CTV Shiawassee

08/21/2026

If I say ‘There is too much evil in this world’, I assume there’s ‘good’. When I assume there’s good, I assume there such a thing as a ‘moral law’ on the basis of which to differentiate between good and evil. But if I assume a moral law, I assume there is a ‘Moral-Law Giver’. On the other hand if there’s no Moral-Law Giver, there’s no moral law. It there’s no moral law, there’s no good, there’s no evil. Adapted from Ravi Zacharias

That’s the difference between a world with God and a world without God. That’s the difference between Biblical Christianity and Darwinistic secularism described by Oxford University evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins to be “the universe we observe has precisely the properties we expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.”

Without God, the state, the government, becomes God, the Ultimate Authority or Supreme Being, without appeal to a ‘Higher Authority’ for what is considered good or evil. That’s the world of Marxism that socialism is rooted in and founded upon. Marx called Christianity “the op**te of the people” that kept people content. This kept them from initiating the violent revolution he foresaw as essential for the overthrow of capitalism and the advent of a utopian communistic state.

07/20/2026

“It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly implore His protection and favor.” George Washington

“The safety and prosperity of NATIONS ultimately and essentially depend on the protection and the blessing of Almighty God, and the NATIONAL acknowledgement of this truth…an indispensable duty which people owe to him.” John Adams, 2nd President of the U.S.

“It is the duty of NATIONS as well…and to recognize the sublime truth announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history that nations are blessed whose God is the Lord [Psalm 33:12].
We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us. It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.” Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the U.S.

07/18/2026

07/15/2026

Investigate the platform of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) that now controls the direction of the Democrat Party:

Workers Deserve More!

07/15/2026

What role did Christianity play in the founding and development of America and ultimately the United States? Should Christianity have any influence over politics or should there be “a wall of separation” as has been the refrain of the past seventy years or so? Listen to what a French visitor had to say.

From Democracy in America by Tocqueville, a French statesman and historian in 1831:

Upon my arrival in the United States, the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention; and the longer I stayed there the more did I perceive the great political consequences resulting from this state of things, to which I was unaccustomed. In France I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom pursuing courses diametrically opposed to each other; but in America I found that they were intimately united, and that they reigned in common over the same country.

…they brought with them into the New World a form of Christianity which I cannot better describe than by styling it a democratic and republican religion. This sect contributed powerfully to the establishment a democracy and a republic, and from the earliest settlement of the emigrants politics and religion contracted an alliance which has never been dissolved.

…there is no country in the world in which the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America; and there can be no greater proof of its utility, and of its conformity to human nature, than that its influence is most powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation of the earth.

Religion in America takes no direct part in the government of society, but it must nevertheless be regarded as the foremost of the political institutions of the country; for if it does not impart a taste for freedom, it facilitates the use of free institutions…I am certain that they hold it to be indispensable to the maintenance of republican institutions. This opinion is not peculiar to a class of citizens or to a party, but it belongs to the whole nation, and to every rank of society.

The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.

Is this just the mistaken or misguided opinion of Tocqueville? The statesmen of Michigan who wrote the Constitution of Michigan stated in its Preamble: We, the people of the State of Michigan, grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of freedom, and earnestly desiring to secure these blessings undiminished to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution.

Is this just the view of those who wrote the Constitution of Michigan? Try researching the preambles of each of the fifty states.

Preamble to the Constitution of Indiana: WE, THE PEOPLE of the STATE OF INDIANA, grateful to ALMIGHTY GOD for the free exercise of the right to choose our own form of government, do ordain this CONSTITUTION.

Try Illinois, Arizona, California, Florida, Idaho, etc. All fifty state preambles have some reference to God.

07/12/2026

Did God have His hand on George Washington for His will and purposes?

In 1755, as a 23 year old Colonel Washington of Virginia 100 buckskins with British General Edward Braddock and his 1,300 troops, were ambushed by a French and Indian war party. 714 British troops were shot down and of the 86 British and American officers, 62 were either killed or wounded having been specifically targeted by the enemy. And Washington was the only officer not shot down off his horse though having ridden back and forth on the front lines with orders to the troops.

In 1770, when Washington was on a surveying trip in the same area where the battle took place in 1755, an elderly Indian chief traveled to meet him explaining “I have traveled a long and weary path that I might see the young warrior of the great battle.” He explained that he had been a leader with the French. He had ordered his braves to single out the officers and shoot them down and that Washington had been specifically targeted. The chief proudly announced that his own rifle had never been known to miss, but after personally firing at Washington 17 times without effect, he concluded that Washington was under the care of the Great Spirit. He therefore instructed his braves to stop firing at him, confessing to Washington that he had “come to pay homage to the man who is the particular favorite of Heaven, and who [can] never die in battle.”

Red Hawk, another Indian chief in the battle, similarly testified of shooting 11 times at Washington without hitting him. And because his gun never missed its mark, he too, ceased firing at him, likewise convinced that the Great Spirit protected him.

Twenty four years later in the 1779 Battle of Brandywine, a similar Divine intervention occurred. Throughout the battle, British Major Patrick Ferguson, a renowned rifle shot and head of the British sharpshooters, quietly move his men around in the forest, singling out one American after another, shooting them down. As the battle proceeded, he singled out the next target to his men, and he and three of his best sharpshooters drew down on an unsuspecting victim. But just before Ferguson ordered them to fire, he experienced a surprising impulse, later recounting that the thought of shooting that particular soldier suddenly disgusted him. The American officer, now in pointblank range, turned and looked directly at Ferguson locking eyes with him over the sights of Ferguson’s rifle. After a few moments, the American slowly turned his horse, deliberately showed his fully exposed back to Ferguson, and then calmly cantered away.

Ferguson recalled: “I could have lodged half a dozen balls in him before he was out of my reach…but I let him live.” He later discovered that it had been General George Washington whom he had allowed to live.

There are more examples of God’s hand preserving Washington’s life.

taken from The Founder’s Bible

07/05/2026

What happened to the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence?
Nineteen of the fifty-six signers put on military uniforms and went to war, two died at the hands of the British (seven others died during the war), and two were wounded in battle; and including those signers who also led in arenas outside the military, five were made prisoners of war, seventeen lost their estates or fortunes, five incurred heavy debt by personally financing the war, fourteen lost their families or were separated from them, two lost children, and three lost wives. Yet there was not a single recorded instance of any of the fifty-six refusing to deliver on his promise, Securing independence truly was costly for the signers-all of them. from the Founder’s Bible

Before the signers said “we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor” they pronounced “a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence” which was a common expression in that period for God.

07/02/2026

A little known fact regarding America’s Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776, 250 years ago. Thomas Jefferson’s first draft of the Declaration of Independence included the following:

“he (the King of England) has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. this piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce: and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, & murdering the people upon whom he also obtruded them; thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another.”

This paragraph was excluded because 11 colonies supported including it, but Georgia and South Carolina would not sign it with it included. The Continental Congress needed all 13 colonies to sign it to present a united front against England.

In preceding years, numerous attempts had been made by a number of colonies to either eliminate their colony's slave trade or to begin to restrict it in various ways.

07/01/2026

This Saturday, July 4, 2026 marks the 250th Anniversary of the birth of the United States of America with the adoption of the Declaration on July 4, 1776. The actual signing did not occur until August 2, 1776.

The ideas put forth in the Declaration were not original with America’s Founding Fathers. They put forth in the document a compilation of ideas that were developed over hundreds of years beginning with King Alfred the Great of Wessex 800’s AD (England) using the Bible to write law, the Magna Carta 1215, the English Bill of Rights 1689 and much more that became known as English Common Law.

The Declaration of Independence was unique in that it formed a nation based on these ideas. That had never been done before in history.

What were these ideas that separates America from the rest of the nations of the world?

6 Basic Principles in the Declaration of Independence - These are the principles that make us citizens and masters of our own destinies and no longer mere subjects or slaves to the whims of a king or dictator.

1. There is a Creator - The civil government acknowledged the existence of the sovereign Creator God and our national dependence upon His superintending care (in the first two and the final paragraphs of the Declaration).
2. All men are created equal - 1] in the eyes of their Creator God and 2] in the eyes of the law and 3] in opportunity and rights (but not in ability or outcomes.)
3. Man’s unalienable rights come from God - Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness (more rights are found in the Bill of Rights).
4. Government exists to protect those God given unalienable rights. “Governments are instituted among men” “to secure these rights” “deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed”
5. God established a fixed moral law - “the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God” - applies to all people in all places and at all times. Government does not have authority over God’s moral law set forth in the Bible i.e. the Ten Commandments among others.
6. Men have the right to alter or abolish destructive government - “That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right and the duty of the people to alter or abolish it and to institute a new government.” Article V of the U.S. Constitution provides the method to amend itself which has been done twenty seven times.
These are fundamental principles that are worth defending and advancing as America moves into the future. Our rights come from God, not from government as one sitting U.S. Senator recently said. What government claims to grant, governments can take away just as easily. Our God given rights are outside the reach of the fickle government of men.