinded unable to comprehend the damage and danger coming.  The question that is echoing in my mind is, “What Caused This Condition?”  Although I am incapable of fully expounding on why I do see several things that are key elements that helped bring us to this place.

On January 5th or I should say in the wee hours of January 6th I was awakened to the thought in my mind and words in my spirit that made me weep.  As I awakened from sleep I heard in my heart of hearts, “America has been destroyed by Hate, Fear, and Apathy.”  I sensed that the LORD was speaking to my heart and mind and as I mused on that statement, without the benefit of any news I knew the fate of the Georgia Senate Elections. 

Godlessness and greed have plunged this nation into a deeper state of darkness than I would have believed possible.  Yet, I have been watching it transpire over the past few years so it should not have come as a surprise, yet it has.  I believe that this election was more a referendum on God than Donald Trump, Conservatism, Constitutionalism, Liberalism, or anything else.  That may not resonate with you, but it is what I believe.

LET’S CONSIDER THOSE THREE ELEMENTS – Hate, Fear, and Apathy.

If you will give me the liberty, I will take these one at a time, then collectively, and hopefully offer a small ray of hope.  I see those three elements or conditions as incredibly powerful.  The Bible directs us to Love but love is not the norm today.  The Bible leaves no doubt that a person cannot call him or herself a Christian and hate other human beings.  We are told in 1 John 4:20, “If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.”  There is nothing ambiguous in that statement.  If we love God, we also love others and if we do not love others, we do not love God.

I am stunned at the level of Hate prevalent in America today.  Hate blinds and is the culprit in virtually every discord between people, groups, and ethnicities.  Hate is a learned condition!  There is generational hatred taught in the homes, schools, and even churches.  The reality that there have been abuses of any people by others of a different ideological position or ethnicity is undeniable.  However, that never justifies hate.  It cries for repentance and reform but not hate.

Politicians and the nefarious souls who seek to control and dominate the world have learned that fanning the flames of hatred is a method of winning elections.  I suggest that there would be no ‘racism’ if love had a stronger hold on the heart than hate.  The Democrats, Media, and Activists have spent the past four years engendering a level of hatred for Donald Trump that has blinded millions to truth and reality. 

Hate has created coalitions politically for the express purpose of defeating Donald Trump.  The potential or real dangers presented in allowing those following the toxicity of liberalism and Socialism are unseen because of the blinders of hate.  Unfortunately, for them, those who joined the seekers of American Transformation to defeat Trump will suffer like those of us who supported him.  Most Americans will suffer the same fate and be subjected to the tyrannical agendas being advanced.  We will suffer in more ways than I have time to enumerate but suffer we will.

Fear is another element in the disintegration of our Free Constitutional Republic.  The Fear of which I speak has many elements.  It is a Fear birthed out of the blindness of Hate.  It is Fear that has believed the lie that Trump and Conservatives are seeking to eradicate them because they are different or disagree.  It is the Left that has sought to punish people for disagreeing, not the Right.  Then there is a Fear that grips the hearts because of an intense desire and the need to be accepted.  Many Fear being labeled a racist or some other derogatory designation.  That Fear blinds them to the dangers and forces otherwise rational people to comply fearing that if they do not, they will die.

Hate and Fear are incredibly powerful elements that imprison a person and doom them to a life of defeat, dissatisfaction, disappointment, and despair.  The prison of Hate and Fear prevents a person from attaining the stated objective of our Founding Fathers, Life, Liberty, and Happiness.  Hate is reactive and seeks to crush those disagreeing or look different.  Fear keeps everyone and everything at arm’s length and makes trust and cooperation a virtual impossibility. 

The third element is Apathy.  In some ways, this is the most destructive of all.  When I speak of Apathy in America, I speak of it from several fronts.  One is a mental attitude that helped produce the condition existing today politically.  Many, for decades, adopted the attitude of “Let the politicians handle the politics.”  They have but have not handled the political in the interest of We the People but the interest of Partisan Ideological and Personal Agenda.  We have, are, and will pay the terrible price for that failure.

Another aspect is Apathy on the part of the Church.  I blame much of the condition in America on the Clergy.  Preachers, Pastors, Teachers it was and is our responsibility to be ‘Watchmen on the Walls’ and sound the alarm when danger comes.  It is our responsibility and assignment from the Father to teach and train people in righteousness and God’s Law.  By Law, I mean His Word of God, not some list of rules and regulations but the Heart of God.  Jesus taught in John 15 that we are to abide in Him and His word in us.  We are told in Proverbs that as parents and shepherds we are to train the young in the right way. 

Apathy toward the politician has allowed the enemy to blind minds in the church and opened the door for evil to advance.  Any preacher that supports Abortion, speaks of hatred for people of different skin pigmentation, or advances causes that are in direct conflict with God’s Word is not a true shepherd.  Any preacher that refuses to address the wrongs in society and politics breeds Apathy and creates a slumber in the Church that leads to inactivity and opens the door for evil to advance.

I cannot adequately address any of the three, Hate, Fear, or Apathy in a short article but I pray that you will ask the Father to forgive you and me if we embrace Hate for any kind people.  You can genuinely dislike, disagree, and detest what they do but you must learn to Love as God Loves and resist the temptation to Hate.  If you are filled with fear and that fear causes you to distrust, embrace hate and block your openness and willingness to view reality, pray for forgiveness and deliverance.  If you are apathetic I remind you of the Words of Jesus to the Church at Laodicea, “…you are neither cold nor hot… because you are lukewarm and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth.”

My prayer is, “Lord, help me to Love, not Hate.  Help me to be Courageous, not Fearful.  Help me to be Hot and Invested in Life not Apathetic or Lukewarm.  Help me to seek You first before and above everything.  Help me to forgive everyone and forgive me of everything.  Make me a vessel you can use and use me to manifest You to those around me.”  We can save America but only with repentance and prayer!

God bless you and God bless America.

HAS THE ENTIRE WORLD GONE MAD?


I wish that were simply a rhetorical question filled with sarcasm and parody, but I am earnestly serious.  I have, with enormous chagrin watched the sweeping moves of the Biden administration, the Democratic Establishment, and the RINOs posing as patriots.  Virtually every action they have taken, their rhetoric and spin have been destructive, divisive, and dangerous.  The anti-Republicanism and pro-Totalitarianism and Oligarchism are painfully evident. 

If it were the politicians alone engaging in these acts, I would be less concerned and have greater hope for the nation.  Unfortunately, there are millions of people who either do not think or do not think past their personal animus and the immediate who not only buy the spin but spread it like manure on a garden.  I truly wonder if there is hope for the nation and if the Whole World has gone mad?  I hope I am being overly dramatic and overreacting, but I have a sense I am not.

There are so many things being advanced and implemented by the Left that I hardly know where to begin and find it impossible to enumerate them all.  Therefore, let me cherry-pick a few and see if they give you cause for angst and concern. 

Joe Biden is committed to the agenda of granting amnesty to the 11-40 million illegals living in the United States.  Imagine that? During a time when there are over 17 million legal American citizens jobless, this is his plan!  The CNN town hall event led by Anderson Cooper in Wisconsin was incredibly revealing.  It was not encouraging but revealing of the true agenda and the willingness to openly pursue it by Biden and the Left.  I did not watch it all, but saw portions of it and have read the transcript.  It makes me tremble with deep concern for my beloved nation.

The plan is to immediately grant ‘green cards’ to all the illegals who will step forward.  He wants to and has ordered the immediate implementation of reversing the order for the hundreds of thousands of illegals to be turned away or deported.  He chooses, as did Obama, to ignore those that evade the federal authorities or release those apprehended into the interior of the country.  Give them a court date and expect them to show up, is the plan.  While we are at it, why don’t we simply order criminals to stop committing crime and I’m sure that since it is a Democrat ordering it, they will comply, right?  Watch out for the Unicorn poop where you are walking.

Not only is he desirous of the eradication of our borders and thereby our national sovereignty but he has made other ludicrous statements.  Joe Biden says, “White Supremacy” is the greatest threat to America, not ANTIFA, BLM, ISIS, or any other Leftists or radical Muslim or foreign groups. 

The incredible reality is that Mr. Biden believes that ‘White Supremacy’ has resulted from actions by military veterans and former police officers.  That’s right, Mr. Biden believes that the men and women who served in uniform and wore the blue as police officers are threats, not protectors.  He calls for Unity but that is nothing more than ‘hot air’ when he casts dispersion upon our veterans and our police officers.  He claims to have gotten into politics because of civil rights, but history reveals that some of his closest allies were Klansmen and devoted racists.  His political actions did damage to blacks and hampered racial relations more than they helped.  I believe Mr. Biden speaks with a forked tongue and he got into politics for fame, power, and money.

Mr. Biden insists that former President Trump refused to denounce the ‘Proud Boys’ and that has been debunked so many times it needs no mentioned.  Mr. Biden has trashed police and our military while former President Trump praised and honored them.  We are a nation of laws and without those who protect our national security and provide national defense and enforce our laws, we become a lawless society dangerous for everyone.

I don’t like to use this language, but I remember Mr. Biden referring to American service personnel as ‘stupid bastards.’  We watched the Obama administration use our intelligence agencies and the FBI to screen our troops under the pretense that those loyal to Donald J. Trump were potentially dangerous and domestic terrorists.  How much effort has gone into screening those loyal to Islam, ANTIFA, and BLM?  Biden’s new Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has launched an effort to purge the military of all conservative, constitutional supporters.  When we have a military that is filled from top to bottom with Leftists, what will prevent them from becoming the muscle of a Fascist Dictatorship?

I am going to say this, and it may get me kicked off social media and make me anathema to many.  Joe Biden is despicable and unfit to be commander in chief!  His disdain for our military and our police makes him a threat to our system of government and the safety and security of our Republic.

Joe Biden insisted that he would not speak to the Chinese Leaders regarding the genocide in that nation.  He said, “Every nation has a different set of cultural approaches to things.”  He considers the Uighur genocide as part of “China’s different norms.” Seriously?  Genocide is okay if it is a cultural norm?  Well, I can understand that since you and your family are owned by the Chinese government and you support abortion on demand.  Genocide and infanticide, to you, seems to be a normal way of life.  I’m sure if it touched you personally, you would view it differently, but you envision yourself as a protected class.

The architect of Obamacare, Ezekiel Emanuel has been tapped by Joe Biden as a ‘health care advisor.’  Emanuel has declared his view that senior citizens who are not actively contributing materially to society and the government’s coffers, should ‘get out of the way.’  Out of the way?  Yes, he meant DIE!  He believes that anyone living beyond 75-years-of-age is atrocious.  Therefore, he disdains medical care that prolongs life and is opposed to aggressive measures such as chemotherapy.  However, he is also against the widespread use of antibiotics for basic care.  I guess, he believes that if one gets sick the best thing for society is for them to die.

Joe Biden and the Democrats want to destroy the fossil fuel industry and make us totally dependent upon foreign oil and the alternative energy sources advanced in the New Green Deal of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Left.  He wants to tax us into oblivion and implement regulations and restrictions that make it an impossibility for a mom-and-pop small business to operate.  His plan will make energy unaffordable for many, healthcare virtually nonexistent, jobs scarce, and our inalienable rights revoked or infringed upon to the point we all become criminals for speaking our minds. 

The Left finds everything about God and the Bible offensive.  They want to force us to comply with the gender lunacy and allow men to go into the bathrooms and locker rooms with women and girls.  They want to make political correctness the law of the land and everything that does not coincide and comply with the toxic liberal ideology will be hate speech.  They want reparations for those who were never slaves paid by those who never owned slaves.  They want to divide this nation to the point that such civil unrest breaks out that imposition of martial law and total control becomes acceptable to millions.

I ask again, “Has the Whole World Gone Crazy?”  America, please wake up and help those of us who are putting our lives on the line in speaking out reclaim the republic!

God bless you and God bless America!

EXTINGUISHING THE FLAME OF FREEDOM…


I wish I could say that I do not believe that is the current state of affairs in America, but I do believe we are on the brink of losing the Republic.  I have prayed and thought much about the condition of things political, spiritual, social, societal, economic, and in every dimension of our nation.  In that time of reflection, I have concluded that our situation is not Republican or Democrat. 

It extends far beyond who is going to occupy the White House for the next four years or four months.  It is beyond simple ideological differences between conservatives and liberals.  It is beyond the view of those who believe in Constitutional Originalism and those who believe that the document is living and evolving.  I believe this is a battle for the soul of America and the Flame of Freedom.  It is a battle to preserve our God-given inalienable rights.  This is a fight between good and evil.

No, I am not saying that Republicans, Constitutionalist, Conservatives, or Donald John Trump are ‘good’ in the sense they are saints.  I am not saying that those on the other side are ‘evil’ in the sense they are all diabolical and devious intentionally destroying the republic and stripping us of our liberties.  However, there are those guiding the ships of both ideologies that are both diabolical and devious. 

There is a commonality in the Deep State Proponents and the Swamp Denizens that believe those in power (elected officials and bureaucrats) are the rightful rulers of everything and everyone.  That is frightening but it did not occur overnight and is not the result of the 2016 election of Donald J. Trump as the 45th President.  It began long before that.  The reality is that it began before the establishment of the United States in the late 1700s.  It began in the eons past when Lucifer instigated a rebellion that drew one-third of the angels into his camp and resulted in his eviction from heaven.

For well over 100 years there has been an orchestrated, planned, and implemented agenda to shred the Republic known as the United States of America.  The elevation of self to a preeminent place has facilitated the idea that each successive generation is smart enough to make the failed and flawed philosophy of Socialism and Communism work. 

Human greed and the engendering of a mentality of entitlement have resulted in a society of brainwashed young citizens and some not so young.  We have had at least three if not four generations of false information and historic revisionism promoting an Anti-Capitalistic, Anti-American, and Anti-Christian mindset.  The indoctrination and constant bombardment by the educational system and liberal biased media have diminished people’s ability or willingness to think critically and engage in any deductive reasoning.  We are in our current condition partly because the church has failed, the home has been weakened, and the government has become irreparably corrupt.

You may disagree but I see a concerted effort to use the COVID-19 paranoia and lockdowns to destroy small businesses.  Why would anyone want to destroy small businesses but have a hands-off approach to mega-corporations and big businesses?  I believe it is because if small business, which makes up the lion’s share of our economy, is destroyed then people become dependent upon Government. 

Dependency upon Government means that the government or politicians and bureaucrats can dictate our lives.  Why is that important?  As long as the American Dream is alive, and people are allowed to think outside the box and fend for themselves producing wealth and a measure of power they are not controllable by the government.  Big business has long been in bed with politicians and government and is part of the manipulation.  I laugh when the liberals rant about corporations and the rich because the rich and corporations facilitate the agenda of liberalism.  The Democrats have a long history of complicity with Big Business in control and destroying the mom and pop businesses.

It is imperative that the followers of the toxic liberalism of today’s Democratic Party and too many on the Right extinguish the flame of freedom.  As long as we are allowed to ‘keep and bear arms’, maintain our personal and private property, and worship as we choose, we are not controllable.  The moment we can no longer travel, defend ourselves, or provide for our own we become pawns of the benefactors.  Those benefactors do not have our best interest at heart but control.  Therefore, the flame of liberty must be extinguished, or they lose control. 

We have transitioned from covert and undercover corruption and criminality by players in government to openly flaunting their corruption and engaging in their crimes.  When we allow one set of rules and laws for the average citizen and another for politicians, we doom our Lamp of Liberty to become dark.  What I see is a creeping darkness moving stealthily across the land.  Can we prevent the total erosion of our liberty and salvage the Republic?  I do not know, but I know that God is still God and His Promises are still true.

I am stunned at how easily the Government was able to make us sheep, destroy our economy, and strip us of our inalienable rights on numerous fronts.  I am not surprised at the cries for barcodes, bracelets, or something to identify those who have been vaccinated.  I am stunned at the willingness and even agreement of a large segment of our nation.  I am even more stunned that men and women of the cloth who are guiding congregations of people would board that train and insist upon compliance.  Has no one read the Bible, especially the Book of Revelation?

I am not saying that the vaccine, masks, or sheltering in place are the mark of the beast.  I am saying that this is a test run to see what, how easily, and to what extent they can, without force, bring us into compliance.  I do believe there are those who are devoted followers of this agenda who are willing to use force, even executions to achieve their goals.  I do believe that this present darkness is birthed in the pit of hell and that unless and until the Body of Christ unites in prayer and commitment to God standing against this evil we will move deeper into the darkness.  There is a point of no return when the Republic is lost forever.  Are we there?  I pray not but am concerned that we are dangerously near.

I beg everyone to consider the potential fraud in the election and what it will mean in elections to come.  I beg everyone to consider the threats to our inalienable rights that are being proposed by the Left.  I beg everyone to consider the horribleness of the genocide embodied in abortion.  I beg everyone to THINK!  If you earn something do you truly believe it is just and right for that to be taken and given to those who are unwilling to do the same? 

We were given the Free Constitutional Republic where the Lamp of Liberty was lit and warned that it would be up to us to keep it burning.  I quote a passage from Galatians 5.  I know that its primary focus is spiritual, but it can be applied to every aspect of life.  “It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.”  We are Free in Christ and if we want to remain Free in our lives as Americans, we must not allow the Lamp of Liberty to be snuffed out.

I stand for Faith, Family, and Freedom and declare with joy and pride, God bless you and God bless America!

HEY, JOE, WHAT’S UP?


What I am going to say will possibly, no likely, make some people angry, but the Joe Biden that the Unions, the Never Trumpist, the Progressives, and Socialist in America voted for has revealed who he and the agenda are really all about.  They are not Pro-America and that was exposed on Day One and continues to be exposed. 

 I heard that some of the Unions were having ‘buyer’s remorse’ over supporting him in the 2020 election.  Day One Executive Orders including destroying the jobs of well over 11,000 people in canceling the Keystone pipeline.  The peripheral jobs and collateral damage will continue to domino for years to come.  Many of us warned this was who he and they were, but those on the Left and those who hated Donald John Trump so passionately refused to believe it.  Let me draw from an old cellphone commercial, “Can you hear me now?”

One of the incredibly alarming aspects of Biden’s Green Energy Agenda and the canceling of the Keystone pipeline for environmental reasons is the duplicity he has shown. While canceling our ability to have clean oil pipelined from Canada to keep us Energy Independent his administration seems to have brokered a meeting between the Turkmenistan government and the Taliban for a Trans-Afghanistan pipeline to bring Turkmen gas across Afghanistan and Pakistan to India. 

If that sounds remotely familiar and is a slap in your face, remember that this is the same deal that now-Special Envoy Zalmay Khalilzad sought to make with the Taliban in the years before the September 11 terrorist attack on New York.  He was a consultant for the Unocal Corporation at the time.  It was a bad policy two decades ago and a bad policy in 2021.  Yet, the Biden administration is showing the same ilk as the Obama administration, the Muslim world first and America last.

If we dismiss and toss out any environmental concerns and hypocrisy in Biden’s proposed deal the economic and potential graft cannot be dismissed.  But, isn’t that the norm for Biden and his family?  Money from foreign governments and corporations being funneled into their pockets has been the history of the Bidens for decades.  Nothing has changed and nothing will change so long as he is not held accountable.

 Let me add another element in the equation that should cause the hair on the back of your neck to stand up and make you snarl.  Freedom House’s latest Freedom in the World report ranks Turkmenistan as among the world’s worst offenders, below even North Korea in terms of freedom and civil liberties.  Wait?  I thought that is what the Left opposed and insists is one of America’s greatest ills.  Part of the deal is to pay the Taliban protection money or transit fees for the pipeline transiting Afghan territory. 

Consider the reality that that action severely undermines the Afghanistan legitimate government and rewards the Taliban for their insurgency in the tune of tens of millions of dollars if not billions every month.  One could ask, “Who needs Russian bounties on U.S. soldiers when the American State Department under Biden has crafted a scheme to reward our enemies in the Taliban beyond their wildest dreams?”

Doesn’t that make you feel all warm and fuzzy?  We want to help those who hate us while we allow the destruction of our oil and gas industry and the related fields.  We support those who chant ‘Death to America’, those who loot and burn, but the Left insists that Donald Trump and those of us who support his agenda and the constitution as the most serious threats.  No, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and the Democratic Establishment are America’s greatest threat. 

Joe Biden and the Democrats want a permanent wall in Washington, D.C. to protect the Capitol from Americans but want the destruction of the wall on our Southern Border.  Biden has taken a position that eradicates our borders, weakens our national security, diminishes our national sovereignty, and it is going to get worse.

The dangers involved in the open borders of the Biden agenda touches every dimension of American life and impacts millions of legal American citizens.  The economic impact is catastrophic, the strain on our educational system, healthcare system, and economy are enormous.  The COVID pandemic that has paralyzed America and much of the world will be expanded by this policy of allowing anyone and everyone to cross unimpeded.  No tests, not assurances of being disease-free or non-terrorist is the new norm and that is bad for America.

We have endured only a few days of Biden-ism and while I do not believe he is calling the shots he is the one with the pen and phone.  He is the one with the title, President of the United States of America.  It is painful to watch him stumble and bumble trying to read the teleprompter.  It is painful to watch what could be compared to a child wandering around seeking attention and doing whatever comes to mind. 

The Democrats, in their continual attack on Donald Trump, have revealed that their agenda is not simply stopping Trump but stopping all of us who are unwilling to become docile anti-American sheep.  Their intent is to send a message to all present and future seekers of elected office, “Dance to our music or you will pay the piper.”  They have threatened Trump and his family in every way possible.  They have called for the ‘deprogramming of all those who voted for Trump.’  Their intent is to make anything contrary to their agenda and ideology illegal and all speech ‘hate speech’ that disagrees with them.

They have suddenly become concerned about ‘Our Democracy’ and the ‘Constitution’ while seeking to fundamentally transform us into something other than a Republic and a Representative Democratic Union.  They have sought to be allowed the privilege of reinterpreting the Constitution to mean whatever they desire and protect speech for Leftists but deny it to Conservatives and most Christians.

Hey, Joe, What’s Up?  Are you going to destroy everything that America has been and was intended to be?  Are you going to enact policies, agendas, and issue edicts that will totally destroy the American Dream?  Are you so intent on gaining total power that you are willing to destroy us all?  I fear the answer is, Yes!   I cannot believe the delusion that exists, but then I could not believe it with Obama was elected twice.  I guess I should not be surprised and the saying, “Don’t Confuse Me with the Facts, My Mind’s Made Up” is apropos.

If you voted for Uncle Joe and his anti-American, anti-Capitalism, and anti-Constitutionalism, how do you like him now?  If you are comfortable watching America and the American dream and republic destroyed, I am sad for you and the rest of us.  We will all suffer the longer this goes on.  Only God can change this, and I keep asking, “How Long Lord, How Long?”

God bless you and God bless America!

LET’S PASS A LAW THAT MAKES EVIL ILLEGAL…


I hope your first response was, “That’s dumb!”  I hope you quickly dismissed that idea and said, “You cannot legislate morality.”  I hope you did, but I am cognizant that there are myriads of voting aged people who believe that is possible.  Millions believe the government can fix any problem existing by more legislation.  Sadly, there are scores in Congress that believe that too. 

I am going to address this from my Christian mindset, my understanding of human nature, and the outworking of government.  In Ezekiel 34, God spoke to the prophet Ezekiel and instructed him to prophesy against the spiritual leaders (shepherds) and call them out for amassing their fortunes, building their empires, and neglecting the flock of God.  That could readily be applied to members of Congress and other sectors of society.

A scathing declaration is found in (vv.3-6), “You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fat sheep without feeding the flock. 4 “Those who are sickly you have not strengthened, the diseased you have not healed, the broken you have not bound up, the scattered you have not brought back, nor have you sought for the lost; but with force and with severity you have dominated them. 5 “And they were scattered for lack of a shepherd, and they became food for every beast of the field and were scattered. 6 “My flock wandered through all the mountains and on every high hill, and My flock was scattered over all the surface of the earth; and there was no one to search or seek for them.”

In the previous chapter, the LORD informed the prophet that his responsibility and calling was to be a Watchman and to sound the alarm when evil and danger approached.  In America today, the church has been fragmented and far too many shepherds have abandoned or forgotten that their call is to be watchmen and to tend the flock of God.  The watchmen are not sounding the alarm, and some are calling evil good and good evil.  Because of the silence, complicity, and deception, I believe that Judgment is either on or impending for the Church and then it will be on the world.

It is time that keepers of the flocks of God and elected officials get back to the basics.  Preachers, it is time that we return to the simple Gospel of Jesus Christ and preach the precepts and principles of God’s Word.  It is time that we recognize the Holiness of God. We must rekindle awareness of the requirement that God’s people are to live holy lives and live as examples of righteousness, rather than seeking to assimilate with the world.  We are to be salt and light not corrupted by the corruption of the world.  We are to be those with answers, not those creating problems.  We must return to ‘Seeking First, the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness.’

There is no law, no legislation, no politician, and no political edict that can solve the problems in America.  The root of the problems facing our society is in the heart and the heart can only be changed by God.  Things may get better or worse, depending on one’s perspective, via the pathway of legislation, but the heart has not changed.  We may prevent someone from committing certain acts and become compliant with the demands of the law, but we have not solved the problem.  We may stop them from doing evil, but if evil is in their heart, they are still evil and given the opportunity will act out that evil.  We put a band-aid on cancer we did not bring healing. 

We cannot solve the problems of humanity by making people who are not like us the enemy.  That solves nothing.  Lamenting over the injustices existent or that we have incurred solves nothing, it only ferments in the heart and produces hate and deepens the wounds.  Only God can change the heart and until the heart is transformed the problem remains as a seething caldron.  Only as we Seek God with Our Whole Hearts can we hope to bring about the desired change in our world. 

In Romans 12 we find a powerful truth that I wish I could make all politicians, political activists, and religious leaders embrace.  I can make no one do anything but I can expound on the truth and hope it resonates.  I can sound the alarm and make the plea, hoping it takes root and produces fruit for this and future generations.

The writer, through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, reminds us in (v.4), that we many parts in the human body and the family of God.  He brings to mind that although there are many different parts each part has a part (function).  In the human body, each part has a role to play and beneficial to the other parts.  The feet have a role, the eyes have a function, the nose is essential, and even the armpits have a purpose.  In the human family, we are all created in the image of God and that makes us related. 

We may be of different skin pigmentation, ethnicity, religious belief, or political ideology but we are all members of the Human Family.  We can, as does the natural body, benefit from the input and function of the other members if we will allow for working together.  Legislation cannot achieve that!

The insanity of what is happening today in our American politics is beyond ridiculous.  We have opted to choose sides and make those not ascribing to our personal views the enemy.  Sadly, some not only consider those who differ their enemy by worthy of annihilation and in need of ‘deprogramming’ or ‘reprogramming’. 

We have made our personal grievances more important than the Republic.  We have lost sight of the founding principles our Republic was established upon. That being, “All are created equal and granted certain unalienable or inalienable rights by God.”  If we compared various parts of the body as ethnicities, we could possibly see how destructive segregation and isolation is.  If the feet refused to acknowledge the hands, we would become incapacitated.  The feet cannot do what the hands do nor the hands what the feet were designed to do but together they are a force to be reckoned with. If the lungs refused to cooperate with the heart, we would soon perish.  That can be applied to our ‘race relations’ in today’s America. 

The government, in the view of the founding fathers, was simply a very generalized pursuit of common security.  They even expressed that the government was, at best, a necessary evil because of the flaws of the human heart.  They distrusted anyone politician who sought power through the government, rather than serving their fellow citizens and they implicitly distrusted and rejected them.  We should do the same today.

Alexander Hamilton in a speech before Congress on June 21, 1788, said, “It has been observed by an honorable gentleman, that a pure democracy, if it were practicable, would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved, that no position in politics is more false than this. The ancient democracies, in which the people themselves deliberated, never possessed one feature of good government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.”

Thomas Jefferson declared in a letter to W.C. Jarvis  on September 28, 1820, “I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform them their discretion by education.”  That has been a failure on the part of modern government and education.  They have sought to indoctrinate, confuse, and control.  They have sought to take control from us and impose their will on us believing they are our benevolent benefactors.

The Human Heart is the Problem!  The need is for a return to moral principles taught in the Bible and allow God to change our hearts so that we are not selfish and self-serving but people who love life, liberty, and want everyone to enjoy happiness through their own ingenuity and accomplishments.  Divided we fall, united we stand, thrive, and survive.  What will we have?

God bless you and God bless America!