CIVICS

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A FOCUS FOR 2022 As 2021 was coming to a close, I was asking the Lord to show me what I should focus on as we entered 2022. I kept...

Clarifying Our Mission & Vision

Since we started five weeks ago, seventy people have been coming to our Biblical Citizenship in Modern America Class, held at the Ridges,...

Which Way Will You Influence?

You influence others. You influence at home, and in your circle of contacts—at work or school, formally or informally. At the most basic...

Why Aren't They?

These days I can feel myself getting a little defensive when people start pointing fingers at pastors, asking, “Why aren’t they teaching...

Changing Culture, One Heart at a Time

It is PRAYER that shifts atmospheres and changes culture! And it happens from the inside-out, one heart at a time. Everything around us...

STORY:: How It Came To Be

2020 really got me thinking. Like so many others, I was reeling a bit after our brutal 2020. The world seemed to go completely mad...

Sifting Through Chaos - January, 2021

TUMBLING AROUND MY HEAD THESE PAST WEEKS AND MONTHS WERE THE WORDS, "INFORMATION WAR." Truly—have you ever seen so much information...

Not Red or Blue

“I am not a Democrat or a Republican, I vote for the men who will do what I feel is best for our country.” * John Kristiansen, 1960...

No Other Place

"Only America could have produced them all. No other place." God has blessed us as a nation of diverse people. He has given us the...

Hidden in Plain Sight

In my post, Under the Desk, I talked about the awareness I had about communism as a child. I also shared how life went on, and most of us...

Under the Desk

I remember the threat of communism as a child . . . and the possibility of physical attack. The cold war started in 1947. It was a stand...

DIANE O'CONNOR