Breaking the strongholds of darkness depends upon developing spiritual disciplines in our lives.
Sunday’s sermon by Pastor Dan Gardner at the Cohocton Assembly of God Church was on the message of Matthew 17:14-21:

14 When they came to the crowd, a man approached Jesus and knelt before him. 15 “Lord, have mercy on my son,” he said. [...]

On being a hypocrite about chivalry.

The Essential Men’s Rights Issues. Argus sent this to me. I ran one similar to it before but I believe it’s been updated. It is much longer than it previously was as I recall.

Women’s Studies 101. Created by a young Swiss fellow who I do not know. I like his [...]

There’s an important article in the Politico , titled, “Obama invokes Jesus more than Bush.” President Barack Obama, says the article, has mentioned Jesus Christ “in a number of high-profile public speeches,” more so than did President George W. Bush, and in much less “innocuous contexts.”
Obama has done so in order to promote certain [...]

President Barack Obama plans to call for an improved dialogue with Islam in his upcoming speech in Egypt. All faiths would benefit from greater understanding. Yet no conversation will be complete if it does not address Islam’s persecution of Christians, Jews, and other religious minorities.
Western efforts to reach out to Islam are increasing. However, many [...]

Americans have long been fascinated with and sometimes disturbed by the faith of their presidents, and Barack Obama’s faith is no exception. U.S. News and World Report recently claimed that “Obama has embraced faith in a more visible way” than any other recent president, a remarkable statement given his predecessor. This issue also featured the [...]

Recently it was my privilege to hear an extraordinary audio podcast by MND’s own Amfortas, responding to a series of questions by interviewers John Dias and Christian J. The transcript is below. Right click to download the MP3s — lasalle
Part I of this transcript available here.

Audio: (part 1) (part 2)

TRANSCRIPT PART II
Hello,
This is part [...]

Why does God allow bad things to happen to good people? Why does God allow suffering? Why does God allow evil?
These are difficult questions to grapple with for Christians because since God is omnipotent, He does have it within His power to make this a heaven on earth. Moreover, since God cares about us, why [...]

In his article, Where Are They? Why I Hope the Search for Extraterrestrial Life Finds Nothing (PDF here), Oxford University’s Nick Bostrom has raised some very troubling questions.
According to Bostrom, one must wonder what to make of the apparent absence of intelligent civilizations in the universe:  the statistical probabilities suggest the universe ought to be [...]

Those who demand tolerance from traditional America reveal themselves to be wholly intolerant of any opposing viewpoint. And as they hysterically decry as “hate” even the mildest form of disapproval on the grounds that it supposedly denies them their “right” to engage in every form of aberrant activity, it is they who employ hostile and hateful behavior to cow all opposition and thereby advance their agenda.

Over the past few years I have had the privilege to have known a native Ugandan missionary named Mike Wangolo. He is the leader of a team of Africans called Afri-Tendo (http://www.thrustministries.org/) who make periodic trips to the United States to witness to Americans through native songs and dances. During his travels he has become [...]

Seeking moral legitimacy for a practice that, in every one of its forty-million plus iterations has resulted in the death of an innocent unborn child, the abortion advocacy has seized upon fetal stem cell ?science? as a means of elevating itself to the standing of decency and honor.

A compelling new book, a must read, for the accurate understanding of the theology and history of Islamic Jihad, its ongoing malaise and future scourge…

Last week on Fox News, Glenn Beck interviewed PETA spokesman Matt Prescott about a UN Report calling out the meat industry as the #1 cause of Global Warming.
According to Prescott, the report issued by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),  “found that the meat industry causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all the [...]

I first encountered John Updike through his Roger’s Version, a cosmological and theological treatise disguised as a porno novel.  Updike, as he admitted in Roger’s Version, is really a Marcionite Heretic. This ancient heresy, most recently advanced by the German theologian Karl Barth, holds that God is wholly other, completely unapproachable by reason: theology and [...]

Tupelo, MS – Television station WSYX in Columbus, Ohio, has delayed a decision on airing a television program produced by American Family Association (AFA). The program, “Speechless …Silencing the Christians,” was scheduled to air Saturday night on the ABC affiliate station.
“We were surprised that WSYX agreed to air the program, and then decided to [...]

Anyone wondering why marriage is passé and illegitimacy is at record levels can find the answer in the recent case of the unmarried California mother with six test-tube children who just launched octuplets with the help of an unethical feminist fertility clinic.
Why would she do this? Because she gets about eight times more welfare [...]

On 13/12/2008, Robert Gates, the US Secretary of Defense, speaking at an international security conference in Bahrain, gave some insight about forthcoming relations between America and Iran.
He said, “Nobody is after a regime change in Iran…What we are after is a change in policies and a change in behaviour so that Iran becomes a good [...]

Speaking of Israel is Speaking of the Middle East: Leette Eaton- White

I gave you my personal perspective of the current situation in Israel in a very pro-Israel way in my last article for HipHopRepublican.com. Now I will continue my Pro-Israel lean but now I am going to give more reasons why I feel this way. [...]

Earthly things wither and die, but the Word of God prevails forever.
Pastor Dan Gardner preached the sermon Sunday at the Cohocton (New York) Assembly of God Church. His text was Isaiah 40:1-8:

Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, [...]

Every time it seems the so-called Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is about to join the “world community,” the regime in Pyongyang reminds us of its criminal nature. A North Korean soldier not long ago shot and killed a South Korean tourist. Pyongyang naturally stonewalled Seoul’s call for an investigation.
But most grotesque is what the [...]

Without acknowledgment of God-created human souls, society is reduced to a random collection of people guided only by pursuit of their individual ideas of pleasure and avoidance of what they find painful. In such a society, nothing is inherently right or wrong.
Read Ben Shapiro’s Why Atheism Is Morally Bankrupt.
John Dewey, in the first half [...]

When an author argues that there is no God, that’s his personal business—something between him and the Creator. But when an author, in addition to denying God, asserts that monotheism is a net negative for the human race, a rebuttal is in order.

-By Warner Todd Huston
The Associated Press is as much as blaming the victim for the attack again with theirs headlined “Obama says he wants to ‘reboot’ America’s battered image among Muslims.” In this report we get the AP saying that the reason the Muslim world is mad at us is because of George W. Bush. [...]

Marriage-absence is the greatest social and economic problem we face.  We often think of this problem in terms of its effects: father-absence, child support problems, tactical child or spousal abuse allegations, or a failure of religion.
There are libraries of misdirected books essentially covering downstream problems predominantly driven by marriage-absence, which include poverty for women and [...]

From the moment a child is born there is probably no greater “universal truth” pounded into their head by society and culture than of the existence of a fat jolly man dressed in red who brings good little boys and girls presents each year with his eight tiny reindeer. It is the one great myth [...]

The BASE is God: Leette Eaton- White

In the last few weeks the conservative base has come under fire and many have called for the religious right to be silenced. The problem with that is if you chip away at the base you have nothing on which to build. If we really want to rebuild the [...]

The trashing of Sarah Palin continues. Some of the shots have been downright ugly, such as the “Retarded Republican Babies for Sarah Palin” t-shirts. Equally notable, however, is the odd one-two punch of liberal journalists and moderate Republican leakers pounding Palin as a right-wing extremist and dummy. This tandem is responsible for some of the [...]

The question of where Barack Obama and his family will go to church after he takes office is attracting a lot of media attention. As the author of “Faith and the Presidency: From George Washington to George W. Bush,” I was recently interviewed by the Washington Post and the Times of London to help [...]

Advent is the time of preparing ourselves for Christmas to celebrate the coming of Christ Jesus for our salvation. It’s also a time for watchful awaiting the Second Coming.
For her sermon today at the Cohocton (New York) United Methodist Church, Rev. Karin Porch’s text was Mark 13:1-37. Her focal points were, first, [...]

Across the country the issue of “gay marriage” is being debated, examined, voted on and legislated. Groups, both pro and con, have taken to the streets from Massachusetts and Connecticut to both ends of California to express their support and opposition to legislating finality to this issue. While the answer to this ideological impasse may [...]