The Famished Patriot

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 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 […]

A fellow blogger and friend posted a quote from Will Metzger’s book, Tell The Truth. Here’s the quote that was posted: “Grace uproots three myths – my inalienable rights, my human goodness, my free will – that act as barriers, shielding people from the full impact of the gospel. These barriers are penetrated by the […]

Generally, I do not deal with purely political issues on The Famished Patriot blog. There are two reasons for this. One is that I sincerely believe that the ultimate battle for our nation is at the spiritual and cultural level, and that politics is merely a reflection of what is wrong in those two arenas. […]

The wife and I try our very best to gather every morning and spend time together in God’s Word and in prayer. This morning, our prayer time was exceptionally Spirit-filled. In the course of prayer I began to pray for our nation (praying for revival in our land has become a routine part of our […]

For the third time in four months, I had the privilege of attending a gathering where Bishop E.W. Jackson took the podium. He’s a gifted, visionary prophet for our generation, and he fires me up every time I hear him speak. The event was a December 6th luncheon in Landsdowne, (Loudoun Co.) VA, a quarterly […]

I submit to you that there was but one element missing in this year’s election process. And it is the sole reason our incumbent Commander-in-Chief was returned to the White House for another four years. The missing element? Virtue. Virtue has all but disappeared from our American landscape. Virtue is out of vogue. Virtue is […]

The word disappointment does not begin to capture my feelings right now. Gross disappointment doesn’t even come close. As a praying Christian, a pro-life, God-fearing conservative, I stand, like all of you who identify with those things, as one confounded by the re-election of President Obama. I don’t understand my countrymen. And I don’t understand […]