I have been corresponding on the net with a Reformed Pastor who supports our military. My attempts to discuss his position from a Biblical perspective have been stymied by his assertion that discussions of this sort are always buttressed by claims that cannot be proven. He is correct; often what seems palpable to one person bears no witness to another. I countered with the claim that there are principles involved in the conduct of our international affairs that should be evaluated by God’s Commandments. So far we are at loggerheads. (Update: I sent him Fred Reed’s column and he angrily wrote “stop sending this kind of garbage”.)

God’s earth is home to hot and cold, light and dark, calm and turbulent, land and water, gases and substances, earth and sky. It is subject to creatures made in His image that are White, Black, Tan, Yellow, and Red...

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With the publication of Rushdoony's Institutes of Biblical Law, a revolution took place in Western Christian theology. For the first time in over three hundred years, a Christian scholar has taken seriously the cultural mandate and provided the Church with a consistent, theological basis for social theory. Revered by some, despised by others, Rushdoony, building on the seminal philosophical work of Van Til, has rewritten the concept of a truly Christian civilization. By rejecting pluralism, pietism and antinomian heresies, Rushdoony and his followers have provided the means of rescuing Christendom from the horrors of an epistemoligcally self conscious Humanism.

However, Christian Reconstructionism though hardly having been debated, has largely been rejected by Reformed churches...

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“Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s (Matt. 22:21). Secularists and strict separationists like to point to this verse to show that even Jesus opposed mixing religion and politics. We don’t live under Caesar, and even if we did, Caesar would be bound to follow God’s limitations on his civil office because God’s image is stamped on him. Jesus would have told Caesar, “Render unto God the things that are God’s.”

Many modern civil governments contend that they rule at no one’s discretion. Their legitimacy is self-imposed. It’s no wonder that secularists attack any suggestion that might lead to the truth civil government is under God’s sovereign rule and the freedoms of citizens are God-ordained and not a gift from the State. In a 1982 message, Francis Schaeffer made the following point:

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We are able to present a daily testimony for Jesus because the same “power which God the Father worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places,” 94 is currently at work in us!

This is how we can “walk in newness of life,” 95 and “bear much fruit.” 96

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2.10

Even though a person may talk a godly game, his behavior will sooner or later demonstrate whether he is a Christian because in every decision we make, we are either following God’s will, or Satan’s will. Jesus puts it this way:

"He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich (Proverbs 10:4)."

"The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute (Proverbs 12:24)."

For some of you the title of this article may be misleading, especially in this age where rights trump responsibilities, the individual stands in the shadow of the collective, and freedom of speech and religion bows to political correctness. If a victim of public education, some may even think that this is a quote from America's historic Declaration of Independence. Sadly, they would be mistaken. If I was to give this phrase a designation, it would have to be this generation's call for a new Declaration to fit our modern Nanny State.

Luke 6:27-38

“Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment.”

Located in the very heart of modern-day Germany, in the province of Hesse, is a small humble town of only 15,000 inhabitants. In the middle of that town stands an imposing old cathedral built in the 12th-14th centuries of reddish stone. Situated in front of that cathedral is the statue of a man in a monk’s garb on a stump of a freshly felled oak, with a huge Saxon ax in his hand.

The humble town is Fritzlar, called Gaesmere in ancient times. It is known in Germany as the birthplace of two beginnings: Here began the Christianization of Germany, and here’s where the German Empire was born as a political entity. The statue is that of the Anglo-Saxon monk and missionary Wynfrith, also known as St. Boniface, the patron saint of Germany and the Netherlands. And the stump is the remains of the tree that belonged to the highest German god, the Oak of Thor. The Oak of Thor was the center of the pagan religion of the local tribe of the Hessians, and the most pagan Germans at the time.

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[Taken from "The Great Evangelical Disaster"]

… What really matters? What is it that matters so much in my life and in your life that it sets the priorities for everything we do? Our Lord Jesus was asked essentially this same question and his reply was:

“‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” (Matthew 22:37-40)

Here is what really matters – to love the Lord our God, to love his Son, and to know him personally as our Savior. And if we love him, to do the things that please him; simultaneously to show forth his character of holiness and love in our lives; to be faithful to his truth; to walk day by day with the living Christ; to live a life of prayer.

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He also told them a parable: "Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit? A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,' when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother's eye. (Luk 6:39-42)

After calling us to a heavenly standard of living, Jesus shows the absurdity of leading others while being blind. To correct this blindness takes more than mere knowledge, it takes a transformed life. It’s not enough to know what is right, we must live out what is right if we are to lead others on the right path.