Priority Reading for 2022: Jon Harris’s Christianity and Social Justice: Religions in Conflict
December 30, 2021 — Article 379
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Beware of Leftist Gaslighters, Parts 1, 2, and 3
Conservatives Can Face Gaslighters and their Manipulative Tactics with Confidence and Conviction
This article is part 2 of a 2-part series titles “Beware of Leftist Gaslighters.”
January 6, 2022 — article 380
Part 1 was titled Leftists, Including Leftist Evangelicals, Are Attempting to Gaslight Conservatives. It is article 375, and it was published on December 14, 2021.
Bordering on Deranged: The Ugly and Illogical Place to Which Relativism and Godlessness Have Led Us
This article is part 3 of a 3-part series titled “Beware of Leftist Gaslighters.”
January 13, 2022 — article 381
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Canada’s New Ban on “Conversion Therapy” Is a Declaration of War on Christianity and God
Canada’s New Ban on “Conversion Therapy” Is a Declaration of War on Christianity and God, Part `1
January 21, 2022 — article 382
Canada’s New Ban on “Conversion Therapy” Is a Declaration of War on Christianity and God, Part 2
January 24, 2022 — article 383
Canada’s New Ban on “Conversion Therapy” Is a Declaration of War on Christianity and God, Part 3
January 27, 2022 — article 384
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The Real Reason Society Is Unraveling, Part 1: Unmasking the Oppressive Nature and the Perils of Radical Autonomy
February 3, 2022 — article 385
The Real Reason Society Is Unraveling, Part 2: How Obergefell, the Supreme Court Decision that Forced All Fifty States to Recognize Same-Sex Marriage, Changed Everything
February 11, 2022 — article 386
The Real Reason Society Is Unraveling, Part 3: Defying God’s Authority and Nature’s Clear Teaching: The Aftermath of Obergefell
February 17, 2022 — article 387
The Real Reason Society Is Unraveling, Part 4: The Way Back to Genuine Liberty ~ Five Steps Toward Recovering Authentic Liberty, Limited Government, and Sanity in the United States
February 24, 2022 — article 388
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Created to Be Free, Part 1
March 3, 2022 — article 389
Created to Be Free, Part 2
March 9, 2022 — article 390
Having been created by God in His own image and assigned productive work to accomplish, human beings have been made to be free to pursue their God-given potential in ways consistent with God’s law. Government’s responsibility is to allow that to happen. Pastors need to become thoroughly informed about what it means to have been made in God’s image and about government’s responsibility in light of this reality — then they need to educate their people. This is a part of making disciples, as Jesus commanded.
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Without the Law, Love Is Meaningless, and Liberty Cannot Exist
March 18, 2022 — article 391
The 21st-century American evangelical church is overemphasizing God’s love. In doing so, it also has lost an understanding of God’s holiness and the power of God’s law to liberate. Further, it’s forgotten that the source of authentic liberty is God’s law. We must recover these understandings and teach them to the members of upcoming generations.
For America, A Dose of Hard Truth Is Long Overdue
March 25, 2022 — article 392
The Disney Company Jettisons Reality, Alienates Parents, and Relegates Itself to Fantasyland
April 1, 2022 — article 393
If Disney hasn’t yet overplayed its hand, then what must it do to overplay it—Introduction ~ For the series of which this article is a part, go here.
If Disney hasn’t yet overplayed its hand, then what must it do to overplay it? Part 1
April 7, 2022 — article 394
For the series of which this article is a part, go here.
If Disney hasn’t yet overplayed its hand, then what must it do to overplay it? Part 2
April 10, 2022 — article 395
Go here to access an article that presents the same ideas in a different format.
For the series of which this article is a part, go here.
Jesus Accurately Predicted His Death — and His Resurrection as Well
April 15, 2022 — article 396
Additional Word Foundations articles on Easter are available here.
If Disney hasn’t yet overplayed its hand, then what must it do to overplay it? Part 3
April 21, 2022 — article 397
For the series of which this article is a part, go here.
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Marriage Has Been Redefined — But What If It Isn’t Malleable?
Marriage Has Been Redefined — But What If It Isn’t Malleable? Part 1
If It Isn’t, Reality Is Certain to Come Back to Bite Us
April 29, 2022 — article 398
Marriage Has Been Redefined — But What If It Isn’t Malleable? Part 2
Jesus Himself indicated it isn’t malleable when He affirmed it as part of God’s design “from the beginning.” Moreover, He emphasized that marriage is, and has always been, between one man and one woman.
May 5, 2022 — article 399
Marriage Has Been Redefined — But What If It Isn’t Malleable? Part 3
Marriage is malleable only if God is subject to change. He isn’t.
May 13, 2022 — article 400
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Discover Liberty
May 19, 2022 — article 401
Meet Elizabeth Freeman, also known as Bett or Mum Bett. She was a slave who, on the basis of the principle that all people are created equal, sued for her freedom in Massachusetts, and won! We rightly honor her, but we also should honor those who upheld this principle in public policy at the time of our country’s founding.
With Independence Day just over six weeks away, now is a great time to learn about the biblical underpinnings of the principles of liberty we find embedded in the Declaration of Independence. You’re invited to explore these in this article and in this Bible study series.
Protecting Babies from Abortions by Holding Mothers Accountable for Their Actions also Means Holding Women in High Esteem
May 25, 2022 — article 402
A slightly different version of this article, titled “Pre-Born and Newly Born Babies Are People, Too; and Our Laws Should Not Excuse Anyone From Hurting Them or Taking Their Lives” is available here.
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Part 1
June 2, 2022 — article 403
Part 2
June 4, 2022 — article 404
Part 3
June 7, 2022 — article 405
Epilogue
To Fix What’s Wrong, Here Is Where the Southern Baptist Convention Needs to Start
June 8, 2022 — article 406
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Remember D-Day, and Thank God for Those Who Sacrificed to Preserve Our Freedom
June 6, 2022, the 78th anniversary of D-Day.
Is the Southern Baptist Convention on Life Support, or Has it Already Died?
Is the Southern Baptist Convention on Life Support, or Has it Already Died?
Part 1
June 21, 2022 — Article 407
A streamlined version of this article is available here.
It’s important to understand that the Supreme Court didn’t end a constitutional right to abortion with the Dobbs decision — a “right” to abortion never has been present in the US Constitution.
Article 408 — June 24, 2022
A Win at the Supreme Court for Religious Liberty!
June 27, 2022
Is the Southern Baptist Convention on Life Support, or Has it Already Died?
Part 2
June 29, 2022 — Article 409
Crunching the Numbers
June 29, 2022 — This article is by Kyle Whitt.
The Declaration of Independence and the Liberty and Security It Affords in Its Affirmation of Absolute Truth
July 2, 2022 — Article 410
Liberty flourishes in the soil of an awareness of one’s accountability to God and an acceptance of one’s duty to obey His laws. In 1926, when America was 150 years old, it still had a president who understood this truth and who articulated it powerfully at the nation’s birthday celebration.
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How the Modern Concept of Equality Threatens Authentic Liberty, Part 1
How the Modern Concept of Equality Threatens Authentic Liberty and How the Founders’ Understanding of it Eventually Put and End to Slavery
July 7, 2022 — Article 411
How the Modern Concept of Equality Threatens Authentic Liberty, Part 2
How the Modern Concept of Equality Threatens Authentic Liberty and How the Biblical Concept Upholds It
July 15, 2022 — Article 412
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Setting the Stage for a Revolution by Promoting Revolutionary Ideas,
Part 1: Samuel Rutherford
Article 413 — July 22, 2022
Setting the Stage for a Revolution by Promoting Revolutionary Ideas,
Part 2: John Locke
Article 414 — July 28, 2022
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Without Apology, Standing on the Rock of Absolute Truth
Article 415 — August 8, 2022
Be a Truth-Teller
Article 416 — August 12, 2022
Nine Arenas that Represent the Front Lines of Spiritual Warfare in America Today
Article 417 — August 19, 2022
The Goal Marxists Are Working Feverishly to Achieve: Uprooting America from Her Foundation, Part 1 ~ Denying Property Rights
Article 418 — August 23, 2022
The Goal Marxists Are Working Feverishly to Achieve: Uprooting America from Her Foundation, Part 2 ~ Distorting and Eliminating American History and Heritage
Article 419 — August 31, 2022
The Federal Government Is Pushing Transgenderism and Intends to Punish Anyone Who Dares to Hold a Different Perspective
Article 420 — September 5, 2022
Republicans, Do Not Betray Your Constituents!
Article 421 — September 9, 2022
The Supreme Court Has Redefined Marriage, Effectively Endorsing a Lie — Will Congress, with Republicans’ Help, Do the Same Thing?
Article 422 — September 16, 2022
1946: The Movie Being Crafted to Shift — and Mislead — a Culture, Part 1
Article 423 — September 22, 2022
1946: The Movie Being Crafted to Shift — and Mislead — a Culture, Part 2
Article 424 — September 29, 2022
What Does God’s Word Say About Homosexuality? ~ 1946: The Movie Being Crafted to Shift — and Mislead — a Culture, Part 3
Article 425 — October 6, 2022
Here Are Some Things You Might Never Have Heard About Christopher Columbus — October 10, 2022
William Wilberforce: Glorifying God in the Public Policy Arena
Article 426 — October 13, 2022
Largely because of William Wilberforce’s work as a Member of Parliament in Great Britain, the slave trade was ended in 1807, and slavery itself was ended just days before Wilberforce’s death in 1833. The article concludes with this paragraph:
In light of evils occurring in our own day, the typical silence of the church in response to these evils, and against the backdrop of William Wilberforce’s amazing life and its remarkable, positive, and widespread influence, we are prompted to ask this penetrating question: At the point at which William Wilberforce began the quest that eventually would result in the end to the slave trade and slavery in Great Britain, what would England and the world have lost had he been convinced by a cacophony of voices belonging to pastors and other religious leaders that he must remain silent on the issue of slavery because it was “political”?
Why the So-Called “Respect for Marriage Act” Would Spell Disaster for the Family, and Why Republicans Must Defeat it
Article 427 — October 20, 2022
Seeing All that Is At Stake in America, the American Church Can’t Afford to Play it Safe — Christians and Christian Leaders Must Stand Up and Speak Up
Article 428 — October 26, 2022
The bold and risky stand that Martin Luther took during the Reformation just over 500 years ago is instructive for Christians and church leaders today.
Jesus, Politics, and Leftist Lies
Article 429 — November 4, 2022
A National Discussion About the Horrific Nature of Abortion Is Long Overdue
Article 430 — November 10, 2022
The election results on abortion ballot measures underscore that in the United States, a frank discussion about the horrors of abortion is long overdue. The left has successfully cloaked these horrors in euphemisms and other forms of high, noble-sounding rhetoric. These are lies, and they remind us of Nazi euphemisms. (Read on, and you’ll understand that this analogy is quite fitting.) The lies and the truth about abortion must be exposed.
Detached from Reality
Article 431 — November 17, 2022
Leftists either intentionally are ignoring the obvious, or they are blind to the obvious. Mark it down. In a war with reality, reality always wins.
George Washington Upholds America’s Founding Ideals in His Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1789
Article 432 — November 22, 2022
North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis would not have been elected but for moral concerns, yet he is betraying his constituents who hold them!
November 26, 2022
If We Lose Marriage, We Lose America
Article 433 — November 30, 2022
Pearl Harbor, World War 2, and the Power of the Gospel
December 7, 2022
Donald Trump Isn’t a Threat to the Constitution, but Democrats Are Trashing it Every Day
Article 434 — December 9, 2022
Christmas Beyond the Stable in Bethlehem: The Apostle John’s Perspective
Article 435 — December 16, 2022
Mind-Blowing: Willing to be Misunderstood
Article 436 — December 24, 2022
The introduction to this article is at Word Foundations; the complete article is available at Discover Bedrock Truth.
A Challenge for 2023
Article 437 — December 31, 2022
The introduction to this article is at Word Foundations; the complete article is available at Discover Bedrock Truth.
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