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Fri, Jan 11, 2013
Randy Alcorn
Culture and Worldview
balance, borrowing, budget, congress, debt, government, israel, lending, lorne blackman, national debt, president, spending

How Significant is Our National Debt, and What Are Its Implications?

balance scale I have pointed out before that one thing Republican and Democratic administrations have in common is their apparent unwillingness to do what it takes to balance our budget.

Wed, Oct 10, 2012
Randy Alcorn
Politics
2012, barack obama, conservative, democrat, election, liberal, martin luther king, mitt romney, national debt, politics, poor, poverty, president, republican, robert f. kennedy, tax revenues

Election 2012, Part 1: Racial Issues, Helping the Poor and Financial Responsibility

Obama and Romney I have postponed writing about this election because I feel at a loss as to what to say or how best to say it. Reluctantly, now that the election is only four weeks away, I’ve decided to give it a try. (I may regret it, and you may too.)

Wed, Dec 14, 2011
Randy Alcorn
Culture and Worldview
2012 election, candidate, christians, conservatives, election, evangelicals, newt ginggrich, politics, president, presidential campaign, randy alcorn, the new york times

How High Should Our Standards Be When it Comes to the U.S. President?

Newt Ginggrich On the one hand, we should be acutely aware that every candidate is imperfect. We will be voting for a president, not a pastor, and certainly not a Messiah. We must hold fully to the biblical standards of leadership when it comes to appointing church leaders.

Thu, Feb 12, 2009
Randy Alcorn
Christians, Past and Present (By and About), Prolife
abortion, abraham lincoln, civil rights, desiring god, evil, habakkuk, human rights, john piper, president, right to life, slavery, suffering

Lincoln's logic on slavery extends to all human rights

Happy birthday to my favorite president, Abraham Lincoln. While he still held to some racist stereotypes, he managed to rise above the worldview of his era and affirm the wrongness of slavery and the rights of all people.

What Lincoln wrote below applies not only to slavery and racism, but to other human rights issues such as sexism and abortion:

You say A. is white, and B. is black. It is color, then; the lighter, having the right to enslave the darker? Take care. By this rule, you are to be slave to the first man you meet, with a ...

Mon, Feb 02, 2009
Randy Alcorn
Politics, Prolife
african american, barack obama, human rights, prayer, president, randy alcorn

President Obama and Abortion

NBC rejected a Catholic prolife commercial from being shown during the Super Bowl. Here it is. Definitely worth watching!

(Click here if you're unable to view the video.)

Here are a couple of good articles that talk about the Obama administration and abortion:

Rejecting abortion using Obama's argument

John Piper Responds to Obama on Abortion

And here's a great letter, written by Pastor Ron Jones, to our nation's new president:

2009 Inauguration I rejoice in the fact that an African-American has been elected, a true affirmation of our nation’s fundamental premise that all persons are created ...