Christian Values

This really sums it up.

For years, we have been told that Christian values are the problem. They are too restrictive, too old fashioned, too judgmental, too limiting. The message has been drilled into the culture over and over again, freedom means removing every moral boundary, every inherited standard, and every inconvenient truth.

But the cartoon gets to the heart of the issue.

“I don’t want Christian values limiting my freedom in life.”

Then comes the answer.

“Ok, we got rid of them.”

And suddenly the path to “life” is broken, crumbling, and dangerous.

That is the part so many people miss. Christian values were never meant to be a prison. They were guardrails. They were the foundation that helped build strong families, honest communities, personal responsibility, respect for life, respect for marriage, respect for children, and respect for something bigger than the self.

Take those away, and you do not get some enlightened utopia.

You get confusion.

You get broken homes.

You get people chasing freedom while becoming slaves to impulse, ideology, government dependency, and cultural insanity.

The left has spent decades mocking the very values that held society together, then acts shocked when the results show up in the streets, schools, courts, and homes.

They wanted a culture without judgment, then wondered why standards disappeared.

They wanted freedom without responsibility, then wondered why chaos followed.

They wanted life without the values that protect life, then wondered why everything started falling apart.

That does not mean every Christian is perfect. It does not mean every church has always gotten everything right. But it does mean the basic moral framework that shaped this country mattered far more than our elites ever wanted to admit.

Maybe the “limits” were not the problem.

Maybe they were the only thing keeping the road from collapsing.

Great Awakening needed

It was intended from the very foundation that the US of A would be a Christian nation.  Our laws, from the outset, were based on the Holy Bible and perusals of the founders’ writings prove that to be a fact, much to the ACLU’s dismay, not to mention Freedom From Religion and other antichristian organizations.  Furthermore, it is only persons of high moral fiber who are supposed ot be permitted to be in positions of “public service” according to the founders.  It is not the (Anthony) Wieners and (Barney) Franks and the citizens are supposed to be watching and dictating to the government what its limits are while holding the politicians accountable for their actions.  Unfortunately, too many citizens have abdicated their watchdog responsibility and allowed amoral, even immoral, hotdogs to sneak in to those positions of power.  It is time to get busy and clean out all the slime from Washington, D.C.  We have the internet, for now, where we can bypass the biased media to get the word out and mobilizing.

“There has been a systematic attempt to mislead Christians by disinformation generated by anti-Christian writers who have obscured or denied the Christian nature of our heritage and civil government and law.” (Archie P. Jones, Ph.D., Foreword to Benjamin F. Morris’ The Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States, 1864, reprint 2007 by American Vision, Inc)  Back at the foundation of this nation, America, the people understood the lessons from the Holy Bible that civil government is used by God to work out His holy will in the lives of men and nations.

“Our forefathers in the faith did not retreat from involvement in society and politics.  They did not turn civil government, the making and enforcement, and adjudication of laws, over to Satan and those who serve him.” (Jones)  It was Christianity, not paganism or secularism which produced freedom and justice in the west and in America, it certainly wasn’t Islam.  “’There is nothing,’ says Webster, ‘we look for with more certainty than this principle, that Christianity is a part of the law of the land.  Everything declares this.  The generations which have gone before speak to it, and pronounce it from the tomb.’” (Morris, p 245)  “The statesmen of the Continental Congress, in their deliberations, officially recognized the Christian religion, and incorporated its principles into their legislative acts.” (Morris, p 245)

John Adams, in a letter to his wife describes the scene of the 1st Continental Congress “When the Congress first met, Mr. Cushing first made a motion that it should be opened with prayer.” (Morris, p246)  It was a non-sectarian, yet decidedly Christian, prayer which ended with “we ask in the name and through the merits of Jesus Christ, thy Son, our Savior. Amen!” (Morris, pp 249-250)  “The state papers of the Continental Congress were also full of the spirit and sentiments of the Christian system,” (Morris, p 46).  We have a great and Godly heritage in spite of what the ACLU and others of an anti-Christian mindset wish to profess and the documents are once again being brought out to the light of day for our studious perusal at this crucial point in time.  Crucial, because we most definitely need a new awakening similar to that which brought the United States into existence.

We desperately need a Great Awakening in this country and 2nd Chronicles 7:14 provides the recipe for it.

–Pastor Ward Clinton

God Bless President Trump

We’re biblically allowed to judge the actions of others.  We are to inspect the spiritual fruitfulness of one’s actions, deeds and words.  Trump isn’t perfect – nor are the rest of us – and he’s doing his best for the nation and the world.  I like his policies, and will continue to support any leader whose policies best represent my values as a Christian.  The DNC offers no such option, so we gotta deal with Trump for another 2½ years, and I’m okay with that.  He’s the PRESIDENT of the United States, not the PASTOR of the United States, and once a person acknowledges that fact it’s easier to deal with his social faux pas moments and the fact that he’s not a mature Christian.

Essence of Holiness

Always remember the essence of Christian holiness is simplicity and purity: one design, one desire: entire devotion to God. – John Wesley pastorwardclinton.com

Essence of Holiness

The Liberal’s Version of Jesus

Actually, God is loving and merciful but He is also just.

Christians who can’t or won’t call out sin will be among those to whom the Christ will say at the end of time, “I don’t know you…depart from Me.”

Choose Wisely

He who becomes a friend to the world’s ways becomes an enemy to Christ’s ways and people.  When you begin to love them, you begin to dislike Christ’s religion.  When you begin to worship money you cease to worship God.  When you begin to love the house of pleasure you begin to dislike the house of prayer. When you begin to love bad books you begin to lose a taste for the Bible.  When you seek irreligious associates you draw off steadily from intercourse with the people of God.  When the greedy lust of the world has eaten out a Christian conscience, when it has deadened the spiritual sense, when it has dry-rotted the whole heart, when it has banished The Christ and possessed the soul’s affections then the man is ready to completely to desert the Lord’s camp.  Actually he has deserted!

What is any person worth to the Church, or to God, when his heart is the property of Satan?  He may linger within the camp or even wear the uniform of a church member.  But when the bugle calls to action he is not in the ranks.  When a march of reform is ordered or a strife for God’s law is waged, he is calling for compromise or flat-out “missing.”  Therefore, when the final role call is announced, he won’t be there.

Matthew 7:21-23  Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Still, Jesus calls “Come unto Me,” therefore why would you resist Him?

–Pastor Ward Clinton

What are You? Why are you what you are?

Matthew 13:36-40  Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.  He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;  The field is the world; the good […]

What are You? Why are you what you are?

God’s Sovereignty

Calvinists like to say that if you have free will, especially if that is to the degree that you can reject salvation, then God is not sovereign. Scripture tells a very different story. We frequently see that God has, in His Sovereign capacity as Lord, created beings who are more than capable of disobedience. This is an ability we frequently display, to our OWN destruction. God is absolutely sovereign. Calvinists have no monopoly on knowing that fact. 

It is just that His sovereignty does not preclude our responsibility. Rather, because that is how He has decided things are, it is an expression of it.

Good Company

You are not just for the right or the left,  but for what is right over the wrong. 

Walk worthy of the Lord,  Jesus the Christ in all things — see Colossians 1:10

Holidays for the Military

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