James Robison and Jay Richards

Is America a Christian Nation?

Mention the role of faith in public life, and somebody is bound to bring up the faith of the Founders. Like many debates, this one has two extremes. Many secularists (and some conspiracy-minded Christians) claim that the Founders were mostly deists or religious skeptics who wanted to keep religion on the sidelines. (Deism is the view that God created the world and established a moral law, but doesn’t get involved in the day-to-day details on the ground.

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How Big Should Government Be?

We need a government strong enough to protect and maintain the rule of law but limited enough not to violate it. The American Founders understood this paradox of power. That‘s why they established checks and balances in the Constitution. Between the Founders and us, unfortunately, came the progressives. They sought to expand government without limit, so they viewed the Constitution not as a guide but an impediment.

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We Must Protect and Preserve the Precious

In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus described His followers as the “salt of the earth.” Salt protects and preserves the precious. Let me clearly describe several irrefutable precious truths we must vigorously protect or, as He warned, the very things entrusted to our watch-care will be trampled under the feet of people who disregard sacred truths.

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Louder than Words

President Obama made a series of statements in Ohio this week that we agree with one hundred percent: “I have never believed that government can or should try to solve every problem we’ve got. I believe that the free market is the greatest force for economic progress in human history. I believe that everybody has personal responsibility for their own lives. Everybody’s got to work hard. Nothing is going to be handed to us...”

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Was the Early Church Communist?

In an attempt to justify their ever-expanding socialist agenda in America and the free world, the secular progressives will misrepresent biblical truth. Isn’t it amazing how often anti-God, anti-Christian people use the Word of the God they reject in an attempt to legitimize their illegitimate goals? Of course Satan used this tactic in the Garden of Eden to deceive Adam and Eve (see Genesis 3).

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Body Armor for the Culture War

We’ve heard for years that we’re in the middle of a “culture war.” A culture war, unlike a civil war, is not fought with guns and tanks, but with ideas, words, arguments, media, and education. Unlike ordinary political debates, it’s a fight over the fundamental principles on which cultures are based.

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