The Famished Patriot

Some of you know of my involvement with the Manassas Tea Party. All of you have no doubt heard about the IRS’s intimidation tactics against the Tea Parties and other Constitution-supporting, patriotic groups. What you may not know is that our local Manassas Tea Party organization (MTP) was involved in the ACLJ lawsuit. Since February […]

No doubt you have heard that the IRS has recently admitted to targeting certain public advocacy groups. Using trigger words and phrases like “patriot” or “Tea Party,” some “low-level” IRS employees (ahem) took it upon themselves to single out applications for 501(c)3 status from recently-formed organizations created to defend our Constitution and traditional, historic, American […]

Like most of my friends, I have long held Ronald Reagan in high esteem. It is hard to imagine that his last day in office as our president happened almost twenty-five years ago. I remember the hopeful feelings I had when he first was elected to office in 1980 almost thirty-three years ago. We had […]

I just came across what I think to be a very even-handed, Biblical defense of traditional marriage. It is written by John Carter. His great article is bookended by these two thoughts: 1. “God loves people, irrespective of their sexual preferences. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, so that […]

Over the years I have built a fairly sizable library of materials related to our nation’s Christian founding and our rich heritage. Several folks have asked me to publish some reading recommendations. I’ll start with these few and build a “library” of recommendations as the weeks unfold. All of the books on this list are […]

About two years ago, our church went through several weeks of training in a series titled Two Ways To Live. It is a concise, methodical, very Biblical approach to presenting the gospel, and back in 2010, our pastor walked us though it. Yesterday morning, our pastor announced that we were going to go through an […]

The following blog post is an excerpt from Chapter 17 of my book, Prophets & Prophetic Words: Preparing A Highway In The Desert. 17. Prophets as Visionaries “Prepare ye the way of the LORD … Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made […]

The U.S Constitution needs a new set of apologists. No … wait … I am not suggesting that we apologize FOR the Constitution. Quite the contrary. An apologist, you see, is a defender, one who argues in support of a belief system. The term is most commonly used in the field of Christian theology, with […]

We 21st century American Christians are, on the whole, woefully ill-equipped when it comes to understanding things like inalienable/unalienable rights. Perhaps it is more accurate to say that we have not been trained in these areas at all, or at least if we have, such training has not come from our churches. There is a […]

I have decided to post a new blog to continue the ongoing conversation on the so-called “myth” of “inalienable” rights—and hopefully bring a few more folks into the discussion. The conversation began last Thursday with this blog post by my friend and pastor, Jeff Ling. Note the comments on this page as well. It continued […]