The United States of America spends over $1.8 trillion each year on welfare programs and public education systems that consign millions of people to lifetimes of ignorance and poverty, provide substandard housing and medical care, separate fathers from their families, and lead many young black men to prison or an early death. The federal government…
Category: Liberty
Christian Liberty and Civil Government
Christian Liberty Ever since the fall of man in the garden, natural man has been a slave to sin: None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one. (Romans 3:10-12 ESV) Jesus Christ came…
Why I Will Vote for Trump in 2020
In the days leading up to the 2016 presidential election, I shared with anyone who would listen why I wasn’t going to vote for Donald Trump. The primary reason for my decision was that I wasn’t sure the country would be better off with Trump as president than it would be with Hillary. I admitted…
Liberty Is an Anti-Darwinian Concept
The traditional view of creation that has been held almost unanimously throughout church history is that creation took place over six 24 hour days. Augustine seems to have believed instead in instantaneous creation, but no prominent members of the church believed in a creation scenario that allowed for the earth to be millions or billions of…
Economics 101: Image
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” – Genesis 1:26 God thinks and acts, and does so with purpose: “God created the heavens and the earth.” – Genesis 1:1 ESV “God sent me before you to preserve life.” Genesis 45:5 ESV “For God so loved the world, that he…
Bringing Sanity to Fallen World: Idaho Health Care Edition
Idaho appears the national leader now in bringing sanity to our health care system. Not that you would know it from the many complaints about what they are doing, as seen in the article in The New York Times: Some groups representing patients, including the American Heart Association, the American Diabetes Association and the lobbying…
Economics 101: Work
Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion … Genesis 1:28 Man was created to work. The objective of that work, as seen in the cultural mandate of Genesis 1:28, was to prepare the world as a dwelling place for God and man. God provided the Garden of Eden…
How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes by Peter and Andrew Schiff
Peter and Andrew Schiff wrote How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes based on the book by their father, Irwin, How an Economy Grows and Why It Doesn’t. It combines simple explanations and cartoon-like illustrations on almost every page to lay out clearly the effects of government intervention in the market. It begins with…
Christian Economics 101
Economics often gets overlooked by Christians. From one perspective, this makes sense. Economics is not the gospel. Understanding biblical economics won’t save our souls. On the other hand, economics is at the very heart of the Christian life. God commanded Adam and Eve to “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it,…
Christian Liberty and Economic Freedom
Christ came to set us free from the bondage of our sin: The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison…