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Two Idahos This Election? Or Two Republican Parties?

For patriots and conservatives, the results of the May primary were discouraging and a blow for freedom on a statewide scale. After the two years of lockdowns and restrictions on our state and the tyranny imposed by our Governor, Attorney General and leaders in our legislature we thought the eyes of the electorate would be […]

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Citizenship and Voting — Elections Matter!

“Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don’t vote.” ~ Daniel Webster, US House Representative and Senator Idaho will vote on May 17th and our voting history is interesting and instructive over the past decades. Idaho elected Donald Trump for President by 30 points in 2020. Three counties voted for Biden: Latah […]

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Have We Lost The Culture War? The Long March Won

In the last article that ran recently we went back in time to lay out the complete takeover of the critical institutions that establish truth and morality in our culture. That included education, main stream media, colleges, law, entertainment and popular culture. If you thought that was a stretch you only had to look at […]

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Heart of Hope Health – Where the Heart Matters

There were meetings locally and throughout our state that were a direct result of the lockdowns and lack of caring for patients and families during the Covid spread. Relatives, pastors and priests could not see those who were sick and dying in the hospital. Churches and schools were prevented from opening and when they did […]

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The Long March – Why the Left Celebrates Success

Os Guinness is a treasure among Christian apologists today and yes he is related to the Irish brewing family. His parents were missionaries in China and were held captive under the Japanese and had to flee back to the UK after Mao and the communists took control Os spent time with Francis Schaeffer at L’abri […]

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Is Confrontation Christian?

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.” – Romans 1:16 Our nation, and the world, has been focused on the protests by the Canadien truckers and their willingness to sacrifice […]

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Voices of Warning – The Hour Is Late!

In 1995 Dr. Erwin Lutzer, Moody Church Pastor for over 30 years, wrote a book entitled Hitler’s Cross which was an in-depth look into the tyrannical takeover of the church in Germany by Adolph Hitler. Lutzer describes Germany in the 1930’s and what happens when evil meets a silent, shrinking church, and is an intriguing […]

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The Consequences of Elections

Our Worst Modern Day President? From time to time you see rankings of American Presidents from the best to worst, consistently George Washington is ranked as the greatest. In the modern era it is a different story. I would put Calvin Coolidge, Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump in the running as our greatest of this […]

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A Divided Country – Will We Have Another Awakening?

“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” -2 Chronicles 7:14 There have been many observers that have made the comparison that our […]

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1776 Versus 1789 – The Great Reset or The Great Awakening?

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” — John Adams The French and American Revolutions happened within a dozen years of one another, yet they centered around two very different concepts of individual liberty. For the French, the goal was to […]

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A Christian Worldview

Having a Voice “Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.” Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835 Most […]

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School Board Elections November 2nd

“These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.” -Deuteronomy 6:6-7 If nothing is more […]

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