The Famished Patriot

I posted something on Facebook today that received fairly positive comments. All were positive actually. But some did question my premise that the American seedbed of liberty was planted and cultivated by the colonial church. This is a premise I have long held and I am going to take a few minutes to share a […]

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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 […]

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 […]

“In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” (Judges 21:23 ESV) These final words conclude the Bible’s book of Judges, the story of a failed, 350-year experiment in self-government in the land of ancient Israel. In Parts I and II of this short series I […]

To keep patriotism alive, we must continue to tell the kinds of stories that speak of vision and self-sacrifice. My generation, and the generations before me, were weaned on patriotic stories. Though not always completely 100% factual, the stories we heard as kids inspired patriotism and fed our love of country. They told of larger […]

The year I came into the world (1951), America was awash in patriotism. Our soldiers and sailors, marines and airmen had, just a few years earlier, returned home from delivering decisive victories in the Pacific and Atlantic theaters of WWII. We had not only trampled our enemies under our feet, we had extended the hand […]

A couple of blog posts back, I used the phrase “Christian nation.” I received some comments on my use of the phrase (though none critical per sē) and decided that rather than attempt to answer them in the comments section, I would create a new post. That way, we can all take a fresh stab […]