My mother is going in for surgery today around 11 am. It is pretty major as she is a high risk for stroke. Please pray for her and my family as we weather this storm.
I could tell my Dad is really wore out, I visited them last night. All of the major blood supplying tubes to her brain are blocked, so pray that this goes well.
We have been working on revamping the website and unifying everything on one theme. This is the new intro for our upcoming video Podcasts.
Please let us know what you think.
“In such a performance you may lay the foundation of national
happiness only in religion, not by leaving it doubtful “whether
morals can exist without it,” but by asserting that without
religion morals are the effects of causes as purely physical as
pleasant breezes and fruitful seasons.”
– Benjamin Rush (letter to John Adams, 20 August 1811)
Reference: Americanism, Gebhardt (12); original Letters, Rush,
Butterfield, ed., vol. 2 (1096-97)
“The foundation of national morality must be laid in private
families. . . . How is it possible that Children can have any
just Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality or Religion if,
from their earliest Infancy, they learn their Mothers live in
habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as
constant Infidelity to their Mothers?”
– John Adams (Diary, 2 June 1778)
“The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an
eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institution may
be abused by human depravity; and that they may even, in some
instances be made subservient to the vilest purposes. Should,
hereafter, those incited by the lust of power and prompted by
the Supineness or venality of their Constituents, overleap the
known barriers of this Constitution and violate the unalienable
rights of humanity: it will only serve to shew, that no compact
among men (however provident in its construction and sacred in
its ratification) can be pronounced everlasting an inviolable,
and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words, that no
mound of parchm[en]t can be so formed as to stand against the
sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the side, aided by the
sapping current of corrupted morals on the other.”
– George Washington (fragments of the Draft First Inaugural
Address, April 1789)
“The Scriptures obtain full authority among believers only when men regard them as having sprung from heaven, as if there the living words of God were heard.”
- John Calvin
“For God’s sake, do not put yourself at odds with the Word of God. For truly it will persist as surely as the Rhine follows its course. One can perhaps dam it up for awhile, but it is impossible to stop it.”
Ulrich Zwingli
