Debt Ceiling Woes
The arguing and posturing are in full prominence in Washington as our legal representatives from both parties plot for advantage over the debt ceiling vote. The public wants the red ink to slow down. This would be the same public …
Category: Government
Libertarian Doesn’t Equal Freedom
I would call myself a Christian Libertarian as opposed to a libertarian with no prefix. That fact alone demonstrates the degree to which the humanist libertarians have captured the philosophical field of liberty. They, after all, do not refer to …
Don’t Vote for a Weiner
Here we are a couple of weeks into the Anthony Weiner quasi – not quite a scandal. The media has had high hopes for a juicy story while at the same time rarely identifying the congressman’s political party (Democratic). The …
The Government is Your Mother Day
In honor of the largest and most beneficent mother I hereby declare this to be: ‘The Government is Your Mother Day’. Yes, after all why waste time professing and giving ecstatic babbalia over mere human mothers when the goddess …
Returning to Biblical Liberty
The word liberty, a forgotten concept, is making a comeback these days. As we experience the ever tightening jaws of the ‘nanny’ state who consumes her children even as they are suckled, the questions are forced to the forefront of …
Covenantal Government—The Biblical Basis
One seemingly forgotten aspect of our original governmental structure, of Biblical government, is the idea of the covenant, and its relationship to the establishment of every righteous civil government. All of that language sounds complicated, but it really is rather …
Tyranny and Treason
Lately I have been teaching a Bible study on Godly Government. One lesson discusses the proper duties and roles of the civil government, church, and family. This study caused me to look again at the story of Queen Athaliah as …
God’s Law – Root of American Greatness
As Americans we are experiencing a systemic failure of government across the land. We cannot manage our finances with states, counties, and cities in trouble everywhere. Many are teetering on the edge of insolvency. The bureaucrats who run things have …
God’s Law – Foundation for the Nations
The nations in the Middle East are in turmoil now, at the latest, with Libya in a fight for its soul. We think of this as something new and wonder if maybe they will finally embrace democracy. After centuries of …
The Bible – Original Handbook on Liberty
As nation after nation across the mid-east finds itself facing riots in the streets western news media seem to be cheering on the sidelines believing that everyone should have freedom, not just us. However, what most writers and pundits have …