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CITIES: School Board Elections – Are They Really Important?
If nothing is more important than the education of our children, you would think that voter turnout would be high for school board elections. Sadly, it is not. For example…
CITIES: Practical Ideas to Impact & Shine in Your City
Within the Church, we talk about being “salt and light” in our communities, taking God outside the walls of our churches, and bringing the “God solutions” to real world problems…but how do we practically do that?
CITIES: Choosing Candidates in Nonpartisan Races
With the average city in Texas only producing 1% to 8% voter turnout for a municipal election, believers in Jesus Christ can have even MORE of a voice than any other election…
Psalm 14 – Are There Any Who Understand and Seek God?
Let’s begin by stating the obvious as the Psalmist does. We are fools if we do not believe in God. It is more difficult to not believe in God than it is to believe in God…
Psalm 13 – Enlightened Eyes
We do, in a sense, choose God AFTER we hear the gospel – because God wants voluntary lovers, not slaves…
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)…
Psalm 12 - Idle vs. Pure Words
It can seem like we, as Christians, are always on the defense, worried about how our beliefs could be misinterpreted and our families and church communities could come under attack...
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…
Psalm 11 – If the Foundations are Destroyed?
Many days and hours are spent trying to silence Christians, keep us distracted, or dismantle our institutions. It is a fearful time where the “upright” need to seek God for wisdom even more than ever…
Psalm 10 – The Man of the Earth Will Oppress No More
Many times, we ask the question, why do bad things happen to good people? It is always the result of sin and evil in the world. This is the result of unrenewed minds to the Word of God acting out in the only way they know how…
I Saw the Lord (Part 3)
When we draw near to the Lord, this happens...we begin seeing the Lord’s heart for the world. We hear His heart cry…
Psalm 9 – Promises for the Wholehearted People of God
The overall vision of Psalm 9 is that God has a special plan for His people – those who seek Him, are dependent on Him and that pursue wholeheartedness, that they…
Psalm 8 – God Visited Us
Psalm 8 is a Messianic Psalm that prophesies Jesus’ birth and His dominion over everything in the heavens and on the earth. Even in these first 4 verses…
How Do We Replace the Heroes We are Losing?
Over the last six months – I have lost five friends who I consider to be GENERALS on the front lines of America’s battles - men who exemplified faithfulness, servanthood, leadership…
Psalm 7 – My Defense is of God
Psalm 7 is a meditation from David concerning the words of Cush – a Benjamite. Many Biblical scholars believe this was written during the reign of King Saul while David was…
I Saw the Lord (Part 2) – The Place of Seeing
To operate in anything supernatural, we have to live every day in the place Isaiah lived - described in Isaiah 6 - before the throne of God and before the glory of the Lord…
Election Integrity – Does It Matter?
Clearly God intends for us to select leaders who fear God and are truthful and honest. But how are we to do this? In the United States, a constitutional republic, elections are the principal means…
Psalm 6 – The Voice of My Weeping
Psalm 6 is the first real lament of David against the Lord and where his heart is consumed with thoughts of his enemies. He is depressed. We can feel the anxiety…
Psalm 5 – Heard by God, Joyful in Him
I am a morning person, so I know that those who are not may want to throw things at me as I teach through the first three verses of this Psalm…
Personal Prayer #3, Pray for Courage
In 2010, out of concern for the direction of our country, My wife Patti and I founded the Sachse Tea Party. On March 7, 2011 we received a notice from the IRS that we had been singled out…