Category: Facebook Chronicles

These are my most commented-upon Facebook articles and other posts I’ve written.

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We Need a Churchill

August 1940.

Imagine if Churchill said, “You just won’t believe what the Luftwaffe is going to do. You’ll fall out of your chair! I’ll make an announcement Tuesday.”
Facing a real threat, the people knew what the Luftwaffe could do and they knew what they had to do.
They took meaningful action and were not play acting.
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Random Sunday Morning Thoughts

Apparently, without changing my theology or politics, I’ve become a despised member of the alt-right.

It is Satan’s goal to cripple and nullify Christ’s church and Kingdom.

Individual Christians do not need be persecuted for the church to be attacked, which it certainly is today.

Jesus promised that the gates of hell cannot prevail against the church.
“Gates of hell are marked safe today.”

“The church worshiping together is how God changes the world.”
Steve Wilkins
Satan knows this
A majority of Canadians believe that salvation is from the State, and our leaders know it.
©Scott Jacobsen
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God is Not on Our Side

There is a quote from Calvin making the rounds that he didn’t really say, although it isn’t an inaccurate estimate of his thought:
 
“When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.”
 
What he did say is:
“that they who rule unjustly and incompetently have been raised up by him to punish the wickedness of the people;”
 
and
 
“I shall proceed no farther until I have added some sure testimonies of this thing. Yet, we need not labor to prove that a wicked king is the Lord’s wrath upon the earth [Job 34:30, Vugate.; Hos. 13:11; Isa. 3:4; 10:5; Deut. 28:29], for I believe no man will contradict me; and thus nothing more would be said of a king than of a robber who seizes your possessions, of an adulterer who pollutes your marriage bed, or of a murderer who seeks to kill you. For Scripture reckons all such calamities among God’s curses.” (Both quotes can be found in his Institutes of the Christian Religion, Battles translation, vol. 1, pp 1512-13; “Vulgate” is a Latin translation of the Bible).
 
If I may paraphrase to apply this to our times of modern democracies,
 
“When God wants to judge a nation He gives them exactly what they vote for.” Corrupt and hypocritical politicians are the peoples’ choice.
 
If we want a better quality of leader, we need a better quality of voter. If we want a better quality voter we need voters who are regenerate. Politics is “downstream” from religion. Show me our elected leaders and I will show you our religion.