In Deuteronomy chapters 27 – 30.  God through Moses sets up two very distinct lists of blessings and curses.  Blessings that come from loving and serving the living God and curses that come from falling away from God and His commands.  Listen to how Moses sums up the blessings and curse in Deuteronomy 30:11-20.  “Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach.  It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, “Who will ascend into...

  “The disciples went and woke him, saying, “Master, Master, we’re going to drown!”  He got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waters; the storm subsided, and all was calm.  ”Where is your faith?”  he asked his disciples.”  Luke 8:24       Upside down and inside out – that is how the world seems to be operating during these difficult days.  Countries are in turmoil.  Riots seem to be spreading faster than the common cold.  For...

     We must demand better moral leadership from both of our major political parties.  More and more people are complaining that the parties are corrupt.  There is constant temptation for all candidates and public officeholders to compromise and make politically expedient decisions.  We have forced them into this position because we have not demanded decisions based on moral principles, decisions that lie within the area of the American idea.  Moral leadership will come in politics when...

    Let me quote Somerset Maugham in Strictly Personal, He says, “If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony is that if it is comfort or money that it values more it will lose that too.”   I want to add that if it is security or compromised peace that we value more, we will lose them both – together with our freedom.  With freedom enthroned, all can be achieved.  With freedom dethroned, all will be taken away from us: peace,...

Below is a continued discourse from the book “Speaking up for Freedom” written by John P. Steiner    We must be clear-eyed, stout-hearted, full of faith and willing to sacrifice all except our freedom.  We must be full of knowledge of how to remain free and accept that stern but satisfying discipline.    For we are the inheritors of the benefits secured by our forefathers.  We own the greatest political documents, The Constitution and The Bill of Rights.   We have profited...