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Richard Foster has said that “The Disciplines are best exercised in the midst of our relationships with our husband or wife, our brothers and sisters, our ...read more
Scripture: Romans 13:1-14
Tags: Disciplines General, Compassion
Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational
“Belly Up to the Bar?” Romans 13: 1-7: Key verse(s): 4a “For he is God’s servant to do you good.” About a decade ago an assembly of Christian leaders came up with this summary of what it means to be a Christian citizen: “It is impossible for a believer to be a good Christian and a bad citizen ...read more
Scripture: Romans 13:1-7
Tags: Men's Day
Denomination: Lutheran
Chaffing Under Authority How many of you are ‘rule-keepers’? When you see a rule do you try to do everything possible to not break it? How many of you are ‘rule-breakers’? When you’re faced with a rule, do you find yourself wanting to inwardly disregard it or outwardly disobey it? I was accused of ...read more
Scripture: Romans 13:1-2
Tags: Law And Gospel, Authority
The Impermanence of Democracy About 200 years ago, as the United States was beginning its experiment, Alexander Fraser Tytler wrote: “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public ...read more
Tags: Bondage, Politics
WASHINGTON AND MADISON ON GOD'S LAW James Madison, the primary author of the Constitution of the United States, said this: ’"We have staked the whole future of our new nation NOT upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the ...read more
Scripture: 1 Timothy 2:1-4, Romans 13:1
Tags: Independence Day
ANNA'S STORIES A thirty-four-year-old German woman named Anna Rosmus recently told the tragic story of what happened in her hometown in Germany during World War II. Speaking at Carson-Newman College in Tennessee, she told of growing up in Passau, Germany, years after the war. As a teenager, she ...read more
Tags: Church Purpose Of
God’s Voting Guide It is that time when Americans are given the opportunity (and responsibility) to vote for those who hold public offices. This privilege is given to us by God for it is He who raised this form of government in our country through our Founding Fathers. Many of them had a ...read more
Scripture: Romans 13:1
Tags: Patriotism
CHRISTIAN CONVICTION: ROGER WILLIAMS Roger Williams was a graduate of Cambridge University, where in order to receive his degree he was forced to sign articles declaring that the king was by right the head of the English Church, that worship according to the Book of Common Prayer and church ...read more
Tags: Christian Witness
STABILIZING THE LEANING TOWER OF PISA In the early nineties, the leaning Tower of Pisa began to lean too far. Seeing that the 180-foot-high tower would soon become dangerous, engineers designed a system to salvage the twelfth-century landmark by holding the lean constant. First the engineers ...read more
Tags: Government
THE MORAL BASIS OF GOVERNMENT Richard Halverson, present chaplain of the United States Senate, wrote: ``To be sure, men will abuse and misuse the institution of the State just as man because of sin has abused and misused every other institution in history including the Church of Jesus Christ, but ...read more
BUMPER STICKER CONSCIENCE This is a true story. I have a pastor friend in Alabama named Bill who was driving to speak at a church in another county and he was running late. He was driving about 20 miles over the speed limit, when suddenly he remembered he had a Christian bumper sticker on his car. ...read more
Tags: Conscience, Obey Authorities
DOES ONE VOTE MATTER???? Yes! Your ONE VOTE matters. Voter participation often suffers because of the generally accepted belief that “one vote really can’t make a difference.” Here is historical proof quite to the contrary! 1645: 1 VOTE gave control of England to Oliver Cromwell. 1649: 1 VOTE ...read more
Scripture: Romans 13:1-10
Tags: Citizenship, Government, Voting, Elections
Mans capacity for justice makes democracy possible. Mans capacity for injustice makes ...read more
Scripture: Romans 3:23, Romans 13:1-8
Tags: Sin, Justice
Denomination: Pentecostal
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