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British Christians have been somewhat satisfied over the decades with Queen Elizabeth's brief mention of Jesus Christ in her annual Christmas message to the nation. Those words have never been enough to bring reformation and reform to a secular, dying nation. Britain has reached a terminal collapse during those decades of Elizabeth's reign.
Americans also live in a morally bankrupt nation. Christians were surprised and heartened by the Christian prayers and hymns at the funeral of George HW Bush. They were even more encouraged by the more explicit and personal public testimonies by so many national leaders at the Memorial Service of Charlie Kirk. Yes, these remarks were remarkable in secular, socialistic, post-Christian America, and downright shocking to Christians in suicidal Britain.
But no ceremonial Christian expressions can restore the broken foundations of a once-Christian civilization. A successful reconstruction would rely on daily, righteous, faithful obedience to the law of God in every area of life. By every professing Christian.
In each lifeless, corrupt, demoralized and exhausted Western nation, Christians must model the essence of lifegiving Biblical culture and civilization at the local level -- in their families, in their churches, and in the civil government. They need to come out of the worldly, dehumanizing, degrading institutions of our time, especially propagandistic schools and corrupting screen traps. And they need to avoid the snares of religiosity, as Jesus warned in Matthew 15: 8, 9:
'THIS PEOPLE HONORS ME WITH THEIR LIPS, BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR AWAY FROM ME. 'BUT IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING AS DOCTRINES THE PRECEPTS OF MEN.'"
We Americans and our British cousins need to cultivate a radical vision of reformation and revival. We need to galvanize faithful, joyful, unashamed communities of Christians who know how to boldly restore the Crown rights of Jesus Christ in local and national life, and who then will make it happen.
Bill Madden writes, "Refusing illegal orders in the military is difficult to do because they normally are generated high in the chain of command and very few officers in the chain really know what is or is not a legal order. Immediate superiors can be very demanding and the orders are usually given in high pressure environments. Refusing an illegal military order is tantamount to whistleblowing and, as much good as it does for the concept of truth, the whistleblower’s life is made miserable as a punishment for his honesty and a warning to others."
I watched this happen with Army Spec Michael New during the Clinton years. He disobeyed an illegal Clinton order, was arrested on base in Germany, was then given an unjust, unconstitutional trial, and then a Bad Conduct Discharge. But he stood his ground the whole time and has been proven right since.
“Fact check; not locking down at all (like Sweden) would have saved lives in UK. Hard to believe how much money the UK spent on its sham covid inquiry.”
--Jay Bhattacharya
The UK Covid-19 Inquiry cost millions. It finally released the core political chapters of its long-awaited report. After nearly three years of hearings, millions of documents, and tens of millions of pounds spent on legal fees, the conclusion is now unmistakably clear.
They’ve learned nothing, even while watching millions suffer from lockdowns and vaccination.
Worse, they may not want to learn. The Inquiry’s structure, its analytical frame, even its carefully curated narrative all point in the same direction: away from the possibility that Britain’s pandemic response was fundamentally misguided.
Not the personal sub;
the private American car. Americans owe $1.66 trillion in auto debt. Delinquencies just hit levels not seen since the Great Financial Crisis. Nearly 30% of all trade-ins are underwater. Average amount owed: $7,000 more than their cars are worth.
Auto loans are now a bigger consumer debt category than student loans (8.9%) and significantly larger than credit cards (6.6%).
So is that shiny late model vehicle a blessing, or a curse?
