In the past fourteen years, 292 people were killed in four April mass murders in the United States, and perhaps others could be added to the tally.

Ginned-up racial strife provides an opportunity for powerful people and groups to maintain their power and to push toward their political goals.

Many Americans have reached the nadir of morality and inhumanity described in Hosea 4:1-2. How much lower can we go and still function as a civil society?

Philosophically, the belief in the innate goodness of human nature has been a part of the liberal mind at least as long as the ideas of Mencius, Confucius, and Plato.

All sin has occurred because God has given people the ability to make choices. Knowing that God is right will help deter us from making the wrong choice.

Gun control was attempted in Dodge City but rejected when it was discovered that the evil doers had the upper hand if the populace could not defend itself.

Global conflict increased dramatically between 2021 and 2023, in contrast to the prior six years. The outlook for peace apart from Christ's return is dim.

A brave hero, Riley Howell, an ROTC student, saved the lives of his fellow students, giving up his own as he tackled the deranged UNCC dropout, Trystan Terrell.

Te Middle East has become embroiled in a deadly new intifada, with angry haters of Jacob's children unleashing unending hamas on the descendants of Judah.

We dare not yield to politically correct propaganda, brainwashing us into thinking that murder, sexual perversion, or any evil is acceptable in the eyes of God.

When Jesus said the end time would be like the days of Noah, did He mean that the last days would be violent and corrupt, or that they would come suddenly?

The commandment against murder is the one most universally followed by man. But Jesus shows there is much more behind it than merely taking another's life.

Political correctness is a kind of programmed conditioning by progressives to convince people to override their common sense and clear evidence.

Because restraints that once held human nature in check have been removed, the US has grown increasingly more corrupt, approaching conditions before the Flood.

Of the Four Horsemen, the red horse is the easiest to interpret. While war is the predominant symbol, the rider of the red horse may strike closer to home.

As God anciently used Gentile nations to puncture Israel's pride, so He may allow Gentiles in Israel to serve as a testimony of Israel's lawlessness.

The liberal media has also spread the heinous lie to the Black citizenry that government is the only answer to correct racism and bring about equity.

No ethical issue since the Civil War has so disturbed the social fabric of this nation. People instinctively know that abortion is not morally neutral.

Resolving these problems is not possible unless policy-makers factor in human carnality. The solution is character reform, not political reform.

According to the liberal media, all we have to do is get world leaders in one room, and after a few handshakes and a couple of beers—voila! World peace!

The growing brutality and moral decay of modern society is a clear, visible sign of the times pointing to Christ's imminent return.

Paul describes the latter times, when people will behave like spoiled brats, cursing, looting, and showing no self-control—all happening today.

God has never given mankind the prerogative to determine whether war is just or not. God has promised to protect us, conditioned on our obedience to our covenant.

Even as Hebrews prepared the first century church for persecution, so it is also relevant to today's church as it faces an increasing assault on God's law.

Because of lawlessness, love has gone stone-cold. Sin and lawlessness begets more sin and lawlessness, and natural affection and love disappear.

The spirit of jihad has jumped its bounds, eagerly infecting a generation of deluded, mis-educated American youth to take to the streets in a new holy war.

The tragic murder of Charlie Kirk feels like a watershed moment. our society has reached a cultural turning point where civil discourse has collapsed.

Narcissism and self-centeredness have snuffed out out-going concern, and everyone does what is right in their own eyes as the love of many grows cold.

A Twitter user, referring to the continuing riots, posted, 'When you appease criminals to try to 'get along', they see your weakness and take over.'

We are obligated to be conscientious and diligent in whatever work is placed before us, guided by our conscience and influenced by God's Spirit.

American culture is in obvious decline, and it is undoubtedly linked to the fact that mainstream Christianity is bereft of moral leadership.

While the 2023 Israel-Hamas War shocked the world, it may not signal the end. These two peoples have been fighting for millennia. Other signs must be present.

God used the unconverted Israelites as His instrument of removal of the Canaanites, but showed them the fruits of war, including captivity for disobedience.

The world has no idea where peace comes from because they have long ago rejected the Prince of Peace and His prescription for tranquility.

The rash of school shootings in America definitely has a cause, but it is not the ones that the experts predictably blame on the evening news.

The prophecy of Micah had a delayed effect, taking many years before a reformer emerged on the scene. Jeremiah's life was spared because of the memory of Micah.

Many believe that we are allowed to take another's life in defense of our own, God's Word distinguishes only between accidental and premeditated killing.

We are ambassadors in a foreign land, awaiting the return of Christ, when we will help our Warrior King subdue all the rebellious nations of the earth.

Micah 5 describes legal proceedings against the people who have rejected God, promising a harsh retribution but future restoration for a physical remnant.

Satan has done a good job of sabotaging the educational system of this nation, a deliberate effort by those motivated by a desire for wealth and power.

Military strategists have desensitized people to accept killing as normal and acceptable, even as Video games condition people to enjoy killing.

Our culture has undergone a vast change in its standards of morality, seen in a change in national attitude, a lifting of mental fog and an emergent rage.

Only by a massive returning to God will the political landscape change for the better. The culture will only change for the worse if mobs get their way.

We need to avoid the trap of self-justification, allowing our hasty words to lure us into sin. We must be quick to listen, and slow to speak.

The defilement that begins in the heart is shaped, molded, and conditioned by the media, training people to override their conscience, desensitizing them.

Having experienced the turmoil of the Catholic—Protestant clash, the framers of our Constitution did not want any sect dictating religious doctrines or practices.

The mercurial fads in fashion and music have a lot to do with what the Germans refer to as Zeitgeist - or the spirit of the times or spirit of the age.

Jesus emphasized the spirit of the law, which places deterrents on the motive (anger, resentment, envy, revenge), preventing murder from ever taking place.