Part of what made America so great in the first place was Bible-oriented, Christian education. As one scholar (the late Dr. Donald S. Lutz of the University of Houston) once put it: All the founding fathers (including the few skeptics amongst them) “knew the Bible down to their fingertips.” Photo of the bridge in […]

Jimmy Carter helped put “born again” Christianity on the map in America. He made a big deal about his having accepted Jesus as his Savior and Lord. Many conservatives were disappointed with his governance, but no one could deny his consistent profession of faith. When the 100-year old former president’s funeral service was held in […]

Coral Ridge Ministries writes: Many people today believe that the founding fathers were men of the Enlightenment and, for the most part, not Christians. Furthermore, they believe that the founders intended America to be completely secular. As to the Enlightenment charge, the Enlightenment thinkers the founders quoted were men like Montesquieu, Sir William Blackstone, and […]

Topic: The George Washington Bible. George Washington was a man who read the Bible a great deal, as well as the 1662 Book of Common Prayer of the Anglican Church. George Washington’s favorite Bible verse came from Micah 4:4 in the Old Testament: “But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his […]

Irony of ironies. There was an attempt to ban the Bible from school libraries in a conservative state because of a law against risqué content in school books. The Mirror out of the UK reports: “A Texas school district has reportedly been forced to remove copies of the Bible after a new state law banned […]

Topic: Abortion vs. the Right to Life. Our founding fathers said that all people are created equal and have been endowed by our Creator with inalienable rights including the right to life. But 50 years of abortion rights in America have undermined that right. One would have thought that abortions in America would decrease after […]

Topic: A Case for the “Constitution Restoration Act.” The First Amendment to the Constitution begins, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” But beginning in 1947, the Supreme Court took an obscure letter from Thomas Jefferson that he had written to a group of Baptists in […]

Topic: The Shooting of the Insurance Executive in NYC. The founders said our nation would operate most effectively if the people were virtuous. But with the decline of religion, we’ve seen a rise in crime and immorality. In early December, a health care insurance CEO was gunned down on the cold streets of New York […]

With a new year upon us, when we consider new goals for the next 12 months, here’s a worthy ambition to pursue—to get closer to Christ. That resolution would put you in the company of a good number of America’s founders. When the great founding father Patrick Henry was dying, in his last Will and […]

Coral Ridge Ministries writes: Sometimes, great things are born out of a crisis. Such was the case of the United States Constitution. It was born out of an attempted insurrection.