We ask that liberty be given to our people to go their way in the future under the sign of the Cross of Christ, in order that our grandsons may not curse their elders on the ground that their elders left them a state on earth that closed to them the Kingdom of God.
Christianity is suffering from the Walmart syndrome. Churches compete. The church at large is no longer a cohesive unit. Not too long ago, Catholic and Protestant denominations shared core moral beliefs. While no one was paying attention, liberalism crept into the church.
It has been said that life is a gamble. Perhaps this thought is best illustrated by the thought of how many times have you asked someone what are the odds of this or that happening. One of the first examples used in teaching statistics is what’s the probability of a coin tossed in the air coming up heads?
The right of a sovereign ruler to grant a full and unconditional pardon is practically as old as recorded history. The framers of the Constitution brought the concept of pardons with them from England, which adapted the idea from Roman tradition
The mythical average citizen probably believes that the universe is under the perpetual superintendence of uncontrollable forces. And that the hallucinating social changes currently occurring – and of which he is sometimes the victim – are akin to a force of nature.
As an autistic person, I struggle to make connections. I did not communicate much as a young child and only barely as an adolescent. Even now, my thoughts exist independent of language.
In the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and county and invoked the God of Battles, beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpouring of fervid eloquence which moved every listener. It was indeed a glad and gracious time, and the half-dozen rash spirits that ventured to disapprove of the war and cast a doubt upon its righteousness straightway got such a stern and angry warning that for their personal safety’s sake they quickly shrank out of sight and offended no more in that way.
He’s been my companion for 8 or 9 years. For the last 18 months, I figured he had about another week or so. But he just keeps coming back. He’s got a lot of guts and a strong will to live although his life is closing in quickly now and mostly he sleeps and rests.
This is about a modern man, one of us, he was not a scrooge, he was a kind, decent, mostly good man, generous to his family, upright in his dealings with others. But he did not believe in all that incarnation stuff that the Churches proclaim at Christmas time.
In 1997, Hank H. Hanegraaff, president of the Christian Research Institute (which was founded by the late Dr. Walter Martin), published a critique on some of the trends in Christianity entitled Christianity in Crisis. The crux of the book deals with several contemporary Christian doctrines that are foreign to the “historical” church.