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Transformed by the Renewing of Your Mind

Have you ever watched in Awe at the spectacular display of a summer lightning storm?  Deep booming thunder fills the whole sky.  Lightning shatters the pitch darkness and illuminates everything for a flash, enough to dazzle your eyes unlike anything else you ever saw.

If you’ve ever witnessed a thunderstorm, you can relate to the deafening CRACK that splits your hearing as a lightning bolt strikes with no time lag and you gasp, thinking that was a little close for comfort.  I’ve seen memorable storms in the daytime. I’ve been riveted in wonder, watching night-time storms, more exciting than almost anything else I can remember.

I’ve been in the middle of daily afternoon thunderstorms in the Rocky Mountains when I worked on a forestry crew in Yellowstone Park. I actually witnessed a continuous, hour-long midnight display of lightning, cracking open illuminated clouds on a grand scale, at 30,000 feet, glued to my window, during a cross-country flight in a Boeing 737. Living on wide-open prairie farmland of Saskatchewan, Canada, I’ll never forget watching a late-night lightning storm overhead that you would imagine to be the most fiery and loud declaration of heavenly power imaginable… at the time, I almost wondered if God was expressing He was really angry about something.

And if you’ve never had a ring-side seat during a Texas downpour, punctuated by the thundering cracks and rolling rumbles of lightning storms for half the night, you’re in for a sight that will make you think twice about why the Israelites gave up on Moses, when his hike into the smoke-filled mountain top became a 40-day fast to receive the plans for the Tabernacle. They should have been praying for their leader instead of making the golden calf.   

Sometimes dramatic events, even witnessing terrifying natural disasters or their aftermath, can leave a transformational mark on us that deeply changes the way we look at life… and even everything that transpires in the world around us.

Think of the Apostle Paul. He wrote the book of Romans in A.D. 57. Paul was a man who knew what it was like to have his life shaped by a highly controlled cultural religious system from his childhood. He was enthusiastically devoted to the Second Temple Judaism… the Jewish traditions of the Pharisee sect. But then, in about A.D. 34 or 35, Paul’s journey was dramatically interrupted by the risen Messiah.  Five or six years had passed since the resurrection. Paul was on his way to Damascus, commissioned by the High Priest to arrest Christians.  It was as if a bolt of lightning had struck him blind.  And the thunderous voice from the Messiah himself was so undeniable, that it didn’t just radically change what he believed. It changed the very core purpose of his life. A personal encounter with Jesus transformed how he processed everything in his life. It was like resetting the operating system of his personal hard drive.

Over 20 years had passed since that transformative confrontation by Jesus, when Paul wrote his letter to the Christ-followers in Rome. After writing much detail regarding the mysteries of the rejection of Messiah by Paul’s natural Jewish countrymen, Paul writes what we now know as the opening comments of chapter 12.

“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service…”

And then he delivers a charge, to which he can relate in terms that are as profound as anyone could possibly imagine. That’s because of his own personal encounter with the Savior himself. And he spent seven years after that in virtual isolation from all the connections that had programmed his hard drive for his entire life. Here’s what he wrote to his Roman readers, whom he had never met, but had, by then, developed a good understanding of the challenges they now faced.

“And do not be conformed to this world (this age of worldly society in which we exist), but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”

We’ve all been exposed to experiences in our past that have affected us negatively in ways that are contrary to the biblical teachings of Christ Jesus and His kingdom. For most of us who have no choice about our exposure to our workplace and the neighborhoods of where we live, it’s easy to see why we need daily cleansing of the pollution that wants to cling to our souls. The ideas and fears, the anxious thoughts and challenges, the temptations and our own appetites… they all compete with whatever desire is in us to serve God honestly, humbly, and obediently.

So, when our conscious minds sit still long enough to really examine our own hearts about this verse in Romans 12, we can sometimes wonder why it’s so hard for us to stay focused on the outcome that all of us, ideally, truly want… “to prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”  The struggle in the deepest reaches of our inner soul can understandably be frustrated by the tension between our honest reading in Scripture about how we should be pleasing to our Lord… and… all the behavior patterns that we know, deep down, are inconsistent with those ideals in our Bible.

We can’t miss the polar opposites of two forces at work in every single human when we read the first part of verse two.  “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed…”

The word Paul uses for transformed is the Greek word “metamorphoo.” Hearing that, you probably recognize the word “metamorphosis.”  It’s the same word we use to describe the process when a caterpillar becomes a butterfly. It’s also the same word used in the gospel accounts of Matthew and Mark to describe when Jesus was transfigured on the mountain. His very appearance changed in the sight of His disciples. Metamorpho is not just any old word. It’s laser focused… very specific.  Profound.  It doesn’t mean ‘to improve.’ When it says “be metamorphooed” – ‘be transformed’ – It doesn’t mean try harder. It means a fundamental change in form has to happen. It’s not a behavior change. It’s a state of being change. But how do you achieve that?

Think about what actually happens inside a chrysalis. A caterpillar doesn’t become a butterfly by will power or mind-over-matter effort. It doesn’t discipline itself into making wings. Something happens inside it – in the dark, in the hidden place – away from (separate from) all the world around it. And when it breaks out of its chrysalis, it’s a completely different creature. The change was interior before it was visible. Think how profound the Creator of butterflies integrated this natural phenomenon with our understanding of something so deeply connected to our own human condition.

Now look at the contrast Paul describes here in Romans 12:2. Do not conform but be transformed. The word for conform – syschematizo (soos-kay-mah-tee-zo) – describes the action of being pressed into a mold the way a malleable metal can be shaped by a form surrounding it. You don’t choose to be pressed.

The mold just does its work …passively …constantly. That’s what the world does. Every scroll on your cell phone, every headline you read, every conversation you hear that subtly tells you what to want, what to fear, who to be …the social media world all around us is a mold. If you’re not actively being transformed from the inside, the mold is doing its work on you, whether you feel it or not. Here’s where this verse goes much, much deeper than most teachers take it. 

Paul says, “Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” And when most people hear, “Renew your mind,” they think about the surface level. Replace the negative thought with a positive one. Speak scripture verses over your anxiety. Change what you’re consciously telling yourself. And none of that is wrong. That all matters. But, in a way, it’s just half the house, because your mind is not just one thing. Your mind has two parts. The conscious mind is the part you know about. It’s the main floor of what gets all the attention. It’s all about what you’re actively thinking right now. The words forming as you read, the opinion you’re forming about what I’m saying. That’s your conscious mind – the main floor. But underneath that, there’s a deeper floor, the basement buried in the foundation under the main floor. That’s the subconscious mind. This is where everything lives that you’re not actively thinking about. Your habits, your automatic responses, your deep assumptions about yourself, about money, about what you deserve, about what’s possible for your life… about God, His nature, His will for your life…  It’s all down there …running constantly without you watching it.  Let’s look at a good example that really makes this idea click into our reality.  

Think of the first time you learned to drive. Every movement was conscious and deliberate. You had to actively think about lots of new things. Check the mirrors. Make your left fingers press the turn signal lever. Press your right foot on the accelerator oh so slowly. Don’t ride the brake pedal with your left foot. Turn the wheel very slightly.  Dozens of new things kept your conscious mind working overtime. But after years of driving, you can navigate through traffic quite naturally while focusing your mind on other things.  You’re no doubt considering the various places you’ll stop during your drive around town. You might be thinking about having all the ingredients you need for dinner. Your hands, your feet and even your eyes know what to do without you reminding yourself constantly of all the various details of driving. That’s the subconscious at work. It took over. It runs the program in the background.

Now, apply that to how you were raised. Every environment you grew up in was teaching you something. Not in a classroom, not with textbooks. In the daily details. How you thought about obeying your parents… Your relationship with God and your self-worth.  …The way you watched others treat one another… How you saw conflict handled or avoided… how you saw displays of anger without correction… the meaning of hard work… honesty… admitting your own transgressions… your sense of personal value… what it means to be successful and how to handle it with humility or arrogance. All the things that gave you a sense of moral conviction or lack of it… How you share your things or selfishly hold on to them, constantly fearing you’ll lose them. Your values and priorities… all of them… became ‘programmed’ into your subconscious mind. 

In our western world of affluence and constant exposure to competition and achievement, our subconscious mindset about money and stewardship becomes a big part of the automatic way we think and react to all of life in general. Envy and coveting things possessed by others we see around us becomes a way of life. Self-sacrifice and going the extra mile to honestly show kindness to others is not natural in a world that disregards any concept of personal accountability to an eternal heavenly justice. How does Christ’s idea of an abundant life jive with Christ’s teaching of the golden rule?

We’ve all heard and seen what often seemed to be conflicting concepts about how to have a satisfying life. Many of us lacked a clear and consistent ‘model’ of what we could call godly wisdom, godly character, and godly motivation or priorities.  And though there are many in our society who are surrounded by very dark and evil home lives, for most of us raised in a relatively safe community, we can’t avoid that the disciplines or lack of disciplines that surrounded our formative years tends to generate automatic patterns of behavior that clash with what we’re trying to embrace as followers of Jesus.

With good intentions, you can quote Scriptures and make ‘confessions’ of who you are in Christ and how you behave in godly ways, and still say things and do things that are inconsistent with your best hopes… Why? It all goes back to the way you were repeatedly programmed to think about those things. And until the program changes, the surface behavior will keep reflecting those long-held patterns.  That’s because verbal confession only registers in the conscious mind, while the subconscious continues running according to the same old programming code that has always dictated your outward behavior.

This is why Paul’s instruction in Romans 12:2 is so magnificently precise. He doesn’t say renew your thoughts. He says renew your mind… the controlling center of your whole being… not just the main floor, but the control panels in the basement… the foundation of your whole ‘house.’  And this is what makes this contrast between conforming and transforming so serious.

The world’s ways that have rubbed off on you from the time you were little, weren’t necessarily what you thought about and decided to embrace. Maybe they were, but regardless, those ways are more deeply embedded in your subconscious than you probably ever thought about. They were written for you, by the people who raised you, who were taught by the people who raised them… generation to generation… not to mention by all the mind-controlling influences of the commercial advertising world that have been overtly putting ideas in your mind that were often met with little to no resistance. That’s because most of us were not deliberately taught to question authority and examine everything with careful scrutiny. 

And here’s the painful part. None of those people meant to harm you. Your parents didn’t sit down and say, “Let me teach this child to believe they’ll never be successful or have what it takes to provide a decent living and righteous lifestyle to guide their family.” But if they lived expressing constantly conflicting values… if that was the atmosphere in your house… you breathed that confusion in every day until it felt like this is normal… it’s just the way life is.

This is what Paul means when he says, “Do not allow yourself to be conformed to the behavior pattern of this world (this age).” We can see that the world’s pattern isn’t just out there in culture and media. It was also in your home. It was in how failure and disappointment were discussed. It was in how dreams and inner thoughts were or weren’t encouraged, in what was possible for you or for anybody. Those patterns got pressed into you. Syschematizo (soos-kay-mah-tee-zo)… pressed into the mold …before you were old enough to choose. And now, unless something changes at the root, those same patterns will repeat themselves in your own children. It’s not because you’re bad, because the program keeps running unless somebody stops it. That somebody could be you. But only if the renewal goes all the way down to the control room – the subconscious. So, how does that happen?

So, how do you actually renew the mind? Both floors, not just the main floor. Paul gives us a second scripture that unlocks this. 2 Corinthians 10:5, “Casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.” Notice what he says first. Casting down… not covering up… not managing… not tolerating… casting down. The renewal of the mind is not just addition. It’s also subtraction, which typically has to happen first. You have to identify the false thing, the imagination, the wrong assumption, the inherited lie… and actively pull it down from its governing authority in your life. Evict it. Make room.

Proverbs 23:7 says, “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.” And Proverbs 23:23 says this, “Buy the truth and sell it not; also, wisdom and instruction and understanding.” Buy the truth. That word buy is telling you something important.

You don’t get truth for free. That’s not because God is charging you for it. It’s because of a fundamental fact of life. And there are often two parts to it.  Buying the truth requires to invest your time into obtaining it. That also may cost you energy and resources to do what you need to do to access the source of it.  Buy a book… a Bible. Attend a meeting. Take a trustworthy advisor out to lunch. But your personal buying of truth… receiving truth… will often require you to give something up. You exchange the lie for the truth. You hand over the false belief, the one you’ve carried for years, the one that feels like identity, and you receive what’s actually real in its place. That’s the transaction. That’s renewal.

It’s like updating software on a computer. You don’t just write new code on top of corrupted code. You find the corrupted file. You delete it. And then you install the correct version. The sequence matters. Identify, cast down, replace with truth. Most people only do the third step. They try to install truth on top of a corrupted foundation and then they wonder… why does the system keeps crashing? Casting down imaginations means getting really honest about what you actually believe. You can say whatever you want about what you believe in church. But what do you actually believe when things don’t go your way? What do you believe about yourself at 2:00 a.m? How do you automatically react when the pressure hits… when the tense situation arises? What do you do when your behavior is challenged by a true friend who really cares for you? That’s the program. And until you name it, you cannot cast it down.  It’s the exact opposite of what degenerate rebels to God do, as described in Romans chapter One.  “They exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator.” (Romans 1:25).

Here’s the harder truth for anyone struggling to overcome their carnal nature. You can know this intellectually and still not change. Psychologists understand the subconscious mind. They have frameworks for it… terminology for it… all sorts of theories, therapies and drugs to try to regulate it. But understanding a prison doesn’t unlock the door. What Paul is describing is not a self-help technique. It’s a spiritual renovation. The renewing of one’s mind requires the supernatural power of the Word of God, working from the inside. It’s not just information. It’s transformation. There’s a specific power in the word of God that does something to the subconscious that no therapy alone can reach. Hebrews 4:12 calls it “living and active, sharper than a two-edged sword.” It goes deep… all the way down to where the old programs live… in your subconscious soul… the obscure inner man that you sometime struggle to comprehend and govern the way you would like.

Before I go further, pause here with me for a second. What I just described – that moment of recognizing a program running in you that you didn’t choose – if you felt something shift when I said that, why not pause this recording if you’re listening on the podcast. Think what’s one belief about yourself you’ve been carrying that you’re starting to realize isn’t actually yours. Write it down. Set aside whatever time is necessary to talk with God about it.  And if you’re otherwise hearing this and you can’t pause to think privately about it right now, just go to Reclaim Your Legacy dot com and type in the search bar “Transformed by the Renewing of Your Mind.” Don’t use Google… you likely won’t find it there. Type in your top search engine bar “ReclaimYourLegacy.com.”  Once you get to my website, that’s where you can type in some of the words in the title you’re looking for. Then you can rewind this recording and pause wherever you see fit. You’ll be glad you actually took the time to talk to God about this. I’m absolutely convinced that anytime you seriously mean business with God, He is faithful to hear your heart’s cry and meet you in ways you probably never expected.

Now… Look at the end of Romans 12:2 again. “That you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” This is the part almost nobody around us ever talks about. The result of a renewed mind isn’t just better behavior. It’s clarity. The ability to test, discern, and recognize what is actually good for us in light of God’s purpose for our lives while we’re still on this earth. This is why so many believers, even sincere, faithful ones, still feel confused about their lives, confused about decisions, about direction, about what God actually wants them to do. They keep asking, “What is God’s will for my life?” And Paul says, “The answer isn’t hidden from you. You can’t see it yet because the lens you’re trying to look through is still dirty in the sense that it has yet to be transformed.

Your mind is your lens. When your mind is shaped by the world’s patterns, by fear, by intimidation, by the inherited programs of failure and limitation, everything you see is distorted. But when the mind is being renewed, genuinely renewed – both floors – something changes. You start to recognize goodness where before you only saw threat, you start to see open doors where before you only noticed walls. You start to know with a clarity that surprises even you about what is right, what is next, what is God’s will. The discernment was always available. The renewed mind is just a condition that lets you access it.

So, let’s be precise. What does this idea of renewing your mind – both floors – actually look like day-to-day? To start with, it looks like protecting the first input of your morning.  That means you cherish God’s thoughts as priority before whatever else tries to crowd into your conscious mind. If you pray… if you ever talk to God during your day…  why wait until you’re in some kind of a crisis?   Before you check your phone… before you turn on the news… before others start pressing you for attention… why not just say to God a simple prayer like “direct my thoughts today, Lord?” ..or.. “Lord, please help me discover your best course of how to order my day today.” It doesn’t need to be a fancy prayer or a particular prayer from the Bible. Just acknowledging God in your waking moment will set a God-honoring tone for all the rest of the moments in your day. And if you dare to deliberately focus for even a few minutes on a selected portion of the Bible, all the better.

What goes into your mind in those first 10 or 20 minutes after you wake, sets the framework for everything ahead of you. That’s not some kind of success-driven, motivational culture. That’s how your awesomely created brain actually works. When you deliberately set a new discipline… a new habit that you expect will be a benefit to you… it looks like you’re being ruthlessly honest about your content diet. It’s not just about whether the content is acceptable or not, but it’s building your mind to be capable of divine discernment because your old and misguided subconscious is no longer being allowed to filter it out. Everything that goes in gets filed. It looks like slow repeated engagements with God’s word. You’re not skimming it to avoid thinking deeply. You’re now being deliberate… sitting with the Holy Spirit’s insight long enough to challenge your assumptions as it reaches your basement floor to rearrange the hard wiring.

Now, you’re asking yourself hard questions. Where did this belief come from? Who taught me this about myself? Is this the voice of God or the voice of a person who misdirected, or even hurt me 20 years ago? Is this divine wisdom or just a man-made program I’ve never questioned? And your new habit looks a lot like persistence… that’s because renewing your mind is not just a series of singular events. It’s a direction. Slow, consistent, unglamorous, but compounding. Every truth you receive in exchange for a lie changes the architecture of your thinking. Every imagination you cast down makes more room for clarity. Every time the word goes in, something adjusts. Something gets repaired down deep where the real change happens.

When we started today, if you ever gave a thought to Romans 12:2, you may have been trying to apply it in the same way that most people apply it… main floor level… just getting your conscious mind to think about better or wiser thoughts and words of Scripture. You may have tried exchanging surface thoughts, confessing positive things, and ending up with the feeling that the verse isn’t working for you. Hopefully now, you’re able to be honest with yourself and realize the verse is working when you focus on refreshing your subconscious mind with deliberate intentionality. You’ve got to give it some time of applying regular edifying habits. Before now, you just might not have gone deep enough.  You’ve been trying to rearrange the living room furniture while the hidden content in your foundational ground floor has old and ineffective code running the structure of your life. The transformation you’re looking for isn’t on the surface. It’s down there in the ground floor in the inherited programs, in the lies you’ve been buying as truth that need to be exchanged for what’s actually real in the kingdom of God. You don’t change your life by trying harder. You change it by allowing the word of God to go all the way down to the places you didn’t even know needed changing… to the programs you didn’t choose but have been running your whole life. That’s what Paul means by transformation… it’s truly a divine plan of redemptive metamorphosis. And it absolutely requires your consistent, life-long commitment to a process that God is completely willing and able to complete.

That’s the renewing of the mind, both floors. And here’s the mercy in all of it. Paul doesn’t write this as a threat. He writes it in view of God’s mercy. This isn’t another standard to fail. It’s an explanation of a process that’s available to you right now, today. Not after you have it all together, nor after the destructive, disturbing thoughts stop coming back. Right now, the door to real transformation isn’t locked. It never was. You just needed to know where it leads… and then decide to go there and continue letting the Holy Spirit accomplish the transformative process that sets you apart from those who are satisfied taking the easy road that’s willing to compromise with the alluring, feel-good temptations of the spirit of the age.

When King Solomon operated in the anointing of God’s Holy Spirit, his words in the book of Proverbs will always be a kind of plumb-line to keep us from drifting off the narrow path, that assures our victorious and God-honoring long life. These are passages in which every honest follower of Jesus, will find not only God’s wisdom, but His peace and reassurance that protects the obedient soul from the Destroyer in the world. Hear some of what he wrote…

My son, do not forget my law, ​​But let your heart keep my commands; ​​For length of days and long life ​​And peace they will add to you. (3:1-2)

My son, if you receive my words, ​​And treasure my commands within you, ​​So that you incline your ear to wisdom, ​​And apply your heart to understanding; ​​Yes, if you cry out for discernment, ​​And lift up your voice for understanding, ​​If you seek her as silver, ​​And search for her as for hidden treasures; ​​Then you will understand the fear of the LORD, ​​And find the knowledge of God. (2:1-5)

When wisdom enters your heart, ​​And knowledge is pleasant to your soul, ​Discretion will preserve you; ​​Understanding will keep you, ​​To deliver you from the way of evil, ​​From the man who speaks perverse things, ​​From those who leave the paths of uprightness ​​To walk in the ways of darkness; ​​To deliver you from the immoral woman, ​​From the seductress who flatters with her words, ​​Who forsakes the companion of her youth, ​​And forgets the covenant of her God. ​​For her house leads down to death, ​​And her paths to the dead; ​​None who go to her return, ​​Nor do they regain the paths of life— ​​So you may walk in the way of goodness, ​​And keep to the paths of righteousness. ​​For the upright will dwell in the land, ​​And the blameless will remain in it; ​​But the wicked will be cut off from the earth, ​​And the unfaithful will be uprooted from it. (2:10-13; 16-22)

Don’t just think about that for a moment. Reread it and let it simmer on the back burner of your soul until it transforms the foundational hard drive that intuitively directs your actions to please God by discerning His perfect will and keep on the paths of righteousness.

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Doesn’t everyone deserve to know the cause and the cure for what ails them?

The Epidemic of tragic symptoms happening everywhere is now proven to link to mass poisoning by injection.

You don’t have to be a Christian to have natural human empathy and the desire to protect or care for friends and loved ones who are in danger because of something of which they were unaware was threatening their well-being.  Our challenge today is how to help people break free of the indoctrination and propaganda that they’ve been wholly committed to for most of their lives by institutions and highly educated people that they trusted.

In recent years, we’ve all learned a lot about massive deception, widespread fraud and vast public propaganda regarding health and disease prevention.  One of the many hard-working, medical-freedom-loving, health care professionals who has been sharing his research openly for everyone to benefit is Dr Bryan Ardis. You can access his discussion of some of his background and remarkable discoveries on a past episode of Reclaiming Your Legacy, linked in today’s transcript.

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Nissan – The ‘Month of Miracles’ – Especially the Miracle of Passover #354

In our modern society everyone knows that January First is the beginning of the New Year, Right? But what is really the beginning of the year, biblically speaking?

If you were to talk to a member of the Jewish community about their Rosh Hashanah, you would discover that holiday is the Hebrew name for the first day that begins every Jewish New Year in our Gregorian calendar month of September or October. It’s celebrated at the beginning of their month called Tishri, which is the seventh month according to the ancient Jewish religious calendar. So, that means that the month called Nisan (or Nissan.. ‘NEE-SAHN’) is the first month of the Biblical year. The month of Nisan is the very special time when the historic Feast of Passover is celebrated (it’s called Pesach in Jewish communities). Passover commemorates the Israelites’ exodus from slavery in ancient Egypt, about 3,500 years ago.

The Feast of Passover is the Biblical holy day for God’s people to celebrate the liberation of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery in the momentous event that portrays God’s redemptive power in the book of Exodus.

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Wake up Church – Transforming Society means Engage with your culture

By Dennis Petersen

It’s now a fact, recognized by more Americans than ever in this generation – the battle to preserve our society of liberty is a spiritual war against demonic principalities in high places.  And it’s more evident now than ever before in our lifetime.  The question is – will God’s people who are called by His name, not only humble themselves and pray, turning away from their wicked ways, but will they take action to be the preserving salt of influence on our society or will they continue to be ‘trampled’ by society’s mountains of secularized influence?

The Power of Keeping People in Darkness (ignorant)

Can there be any question that the gross darkness of ignorance, prevailing in today’s society, is the result of anything less than deliberate re-education?  Historic disciples of Marx, Lenin and Mao know very well that society-wide ignorance depends on two things:

  1.  the perversion of true history, and
  2. the censoring of moral truth found in God’s Word. 

Paul insisted that Christ-followers “prove .. or test .. all things.” Why?  Faith in God, in the Bible or all truth, for that matter, comes by hearing the Word of God! Without a clear and spoken declaration of relevant, Christ-glorifying words (Greek for spoken word = Rhema) – words of God’s timeless truth – people are lost in confusion, deception, and pop culture entertainment. It’s all empty of any substance that would challenge us to seek God.

Americans face coming elections that are crucial to our freedom and well-being. Many argue they are as important as any election in our nation’s history. Yet, the mountainous influence of public education, main stream media, big tech and big pharma has effectively fashioned voters into the UN-united States of America. It’s a total charade. For decades, it’s been a completely corrupt series of schemes to confuse and divide us. Many citizens have been rendered completely unable to see that we’ve become disconnected from our anchors of morality, historic roots and God’s truth.

Only 4% of Americans now hold to a Biblical worldview (down from 6% in 2023 and 12% in 1994)

Worse yet, only 2% of American millennials actually hold to the basics of a Bible view of their world. That’s pretty disturbing news, since over 80% still claim to believe in at least some biblical principles. (according to reports of Arizona Christian University’s Cultural Research Center).  (Most Americans, over eight in ten, may believe some Biblical principles but often think and live in ways that conflict with the Bible.)

Barna’s definition of a biblical worldview included affirmation of seven basic doctrines:

  • First, the existence of absolute morals communicated through Scripture.
  • Second, Jesus Christ lived a sinless life.
  • Third, God is the all-powerful, all-knowing Creator of the universe and He stills rules it today.
  • Fourth, salvation is a gift from God and cannot be earned.
  • Fifth, Satan is real.
  • Sixth, Christians have a responsibility to share their faith in Christ with other people.
  • And seventh, the Bible is accurate in all of its teachings.

I wish he had included one more – that Christ made it clear that all humans are accountable for their words and actions and will be judged by God in the future.

The 4% of Americans who have a Biblical worldview represents a drop-off from 9% in 2009, according to Barna.

This is a dismal low for citizens of the USA who say they embrace at least some form of Biblical Christianity.  Do you think Genuine Christians need to honestly recognize that our culture has declined to an unacceptably shallow approach to whole truth? Should genuine Christians make some kind of effort to improve that condition?  Almost nobody denies that many Christians today have a lot of misconceptions about Scripture. They establish beliefs about truth based on misquoted verses without full context. That’s because they’ve been taught by preachers who miss things, like the balance of God’s righteous requirements with the amazing mercy of His grace.

Look at some Examples of misguided beliefs

Acts 17:28 says: “in Him we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28).  Many focus this on “me” – with a personal fuzzy feeling about God’s care for His children.  But what happens when we read the whole context?  Begin with verse 23 when Paul preached to the pagan intellectuals at Athens, Greece.

“What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.  The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.  And he made from one man every nation (ethnos) of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, for ‘In him we live and move and have our being’ as even some of your own poets have said, For, we are indeed his offspring.”

Paul speaking to Athenian pagan intellectuals in Acts 17:23b-28

Does that have a much deeper and profound meaning now?

Another is God’s personal midnight declaration to King Solomon after his dedication of the newly constructed Temple in Jerusalem in 2 Chronicles 7.

“if my people humble themselves and pray and seek my face… then will I hear from heaven and heal their land.”  

2 Chronicles 7:14

No one doubts that repentance from our humble free will is a noble preface to effective prayer for our country… but read the whole context starting at verse 13 and then on to verse 19-22.  God Himself said:

“When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence (plague) among my people, if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. …

But God had much more to say to Solomon…

“And as for you, (Solomon), if you will walk before me as David your father walked, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my rules, then I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man to rule Israel.’

But then comes the stern warning…

 “But if you turn aside and forsake my statutes and my commandments that I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them, then I will pluck you up from my land that I have given you, and this house that I have consecrated for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples. And at this house, which was exalted, everyone passing by will be astonished and say, ‘Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?’ Then they will say, ‘Because they abandoned the LORD, the God of their fathers who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods and worshiped them and served them. Therefore, he has brought all this disaster on them.’”

God speaking to King Solomon 2 Chronicles 7:19-22

Now, honestly, how often have you heard that sobering kind of exhortation in the context of “God’s promise to “heal our land” if we pray?

One of the most often misquoted Scriptures is Jesus’ declaration that:

“..the truth shall make you free…” in John 8:32.

We’ve got to read the whole statement Jesus said to his disciples, starting at verse 31.

So, Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” John 8:31-32

Our society is ruled by a Deranged Strategy of Exalted Demonic Powers in High Places

You don’t have to be much connected with politics to see that today’s Democrat Party is, in all honest reckoning, flat out insane – or as President Trump put it, ‘totally, stone-cold crazy.’

“Democrats demonize and ‘defund’ the police that protects them and then complain when crime skyrockets. They encourage violent communist-anarchist mobs to burn down our cities.  They insist they can change the earth’s weather by adopting a bizarre totalitarian-socialist program that would destroy our economy and annihilate individual rights. They believe convicted terrorists should be allowed to vote from prison. They believe a beautiful, full-term human baby about to be born, can be slaughtered at will. They disagree with God, insisting that there are dozens of different genders – and that men can get pregnant. That is insane.”

What’s happening in the Party of Derangement 

World Net Daily editor, David Kupelian, before the 2020 election, wrote in his essay about the Trojan horse of our time:

 “Today’s Democrat Party has become possessed by the dark revolutionary spirit of Marxism, which in reality is based on hatred and rebellion against God, against His commandments, against His morality, against the very idea of objective truth. Marxists want their own truth, their own laws, their own morality, their own biology, their own science, their own heaven … on earth. They want nothing to do with the Judeo-Christian values that have long served as the moral foundation of America – which they openly hate.  And yet, these are the very people who believe they’re much more intelligent and moral than you, and who, in just a few weeks, fully intend to take over America forever.”

Forever?

Rush Limbaugh, just before the 2020 election, put it starkly: “If the Democrats win, that’s the end of democracy. It’s the end of the two-party system. We’re going to have a one-party government that is going to devote itself to eliminating all opposition. That’s what’s at stake. If they win, I think the Republican Party essentially ceases to exist.”

Isn’t it interesting how, after four years of chaos and only one year of decisive patriotic leadership that it’s the Democrat party that is falling apart while the Republicans are trying to rediscover themselves?

What are all of us seeing more clearly now? The wicked controlling powers of society at all levels of politics, information distribution, and corporate business… mesmerized most of the population for generations. Common sense was almost lost.  Americans were conditioned to not think for themselves.  But with all the exposure of evil in the years since the gross manipulation of public thought during the Covid Plandemic, things have greatly changed. But that doesn’t mean it’s okay for truth-tellers to kick back.

A Clear Prayer for God to Rise Up Against the Wicked!

If we American Christians don’t persistently petition our Lord for His mercy, guidance, and protection for our nation, and do everything in our strength to use our God-given abilities and influence to urge fellow citizens to actively vote, the influential ‘gates of hell’ will corruptly steal the coming election.  If we don’t get deeply serious about being the beacons of light to our communities – ongoing from here on – our feeble testimony will be squelched by tyrants who hate God and hate you.

 “Who rises up for me against the wicked? Who stands up for me against evildoers?  If the LORD had not been my help, my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence.” Psalm 94:16-17

How desperately do all of us need God’s help?

Tyranny requires four things. Truth must be silenced. Real history must be erased and rewritten. Public speech has to be restricted. Even individual thought must be controlled.

In this time of constant turmoil, false flags, wars, civil unrest, and now internal bio-terrorism and manufactured pandemics, a major agenda of the demonically influenced state’s ruling class is to silence all dissent, and mandate conformity.  And remember, the reason many of our fellow Americans live in denial of that reality, is because of the natural human inclination toward “normalcy bias.” They have a hard time believing their state of what they thought was “normal” can never end. Our brains are wired to resist change. But there is a globalist ruling class, whether we want to believe it or not. But, what many of us miss is that Jesus IS King over all earthly kings. He is the one who sets up kings and brings kings down. And Jesus has all authority in heaven and earth. What’s more, is His genuine delegation of that spiritual authority to His disciples. And it’s not to use thoughtlessly, but to exercise on behalf of the direction of the Holy Spirit who lives in us and will never leave us or forsake us.

Considering tyranny’s plan for total control, it’s imperative to stifle criticism and keep the power to control the widely public mainstream narrative, while aggressively eliminating all resistance and questioning. Unless things continue improving, nonconformity will not be allowed if global governance and a global reset are to be successful.

As 2020 unraveled America saw censorship in ways never seen in our history

… and with all the advanced technology we have, this despicable plot to silence thinkers and hide the truth affected all forms of speech.

It’s gotten more challenging to find truthful information, as those like Google, Amazon, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and others are still deleting content and access to content. But, thankfully, more independent researchers are voicing their content on new platforms and are gaining public recognition. 

Our world is overwhelmed by propaganda!  While the state-approved narrative of the Elites is presented on most of mainstream’s easily accessible, highly advertised channels, you have to really dig if you want honest, second opinion sources of information on practically any topic.

A Change in our listening habits must be Top Priority

You Must reset your inputs.  Turn off network media channels and learn to regularly – daily if possible – listen to trustworthy voices reporting what God is sovereignly doing. Hear how He uses His younger servants to speak into our culture.  Access conservative voices like Megyn Kelly, Matt Walsh, Jordan Peterson and Tucker Carlson. Find Christ-honoring voices you can resonate with. You’ll have to establish Internet connections to Free-speech platforms, particularly Rumble and Bitchute, as well as others. Use the free Roku app system to connect with many God-fearing broadcasts we’ve appreciated like “And We Know,” “Flashpoint,” “Man in America,” and Mike Lindell’s Frank Speech channel.  One of our favorite Medical freedom interview weekly broadcasts is the “The Highwire” with Del Bigtree, and there are many others like Dr Lee Merritt, The Medical Rebel, and Dr Bryan Ardis with The Dr Ardis Show.

Find trustworthy conservative daily news channels like Real America’s Voice, Redacted, Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point, and Brannon Howse’s Worldview Tube.  Hear insightful Christian leaders like Mario Murillo’s Fire Power, Lance Wallnau, and The Mel K Show .  Look up their posts and channels on YouTube and spend serious time catching up with truth-filled insights that will inspire you, equip you, and inform you with God’s perspective on what’s going on in your world and how to navigate it.

Our dangerous situation is real because doctrines of demons are out to destroy mankind

It’s especially ominous, considering the fact that through vaccination or other high-tech methods like variable frequencies, much of the population could soon become subject to transhuman experimentation where injectable nanoparticles and chips could be used to alter human behavior.

Corrupted Power is always troubled by any that dare to think and dare to question

This is not a new phenomenon, as tyrants throughout human history have censored writing and speech in order to protect their power structure.

In ancient times and not so ancient times, books were forcibly burned to keep the populace from having access to any material that was not acceptable by the throne or the current political authority.

In cases of resistance to ‘high’ authority, many were also killed by the state, and in many cases these ‘cleansings’ were targeted to the educated class, because they had the capability to think critically and express their ideas publicly. If you’re not informed about the historic period of the Reformation, start watching the historic dramas on RedeemTV.com. The period of European history beginning in the 1300s with John Huss and John Wycliffe going into the 1500s with Martin Luther and William Tyndale, is one of the most heroic periods of God’s providential guidance of human history. It makes you realize more powerfully the fact of the hand of God in human society’s experience as recorded in Acts 17 when Paul spoke about God determining the times of nations and the bounds of their habitation (Acts 17:26).

Those that held power by force of arms would never allow criticism and dissent, because that could lead to hostility and insurrection by the people.

During the totally orchestrated Covid 19 shut-down of society worldwide… known now as the fake plandemic… the details of tyranny changed some, but much was as it has always been through history.

Money, power, and control have always been the key strategies of the ruling class who would dominate mankind. But the methods to keep that power and control have changed. Instead of the sword and guillotine, propaganda and fear have become the primary tools used to fool the people into compliance. In order for propaganda to work, elimination of dissent is imperative.

Censorship plays a huge role in any effort to gain support of the masses, because without the possibility to reach the bulk of the people, the truth tellers become marginalized, and are shunned and ridiculed as troublemakers and conspiracy theorists.

The Broadest Mind Control Effort in Planet Earth’s History

The biggest censorship push in history began in force in 2020.  It was the biggest propaganda push in history, and it’s still underway.

The false flag event called the coronavirus pandemic was not about one king seeking control over his subjects, but it was about the few globalist elitists attempting to take over the entire planet. There’s no question that they are demonically inspired. Bible believers who read their Bible understand this reality better than those who are unfamiliar with the tactics of the Enemy of Humanity, called Satan in the Bible.

This is a global effort that is run by the few top claimed elites, with their tentacles of power reaching almost every country on earth through control of the banks, corporations, foundations, and the entire political class system.

Many have fought and died in order to protect free speech, but all speech continues to be under attack by the forces of evil.

If the globalists were to have their way, free speech would be lost forever.

This is the world of the Internet and computerized system saturation. Censorship today takes on a new sophisticated look through so called “fact checkers” and compliance to “community standards” but it’s meant to accomplish the same goals as in the past.

Blacklisting users, blocking content, and algorithmic manipulation allow for the state to control information. With the control of information, it’s understandable that the general public would then be easier to manipulate and keep in check.

The acceptance of tracking and tracing technology, continued isolation, vaccines capable of altering the DNA structure of individuals, chips and dyes mimicking the mark of the beast, and a continued state of fear are all intended to lead to an end of what our society has long considered the state of normalcy.

The result sought by the world’s Wealthiest Elites is a new world order, a “new normal,” totally controlled by ruling ‘experts’ claiming the ability to sustain you, protect you, meet all your needs, and eliminate your worries.

This system is called technocracy. It’s dependent on a class-segregated society, fully controlled by an upper class.

Does this sound familiar? It should. It’s what all tyrants want. But in this day and age, it will look much different.

All of this relies on a willing public

And in order to achieve that total compliance on a scale globally large, the human spirit must be broken… Love, family, emotion, responsibility, open communication, mass gatherings, and debate must all be squelched.

Once the pathetic masses accept this ruse, and acquiesce to the mandates being planned, they will be transformed into a machine-like state through technological manipulation claiming to make life easier, safer, and more convenient.

A totally digitized system is necessary in order to retain constant control. All this sounds outlandish… like a dystopian science fiction novel.  But it’s exactly what’s happening right in front of all of us.

Will Christ’s Faithful Followers Do What Past Faithful Heroes Did?

A completely new world is planned to come upon us for a limited time.  It can only happen by eliminating truth, eliminating our historical roots, and hiding all that is real and honest.  What’s left is a fantasy, but this short-lived fantasy will be deadly if it’s not successfully resisted.  Only those who, like the Pilgrims of 17th century Plymouth, are willing to form local bonds of true Ekklesia fellowship community and educate their children according to God’s Biblical truth will avoid the fate of Lot’s wife. She was consumed by her own longing for the shiny objects of this world rather than follow God’s escape route into the unknown. Abram followed God to a destination unknown that was predetermined by God alone.  And, through Jesus Christ, we’ve been given Abraham’s faith to trust God for our destination, no matter what happens in the world around us.

Seek the truth, seek honesty, ask questions, and believe nothing unless it can be personally verified. Do not allow the takeover of your lives by the monsters claiming to be your saviors.

In these controversial times, we all must prayerfully think! And think extra hard before we act. I’ll say a bit more on that in today’s bonus segment at ReclaimYourLegacy dot com.

Bonus Segment

We now know the plans of the enemies of freedom – the enemies of God.  It’s absolutely foolish for Christians (the 50% who don’t vote in elections because doing their civic, constitutional duty is somehow beneath their dignity) to think they can continue their worldly guided behavior and not be accountable to God for it. They’re assigned by Jesus to be preservative ‘salt’ to their culture. That takes deliberate effort. They’re modern-day equivalents to Ezekiel’s watchman on the wall.  They’ll be judged for their inaction when they could have prevented the destruction of their peers.

They have failed to think…

What would their family’s life be like IF BLM, Inc or Hezbollah invaded their neighborhoods?

What will they do when tyrannical bureaucrats marginalize honest citizens who conscientiously choose to opt out of arguably dangerous public health mandates?

In controversial times, we must prayerfully think! And think extra hard before we act.

You and I can’t force someone to adopt an opinion against their will. “A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still!”  Don’t even try to do it. Refuse to argue with fools who embrace death over life, license over responsibility, and promised safety over daring to risk our temporal comforts.

Only God’s Spirit Can Open Our Spiritual Eyes that have been blinded by Deception

For years we’ve been seeing publicly the open expression of ‘doctrines of demons’ – hellish teachings popularly accepted as correct for the masses. But you are a chosen generation; a distinct people for God’s own possession; to shine forth His redeeming and purifying light in the midst of darkness. So focus on truth and share it with those willing to receive it. (1 Pe 2:9 and Mark 6:11)

Just ask yourself; what is the chief aim of following Jesus?  Abundant life and knowing God intimately.

Ask; what is the chief aim of the devil?  To steal, kill and destroy.

What is the genius of the US constitution?  God is our King.  We have freedom of thought to be citizens – we the people – free to pursue a life of God’s order under a Biblically inspired nation of written laws – God’s 10 commandments. Righteous truths are eternally self-evident, teaching people to learn self-restraint. The unrighteous require external controls that can’t be enforced without draconian, anti-God restraints.

The plandemic masks and personal physical distancing rules by human governors don’t recognize “natural laws of God’s creation.” Those natural laws are so obvious, that to ignore them, becomes absurdly self-destructive.  Not only do such foolish restraints endanger humans physically amid a sea of constantly changing opinions, they dehumanize personal relationships, leading to all manner of social and mental disorders.  If you doubt the fallacies of such conclusions, take the time to watch censored research reporters like those featured on TheHighWire.com, NaturalNews.com, and HealthImpactNews.com. Be informed by honest dissenters from the mainstream.

God is giving all of us an opportunity to influence the outcome of our nation because He commanded His disciples to actually disciple the nations of the world.  And that’s possible because He proclaimed that all authority had been given to Him when Jesus resurrected. Do you honestly believe that? Then why not make every effort to participate in the process of determining the leadership of your own nation under God?  In upcoming elections, vote for freedom of conscience and the liberty to proclaim the truth of God.  You’re voting for a platform of principles, not for a personality. This is a rare opportunity in our generation. We have a crossroads before us where every vote counts. Who, in their right mind, wants to throw their vote away by either not voting or voting for a platform determined to enslave all humanity by a globalist agenda? 

Only by constant intercession for God’s will to be done on earth as it is in heaven… for His Kingdom to invade our earthly community… for His enablement to guide us to speak the truth to enlighten the darkness… these must be our priorities in each day God gives us breath. 

 Psalm 95 promises us with consolation:

“He who teaches man knowledge—the LORD—knows the thoughts of man, that they are but a breath. Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O LORD, and whom you teach out of your law, to give him rest from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked.  For the LORD will not forsake his people; he will not abandon his heritage; for justice will return to the righteous, and all the upright in heart will follow it.” Psalm 95:10b-15

Do you have friends who enjoy listening on the go to podcasts? Spotify, Stitcher, Apple and iHeartRadio are some of the platforms where you can find Reclaiming Your Legacy. Go to ReclaimYourLegacy.com to link to the one you like and subscribe. That way you’ll not miss out when I post a new episode. Visit ReclaimYourLegacy.com and take advantage of the scripts and links there to assist in sharing any parts of these programs with friends. While you’re there, if the Holy Spirit impresses you to be part of the valuable supply line to keep this program coming to you, I want you to know that I deeply appreciate your response to His direction in your heart. Free programming, as you know, isn’t really free. So, we all thank God for enabling the small ‘family’ of suppliers that have continued to make it possible for the many hours of research and production it takes to bring our listeners Reclaiming Your Legacy each week.  When we all do our part in the battle, our Lord Jesus gets all the glory and accomplishes His goals in His time. We take seriously that we are appointed “for such a time as this” (Esther 4:14).

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Noah was A Real Man in A Real Lost World #372

By Dennis Petersen

As the evidence is unearthed for world-wide catastrophe, hidden in plain sight, Global Flood deniers are being exposed for their outrageous lies to innocent school children!

What if the flood, recorded in the book of Genesis, wasn’t just a Bible story or fable? What if it’s actually part of humanity’s shared human memory?

Have you ever heard how cultures that never met, separated by oceans for centuries all tell the same story? A world-demolishing flood, a few human survivors, a floating vessel, a complete reboot of humanity’s beginning – a catastrophic reset. And now archaeology, ancient sites and discoveries buried underwater, are forcing an uncomfortable question. Could there have actually been more than one watery catastrophe that almost obliterated humanity?

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Spiritual Warfare in a Corrupt Society

God’s People are Rediscovering their Divine Legacy in such a time as this by Dennis Petersen

You’re not alone if you feel horrified by the perverse and corrupt wickedness being exposed openly in our society’s mountains of influence.

Truly, the manufactured political crisis of a highly questionable health emergency is tragic.  But God has been using it to expose unimaginable corruption and ignorance.  Now, He’s using all of it to generate awakening and repentance.  

In the post-Civil War generations, Christian pastors en masse, began failing their Biblical assignment. What’s that? Ephesians 4:12-14 tells us.  It’s for…

“…the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ…”  And that is expected to result that we would all grow up to maturity… no longer children… being tossed around by the trickery of deceitful men.

Doesn’t it make sense that should mean that the saints should all be actively prepared to disciple their own young people to be the influencers for righteousness in THIS nation?

But think of what happened.  The generation that survived the Civil War created the industrial revolution, ushering humanity into the Space Age.  It took only a century of growing, but eventually unimagined national prosperity reduced a spoiled and entitled generation to face the possible disaster of becoming another third world socialist country.

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Christmas celebrations Controversy compels Christian considerations

Let’s Quell the controversy over Christmas and its traditions.

Every Christmas season many of us are confronted with various notions about the origins of Christmas and many cherished Christmas traditions. But what can we learn from the original writers of history itself about these controversial ideas?

It’s been called “the most wonderful time of the year.”  Christmas for most of us has enjoyed a long history of traditions that make the heart of the winter season a rich time of festive celebrations.

For many of us, growing up in America in the late 20th Century, our memories from childhood include the happy songs of Jingle Bells, Deck the Halls with boughs of holly, and “I’m dreaming of a white Christmas.”  There’s nothing wrong with any of that. When I was a child, singing Christmas songs like Silent Night and Joy to the World … around the piano with my grandmother… well, nothing could be more delightful to enthusiastic, ever-optimistic young children. Although Santa, for my generation, played a fairly significant part of the wide array of Christmas traditions… there was never the slightest thought that “the night before Christmas and all through the house…” was ever anything more than an amusing way of celebrating the ‘rest of the story’ that was more fully expressed when we sang “Joy to the world, the Lord is come” and “O Come all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant.”  In fact, singing Christmas carols for our neighbors on cold winter nights in December will always be a treasured memory from childhood, through adolescence, and through college days as a young adult. We never lost sight of the real meaning of Christmas. And no one, that I can remember, ever behaved like a Scrooge or a Grinch that stole the heartbeat of Christmas, which was always about the birth of Jesus, 2,000 years ago.

Many Christians today have lamented the fact that modern commercialized society has made Christmas into a highly secular time of year.

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Our Ambassador Assignment to Stand Strong in the Culture War

The Pagan Left has dominated the Culture War in America far too long

“Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ” Col 2:8

Did you know that Noah Webster, America’s Schoolmaster, said during our founding era, “…that the man who weakens or destroys the divine authority of the Bible may be accessory to all public disorders that society is doomed to suffer.”

The term “Culture War” has become common in describing contemporary American life and politics.

Is it possible for a Biblically faithful culture to survive in this cultural war that has essentially determined the ways of thinking, living, and behaving in a post Christian society?

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Time to Prepare for coming Storms

This is Time to Prepare for coming Storms – every leader Needs to be a vocal watchman (vigilant sentry).

Like Esther, you fathers, elders, deacons, ministers, and bishops… must respond to the compelling message of Mordecai in the Bible book of Esther. And almost nobody has yet told us what that ‘compelling message’ is.

Various kinds of unbelievably insane eras like ours today, have happened many times before on this earth.  We’re not the first.  But in previous generations of mankind, the craziness was typically more localized in a certain region or empire – like crazy Caesar Nero’s Rome near the end of Christ’s Ekklesia’s first generation, or Bloody Mary’s medieval England at the dawn of the Reformation, or the murderous regime of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.  Today, it seems to be the whole planet Earth is under an evil spell of wicked forces in high places. It’s been that way all along of course, only now, lots more people are realizing that the evil is a direct war against the Creator and His set-apart people, Christ’s Ekklesia, the kingdom of God’s blood-redeemed family.

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Education without virtue ruins its home culture with seeds of inevitable destruction

a painting of children sitting at desks in a classroom with books on the table

America is now facing a crisis of educational insanity that is literally threatening the survival of the nation itself. Before the ‘mountain’ of education was overtaken by bureaucrats of the federal government, Americans grew up with a high-quality education. It was either delivered at home or at locally run community or private schools supported by parents, philanthropists, and churches.

I’ve drawn much of today’s Reclaiming Your Legacy episode from my friend, Alex Newman, editor-in-chief for the New American Magazine. He’s a leading advocate for private and home-based education, and he has written many publications, including one that deserves your consideration to get bulk copies to send to friends. It’s called Rescuing Our Children. You can download a free pdf copy, at this link… perfect for sharing with others about this vital issue:

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