Food for thought. If the above doesn’t work, please click here: Rep. Scott Rigell on National Day of Prayer
By Alan Caruba ~ A very wise cleric once said to me, “Sometimes the answer to your prayer is no.” For someone who has not stepped into a house of worship for a very long time, except to attend the occasional funeral, it may seem inappropriate for me to be writing about prayer, but the […]
By Rebecca Hagelin In honor of Christmas, I have set aside my normal format for this column in order to ask you a question: Do you believe in miracles? Marie Fiala certainly does. Her family experienced God’s power at one of the darkest moments of their lives. Marie, an attorney, and her husband Kris, a […]
By Rebecca Hagelin Culture Challenge of the Week: Spiritual Indifference “I don’t take my children to church,” the young woman said. “I’ll let them choose for themselves what to believe in, when they’re older.” Her casual approach to her children’s religious involvement will surely affect her children’s lives. Even more so, decisions like hers have […]
email from The Voice of the Martyrs I am willing to go to prison for my faith. But please, God, take care of my family.” — Recent prayer of Salavat, a formerly imprisoned pastor from Uzbekistan When Salavat was in prison for his faith, his family had no food. Some of the local Christians were […]
The Patriot Post Brief The Foundation “Nothing so strongly impels a man to regard the interest of his constituents, as the certainty of returning to the general mass of the people, from whence he was taken, where he must participate in their burdens.” –George Mason Political Futures The Specter of a big loss Tuesday “Big […]
By Mark Alexander “To the distinguished Character of Patriot, it should be our highest Glory to add the more distinguished Character of Christian. The signal Instances of providential Goodness which we have experienced and which have now almost crowned our labours with complete Success, demand from us in a peculiar manner the warmest returns of […]
AssociatedPress — April 09, 2010 — Grieving relatives began burying victims of the Upper Big Branch coal mine disaster Friday. More than 300 people packed a church for the funeral of Benny Willingham, a 61-year-old miner who was five weeks from retiring when he died. See previous video: W.VA. Rescue Crews Forced to Retreat From […]
By Mark Alexander “It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors.” –George Washington The Resurrection of Jesus Christ, appropriately celebrated in our country each year as the dormant winter season yields […]
Alexander’s Essay “These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.” –Thomas Paine We call the primary gathering place in our home “the […]
Alexander’s Essay — 13 August 2009 “Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties, and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different orders […]
William J Federer’s American Minute. Beginning APRIL 25, 1789, every session of the U.S. Senate has opened with prayer. This was a continuation of the Continental Congress’ practice during the Revolution, as Franklin remarked in 1787: “In the beginning of the Contest with Great Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayer […]
AMERICA AND CHRISTIANITY CHRISTIAN SELF-GOVERNMENT AND THE HAND OF GOD IN AMERICAN HISTORY Address given in 1971 by Verna M. Hall Reprinted from The Journal of the Foundation for American Christian Education Vol. VI Two hundred years ago, in 1771, the American colonies were in the midst of the ten-year period immediately preceding the War […]
My good friend Texas Fred asked me to help get the word out on this. If you can help, or know of anyone who can, please do so. The Gift of Life December 3rd, 2008 (1 hour ago) . by TexasFred This is posted at the request of Concerned Citizen at Judging Truth, please read […]
THE FOUNDATION “Go on, then, in your generous enterprise with gratitude to Heaven for past success, and confidence of it in the future. For my own part, I ask no greater blessing than to share with you the common danger and common glory … that these American States may never cease to be free and […]
Leslie Lynch King, Jr., born JULY 14, 1913, became the 38th President of the United States. Renamed by his stepfather, he was the only Eagle Scout to be President. He attended the University of Michigan on a football scholarship, graduated from Yale Law School and served in the Navy during World War II.
May 3, 2012 by papundits
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