“Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, set your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance,” - 1 Peter 1: 13-14
@BasedTorba That is why, I believe, we are meant to serve others. The metaphor of planting a tree: one plants a tree knowing he will not enjoy its shade when it is fully grown. Mr. Torba, you are correct we need to build. However, what we build is not for us but for future generations.
“You know this, my beloved brothers and sisters. Now everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; for a man’s anger does not bring about the righteousness of God.” - James 1: 19-20
Psalms 121:1 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. Psalms 121:2 My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
“Through Him then, let’s continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips praising His name. And do not neglect doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.” - Hebrews 13: 15-16
“Therefore, in all things He had to be made like His brothers [become human] so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God [become He was tested/tempted] to make propitiation for the sins of the people.” - Hebrews 2: 17
“But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we did in righteousness, but in accordance with His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,” - Titus 3: 4-5
Consider these words from 1920, written by French author Hilaire Belloc:
“The modern world imagines that it has outgrown religion. It has done nothing of the kind. It has merely forgotten it. And because it has forgotten it, it no longer understands itself. Men do not realize that the whole framework of their moral judgments, their political habits, and even their intellectual methods were formed within a Christian society and cannot exist long outside it. When that framework breaks, they will not find themselves enlightened, but bewildered; not free, but enslaved; not rational, but confused.”
“But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil…” 1 Timothy 6: 9-10
Just in time for America 250, my new book The Christian Nationalist Vision: Rebuilding Christendom from the Ashes of Modernity is now live.
America cannot survive on nostalgia, procedure, and slogans. A nation needs a soul. It needs fathers, families, churches, schools, builders, culture, memory, and a particular people willing to hand down an inheritance to their children.
America 250 should be more than a hollow civic celebration. It should be a call to repentance, remembrance, and rebuilding.
Christ is King. The family must be restored. The Church must be strengthened. The nation must be remembered. Christian civilization must rise again.
Anyone trying to redefine an American as an idea is explicitly saying that you, your fathers, and your children are not people. It’s dehumanizing by default.
“Therefore, if you have been raised with Christ, keep seeking the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on the things that are above, not on the things that are on earth.” - Colossians 3: 1-2
We've all broken God's laws.
Jesus kept them perfectly.
You deserve judgment.
He took it on the cross.
He rose from the dead in power, and now He calls you:
Repent. Believe. Be saved by grace through faith in Christ. There's no other way.