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Chapter 40: John Hurst

John Hurst: From Chaplains and Clergy of the Revolutionary

John Hurst was chaplain to the 4th, 5th and 6th battalions of Virginia troops that served in New Jersey in 1777. He was a fearless man and an ardent patriot, while no one more faithfully discharged his ministerial duties than he. No incidents of his life have come to my knowledge that require a particular notice. The character of the man, however, and the manner in which lie performed the duties of chaplain, may be gathered from the following extracts from a sermon preached by him to the Virginia battalions, April 20th, 1777. The sermon is dedicated to General Stephens—the dedicatory note closing with the following pithy sentence: “For after all the definitions of patriotism that ever was or ever will be given, this is the quintessence of it, the opposing ourselves foremost in the field of battle against the enemies of our country.”

 

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Episode 342: The Extravagance, Irreligion, and Universal Depravity of The Age

The Extravagance, Irreligion, and Universal Depravity of The Age  Extravagance Irreligion and Universal Depravity

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Am I talking about the 20th and now the 21st centuries in discussing ‘the extravagance, irreligion, and universal depravity of the age?’ If you have any inkling of a Foundational Biblical worldview, I believe that you would agree that irreligion and universal depravity of the age are militant, scandalous and, if you are a moral person, would say outrageously taboo. On this program I talk about why those who should be the guardians of Liberty, Faith and cultural/civic decency/morality have allowed these encroachments to prevail.

For those who may not listen to the program, the guardians of Liberty fell into the ‘snares, which their artful, insidious Enemies, a few years ago laid for them.’

As always, I do not have the time to take you through all of the details that are the mirrors of history related to our present time. I am going through the letter that Sam wrote to John Scollay in some detail. I also am making a quick comparative of Sam’s ability to live the full perspective of his Puritanism by taking you on a quick dive into Proverbs and Galatians Chapter 5.

Congressional Record, Really?

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Episode 341: Dr Ben Merkle, President NSA Interview

Dr Ben Merkle, President of NSA Interview  Ben Merkle

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I am honored to have Dr. Ben Merkle, President of NSA (New St. Andrews College) on the program. Ben tells us of his journey to becoming the President of NSA through the amazing hand of God. He gives us great insight to how NSA came into being and the focus on Liberal Arts as in the days of early Harvard.

What Happened to Harvard and Christian Higher Education?

Dr. Ben Merkle takes us into the reality of a study I did about a decade ago. We discuss the slip of Christian Higher Education and that the great majority of these institutions have been and are inclusive of everything in secular colleges and universities. We discuss the key – why did and is this happening? Continue reading

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Episode 340: Christianity in Corporatism?

Christianity in Corporatism?  Morality in Life

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Is there Christianity in Corporatism? I am using the broad definition of Corporatism here: ‘the control of a state or organization by large interest groups.’ Can Christianity be the active morality in state or organizational, including corporate business, ethics? Who is determining business ethics at the corporate level and at the small/medium business level? What about the responsibility of every person who is in leadership or management? Are you not, by the classical definition, a magistrate? That being true, Are you not responsible before God for the moral determination of all persons and ethical decisions that are in your managerial realm?

Therefore, is it not true that the elected, the bureaucrats, corporate executives and managers, business owners, middle managers and so on, have a responsibility to uphold true and faithful righteousness and morality (period).

One present Example of No Moral leadership in Corporatism:

‘I Will Literally Fight You, Bitch:’ Yale Law Students Disrupt Panel Featuring Alliance Defending Freedom

‘Yale Law School Associate Dean Ellen Cosgrove was present the entire time, but did not confront any of the students, despite their actions violating the school’s free speech policies, the Free Beacon notes.’

This week I don’t hold back the full charge of Reformed Biblical truth regarding ‘taking the Kingdom by storm’. I take us through a quick survey of Foundational ethics and morality in governance, be it a governing entity, educational system or business related to economy as well as liberty. My Foundational references are, of course Samuel Adams, but I also look at a couple of the other founders and pastors that influenced the American Puritan work ethic. Continue reading

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Episode 339: Twisted Sisters Russia and US

Twisted Sisters Russia and US Cultural Hegemony

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I’m not talking about the 80’s heavy metal ‘Twisted Sister,’ although their song ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’ would be applicable lyrics for a lot of conservative activism at this time. My discussion of the Twisted Sisters Russia and US is the cultural hegemony of Antonio Gramsci, which has been mostly fulfilled in all the US.

I am going to take a wide swipe at the ideological Twisted Sisters Russia and US. Initially I was including China but that is to wide of a swipe for today and will have to be picked up another time.

Now a few years ago I heard a major nationally renowned N. E. Ohio pastor once say that ‘communism is dead’ so there is no reason for Christians to be political activists and everyone should focus on ‘the Bible only.’ I have no clue what he says now since I no longer attend that fellowship or bother to listen to him on any of his digital media. My retort to anyone that says ‘communism is dead’ is – they are naive or they are just plain ignorant of their surroundings or worse, they are responsible for participating in the cultural hegemonic agenda and ideologies of the Twisted Sisters.

Experts Everywhere

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Episode 338: Beza, Acton and CPAC

Beza, Acton and CPAC  Beza, Acton and CPAC

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This week is a journey through time from Beza, Acton and CPAC. I was down hard last week with a sinus infection but CPAC was a great distraction between sneezes, snot and sleep. Since most of you have no idea who Beza is you may think the infection caused some sort of delirium. While Acton is not a household name either except for his quote about ‘doing nothing.’

Theodore Beza

Just a note on who Beza was and then I want you to take in the two references that I am using for this program. For a more complete simple biography I suggest you follow the link on Monergism concerning Beza. Here is an excerpt:

‘Beza, He succeeded to the high position which Calvin had long held, not only in Geneva, but in the Protestant world; and was, for a period of above forty years after Calvin’s death, the most prominent and influential theologian in the Reformed, as distinguished from the Lutheran, church…

He exerted great influence for a very long period in most of the Reformed churches, and in none more than in that of Scotland. He advised and encouraged our own great Reformer, John Knox, in the whole course of his arduous struggle with the Church of Home,..’

This long dissertation on Beza ultimately discusses the great influence he had in regard to all that was occurring culturally, politically and ecclesiastically during the Reformation. All in all, he and others set the tone for the Christian Resistance to tyrants.

My focus for this weeks program is the first question in Beza’s 1574 work ‘On The Rights Of The Magistrate.’ Simply put for this introduction, If the elected representatives and especially the bureaucrats aren’t God, well, they thinking and believing themselves to be doesn’t make them correct and therefore, they most likely are creating policy, law and rules that are contrary to the God of the Bible. If that is so they are tyrants and despots. Do you obey them ? or … NOT. Continue reading

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Caballing Cowards, Menacing Moral-less Miscreants

Caballing Cowards, Menacing Moral-less Miscreants  Caballing Cowards

As many of you know, I look at our present through the mirrors of history. Foundationally speaking, we are now a nation of three-hundred million people in fifty States and fourteen territories. Interestingly we were initially a nation of three million in the thirteen Founding States. So the population in the United States is one-hundred time that of 1776 and ‘caballing cowards’ and ‘menacing moral-less miscreants’ are being fully exposed now as they were in the founding era.

The historical words quoted here should be taken in context then and now. The quotes and the principles stated in them are applicable at every level of governance across these United States. I will make my emphasis in the historical quotes with bold italics. I make no apologies for the length of this article.

So before I get to the Ohio Republican Party (ORP) State Central Committee, the Ohio Governor and Lt. Governor, the Secretary of State and the Ohio Legislative and Judicial branches; well OK, all the bureaucrats and all lesser political elements in Ohio alone; let me make a quick mention of a large number of the pulpits in Ohio and across the nation. I want to be clear that my admonishment is to not all pulpits but most, if not the majority, which fall into the realm of not having knowledge of or understanding of foundational Biblical truth or history (see – Barna: “Pastor’s Losing Credibility”). With this lack of credibility, the people in the majority of churches, as well as the politicians or bureaucrats that attend, are destroyed. Hosea 4:6 ‘My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.’ Continue reading

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Cabals and Intrigues and Great Awakenings

Cabals and Intrigues and Great Awakenings  Cabal and Intrigue

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Cabals and Intrigues are in-your-face active in every corner, shadow and building top in these United States.

I want to emphasize my statement in that a cabal is ‘a secret political clique or faction.’ Well, there are no longer ‘secret political cliques or factions.’ They are in the open. As I have been discussing for decades, the Marxist and Gramsci-ites speak, act and attack with impunity. These entities are factions that are fracturing our Republic.

What about intrigues? Once again the verb and noun form of intrigue share the same definition where one is active and other is descriptive. As a verb, ‘to make secret plans to do something illicit or detrimental to someone,’ and as a noun, ‘the secret planning of something illicit or detrimental.’ In our present time, intrigue is the implementation of CRT, SEL, Cancel Culture, Demeaning foundational history, Devaluing education and Sabotaging Christianity, Economic wealth transference, Capitulation to Gramsci-ites and Marxists, domestically and internationally.

All of this simply summarized by the Anti-federalist ‘Centinel’ with, ‘not considering that the love of domination is generally in proportion to talents, abilities, and superior acquirements; and that the men of the greatest purity of intention may be made instruments of despotism in the hands of the artful and designing.’ The fully exposed 20th and 21st century cabals and intrigues do dominate at this moment.

Great Awakenings

I watch CPAC this week and their 2022 tag line is ‘Awake Not Woke.’ In this weeks program I mention one of the differences between our Founding era and now is the Great Awakening that God produced amongst the people. My simple comment for this blog is that we must pray that the pulpits awaken to Biblical Reformation truth as well as the Citizenry become awakened by the Spirit of God to repentance and action.

No man can cause this work to happen. It will be the mercy of Jesus as He did during the founding of our nation. I will be talking more about the Great Awakening over the course of the year.

Consider this as a comparison from an article by a friend of my, Pastor Gary Randall, between the state of Christian Churches before the Great Awakening and now,

Pastor Jim Garlow, a well-known pastor and leader in the conservative movement, said recently to a group of pastors, “There are approximately 364,000 churches in America: 72% or 264,000 of them are liberal, meaning that they really don’t care about the Bible.”

He continued, “According to exhaustive surveys, somewhere between 6000 and 15,000, actually have a bona fide biblical world view, that is, they see life through the lens of Scripture.”

KCNW

I just want to let you know that as of March 4th, Samuel Adams Returns will join the Wilkins Christian Radio Network. In the Kansas City, Missouri area, tune in on Friday’s at 6:30 PM to 7 PM at KCNW AM 1380 & FM 96.1.

Sam Adams Wisdom

Sam Adams understood ‘cabals and intrigue’ as well as those designing men and women that would enslave a Citizenry. Once again Sam presents his wisdom:

As ‘Alfred’ in 1769, ‘…But tho the colonies were so well dispos’d to wards the mother country, it must not be forgot that there was a cursed Cabal, principally residing in this town, who having been disappointed in their expec tations of the sweets of the stamp-act, were perpet ually intriguing to bring about another parliamentary tax-act; for no other purpose than that they might feast and fatten themselves upon the spoils and plunder of the people and I am persuaded the nation would not have been so impolitick as to have pass’d another revenue act for the colonies so soon after the confusion which the stamp-act had occasioned on both sides the water, had not this Cabal found means to induce the men in power at home to believe, that the opposition to that act was “a faction” that rag’d indeed for a while, but was then an “ex piring faction”; and that the generality of the people, now under the influence of the “better sort”, and those whom they were pleas’d to call the ”friends of government” who “feared GOD and honor’d the King”, were become perfectly reconciled to the measure, and the experiment might be tried with safety and success.’

And as ‘DETERMINATUS’ in 1770, ‘The agreement of the Merchants of this distressed and insulted continent, to with hold importations from Great Britain, it seems to be allowed on all sides, has the strongest tendency towards the repeal of the acts of parliament for raising a revenue in America without our consent. It is no wonder then, that it was oppos’d with so much vehemence at first, by the Cabal; who knew full well, that their Places and their Pensions, and all the delectable profits which they expected to reap, and are now actually reaping, at the expence of the people in town and country, would entirely cease, if these acts, by the means of which their places, pensions and profits arise should be repealed.’

Lastly for now as ‘Candidas’ in 1771,

‘This restless faction could not bear to see the Americans restored to the possession of their rights and liberties, and sitting once more in security under their own vines and their own fig trees: Unwearied in their endeavours to introduce an absolute tyranny into this country, to which they were instigated, some from the principles of ambition or a lust of power, and others from an inordinate love of money which is the root of all evil, and which had before possessed the hearts of those who had undertaken to distribute the stamped papers, they met together in cabal and laid a new plan to render the people of this continent tributary to the mother country. Having finished their part of the plan, their indefatigable Randolph was dispatched to Great-Britain to communicate it to the fraternity there, in order that it might be ripen’d and bro’t to perfection: But even before his embarkation, he could not help discovering his own weakness, by giving a broad hint of the design.’

Reference:

  1. US adults on whether pastors are trustworthy

  2. Gary Randall article – Barna: “Pastor’s Losing Credibility”
  3. The Right Use of Reason: Jonathan Edwards’ Great Awakening View, as Contrasted with Religious Secularism

 

 

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Rev’s Sandford and Ker – War of Independence Pastors

Rev’s Sandford and KerRev Nathan Ker

No, Rev’s Sanford and Ker is not the title of a new sitcom. In fact, these two ministers of the American War for Independence were ‘expressive in countenance,’ ‘impassioned,’ ‘fearless,’ and pious in a Biblical way.

They are Chapters 38 – David Sandford and 39 – Nathan Ker respectively of J. T. Headley’s ‘Chaplains and Clergy of the Revolution.’

Rev’s Sandford and Ker were men that understood and lived the full extent of Biblical Gospel truth. They were patriots and remarkable leaders. Both were highly respected by George Washington but more so by the troops in the fray of battle. Both gave of their personal money to ensure the efforts of Liberty would progress. Continue reading

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Episode 336: Truck’n Liberty and Voting Rights

Truck’n Liberty 

Trucker Protest

ABC News, Feb 11, 2022

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We see the freedom trail Truck’n Liberty all across Canada and the rumblings of the same here in the US. U. S. Citizens think is great and they want to support Liberty minded Canadian Trucker believing that they have the same constitutional rights as we do. Not True. As established all the way back to the 1600’s, those in the American Colonies stood their ground on rights being God given. Not so anywhere else in the world.

Why do you think that the O’biden administration is telling Canadian leaders to use the full force of ‘federal powers against the truckers’? Why are you seeing some Canadian Provinces removing mandates and others digging in their boots? Do you believe that Canadians have the same ‘rights’ as you, a U. S. Citizen? Regarding ‘rights’ the answer is Not really but.

I explain this in detail on this weeks program. For those that are impatient, it all centers on Constitutionalism identifying where ‘rights’ come from. Continue reading

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