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One day the prison warden came to me and said, "A representative from the German embassy is here to see you. Get dressed and go down to the gate." As I walked towards the gate where visitors waited to see prisoners, the lady from the embassy saw me and shouted, "Today I have good news for you! You are…

I know it because I’ve experienced spiritual no-man’s land personally. I know what it’s like to be bound in a habit I could not get control of. I still remember the days of my rebellion against God’s will for my life. Closely aligned with that rebellion was a twin addiction that I struggled with. I could…

America through the eyes of a Romanian newspaper Why are Americans so united? They would not resemble one another even if you painted them all one color! They speak all the languages of the world and form an astonishing mixture of civilizations and religious beliefs. Still , the American tragedy turned…

Imagine a country in which there were no traffic laws whatsoever. There were plenty of cars, but no rules about how those cars can be driven. No speed limits, no minimum age requirements, no safety standards, no "no parking" signs, no dotted lines down the middle of the road, no stop lights, no drunk…

A fish only has freedom in his fish bowl. If he wants freedom to live on the carpet, he will die. God has design us.---- Source: Magazine Name, January 1, 2006

Today's culture tells us that Freedom and Authority are opposites. However, if there were no driving laws, how free would you be to go out onto the road and drive? Source: James Beeke, Fall, 2008

Mike Harmon cannot tell you how he lost his willpower, but he is certain that it is gone. On a recent Thursday night, sitting in a grungy recliner at the Stop Smoking Hypnosis Clinic of Baltimore County, the middle-aged man shrugs his shoulders. "I don't have it anymore," he says. "It's gone." Neecy…

Luther and Erasmus: The Controversy Concerning the Bondage of the Will Protestant Reformed Theological Journal ^ | April 1999 | Garrett J. Eriks Posted on Sunday, January 01, 2006 6:48:03 PM by HarleyD Introduction At the time of the Reformation, many hoped Martin Luther and Erasmus could unite against…

Frederick Douglass grew up as a slave in Maryland in the early nineteenth century. For Frederick, slavery was brutal. He was taken from his mother when he was only a baby. For years as a child, his owner would dump runny corn meal in something like a pig trough, then call all the slave children to come…

Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be slaves of the things we do like. How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free, Ernie J. Zelinski, page 34

“I have struggled with faith all my life. My conflict with God intensified with Laura’s illness. But now I keep thinking back on what you said about us wanting God’s absolute control and life’s absolute freedom. I never thought of it that way before. We want two things from God that by their nature cannot…

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law. That the Greeks, so far as our knowledge goes, were the first to achieve this recognition and this freedom in both philosophy and government is the secret of their accomplishment, and of their importance in history. The Story of Civilization…

For many years the license plates of New Hampshire bore the slogan, made famous by Revolutionary War general John Stark - "live free or die." The irony is that those great words were printed onto the license plates by inmates in the state prison. They could not leave their prison, but many of us stay…

Where liberty dwells, there is my country. Benjamin Franklin

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. Source: Lewis Smedes

If a man does only what is required o him he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. - Chinese Proverb

Watchmen on the Walls of Freedom "We in this country, in this generation, are by destiny rather than choice the watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask therefore, that we may be worthy of our power and responsibility, that we may exercise our strength with wisdom and restraint, and that we may…

After attending a concert of Viennese music at Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall in Sarasota, Fla. I noticed an old man in the foyer, circling in three-quarter time. “It makes me so happy, that music!” he said when he stopped near me. “I came from Vienna.” “You miss your homeland?” I asked. “No,” he said,…

Scene Setup: Marty is a well-cared-for zebra at the New York City zoo. But in front of his treadmill is a mural that depicts a scene of the wild places he longs to go. Scene: Marty the zebra explains to some people that he is there 365 days a year and seems sad about it. Marty notices a disturbance in…

How Much Do You Know? In a recent Constitution Poll commissioned by the National Constitution Center, fewer than 50 percent of the respondents knew how many U.S. Senators there are; only 6 percent could name the four rights guaranteed by the First Amendment; and 84 percent thought the Constitution states…

Flannery O'Connor observed in a letter to a nonbelieving friend, dated December 9, 1958. "To have the Church be what you want it to be would require the continuous miraculous meddling of God in human affairs, whereas it is our dignity that we are allowed more or less to get on with those graces that…

I tried to explain our Social Security system to my cleaning woman who had emigrated from El Salvador five years earlier. She listened carefully and then said, “Here you can get up every morning and think what you want to do and you can try to do it. You can say what you want even if nobody wants you…

The reality of freedom in the contemporary world is valued. It should be valued. Man was made in the image and likeness of God and therefore is freer than any other non-personal being. It is very easy to see the tragedy that comes when there is an attempt to infringe upon or deny a person’s freedom.…

Since 1928, the Boy Scouts of America's Cradle of Liberty Council has occupied rent-free headquarters in Philadelphia. But last week, the Philadelphia City Council passed a resolution to evict the Boy Scouts from their headquarters unless they back away from their homosexual exclusion policy. The resolution,…

Prayer breaks down walls WW2; Hitler; Berlin Wall; Division; Protection; Prayer; Pray; Revival; Peace; Hate; Freedom; Free; After World War II, Berlin—the capital of Germany and headquarters of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich—was overseen by the four Allied nations that had united to defeat Hitler: America,…