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October 26 The American Vote
AMERICAN CITIZEN, do you love your country, do you love America? No matter its problems, do you love her?
Do you respect America and what American stands for, do you?
Do you, real American citizen, respect FREEDOM and the freedoms which our Constitution and our Democracy offer and even guarantee, do you?
Even though, as President Thomas Jefferson suggested, you would not shed blood as a patriot, would you substitute time, effort, concern, and even giving to the right candidates because of your love, care, respect, and hope for the greatest nation in the history of humankind, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, would you? Then vote, my fellow citizen, VOTE.
The vote, your vote, is your WEAPON against the destruction of freedom. It is your weapon against Socialism, which is one horrible philosophy of life and government. It is your STAND-UP against Communism, against Dictatorship, against others, any other human being telling you how to think, how to live, what to spend, and how to work. It is the most powerful tool, the most powerful weapon you have, to protect your freedom, and you, our, beloved America: YOUR VOTE.
It is, I do believe, your DUTY to vote, vote intelligently, and as a CHRISTIAN and CONSERVATIVE, to vote for those candidates who will serve, protect, and defend the right America, the moral America, the just America, and the freedom-loving America. To vote is your DUTY and PRIVILEGE! Never forget there are hundreds of millions of people, human beings, who have never, ever voted in a lifetime and never will because of Dictatorship in any form. You must vote and you must never take this duty and privilege for granted, NEVER.
Anti-Americans, including and especially Socialists (Bernie Sanders) and Communists, count on the fact American citizens, so many of US, are INDIFFERENT to the political process. Far too many American citizens, and Christians and Conservatives, do not even bother to VOTE.
Anti-Americans count upon the fact too many citizens DO NOT CARE enough about America to vote.
These Socialists count upon the fact so many Americans are UNEDUCATED in the political process. Uneducated and political ignorance is a tremendous asset of the anarchists.
They count upon the fact so many real and good American citizens are UNINVOLVED and will not vote. Right thinking American citizens not voting is an asset, actually an indirect vote (non-vote) for them and their brutal political philosophy. If you do not love America, if you do not respect our way of life and government, if you really do not care, if you really are indifferent to the political process and the candidates who will make decisions for your life and those of your family members, if you really do not see it is as your duty or privilege, then of course you will not vote. This non-vote is one great asset for those who would destroy our country and our Democratic way of life.
I pray you will vote. I do hope and pray you, my fellow American citizen, proud to be an American, loving our freedoms and way of life, will vote and VOTE RIGHT, for the right candidates, for the right outcomes, for the right results.
It is just incredible how the horrendous political, social, and governmental philosophy of Socialism is on the rise in America. Socialism is anti-Democracy, anti-American, anti-Individual Freedom. A Bernie Sanders, a Zohran Mamdani, or an AOC can make socialism sound good, especially to politically uneducated younger people. However, the Socialists at the top want to be the new leaders, the new dictators in America, and tell you and me how we should live and to what we are entitled. If they take control, these Socialists who are really Communists, we, for sure, will lose our beloved way of life and it will be the end of the greatest country in the history of mankind, the FREE UNITED STATED OF AMERICA.
VOTE, PLEASE VOTE. STAND UP FOR AMERICA.
Perfect it is not, but it still remains the finest political experiment in freedom, in constitutional rights, in justice ever in the history of mankind. Every day, my fellow citizens, Christians, and Conservatives, I do whatever I can for my beloved country. I love, respect, and cherish America and all it stands for. Every day I try to do something which will solve problems and create new opportunity and potential for all, ALL HUMANKIND, regardless of race, color, or creed. I hope and pray you do the same.
On Tuesday, November 3, 2026, may God bless America, and you, and give you the motivation, the desire, the privilege to stand up for your country and:
VOTE RIGHT!
AMERICA NEEDS YOUR VOTE!
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October 22 The American Dream
More people the world over dream about COMING TO AMERICA.
Immigrants line up by the tens of thousands on our borders and enter our great country legally or illegally. All intend to pursue the so-called AMERICAN DREAM.
What exactly the American Dream is has never really been defined. Perhaps it is a collection of tens of millions of individual definitions. However, there is one common denominator, which is FREEDOM.
The freedom to choose, to be all one can be. The freedom to work and produce, to earn money according to individual gifts, talents, and capabilities, and to be individually productive without government coercion. Perhaps the freedom, as it was for the pilgrims and our forefathers of old, is that of religious freedom, the freedom to worship as one chooses and believes without persecution.
Despite this, what happens so often is the American Dream and the rights and privileges which America offers are fully exploited with no conception of duty or obligation to give back to this great country and to make sure the individual dreamer is doing everything possible to protect this great country.
There exists a sense of entitlement in America. It is often said “THIS IS YOUR RIGHT” without any mention of duty or obligation, or “YOU DESERVE” without defining exactly what it is you deserve, and, more importantly, WHY you deserve it.
The exploitation continues without obligation. So many in America, citizens or otherwise, do so little and regard the serious demands of citizenship as someone else’s problem or responsibility. So many leave it up to the government to solve problems and provide what it is:
WE DESERVE!
However, the reality in life, my fellow Americans, is we do not deserve anything. The only thing we really deserve is what we earn, and whether or not real citizenship reciprocity exists. WHEN WE GET, WE GIVE. Far too often we get without giving back to the greatest nation in the history of mankind.
Millions upon millions of wonderful human beings, really, truly great Americans, served and died for America, for freedom, for the rights and privileges you and I enjoy today. I truly wonder whether WE THE PEOPLE really deserve much of anything the way we seem to be trapped in indifference, inertia, and lack of involvement in what really matters. We seem to be becoming more proficient in exploitation and entitlement, and now growing, as we should and must, in patriotism, in love, sacrifice, appreciation, and duty for the preservation and continuation of this great nation.
America was founded in blood, the blood of patriots. Thomas Jefferson, our great thinker and President, said the following:
SOMETIMES IT IS NECESSARY
FOR THE BLOOD OF PATRIOTS
TO BE SHED FOR THE TREE OF LIBERTY.
I wonder whether WE THE PEOPLE are willing to shed blood, to fight and die for the protection of this great country and the incredible lifestyle we enjoy, or is this the responsibility and obligation of someone else?
If we are unwilling to shed blood, serve in the military, actively protect and defend, then are we willing, at least, to give the next best asset we can:
TIME.
To work at any level, high or low, in politics, in government, in decision making. To study and learn FREEDOM, our Constitution, Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence. Are we willing to spend time learning so we can then become active in teaching what we have learned about this great country, are we?
Are we willing to take the time to train up our children, our brethren, our siblings, our spouses, our friends in the American way in which they should go, so when they are decision makers themselves, they will not depart from the American way, will we?
WHAT WILL YOU DO FOR AMERICA?
Millions come, or want to come, to America to pursue their version of:
THE AMERICAN DREAM.
My fellow citizens, my fellow Americans, what is your AMERICAN DREAM?
Do you have one? Can you verbalize and fully understand the dream, and make it happen every day of your life, and give thanks to God for the opportunity and privilege of doing so?
What do you intend to do with the life God has given you, and America has given you, which will fulfill all you can be? If you are truly American, you have received one of the greatest blessings which can ever be bestowed upon any human being:
THE FREEDOM OF OPPORTUNITY.
This is what you have received. Now, in return, with gratitude and with full understanding:
WHAT WILL YOU GIVE BACK TO AMERICA?
Something, anything? Or, as is the case with millions of Americans,
NOTHING OR VIRTUALLY NOTHING.
Those who died for freedoms, for America, for you and me, would be absolutely appalled at our conduct and commitment in this day in age. The freedoms we now enjoy are, said Ronald Reagan, only one generation away from permanent extinction. This may well be such a time. And, once lost, will be lost forever.
My father was an immigrant, a legal immigrant. He came to America to pursue his AMERICAN DREAM.
He was a patriot, and virtually more patriotic than anyone else I knew. My own love of America and patriotism comes largely from him. Whenever he left this country to travel, when he returned, the first thing he did when he once again entered American soil was:
HE GOT ON HANDS AND KNEES
AND LITERALLY KISSED THE GROUND.
That is how much he loved America, and I do as well. Do you?
So, I ask of you, fellow American citizen:
WHAT WILL YOU GIVE BACK TO THIS GREAT COUNTRY? WHAT?
You owe a debt which can never be fully repaid to AMERICA. You and I should be about the business of repaying this debt every day in which we are privileged to live in the greatest country in the history of mankind.
PAY THE DEBT BACK, AMERICAN!
The very least you can do is vote, and vote right.
Now comes Tuesday, November 3, 2026. You, my fellow Americans, better vote, and vote right for this country.
THIS IS YOUR DUTY AND OBLIGATION
AS YOU FULFILL YOUR AMERICAN DREAM.
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October 12 The November Tuesday Voting
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October 02 FREEDOM AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
WE THE PEOPLE should be today and forevermore grateful for America.
We should be grateful for this great country, for the privilege of living here, and most especially for the FREEDOMS we enjoy and so tragically take for granted so often.
We assume these freedoms every day we live. We assume we will live safely, and our family and friends will be safe with us. We assume we will not be under the power of any man or woman, we will not live under any coercion or constraint, but have the full range of choices for our lives at all times.
We assume those freedoms, so incredibly articulated in our Constitution, will be at work in America every day, without really knowing or understanding what those freedoms are and how they are protected and applied.
The vast majority of Americans do not know the Constitution, its 28 Amendments, and the FREEDOMS contained therein. WE ASSUME! We assume dangerously, for the more we assume and the less we know, the more these precious freedoms are in danger. We pay no attention to Former President Ronald Regan who told us clearly the loss of these freedoms is only one generation away, and, when these freedoms are lost, they are lost forever, FOREVER!
Nevertheless, WE THE PEOPLE go on with our tragic assumptions, and a lack of appreciation for and understanding of what defines America. Perhaps more importantly, we fail to teach our children American history, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, and everything about America which makes it different from and better than any nation in the history of mankind.
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THIS GREAT COUNTRY IS ONE-OF-A-KIND. So many of us do not do our share of protecting these rights, privileges, and freedoms which we have every day, which so much of the world does not.
We live in America and exercise its precious rights and freedoms, but so often without understanding and being responsible for the DUTIES which accompany these precious rights. We owe allegiance to the flag of America. We owe it time, protection, championing, and, if necessary, our very lives, so we can discharge our duties as privileged citizens and, if necessary, as Jefferson said, offer our blood in sacrifice so the tree of liberty can be protected and refreshed.
WE THE PEOPLE worship as we please, or not at all, as it says in the First Amendment to the Constitution. We speak freely and say what we please, without fear of retribution or government intervention, protected by the First Amendment. We print, text, and read whatever we wish, protected by the First Amendment. We have the right of assembly, for Christians the church, and the right to petition our government, to complain, protest, and otherwise be active in politics, fully protected by the First Amendment. Those rights, which we tragically assume and do so little to protect and defend, exist no where else in this world.
All men and all women are created equal, UNDER GOD, and under our Constitution. It is our duty to protect this equality any way we can and at all times. Equality guaranteed by our Constitution would exist everywhere in America, as Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. so well said, if WE THE PEOPLE only lived up to our very own Constitution. If we did, there would be no discrimination of any kind.
It is tragic indeed we need an incident like 9/11 in the fateful year 2001 to remind us of these freedoms, of our rights, even if this patriotic reminder existed for only a short time. FREEDOM, LIBERTY, AND JUSTICE FOR ALL are in our genes, part of our biological and political make-up. However, how tragic it is for us, WE THE PEOPLE, the privileged and favored Americans, to take so much of it for granted, a tragedy indeed.
We can protect ourselves with weapons, protected by the Second Amendment. We have a right to a fair trial by jury. Our constitution protects us against unreasonable searches and seizures. It provides for orderly and fair elections and transfer of political control. And so many others.
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Why, I wonder, do WE THE PEOPLE so tragically take all these freedoms for granted and do so little to protect and defend them, WHY? We watch our beloved democracy erode. Anti-Americans know this and seize the power we abnegate, exploiting our rights and freedoms. It is now even to the point where Anti-Americans are elected to high office (Senator Sanders and NYC Mayor Mamdani, to name only a few), who are openly socialistic, and many think communistic, with the ultimate goal of destroying or radically changing constitutional America and the lives you and I live.
Why do WE THE PEOPLE let this happen, WHY? What do you do, really do, what action do you take, no matter how busy you are, to protect this great country in which you are privileged to live? What exactly do you do, not talk, but do? What do you do on a daily basis to protect the life, liberty, and happiness which is promised to you by the Constitution and Declaration of Independence.
What do you do on a daily basis to protect and defend this one great nation UNDER GOD, which is a beacon on the hill, a light to the world, and one-of-a-kind in all of human history? This great country changes imperceptibly every day, EVERY DAY! When good men and women neglect the political arena and do nothing, the bad men and women take over, and the takeover has begun and will continue to its satanic conclusion as we do nothing, NOTHING TO PROTECT THIS GREAT COUNTRY!
Pastors and churches must step up, the curriculum of schools must change, the families in America must take the time, make the time, make it a priority, to teach the Constitution, the rights and privileges we all, and especially our children, enjoy. If not, in due course this America we know and love will change radically, as many, including me, think is coming soon.
Freedom, once lost, will be lost forever, FOREVER! Do not let it happen, my fellow citizens. If you love America, you are required to your duty, to do something, to take action, to be involved politically as you can every day, EVERY DAY! Do something if you love America, or the America you assume and take for granted will be taken over and it will be the end of all rights and freedoms WE THE PEOPLE now so tragically take for granted.
STEP UP, AMERICANS, AND DO SOMETHING TODAY AND EVERY DAY!
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August 20 MARIJUANA CANNABIS POT WEED
More Americans are using Marijuana daily then are smoking cigarettes.
More Americans are using Marijuana daily then are drinking alcohol of any kind.
Approximately 22 million Americans use marijuana on a daily basis, so says the SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION (SAMHSA). 22 million Americans! Every day!
By comparison, 20 million Americans smoke cigarettes (horrendous) and at least 17 million Americans consume alcohol on a daily basis. However, the larger and more disastrous figure is that some 44 million Americans use cannabis on a regular basis while 36 million Americans smoke cigarettes on a regular basis (not necessarily daily).
There has been a 21% increase in the DAILY USE of pot/weed from 2022 to 2025, driven by young adults aged 18-25 who made up 8.4 million of the regular cannabis users. What a horrible, frightening, potentially lifelong disastrous use of a potent drug, which so many think is really, for the most part, harmless. The reality is marijuana is a potent, brain-changing drug which, when overused, can have disastrous and lifelong horrendous effects on the body and brain of the user.
Amazingly, the Department of Justice recently re-classified medical cannabis (marijuana use for medical purposes) into the same category as Tylenol. Currently, there are 24 states in which the recreational use of marijuana is legalized, and more states are considering the same permissive behavior, while a total of 41 American states approve the use of medical cannabis for medicinal use!
This potent drug is here to stay.
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The newly grown marijuana now has a considerably more potent effect, a greater high, and a more addictive effect on the user. As a result, medical emergencies related to marijuana use have skyrocketed and rates of addiction have increased by 30% in recent years.
Teenagers who use cannabis more than double their chances of suffering from serious psychotic disorders, including bipolar conditions and schizophrenia. It is much easier for a young person, a teenager or one in their early 20s, to become hooked, truly addicted to the use of this extremely dangerous drug. This addiction, where the use of marijuana becomes an integral part of the user, can last a lifetime. Even if not addicted, the user can have a daily and constant NEED FOR WEED, or surely a very strong desire to smoke the marijuana joint. Want and need are simply lesser forms of addiction, and marijuana use then becomes part of the lifestyle of the user in a permanent way.
The current data on cannabis use should be a public health wake up call to government regulators, law makers, and certainly parents and adults, and all those who do not use marijuana in any form, to re-examine the drug, the potentially lethal drug, and re-consider regulation and rules for usage, and even the ban the use of cannabis where it may become necessary to do so. One cannabis expert said the following:
“MARIJUANA IS ON TRACK TO BECOME AMERICA’S #1 ADDICTION, AND WASHINGTON (AND THE STATES) IS LOOKING THE OTHER WAY.”
Yet another expert stated the following:
“THE ADDICTION INDUSTRY HAS ENGINEERED A PRODUCT THAT OUT-ADDICTS THE CIGARETTE, THE DEADLIEST CONSUMER PRODUCT IN AMERICAN HISTORY!”
More people now use marijuana every single day then smoke cigarettes every day. Almost 40% of all cannabis users are hooked, addicted, and our younger generation especially is being enrolled in the daily habit and use of marijuana before their brains are even fully developed. The drug can retard maturation of the brain or otherwise permanently damage this incredible organ of the human body for a lifetime. Marijuana is not the harmless plant the addiction industry has told us it is. It can be every bit as harmless as tobacco and the cigarette, the deadliest consumer product in American history.
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Marijuana users argue it is not as harmful or addictive as cocaine. That may be so, but that is no justification for allowing the unregulated and unfettered use of a drug dangerous in and of itself. Nor is it, these users say, nearly as addictive as crack cocaine. Certainly, they say, it is not as addictive as heroin in terms of daily usage, and the use of pot/weed can not be compared to the disastrous, legal effects of the new drug fentanyl, a killer drug in its own right. This may all be true, but again, it can not begin to justify the use of a drug which is potentially inherently dangerous in and of itself.
Marijuana users, scrambling for justification of use of the drug, claim that most Americans, virtually all, use drugs of some kind or another every day, such as with the use of caffeine in coffee, tea, and other products. Americans need that, pot justifiers say. Americans also need OVER THE COUNTER (OTC) drugs, such as aspirin, Advil, and even vitamins, just like the need to smoke pot. Americans use tobacco in some form, or drink alcohol in some form, virtually every day or on a regular basis, and they claim the recommendation that two glasses of wine each day may be good for cardiovascular health and issues can create a low form of addiction, even as they proclaim the so-called benefits of the use of medical marijuana. Pot users are determined to keep the use of this potent drug legal, so as to allow the usage of cannabis without criminal effects for recreational or medical use. The new reality is neither recreational nor medical use may be necessary, beneficial, or in any way justified.
The bottom line, my fellow Americans, is that, in my opinion at least, marijuana should not be used in any form, even to alleviate pain, for the side effects, the after effects, like oxycodone, can last lifelong and with really negative effects.
SAY NO TO POT!
What do you think?
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August 13 Christian Education
August is back to school month. The summer vacation ends and the work of education begins.
There is nothing more important in life than education. Scriptures admonish us as Believers to:
TRAIN UP A CHILD IN THE WAY IN WHICH HE/SHE SHOULD GO
AND WHEN OLDER, NOW GROWN, THE CHILD WILL NOT
DEPART FROM THOSE RIGHT WAYS.
So, the training begins again. From the youngest child in day school, to the oldest in graduate school, and the human being, ever learning and growing, continues to mature.
Study, real study, is work, hard work. There is nothing more important than developing the mind, learning how to think, reason, and separate right from wrong. An active, growing, learning mind is the greatest asset any human being can have. A mature mind can make intelligent decisions. The mature mind is hungry for wisdom, and views education, real education, as a lifelong endeavor, always in the process of learning and growing. The human mind, the brain, is a marvelous creation of God Almighty, and, in so many ways, is the finest asset of every human being. It must be protected, nourished, and challenged in so many ways. There can never be an end in the hunt for knowledge. Every human being can and must learn every day, EVERY DAY!
There is general education, state and federal sponsored and financed, our public education systems. Public education was once good, qualitative, and worthwhile. The schools, high schools and lower, and colleges, were centers of real education. The job of every teacher and professor was to teach, not lecture, or proselyte, or indoctrinate, much less to attempt to teach the student the critical matters of right and wrong. Real education centered on the 3 Rs, the full essence of the subject at hand, challenging the student to think, question, ask, and grow in the appreciation of the
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learning process. Classes and teachers were not biased, but rather centers for open dialogue, questioning, and differing points of view. How that has changed in the last several decades. So much of public education is now biased, liberal, woke, concerned more with matters such as DEI, transgenderism, the gay agenda, and more. Real education has taken a back seat, and, consequently, has become corrupted in so many states, and the education process has radically changed.
So then, it becomes necessary for any parent to think in terms of alternatives, alternatives to public and state sponsored education. One such excellent alternative is HOMESCHOOLING.
Homeschooling is very much on the rise. It is an excellent source of education, in many ways superior to public schools, offering the very same course instruction, but with controls, discipline, motivation, and personal attention 1-1. Wherever possible, it is an excellent alternative to public education.
Then there is the private school, generally superior in education, but very expensive. Although desirable in many ways, unless there is scholarship involved, it is generally financially out of reach of most parents.
Then there is Christian education, from the very youngest years all the way through the college years. There are excellent Christian educational institutions the country over. Not only are they qualitative in education in every way, but they introduce courses which are God-honoring and encourage and instruct the student in the Christian faith. They train the whole student, mentally, physically, and spiritually in the way in which that student should go, the right way, and, wherever possible, that is almost always the best education alternative.
It takes work, time, sacrifice, and desire to study and learn. Scripture tells us that if we study to show ourselves approved unto God and man, that we must become workmen and workwomen, wise in the ways of the world, but even more so in the ways of God Almighty and our Lord. Real education is motivated and fertilized by prayer and prospers with the guidance and motivation of the Holy Spirit. Students are challenged to set goals, have objectives, and, in addition to the basic knowledge of education, understand the CALLING which exists for every child and every student of the Living God. The Bible, Judea/Christian ethics, morality, history, and teachings are priorities and essentials. The training of
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Christian education and the leading and learning of the Holy Spirit become paramount.
At the same time, there is the teaching of American history, the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and a respect and love for the greatest country in the history of mankind, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Even as with Christian education, where there is freedom and forgiveness from sin and the devil, so there is an understanding and appreciation of the freedoms of this great country, and the duty of every citizen to protect and defend those freedoms.
And more. Perhaps the very best and lasting education occurs in the:
HOME.
The best teachers of all things are MOTHER AND FATHER. From birth, those two parents begin the training up of the child and, in that process, the child learns the fear of the Lord which is the beginning of knowledge and the fundamental tenants of the Christian faith. Perhaps the greatest parental teachings are not the speech, lecture, or talk of the parent, but the ability of the parent to LISTEN to the son or daughter, to dialogue, to respect, to encourage fellowship, relationship, and love. There is nothing more important or more lasting than a loving family experience, nothing. That is the very center, the heart and soul of real and lasting education. If man and woman become father and mother, then it is their duty to:
TRAIN UP THAT CHILD IN THE WAYS OF THE LORD.
That training should always be a priority in terms of time, quality, and loving relationship, always. Nothing is more important than education, the right education, NOTHING! The hunger and desire for knowledge and wisdom should be instilled and encouraged in every child, so that, as they grow old, they will not depart from that priority in life, which is to never, never cease to learn and mentally grow. Only then can every child become adult, be:
ALL, ALL HE OR SHE CAN BE!
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July 31 The Presbyterians
I used to be a member of the Presbyterian Church, way back when in my early years. The church I attended was truly Christian, Biblically based, not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and where the love of God was evident. It offered God-honoring music, sincere prayer, and the true Biblical fellowship of the Saints. That was Presbyterian then, but now comes the PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USA (PCUSA), a church entirely different than the one before.
The PCUSA, Cherokee Presbytery, the church which covers the city of Atlanta and much of North Georgia, now goes public with the resolution in favor of all transgender procedures, including that of minors, in the very state, Georgia, which, along with 27 other states, has enacted laws to protect minors from gender transition procedures. The PCUSA went public supporting all things transgender, as it had before with the LGBTQ agenda. The so-called GENDER AND SEXUALITY JUSTICE COMMITTEE approved the church resolution by a vote of 50-10 and the General Assembly in plenary session approached the final draft 441-30 (unbelievable).
The vote and the affirmation of transgenderism went entirely against Biblical teaching and Scripture generally, yet this southern branch of the PCUSA defied Scripture and went its own way.
This PCUSA committee and its General Assembly said it was more concerned with the wellbeing of many transgender, non-binary, and gender-expansive people who experience symptoms of Gender Dysphoria or distress that result in having one’s general identity not match their sex assigned at birth. All of that was more important than anything the Bible, the Word of God, had to say. No matter to these Presbyterians that the international medical consensus has become far more cautious about transgenderism, and many countries, such as the United Kingdom, have sharply restricted the use of puberty blockers for children, and medical authorities have concluded the evidence supporting these major interventions is far weaker than previously claimed.
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It seems obvious that the PCUSA ignores and never even seriously considered Biblical teaching on human sexually as this amendment was passed. Ignored by them was Scripture, which indicates clearly God created man in His own image. Genesis clearly indicates God made human beings:
MALE AND FEMALE (GENESIS 1:27).
Our Lord Jesus Christ then cites this creation principle as:
UNCHANGING TRUTH.
The PCUSA utterly ignored the teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ who affirmed the Genesis account of creation in Matthew 19:4-6. The God of the Universe made them male and female.
Sex was not assigned at birth, nor was gender identity a matter for human beings to decide, but only for God to decide.
My fellow Christians, once any individual, or especially a church, ceases to treat Scripture as final authority, the church, its beliefs and teachings, fall prey to the broader cultural revolution surrounding sex and gender.
Dr. David Closson, Director of the Center for Biblical Worldview at the Family Research Council, indicates this was not an isolated decision, but the fruit of years of theological compromise.
The PCUSA has been moving away from historic Christian orthodoxy for decades, says Closson. This denomination had abandoned Biblical teaching on marriage and sexuality, redefined sexual ethics, and repeatedly rejected the clear authority of Scripture on issues of human identity, says Closson.
In short, the radical, anti-Biblical principles and precepts of the current culture prevail, and the Bible, SCRIPTURE, and the teachings of our Lord matter not at all with regard to this issue.
The escalation of the PCUSA’s LGBTQ and transgender agendas coincides with an ongoing decline in its membership, and rightly so. In 2025, PCUSA had only 1 million members, a decline in membership from 3.1 million members when PCUSA was formed in 1983.
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That is so, David Closson believes, because these Presbyterians have abandoned Christian orthodoxy to follow the culture, move in theological thinking and belief to the Left, the far Left, and, at the same time, are undermining their own reason for existence. When a Christian institution abandons Christian teachings and the Bible, and the precious and unique Gospel of Jesus Christ, it loses its uniquely compelling character and really becomes, as Closson says, nothing more than a social club. Small wonder so many members consider this far-Left move by PCUSA has created a church unworthy of participation and involvement.
Our beloved Bible teaches us our God, the Triune God whom we believe in, love, and respect, created humanity male and female, none other, and our bodies are gifts to be received rather than obstacles to be overcome. True human understanding does not result in the remaking of ourselves, the change in our sexual identity according to our own desires, but in conforming our lives to Gods wise and loving design. When we are born either male or female, it is what God intended. Let no man or woman seek to change this Divine Decision. It matters not what we want, it only matters what HE wants and decides.
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July 02 Freedom!
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June 24 The Declaration of Independece
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
What a great way to address the King of England, who obviously disagreed. Unfortunately, this strong assertion of a natural right left out two things. First, all men and all women are created equal. Secondly, the Founding Fathers, brilliant as they were, conveniently seemed to forget the fact that slavery, the enslavement of Black men and women, existed in the colonies, and those men and women were surely not equal. But the target, the enemy was the King, and these men, 56 of them from 13 different colonies, were determined to live free and sever all ties with Great Britain.
At the beginning of the Declaration of Independence, a masterful political document constructed by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, the 56 Founding Fathers made this statement:
WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT, THAT ALL MEN ARE
CREATED EQUAL, THAT THEY ARE ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR WITH CERTAIN INALIENABLE RIGHTS, THAT AMONG THESE ARE LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.
These 56 men were determined to confront the King of England with the fact that there were UNALIENABLE RIGHTS for all mankind, ignored by Great Britain, but those rights were the natural rights which were given by God, the Founders called Him the Creator, and those unalienable rights could not be changed, reduced, or eliminated in any way. Those rights were part of the birthing process of all men and all women. They are not derived from or given from government, but, one could say, they were part of the DNA of every human being. They were determined, these 56 men, that the 13 colonies and all who came thereafter would enjoy those rights and privileges including, and among others, Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
ALL should be able to live life as they choose, accumulate their fortunes, and enjoy the fruits of their labors and earnings, without oppressive taxation or forfeiture of property or monies. ALL should be entitled to everything which LIBERTY entails, including all the rights and freedoms which were later (1787) embodied in the Constitution of the United States, that great document of 1789. ALL are entitled to the Pursuit of Happiness, however that individual defines happiness, and all such rights and privileges are unconditional with one exception. That is, that those rights can not turn from freedoms to mere licenses with respect to behavior and can not diminish or conflict the rights of others. No one has rights superior to those of anyone else.
Without the freedoms of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, there can be no freedom of religion (The First Amendment). Those freedoms are essential to the expression, practice, and belief of true religion. And, of course, they are essential, foundational, to the great First Amendment rights of freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of petition, and freedom of assembly, more basic rights, birthing rights and never conveyed or instituted by government itself.
11 years later, in 1787, these 56 Founders and their successors, the authors of the Declaration of Independence, met once again in Philadelphia, and in 1787 began the drafting of the Constitution of the United States which was issued as a formal document in 1789. The broad and incredible language of the Constitution is illuminated by the principles set forth in the Declaration. The seminal passage in the Declaration is so very important:
WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT.
The Declaration of these truths and these rights came from the long tradition of natural law, which holds that there is a “higher law” of right and wrong from which human law should be derived. Therefore, government, any government, would be instituted with a primary purpose to SECURE THOSE RIGHTS, those natural rights, those unalienable rights, those self-evident rights, chief of which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
How unfortunate today that so many of those rights, privileges, and truths, are taken for granted, assumed, unappreciated. Perhaps they never will be fully understood or appreciated until such time as they are taken away. Those 56 men, those authors of the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, told the 13 colonies and the world at large at the end of the document this very sacred oath:
AND FOR THE SUPPORT OF THIS DECLARATION, WITH A FIRM RELIANCE ON
THE PROTECTION OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE, WE MUTUALY PLEDGE TO EACH OTHER OUR LIVES, OUR FORTUNES, AND OUR SACRED HONOR.
These 56 men were so determined to effectuate the freedom of the colonies, the freedoms in which they believed for them and all mankind, the freedom from Great Britain and the freedom among many others to freely pursue life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. They pledged their lives for that purpose. They were willing to die, if necessary, to achieve these goals. They were willing to give up everything, their fortunes, their property, anything and everything if necessary. And most importantly, perhaps, as a moment of honor, they would never deviate in any way from this FREEDOM MISSION. That was real patriotism. How wonderful it would be if that were, once again, to be the pledge, the oath, the statement of the sacred honor of close to 400 million Americans, the privileged people who live in and enjoy the fruits and blessings of this great country. The day may come, the day may be near, when we who love freedom will need indeed to give our lives, our fortunes, and all we have for the freedoms we so richly enjoy.
Thank you, America, and God Bless America!
12 min
June 01 Christianity in America - The Denominations
Surveys indicate Christianity in America is on the grow. The surveys also indicate the growth is occurring among Gen-Z. So then, where is this spiritual growth actually occurring?
For sure, it is not happening among the old, staid denominations where the church, for the most part, continues to be traditional, ritual, predictable, and in the words of one, boring. Renewal and revival of Christianity in America is coming primarily from non-denominational churches and spirit-filled Pentecostal movements. Those growth churches are offering experiential expressions of faith, real Biblical experiences different from and better than the traditional American protestant denominations. At one time, non-denominational Christian churches consisted of approximately 5% of American protestants (1972). Today, those growing non-denominational churches comprise of roughly 30% of all such protestant churches.
Why is such growth occurring, wondered the pundits and especially the non-believers. The answer is simple. Those churches function under the direction and influence of the Holy Spirit where the real, vital, saving, forgiving Gospel of Jesus Christ is believed and preached.
Pentecostal churches are growing. The Assemblies of God, among the many spirit-filled churches reported growth in:
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CHURCH SERVICE ATTENDANCE
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NEW MEMBERSHIP
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CONVERSIONS AND SAVING EXPERIENCES
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BAPTISMS
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THE BUILDING OF NEW CHURCHES
So many people, including the young from Gen-Z, want the real Christianity or nothing at all. Spirit-filled Pentecostal movements offer Christian reality, even as so many churches in denominations turn woke, liberal, social, even political in emphasis and so often replace the Gospel with social agendas.
The church should be where the real Gospel is preached, where real spirit-led worship occurs, and where the soul is satisfied and blessed. Holiness and Pentecostal churches reported at least 4% growth in all the above categories, and these non-denominational churches far outperformed the old-line denominational churches. These non-denominational churches are “functionally charismatic” even if they do not describe themselves as Pentecostal. They do not belong to Assemblies of God or THE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST, or foursquare, but their worship styles and theology clearly emphasize expressive worship, spiritual gifts, and direct encounters with God. The real Gospel, the Holy-Spirit-led worship characterizes the beliefs and the worship services of these growing non-denominational Christian churches.
In years past, surveys indicate the younger generations (Gen-Z and more) were indifferent and turned off by Christianity and Christian worship. This may have been the case, but then came the growth of these non-denominational, spirit-filled, spiritually-experiential Christian churches, and therefore membership and involvement dramatically increased.
The surveys indicate this younger, non-denominational church-goer and worshipper was significantly more diverse than many of the membership in the historic and traditional protestant denomination. These surveys indicated only 60% of the new non-denominational church worshippers where white. Many of the new worshippers were Hispanic, African American, or even Asian. This new spirit-filled church was truly the right example of diversity in race and ethnicity, equity and equality among all men and women in worship, and the inclusion of all (DEI) in worship led by the Holy Spirit, belief in and the preaching of the real Gospel, and where the Bible ruled.
People today are hungry for the real Gospel, the real worship experience, for real Bible teaching. The real Gospel would have us as believers rejoice, be glad, be happy, be exuberant in our faith. The real Gospel, as Jesus said, would have us live life abundantly, emotionally, lovingly. These spirit-filled non-denominational churches offer this spiritual reality and more.
The growth in non-denominational churches was incredible. In 2010, there were some 35,000 such churches and congregations. Today, there are 44,000 non-denominational church congregations in America, with an estimated 21 million members and worshipers. 21 MILLION soul-satisfied congregants and adherents. PRAISE THE LORD!
Churches exist for one reason only: to proclaim Biblical truth, the real Gospel, the salvation experience, the forgiveness and reconciliation to God the Father, and to worship, all of which allow for direct encounters with the very God and the Son, Jesus Christ. These churches offer this and everything real in Scripture, which is why they are growing, and the growth has only just begun.
PRAISE THE LORD!
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