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5 Steps to Voting in the 2024 General Election
How should Christians go about voting in the 2024 General Election?
Your Christian Roadmap to Voting in Runoff Elections
How should Christians go about voting in Runoff Elections?
Your Christian Roadmap to the 2024 Primary Elections
How should Christians go about voting in the 2024 Primary Elections?
Your Christian Roadmap to the 2023 Virginia Elections
How should Christians go about voting in the General Election in Virginia?
Your CHRISTIAN Guide to VOTE in the 2022 Texas Primary Runoff
How should Christians go about voting in the Texas Primary Runoff Election? Check out our voter guide to find out.
Your CHRISTIAN Guide to VOTE in the 2022 Pennsylvania Primary
How should Christians go about voting in a Primary Election in Pennsylvania? Check out our voter guide to find out.
Your CHRISTIAN Guide to VOTE in the 2022 Texas Primary
How should Christians go about voting in a Primary Election? Check out our voter guide to find out.
Why the Founders Established the Electoral College
Over the last decade there has been heightened debate about the importance of the Electoral College. Because of increasingly close elections and several elections in recent memory…
Is Socialism Biblical?
God ordained three institutions, the Family, the Government, and the Church, and gave them distinct roles. In particular, the Church was given the duty to provide charity to the poor (not the government)…
Is Socialism Constitutional?
Socialism seems to be popular among young voters today, even among those who call themselves Christian. In the 2016 and 2020 elections avowed Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders came close to…
Census 2020 – Much More Than You Thought
We know the story in Mark 2:1“In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world” and in verse 3 it says, “And everyone went to his own town to register”.
Our Constitution requires a census every ten years found in Article I, Section 2 which states “Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct.”
Your CHRISTIAN Guide to VOTE in the TX Primary
How should Christians go about voting in a Primary Election? Check out our voter guide to find out.
FROM PRAYER TO ENGAGEMENT: Political Parties - Should Christians Get Involved With Them?
This is the second blog post in our ongoing educational series, “FROM PRAYER TO ENGAGEMENT: EDUCATING CHRISTIANS ABOUT THE POLITICAL PROCESS”
What is a Political Party?
A political party is an organizational tool that is used to put forth ideas and to move agendas forward. Ordinary people join together in political parties to better define themselves in relation to the voting electorate and to make their message clear.
The people within the parties connect around issues, belief systems, and even personalities—leaders or candidates. When committed Christians are involved in a political party…
Vote & Engage: Romans 13 and the 3 Boxes of Liberty
Romans 13 commands Christians to be subject to the governing authorities.
Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves.
(Romans 13: 1-2).
This passage is frequently invoked by pastors and laymen alike as an excuse to avoid civic and political activity. But what is the responsibility of an individual citizen of a republic when the government becomes oppressive?
FROM PRAYER TO ENGAGEMENT: Party Conventions 101
This is the first blog post in our new educational series, “FROM PRAYER TO ENGAGEMENT: EDUCATING CHRISTIANS ABOUT THE POLITICAL PROCESS”
“I want to get involved in my party of choice, but I don’t know where to start.”
Is this something you’ve thought about or talked about with friends or family? There are various ways to be involved in your party like volunteering on campaigns or joining a local political club, but one very effective and satisfying way is through the convention process…