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Whose Rules Should We Follow?

Buddy Hanson / The Covenant News:
As our culture continues to unravel, the overwhelming majority of America's Christians continue to proclaim, "God's Word is true and without contradiction!" We also are quick to say, "We must be 'salt and light' to our communities." Yet, when it comes to conducting our daily lifestyle, and electing civil rulers, we base our decisions upon the false ethics of non-Christians, instead of the true ethics contained in the Bible. The result is that we live as though we are non-Christian fools, which is the way God describes non-Christians throughout Scripture. In the apostle Paul's words, "in professing to be wise, we have become fools." (Rom. 1.22)

'Now What Am I Supposed To Make Of This Prayer?'

Pastor Bret McAtee / Iron Ink:
The below prayer is the invocation given by Rev. Paul Jehle at the Glen Beck Rally held last week in Washington DC. I've had an opportunity to hear Jehle speak several times in a close setting and I was impressed with the man's knowledge on our founding era, though his Charismatic - pentecostal lean gave me pause. This prayer at this event has my Spidey sense tingling overtime and has raised a multitude of questions in my mind about just exactly what Dr. Jehle was doing in this prayer. I have transcribed it word for word from Dr. Jehle's mouth. I'll give the prayer first and I'll offer some analysis and questions.

How the Bankers Have Trapped Bernanke

Gary North / LewRockwell.com:
I had a little fun over the weekend at the expense of Dr. Bernanke. I translated his Jackson Hole speech out of academic Keynesianism into investment-grade English. I added a little humor, because Dr. B. is not what I would call a laugh-a-minute guy when he gets behind a podium.

Here We Go Again Part 2

Paul Proctor / NewsWithViews.com:
Drawing our kids to a 'cult of niceness': I sat in church last Sunday morning and watched a young man on the front row sip a cup of coffee throughout the entire worship service. I can recall it being Starbucks too because my view of the pulpit included a close-up of that very familiar cup and brand he carefully clutched in his right hand. My wife tried to get me to reach over and politely tell him that there is a sign outside saying no food or drink in the sanctuary, but I didn't.

Your Children Are Just Test Animals

John Taylor Gatto / LewRockwell.com
The self-interested have had a large hand conceiving and executing twentieth-century schooling, yet once that's said, self-interest isn't enough to explain the zeal in confining other people's children in rooms, locked away from the world, the infernal zeal which, like a toadstool, keeps forcing its way to the surface in this business. Among millions of normal human beings professionally associated with the school adventure, a small band of true believers has been loose from the beginning, brothers and sisters whose eyes gleam in the dark, whose heartbeat quickens at the prospect of acting as "change agents" for a purpose beyond self-interest.
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A Gift to Our Enemies

Will Grigg / Liberty Minute:
The contrived controversy regarding the so-called Ground Zero Mosque illustrates how Islamic radicals benefit when we betray the principles we profess to believe. Retired Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, who trained Iraqi soldiers and police, warns that the campaign against the Islamic Center in Lower Manhattan offers a propaganda windfall for terrorist recruiters. Taliban leaders in Afghanistan told Newsweek magazine that they would actually prefer that critics of the Center succeed in preventing it from being built. "By preventing this mosque from being built, America is doing us a big favor," one Taliban operative explained. "It's providing us with more recruits, donations, and popular support."

Muslim Demographics

Islam will overwhelm Christendom unless Christians recognize the demographic realities, begin reproducing again, and share the gospel with Muslims.

Review Understanding Muslim Teachings and Traditions

Byron Snapp / Chalcedon Foundation:
A Guide For Christians: The Hadith is the collection of Mohammed's sayings and deeds. It is very influential in shaping the thinking and actions of the Muslims. Published in English it is a multi-volume work containing almost 5,000 pages. The author, a missionary to Muslim nations for forty years, has read the Hadith twice. In this volume, re-released in 2002, he has chosen twenty-one topics of the many covered in the Hadith. He devotes a chapter to each. Topics include "Hell," "Paradise," "Jesus," "Women," and "Jihad and Violence." In each chapter the reader will find numerous quotations from the Hadith. Each quotation is carefully referenced so the reader can go to the Hadith and find it. Additionally, the author provides helpful commentary in each chapter.

Review Answering Islam: The Crescent in Light of the Cross

Byron Snapp / Chalcedon Foundation:
Islam continues to be in the news. So often it is presented in a very positive manner. What does Islam teach? How can these teachings be answered scripturally? In these updated and revised edition of their 1993 work the authors provide an explanation of and answers for Islamic teaching. This volume is divided into three parts "The Basic Doctrines of Orthodox Islam", "A Christian Response to Basic Muslim Beliefs" and "A Positive Defense of the Christian Perspective". The authors are very qualified to cover this material. Saleeb (a pseudonym) is a former Muslim. He brings the knowledge gained from this background as a qualification for co-authoring this work. Dr. Geisler is a prolific author and president of Southern Evangelical Seminary.

Review The Dark Side of Islam

Byron Snapp / Chalcedon Foundation:
This book contains a series of conversations, which focus on how Christianity differs from Islam. These two Christian authors are eminently qualified to cogently explain the teachings of Islam and accurately dissect them using the scalpel of God's word. Their conversations span eight chapters and cover basic doctrines in Islamic and Christian teaching. These doctrines include the authority of Scripture, God's character, the Trinity, sin, salvation, and Christ's death and deity.

Greeks and Barbarians

Jay Adams / Institute for Nouthetic Studies:
A modern marketing technique is to target the sort of people that your church wants to reach. The young, upper middle class is a common group, for instance. Hardly hear of anyone targeting the feeble and decrepit, however (unless they're the moneyed sort)! Is this targeting a biblical strategy? Consider Paul's words, I am a debtor both to Greeks and Barbarians, to the educated and to the ignorant. Romans 1:14

The Hardest Decision Of My Life

Chuck Baldwin / The Covenant News:
Last Sunday, August 29, 2010, was the hardest day of my life. Even when my father made me promise that I would preach his funeral (which I did--twice: once in Indiana where he lived, and again in Florida where I live and where he is buried), that was not as difficult and gut wrenching as what I had to do last Sunday. Last Sunday, I retired as the pastor of the church that my wife and I founded 35 years ago: the Crossroad Baptist Church of Pensacola, Florida.

Iraq - An End or an Escalation?

Ron Paul / Texas Straight Talk:
Amid much fanfare last week, the last supposed "combat" troops left Iraq as the administration touted the beginning of the end of the Iraq War and a change in the role of the United States in that country. Considering the continued public frustration with the war effort, and with the growing laundry list of broken promises, this was merely another one of the administration's operations in political maneuvering and semantics in order to convince an increasingly war-weary public that the Iraq War is at last ending. However, military officials confirm that we are committed to intervention in that country for years to come, and our operations have in fact, changed minimally, if really at all.

Obama Proves Treason With Arizona

David McElroy / Liberty Defense League:
Obama has submitted Arizona to the United Nations on charges of crimes against humanity for enacting SB 1070. This has been reported by the Canada Free Press, Examiner.com and ResistNet.com , but not yet in the mainstream media. Arizona's new immigration enforcement law requires state and local police officers to enforce federal immigration laws and federal statute specifically allow states to enact federal immigration law as state law. Obama refuses to allow enforcement of those laws, even though the federal government had permitted such as Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to do so.

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Barack Obama Has Bowed Before the UN Over Arizona Immigration Law
Daily Telegraph
There can be few sights more humiliating for the American people than that of a US president kowtowing to a foreign leader or to supranational institutions. Continental Europeans are used to this sort of thing after decades of dominance by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels, and have grudgingly accepted over time the gradual and undemocratic erosion of their freedoms. But most Americans fiercely defend their national sovereignty, and find the idea of giving international organisations a say over their laws and lives completely unacceptable.

Incubating Collectivist Drones

Will Grigg / Liberty Minute:
Government school officials in New Canaan, Connecticut -- a very affluent community -- have been invited to participate in a federally funded program that would tag schoolchildren with Radio Frequency Identification chips. California's Contra Costa County School District received a grant to tag pre-schoolers with RFID chips embedded in school-distributed classroom attire. These are just two examples of the way public schools are designed to cultivate collectivist docility.

Seeking First the Kingdom of Man

Mark R. Rushdoony / Chalcedon Foundation:
Mankind is, after several millennia, still trying hard to make good on Satan's promise that man can ascend to the status of deity, that he can "be as gods, knowing good and evil." A god does not know good and evil in a merely intellectual sense: he knows it because he determines or decrees it. Man's ongoing sin is, by its very nature, his quest to rule as a god. Sin makes man want to decree, to decide authoritatively as a sovereign, autonomous power. Man playing god must manage to circumvent the authority of the God he seeks to dethrone, or at least diplomatically manage Him as an equal.

Are We Living in the Last Days?

Gary DeMar / The American Vision:
Any time American Vision posts an article dealing with Bible prophecy, we get emails from Bible prophecy "experts" chastising us for our "ignorance." One fellow wrote that since Revelation talks about earthquakes and we see earthquakes today that earthquakes must be a modern-day sign that the end is near. Here's what he wrote: "I don't know who this guy [Gary DeMar] is and I don't want to know but I am going to say this he does not know the bible cause it says in the Book of Revelation That Earth Quakes is one of the many signs of the end times."

Exegete It

Jay Adams / Institute for Nouthetic Studies:
"Tell me more." Sure you want to know? "Definitely." OK. Here's how it is: first, you exegete the passage. "Whoa! What's that big word mean?" It means to so interpret the passage that you obtain as the result of your work nothing more than, nothing less than, and nothing other than what the Holy Spirit intended you to obtain from it. In other words, you understand its meaning and purpose and how it applies. You know what the Holy Spirit was up to when he had the writer pen the words.

Propaganda - The Death Of Truth

Al Cronkrite / The Covenant News:
The manipulators have done it again; they have convinced most Americans that Muslim hordes will soon impose Shiria law on our nation. Oklahoma is seeking to pass laws prohibiting this dreaded legal system, there are rumors that we have a Muslim president, Muslim prayers are blocking traffic in New York, Islam is a militant religion, and America is being overrun by Muslims. Fear and hate for Muslims is building to a fever pitch.

The Lord's Judgment

Rev. R.J. Rushdoony / Chalcedon Foundation:
When we are told in Deuteronomy 1:17 that in courts of law "the judgment is God's," it means the judge administers God's law faithfully. Similarly, we are told that just weights and balances are the Lord's (Prov. 16:11). All courts of law therefore are to administer God's justice, not man's. In the Bible, the words for "justice" and "righteousness" are identical. God's salvation means for us Christ's righteousness applied to us, to give us a new standing before God. In our relationships with our fellow men, we are to apply God's righteousness, justice or law.

Knowledge

Jay Adams / Institute for Nouthetic Studies:
In Hosea 4:6, we read, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge (HCSB)." It was not because they had no access to it, but (as the rest of the verse says) because they "rejected" it. The statement has to do with a nation. But it is just as true of those purporting to be "God's people" as a congregation, as a household or as individuals.

Seven Who Changed the World

David Alan Black / Dave Black Online:
In sixteenth century Switzerland a renewal movement was launched that would change the face of the church forever. Anabaptism was born, and with it the beginning of the modern "free" church movement. A group of young radicals, disciples of Ulrich Zwingli, insisted that, as far as believer's baptism was concerned, no compromise with the Word of God would be tolerated. Conrad Grebel (pictured below) emerged as its leader and spokesman. By the end of the year 1523, their number would total seven. In addition to Grebel there were Andress Castelberg, Felix Manz, Heinrich Aberli, Joannes Panicellus, Hanns Oggenfuss, and Hanns Huiuf.

'Hurricane Dyson' Floods Us With Nonsense

John Lofton / The American View:
Dr. Michael Eric Dyson is another individual totally freaked out because, according to polls, many Americans: (1) Think President Obama is a Muslim. (2) They think he is not a Christian. (3) They are unsure what, exactly, is Mr. Obama's religion. Dr. Dyson says he is an ordained Baptist minister. He hosts a radio talk show. He teaches sociology at Georgetown University.

What You're Not Supposed to Know about War

Thomas DiLorenzo / Mises.org:
It is a testament to the power of government propaganda that several generations of self-described conservatives have held as their core belief that war and militarism are consistent with limited, constitutional government. These conservatives think they are "defending freedom" by supporting every military adventure that the state concocts. They are not.

The 'Nazification' of the United States

Paul Craig Roberts / Global Research:
Chuck Norris is no pinko-liberal-commie, and Human Events is a very conservative publication. The two have come together to produce one of the most important articles of our time, "Obama's US Assassination Program." It seems only yesterday that Americans, or those interested in their civil liberties, were shocked that the Bush regime so flagrantly violated the FlSA law against spying on American citizens without a warrant. A federal judge serving on the FISA court even resigned in protest to the illegality of the spying.

None Dare Call It Tyranny

Sheldon Richman / Campaign for Liberty:
If you want to know what tyranny is like, look around. The national government -- specifically the executive branch -- can do pretty much what it wants. It could bomb Iran tomorrow without a declaration of war from Congress. It can -- and does -- conduct secret wars and covert operations against countries that have done nothing to us. Of course, they are secret only to the ignorant taxpayers who must finance them and perhaps suffer when the provoked retaliation occurs. It can have men behind PlayStation consoles in Nevada fire Hellfire missiles from aerial drones on people in Pakistan, Yemen, and elsewhere.

The Unsustainable Empire of Debt

Will Grigg / Liberty Minute:
Boston University economics professor Laurence Kotlikoff warns that the real national debt - including unfunded liabilities such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and off-budget military spending - is $202 trillion. This illustrates a fact Americans find difficult to comprehend: Our supposedly free economy is at least as socialist as that of the former Soviet Union. The chief difference is that American socialism is built around inter-generational redistribution of wealth.

Report: U.S. Wasted Billions in Rebuilding Iraq

The Associated Press:
A $40 million prison sits in the desert north of Baghdad, empty. A $165 million children's hospital goes unused in the south. A $100 million waste water treatment system in Fallujah has cost three times more than projected, yet sewage still runs through the streets. As the U.S. draws down in Iraq, it is leaving behind hundreds of abandoned or incomplete projects. More than $5 billion in American taxpayer funds has been wasted - more than 10 percent of the some $50 billion the U.S. has spent on reconstruction in Iraq, according to audits from a U.S. watchdog agency.

U.S. Funds Restoration Of Global Islamic Sites

The Associated Press:
US Helps Fund Mosque, Minaret Restoration Around The World As Part Of Cultural Outreach: -- The good will tour of the Middle East by the imam behind the proposed mosque near ground zero is just part of the U.S. government's efforts to reach out to the Muslim world. This year, the Obama administration will spend nearly $6 million to restore 63 historic and cultural sites, including mosques and minarets, in 55 nations, according to State Department documents. YOUR TAX DOLLAERS AT WORK: Under a program established by Congress in 2001, the department will fund at least five projects in as many countries at a cost of more than $271,000. The contributions include $76,135 for the 16th century Grand Mosque in Tongxin, China, and $67,500 for the 18th century Golden Mosque in Lahore, Pakistan. An additional $62,169 will be spent on restoring a 19th century minaret in Mauritania's ancient city of Tichitt; $50,437 for the Sundarwala Burj, a 16th century Islamic Monument in New Delhi, and $15,450 to restore the 18th century Gobarau Minaret in Katsina, Nigeria.

The Biblical Trustee Family

Andrea Schwartz / Chalcedon Foundation:
How to Raise a Daughter to Be a Trustee:
Kevin Swanson, host of Generations with Vision radio broadcast, interviewed me on my latest book, The Biblical Trustee Family: Undestanding God's Purpose for Your Household. Listen here.

Are Americans Really Different?

Timothy Baldwin / Liberty Defense League:
Americans have historically prided themselves in being different from all other nations of the earth. Stemming from our independent lives and station from Great Britain-even while being politically subject to it-the foundation of America rested upon the ideal of independence, individualism, self-determination and freedom. A massive and motivating Secession Movement from Great Britain took only a few years to brew throughout the colonies, given only minor usurpations from their mother country, comparably speaking. The colonies' sovereignty was deemed established not upon the winning of the war but upon their unilateral declaration: "these united Colonies ARE, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States." Once their sovereignty was confirmed by the Treaty of Paris of 1783, constitutions were formed upon the American ideal of choice, reflection and wisdom, knowing that the Natural Law principles of self-government proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence were the undergirding foundation and were eternal in application to every generation.

States Rights and Responsibilities

Lex Green / Tenth Amendment Center:
Rights and privileges are misunderstood by legislators and citizens alike. The application of law from various jurisdictions using conflicting interpretations only confuses citizens and sets the stage for the erosion of rights in spite of intent. The very purpose of civil government is for the protection of our individual rights. Municipal and state laws should constrained to that purpose as much as possible as well. Going beyond that mandate can immediately bring our rights as citizens under attack.

Dead Man Walking

Sheriff Jim R. Schwiesow, Ret. / NewsWithViews.com:
The story is that when a condemned convict has finally exhausted his appeals, stays, and pre-execution pleas and is making that final walk to the execution chamber his last faltering steps are marked by these echoing words, "Dead man walking." The words are chilling and at the same time prophetic as they mark with a certainty that soon - very soon - the vital physical functions that sustain life and animate the being will be terminated and he will go from life to death and exist only as a memory.

Bringing Freedom and Prosperity to Afghanistan

James Bovard / Campaign for Liberty:
The Obama administration is seeking to rechristen the Afghan debacle it inherited from the Bush administration. Obama's efforts to legitimize the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan simply ignore the previous record of American actions in that nation. But the past debacles ensure the failure of Obama's ramped-up interventions.

The Result of Intellectual Capitulation

James P. Harvey / Liberty Defense League:
After profound analysis, I decided that our government educated society actually wants a police state; to gain protection from the dull and ignorant working class that wants five hundred channels of professional wrestling and NASCAR, porn, beer adds, and easy sex on the cable, plus two weeks a year at Disney World. People who don’t read much, largely because of honest inability, and count on their fingers, up to maybe six, and would be perfectly happy to have storm troopers on every corner, as full auto pistols and flack jackets lend drama to lives that have no intellectual pursuits. This Intellectual capitulation is the result of a government controlled education and media industry that brain drains our citizens before they reach puberty, and destroys interest in any higher thoughts than self gratification, and media addiction.

Shakedown in Philly, Continued

Will Grigg / Liberty Minute:
As we've noted previously, Philadelphia is presided over by a mayor - appropriately named Michael Nutter - who is engaged in a vulgar shakedown. Referring to people who supposedly owe various municipal taxes, Nutter has declared: "We want our damn money. You owe it, we want it, and I plan to collect it." Nutter's administration couples a porcine appetite for revenue with a certain depraved creativity in making so-called tax scofflaws out of innocent people. It recently devised a way to impose a $300 tax - disguised as a "business privilege license" -- on residents who maintain internet blogs.

For Now. . .

Jay Adams / Institute for Nouthetic Studies:
Often, I've been charged with being critical of others. But I have hardly been charged with being critical of those in the basic Nouthetic counseling camp. Yet, interestingly enough, I find that, as of late, some of these very persons have had little hesitation out attacking my writings--and even me personally. This is perfectly all right so long as what they say is accurate and the system that they propose (indeed, there seems to be such a system growing) is, indeed, genuinely an improvement over what I have set forth. But to "advance" is not always an advantage. The question is--what direction is this new way of counseling taking?

We Need A Revolution, Not A Movement

Chuck Baldwin / The Covenant News:
The elections of 2008 (and the early elections of 2010) produced two significant phenomena: the "Ron Paul Revolution," and the "Tea Party Movement." And, mark it down: both of them will have profound effects upon the upcoming November elections--and upon the 2012 elections as well. Call them what you want, however, America doesn't need another movement; it needs a genuine revolution. The Tea Party movement, while still a force with which to be contended, has already been diluted and compromised. The primary elections plainly reveal the reality of this fact. The high spots so far are the defeats of Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania and Bob Bennett in Utah. The low spots so far are the reelection of John McCain in Arizona and the election of Dan Coats in Indiana.

Today. Not Tomorrow. Now.

Michael Boldin / Tenth Amendment Center:
For more than a century, We the People have been marching on D.C. in the hopes that federal politicians would see the light and limit federal power. We have been suing in federal courts in the hopes that federal judges would limit federal power. We keep "voting the bums out." But every federal election cycle we end up with new bums that expand federal power! Asking, demanding, hoping -- that the federal government will limit its own power -- just doesn't work. So why not try something new? Thomas Jefferson wrote that when the federal government "assumes undelegated powers..." a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy.

Let the Housing Market Normalize!

Ron Paul / Texas Straight Talk:
Recently there have been some encouraging signs that Congress is finally willing to admit what should have been evident two years ago. Even after a $150 billion bailout, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are still bankrupt and should be abolished. Indeed Rep. Barney Frank, a longtime champion of Fannie and Freddie has made a few statements alluding to this and I have signed on to a letter asking him to clarify his remarks and hold hearings on this topic. There seems to be a growing consensus in favor of abolishing Fannie and Freddie. This is the good news.
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Government's Monopoly on Lying

Will Grigg / Liberty Minute:
Roger Clemens was one of the most dominant pitchers in Major League Baseball. The last years of his otherwise luminous career were marred with allegations that he had used performance-enhancing drugs in an effort to retain his eroding physical skills. In 2008, Clemens was questioned by Congress about those allegations. This was a matter dealing with Major League Baseball's internal personnel policies, which are outside Congress's constitutional authority.

Is There a Non-Christian Way to Fly a Plane?

Bojidar Marinov / The American Vision:
Imagine you are talking to two other persons: a socialist and Murray Rothbard. And imagine the socialist makes the following statement: "There isn't a capitalist or a socialist way to help the poor. There is only one way: Give money to the poor to buy the goods they need." What would Murray Rothbard reply to this? Those of us who learned a great deal from the Austrian School and Rothbard himself can easily figure what Rothbard would reply. He would say something like the following...

Public Schools Have Wrecked America

John Taylor Gatto / LewRockwell.com:
Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines what and how future generations will think; whoever controls the information and images of the present determines how those same people will view the past. ~ George Orwell, 1984 (1949)
Take at hazard one hundred children of several educated generations and one hundred uneducated children of the people and compare them in anything you please; in strength, in agility, in mind, in the ability to acquire knowledge, even in morality – and in all respects you are startled by the vast superiority on the side of the children of the uneducated. ~ Count Leo Tolstoy, "Education and Children" (1862)

Painful Parenting

Andrea Schwartz / Chalcedon Foundation:
Over the years, my hair has become grayer, and the forces of gravity have helped establish me as an older woman, one who is deemed wise. Thus, I've had the opportunity and privilege of being consulted for advice when homeschooling parents experience difficulty in the raising and rearing of their children. Having been a good student of the Bible and having studied the principles of nouthetic counseling (counseling from a thoroughly Biblical perspective), I've been able to help parents "put on the glasses of Scripture" in order for them to see situations more clearly and be better able to deal with their difficult times.

A Review of Seeing with New Eyes

Counseling and the Human Condition Through the Lens of Scripture
Byron Snapp / Chalcedon Foundation:
The plight of fallen humanity and the primacy of the Christian's battle with indwelling sin provide many opportunities for counseling. Sadly, Christians frequently believe themselves to be unprepared to counsel hurting human beings. What does one say to victims of adultery? How does one sort out and wisely address secret sins? These are only a couple of the areas Powlison explores in his practical, probing book. In this first part of a projected three-volume work on counseling, the author desires the reader to see people and problems from God’s perspective. He sets this goal constantly as he examines a wide range of problems in light of Scripture.

You Are Too Critical of Others

Jay Adams / Institute for Nouthetic Studies:
I want you to know that I do not enjoy criticizing others who have gone wrong in their counseling. I believe, however, that this criticism is fair and honest-and needed. But "too critical?" How can one be too critical of those who misrepresent our Lord Jesus Christ? Take for instance the "need" pyramid of Abraham Maslow that has led to much wrong thinking and even serious misinterpretation of Scripture on the part of "Christian" counselors. When the self-actualization, self-esteem movement came along, there were many who hopped on board. In order to justify using this non-Christian, unbiblical belief system, there were those who taught that God had to redeem us because we were so valuable to him. This theology, which bases the saving death of Christ upon our supposed great worth, flatly contradicts the biblical teaching about grace. There was nothing in us to commend us to God; our redemption issued purely out of His undeserved mercy and goodness.

John McCain's Attack On Liberty

Chuck Baldwin / The Covenant News:
Anyone paying attention knows that John McCain has been a Big-Government Globalist Neocon (BGGN) for virtually his entire senatorial career. As with many BGGNs hiding out in the Republican Party, McCain likes to talk about smaller government, but his track record is littered with the promotion of one big government program after another. But, what else would one expect from a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)?

We're Losing because We're Snoozing

Buddy Hanson / The Covenant News:
Someone recently asked me the following two questions: "The condition of our culture is getting worse everyday. It seems to me that Jesus can't wait much longer before He returns. Is it really necessary for me to be concerned with obediently living-out my faith in the hope that my obedience will result in positive consequences for the culture? Isn't it OK if I just spend my time reaching out to my non-Christian neighbors with the hope that they will repent before Jesus returns?"

Isaiah 53 and the Atonement

Pastor Bret McAtee / Iron Ink:
"We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth."

Here We Go Again

Paul Proctor / NewsWithViews.com:
"Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle." - 2nd Thessalonians 2:15. As many of you know, it has been some time since my last article – over six weeks - which is unprecedented in my ten years as a columnist. Among other things, I have been preoccupied with something of a controversy here at home involving my local church – a wonderful fellowship that my wife and I joined earlier this year in large part because it was the last or among the very few remaining traditional Southern Baptist churches in our area. Knowing firsthand what’s out there, it was a refreshing find.

Dehumanization: The Humanistic Agenda

P. Andrew Sandlin / Chalcedon Foundation:
Humanism has been around since Genesis 3. It is the belief that there is no God or, better yet, that man himself is a god. The temptation of the serpent to Eve was simple: If you establish your own moral standards, and act on them, you can be as God (Gen. 3:5). The history of depraved man is the history of an unending quest for an ever more consistent humanism. From the ancient world empires - Egypt, Babylon, Persia, Rome - to the Italian Renaissance to the European Enlightenment to Romanticism and finally to today's "postmodernism," man's root sin is humanism - the desire to be his own god.

Faggot Infested Republican Party

John Byrne / Raw Story:
Raw Story revealed effort to keep sexuality quiet in 2004; Led aggressive anti-gay effort in Ohio in 2004. Ken Mehlman, the erstwhile chairman of the Republican National Committee and campaign manager for George W. Bush's 2004 reelection effort, has come out of the closet as gay in a column published in The Atlantic. Mehlman came out in a column by Mark Ambinder on the website of The Atlantic, after the blogger who outed former Idaho Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) and onetime Virginia congressman Ed Schrock revealed that Ambinder was to publish the story. Blogger Michael Rogers was the subject of the documentary "Outrage," a film about outing gays in government who have used their positions of power to advocate against gay issues, which aired earlier this year on HBO.

Glenn Beck is AWOL in the Cultural War

Laurie Higgins / Accuracy in Media:
Glenn Beck has proclaimed that legalized homosexual marriage wouldn't harm America; Ann Coulter has agreed to speak at the pseudo-Republican group GOProud's "Homocon"; Grover Norquist, Tucker Carlson, and Margaret Hoover have formally endorsed homosexual activist organizations and their political goals; Indiana governor and possible Republican presidential candidate, Mitch Daniels, has called for a "truce" on the "social issues," suggesting homosexual marriage is not an "existential" issue; and alleged homosexual Mark Kirk may win a Senate seat-Mark Kirk who supports virtually all homosexuality-affirming legislation, including so-called "hate crimes" legislation, the "Employment Non-Discrimination Act," the "Safe Schools Improvement Act," and the repeal of "Don't Ask Don't Tell."

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