Letter to a Friend
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- By Ray Simmons
Hello, may I call you friend? And might I write you a letter? Sort of a strange way to begin an article isn’t it? But when I am writing I try to write as though each reader is a friend, and I think friends are scarce these days. Oh many people will tell you they have many friends and their “Facebook” can prove it. I don’t think so, a real friend is someone you like to be with, someone you can depend on when you are in need as well as when you are thriving, someone you like to just sit and sip coffee with, to share your plans and ideas with, he has your back and you have his. Maybe that isn’t a dictionary definition, but it’s mine. And I think those kind of friends are pretty rare. If you have one you are lucky, if you have two or three you are well blessed. I recently enjoyed a movie, “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” which revolved around the life of the “Mister Rogers,” TV character who knew what friendship is and was a friend to most everyone he met.
Fixing College Corruption
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- By Walter Williams
America's colleges are rife with corruption. The financial squeeze resulting from COVID-19 offers opportunities for a bit of remediation. Let's first let's examine what might be the root of academic corruption, suggested by the title of a recent study, "Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship." The study was done by Areo, an opinion and analysis digital magazine. By the way, Areo is short for Areopagitica, a speech delivered by John Milton in defense of free speech.
ACSI Increasing Advocacy Presence in D.C.
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- By Christian Newswire
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- The Association of Christian Schools is pleased to announce the appointment of Philip Scott as the ministry's new Senior Counsel for Policy & Advocacy in Washington, D.C.
Scott will provide legal, policy support and leadership to ACSI's work protecting and expanding Christian education, school choice and religious liberties across the United States by using legal and community organizing expertise in furtherance of the movement and travelling around the country.
COVID-19 & The Extreme Poor
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- By Bright Hope
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. -- Bright Hope publishes new, downloadable booklet for churches and Christ-followers to examine the COVID virus from an extreme poverty perspective.
Food Security, health and hygiene, social distancing, and medical care are all vastly different for those living on less than $2.00 a day. The spread of the COVID-19 virus could have devastating results in the remote villages and slums of the world.
Why Does The Choice Go By Forever ‘Twixt The Darkness And The Light?
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- By W.H. Lamb
I’d venture a guess that most readers of this beacon of truth know at least some of the words to James Lowell’s (1819-1891) great 1844 poem—a 90 line masterpiece titled, “The Present Crisis”. It was first published in 1845 by The Boston Currier, written as a protest against the impending war with Mexico and as a condemnation of the existing evil institution of slavery, which had been incorporated into the new Republic of Texas in 1836. In 1896, Garrett Horder took Lowell’s epic poem and condensed it into the shorter but more familiar hymn—“Once To Every Man and Nation”-- that most Protestant Christians have always known. Both versions contain inspiring, beautiful, and quite troubling ideas which have “pin pricked” my thoughts for decades. To a certain extent, Lowell’s words still stand as a “two edged sword” ready to condemn those of us alive today with their thrust into our complacency, as lines #26 through #30 eloquently proclaim:
In a Time of Social-Distancing, Virtually Serving Others Becomes More Essential Than Ever
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American Heritage Girls Across the Country Virtually Join Together in Acts of Service Amid COVID-19
CINCINNATI -- While an abundance of events and activities have been canceled and communities are being asked to stay home amid the rapid-spreading COVID-19, for members of American Heritage Girls (AHG), serving others is still on the calendar. Adapting to their new 'normal' across the country, members of American Heritage Girls, a faith-based scouting-type alternative, are creatively using their gifts and talents to serve those in their communities while social distancing.
BJU School of Fine Arts and Communications Offers Resources for Online Learning
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- By Randy Page - BJU
To support schools impacted by the novel coronavirus closures, the Bob Jones University School of Fine Arts and Communication is offering free online resources to schools, educators and parents. The resources are available through the BJU website, www.bju.edu.
Coronavirus Stage 1 Is Nearing an End. Does Anyone Know What Comes Next?
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- By Neil Patel
The amazing thing about COVID-19 is how much we still don't know. Even the experts don't quite understand the nature of the virus or how we should respond. Due to their evolving understanding, we have seen quite a bit of change in the guidance they give to the public -- which is fine, as long as they remain transparent. More than anything else, we need more explanation and more honesty from our authorities.
Our Hope in Christ's Victory Over Death
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- By David Limbaugh
Many things about Christianity are counterintuitive but none more than this: God the perfect Father sent Jesus the perfect Son to Earth as a human being to suffer and die for the sins of imperfect human beings so that those who believe in the Son would receive the perfect Holy Spirit and live in eternal love with God.
Scripture makes all this clear.
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." (John 3:16).
Trump's Presidency Hangs on One Decision
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- By Pat Buchanan
Easter may not bring America the victory in the war against the coronavirus pandemic that President Donald Trump anticipated. But in this Holy Week, we may be reaching our Saratoga moment, our turning point.
While New York state reported a record number of deaths from the virus on Tuesday, over 1,800, new hospitalizations were down.
Referrals of patients to ICUs were down. Intubations were down. And the discharge rate for patients from hospitals was holding steady.
China's Accomplice: Guess WHO
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- By Tony Perkins - Family Research Council
The world will see them as a number. To everyone else, they were high school baseball coaches, single moms, nurses, priests, songwriters, teachers, and grandparents. They were veterans of World War II and rabbis who survived the Holocaust. They beat breast cancer, lung cancer, poverty, and old age. But they could not beat this. Almost 13,000 Americans -- everyone of them someone's daughter or son. Every one of them with an ending written partially by one nation: China.
COVID-19: Could, Maybe, Possibly, Might, Worthless Models, Greed
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- By Devvy Kidd
As time has dragged on over this coronavirus, we’ve seen what was unthinkable a few short months ago. Nostradamus said the ‘east will weaken the west’. And, they have – at least for the moment.
The usual flame throwers out there (MSM pimps, Hollywood hate Trump crowd and seriously brain-dead politicians like AOC and Omar) continue to ramp up their hatred of President Trump. Nothing he’s done will ever satisfy them because the goal is to keep him out of the White House for another four years.
The Quarantine Blues Got You Down? New Website Solves That Problem
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- By Isaac Newton Project
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- The following is submitted by Fred Markert, he is director of YWAM Ascend (ywamascend.com) and serves at Highlands College (highlandscollege.com):
In his 1993 book, "Don't Waste Your Sorrows," author Paul Billheimer makes the point that it's not the mere presence of anxiety, fear, pain, or suffering, but how a person reacts to it which determines one's trajectory of personal growth through anxieties and difficulties. Billheimer encourages people not to waste their sorrows, but to use them as a catapult to launch them into significant personal growth.
The Grand Farce of American Social Distancing
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- By Michelle Malkin
This week in Colorado, our statewide stay-at-home order was extended until April 26. Gov. Jared Polis urged everyone to wear a mask of any kind while outdoors. Local groceries are limiting customers to one every 120 square feet of the store. For the first time, my neighborhood playground on Tuesday was wrapped in bright yellow "CAUTION" tape. And in Brighton, Colorado, a father was handcuffed in an empty park by three police officers for playing T-ball with his 6-year-old daughter and wife.
Manipulation Through Racial Hoaxes
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- By Walter Williams
We black people are so convenient and useful to America's leftists. Whenever there's a bit of silencing to be done, just accuse a detractor or critic of racism. A recent, particularly stupid, example is CNN's Brandon Tensley's complaint that the "Coronavirus task force is another example of Trump administration's lack of diversity." Tensley said the virus experts are "largely the same sorts of white men (and a couple women on the sidelines) who've dominated the Trump administration from the very beginning." I'd like for Tensley to tell us just what racial or sex diversity contribute to finding a cure or treatment for the coronavirus.
Fred Schlafly Was the Best Man
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- By Eagle Forum
SPOILER ALERT: A new Hollywood drama tries to defame Fred Schlafly by portraying him as a rapist! Nothing could be further from the truth. This terrible depiction of my honorable father is an attempt to discredit the loving relationship that truly existed between my mother and father. I know the truth because my bedroom was next to their bedroom!
Read about their real relationship in this beautiful eulogy of her husband Fred, written by my mother, Phyllis Schlafly:
“I have fought the good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. Henceforth, there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness.”
St. Paul’s famous words apply to Fred Schlafly. He was a man of unshakeable faith in God, in Jesus Christ, and in the eternal life He promised. Fred lived his faith, always steadfast to his belief that eternal life with Jesus Christ awaits those who keep His Commandments.
Local Governments’ Emergency Power Grabs
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- By South Carolina Policy Council
Local governments all over the state are adopting emergency measures to combat the COVID-19 outbreak – but not all of them are making their emergency declarations and ordinances easily accessible.
State law allows local governments to pass emergency ordinances in one meeting without giving the public any notice or a chance to read them first, and a number of local governments’ emergency actions are either incompletely published, difficult to find – or not published at all, leaving citizens in the dark on what their local officials actually enacted.
COVID-19 Financial Survival Guide - Crown Financial Offers Free Resources to Help
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- By Crown Financial Ministries
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- With the COVID-19 global pandemic shutting down economies, spiking unemployment and slashing incomes, Crown Financial Ministries is offering free resources for effectively managing personal finances in a time of crisis.
Steve Shaw for Greenville County Council District 20
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Steve Shaw is a long-time resident of Greenville County who is running for Greenville County Council Seat 20. He has a heart for our county, and it shows. From the work he does for local legal clients to his service on boards and in the community, Steve shows that he wants the best for Greenville County.
Our Founders Took Freedom Very Seriously
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- By Heather Sheen
Our Founders took freedom very seriously - so seriously they were even willing to risk death for it. And risk it they did - many of them literally lost their lives, if not their fortunes, in pushing back against the tyranny of King George. We take those freedoms for granted and don't realize the blood they bled, the tears they shed, and the risks they took to hand down to us a free country.
North Carolina’s Kirk-Holden War
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- By Mike Scruggs
Reconstruction’s Economic and Political Tyranny
Part 4 of a Series on Reconstruction 1865-1877
By 1870, the corruption of the carpetbagger governments and the violence of the Union League was becoming a concern to a significant minority in the U. S. Congress.
In 1869, there were Union League barn burnings and other destruction in every North Carolina County. During a single week in Gaston County, nine barns were burned. In two months of the same year in Edgecombe County, two churches, several cotton gins, a cotton factory, and many barns and homes were burned. The Raleigh Sentinel reported on August 29th of the same year that ten Federal Army companies associated with the Union League had terrorized the Goldsboro area and committed violent depredations of all sorts. It reported the actions of the troops “so violent that it was unsafe for women to leave their homes.”
Who Was That Masked Man? The Odyssey of “The Lone Ranger”
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- By W.H. Lamb
One of America’s true “heroes of yesteryear” was a stalwart, ostensibly imaginary icon from those long gone Old West days “when men were men” (and women were happy that they were)—a true “role model” who, beginning on January 30, 1933, began to thunder across the plains of our minds riding his great white stallion, ‘Silver’. The America of my youth (mid-1930’s to the late 1950’s)—and perhaps yours also—was a time of similar heroes who existed in the realm of imagination, and in the tales of folklore so avidly listened to over that “pictureless contraption” called a ‘radio’. Kids and adults sat in front of that electronic wonder, with its’ single poor quality speaker, long before the days of television, cell phones, the internet, space travel, identity politics, texting, and (thank God) “social media”, and we were forced to use our MINDS—our imaginations—as a thrilling tale went audibly into our ears and unfolded onto the personal “screens” of our own built-in movie theater that existed inside our heads.
Border Wall and Open Borders
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- By Carroll Hughes
As we wake up this morning here in the cross roads community of Why, Arizona we are facing the prospects of a travel ban in Arizona. Dear readers we are enjoying the fruits of open borders that the liberals in this country have been pushing on us for years.
The Beginning of the Lend for Churches
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- By Tony Perkins - Family Research Council
"Love looks like an empty sanctuary," one pastor said. But after weeks of not gathering in person, it's the emptiness in the offering plate that's really hurting churches. And it's not necessarily the pastors' salaries or the building upkeep that worries leaders. It's the impact on ministry. "If this keeps up," one Baltimore pastor told the AP, "we can't fund all [of] our outreach to help other people." But, thanks to the Trump administration's insistence that churches be included in the virus relief, the president had good news: Help is on the way! (It just required some last-minute fixes first.)
Kissinger's Call for a New World Order
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- By Pat Buchanan
Among the works that first brought Henry Kissinger to academic acclaim was "A World Restored," his 1950s book about how the greatest diplomats of Europe met at the Congress of Vienna to restore order to a continent shattered by the Napoleonic Wars.
The balance-of-power peace these men achieved lasted -- with the significant exception of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 -- for the full century, from 1815 to 1914.
Nite Line Guest Line-up for April 13-17, 2020
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Nite Line broadcasts live Monday through Friday on WGGS-TV from 8 p.m. until 9:30 p.m. The program features local and/or nationally known guests who share their testimonies and talent. Our goal is to be an inspiration to our viewers as well as inform them of Christian and community events in the upstate.
Monday, April 13, 2020: Tonight Pastor Keith Kelly hosts a new Nite Line program as he encourages viewers with a message of hope during the coronavirus pandemic.
Popular Homeschool Consultant Launches 'The Heroic Homeschooler' 6-Episode Masterclass for Parents
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- By ICON Media Group
SAN DIEGO -- "I don't want my kids to fall behind, but I don't know how to do homeschooling!" This has been the cry of thousands of parents and caregivers in the wake of COVID-19 school closures. "The Heroic Homeschooler," a new interactive, online masterclass and mentorship program from homeschool consultant, teacher, radio personality and author, Erin Weidemann, will help equip parents who have been thrown into the deep-end. "The Heroic Homeschooler" is a six-episode video series and personal toolkit to teach parents how to do school at home with confidence.
- Popular Homeschool Consultant Launches 'The Heroic Homeschooler' 6-Episode Masterclass for Parents
- You Must Have Humor Along the Way
- Evangelist Will Graham to Proclaim Hope of Jesus During Special Livestream Outreach on Good Friday
- Manipulation Through Racial Hoaxes
- Introducing Easter Jam: A Free, At-Home Experience for the Whole Family
- Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road?
- Bob Jones University Adopts Credit/No Credit Policy for Spring 2020 Semester
- The National Debt Virus
- Survivor Recounts Slavery
- Bishop E.W. Jackson Says Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's Executive Order is Unconstitutional
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