It appears the clergy, in a pick-and-choose manner, have ignored Biblical admonitions to avoid debt (2 Kings 4:7: “Pay thy debt.” Romans 13:8: “Owe no man anything”) so as not to incite financial anxiety among their members for fear of seeing Sunday offerings dwindle further than they already have. The current economic collapse has already produced about a 10–15% drop in church giving.
Invite your pastor to be your guest this month. Christian Leaders, Activists, High School & College Students, Friends and Family Montgomery County EAGLE FORUM Presents Dave Welch Founder & Executive Director: Houston Area Pastors Council, U.S. Pastors Council In addition Dave has been the Founding Executive Director of Christian Coalition of Washington National Field Director of [...]
Local reporters do Dickens of a job on employment stats. No make that unemployment stats. Adrian Heath | November 30, 2009 Seeming to take their cue from the opening line of the Dickens classic A TALE OF TWO CITIES, Courier reporters Micek & Meyer are having difficulty deciding if it is the best of times [...]
Texas ranks fifth from the top with $165,571,000,000.00 and now we are talking real money. That reads “One Hundred Sixty Five Billion, Five Hundred Seventy One Million Dollars” and that comes to a whopping $6001 dollars per capita for each Texan.
Among the nation’s ten most populous states, Texas ranks 2nd in population, 10th in state debt per capita but 2nd in local debt per capita with an overall rank of 5th for total state and local debt per capita. See Chapter 4 for a discussion of how Texas compares on state and local debt. http://www.brb.state.tx.us/pub/bfo/DAS2009.pdf
Since 1609 the Church in one form or another has dominated faith and culture in American and western society and served as the center of community life figuratively and literally , for the last 100 years the School as the official religious organ of state indoctrination has gradually undermined religious faith and life as the [...]
Tyler Russell | November 11, 2009 Seeing Beyond the Crisis Who else is tired of listening to the media dictate the crisis du jour and talk about problems created to distract America from real problems. Without fail the media fails to take note of the long-term problems facing our country. The media has tried to [...]
This Week we approach the 92nd anniversary of the Communist Revolution and so present the following essay taken from Rushdoony’s Law & Liberty. Printed 42 years ago Rushdoony’s insight is still relevant today given the current revolution underway in Washington D.C. THE ANNIVERSARY OF COMMUNISM by Rousas J. Rushdoony In 1967, the Soviet Union celebrated [...]
Where the welfare state is deeply entrenched, a nation will no longer be willing to serve as a sanctuary. It costs too much. If the welfare state ever becomes universal, locked-in populations will also become universal. There will be no escape from tyranny because of the border guards who keep would-be refugees from crossing the border into greater freedom.
LEGALITY IN REVOLUTION by Rousas J. Rushdoony This week County Citizen will run a reprint of two articles by permission of The Chalcedon Foundation . First will be LEGALITY IN REVOLUTION taken from the book THIS INDEPENDENT REPUBLIC, Studies in the Nature and Meaning of American History ; Rousas J. Rushdoony 1964 The essay Legality [...]