The United States Today

“You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this the last best hope of man on Earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.” - Ronald Wilson Reagan, October 27, 1964

Are we the same people today as the Founding Fathers or the Patriots of Bunker Hill? It is important for us to live a life of service for our fellow citizens, our community and our country. And our Pastors today must be the same breed as those in the fabled “Black Regiment”, who fueled the fires of the American Revolution with their sermons against tyranny and injustice; and who fought in the ranks for freedom. We must remember that “we are the heirs of that first revolution”, and that we need to make sure that we uphold the values and memories of the great men who gave their lives to ensure our liberty. But would God, who so blessed the nation of Washington and Jefferson still want to bless us today?

“America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within” - Josef Stalin, Russian Dictator

Since our Nation's founding, there have been people who wish to weaken the United States of America for their own selfish reasons. These people want to make us forget our Christian Heritage and rewrite our early history to remove all references to God and Jesus Christ. They want to take away Christmas decorations, carols and Nativity scenes. They want to remove crosses from hilltops and prayers before high school football games. And they want to replace religion with a “secular dogma” that makes government the source of all of our rights and freedoms. This is important because, if our rights are “God-given”, then those rights can never be taken away from us. But if the State doles out our rights, along with entitlements and benefits, then the State can also take these rights away when it wants to.

"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have." - Gerald R. Ford, August 12, 1974

The Framers of our Constitution were working from the viewpoint of 100 years of unprecedented liberty and self-rule. Never in the history of man had such an extensive system of representative government been set up and sustained. Their fight to maintain that representative government is echoed in the words of Benjamin Franklin outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia after the Constitutional Convention in 1787. A woman asked Franklin what kind of government the new nation would have, and he quickly answered, “A Republic...if you can keep it!”

It is time for us to decide to pledge ourselves in the same way that the signers of the Declaration of Independence pledged their fortunes and sacred honor. It's time for us to learn more about our history, and to fight in our own way to maintain the Republic which was founded on moral, Biblical principles, faith and God-based righteousness.

“The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.” - George Washington, April 30, 1789