The culture is raging against God and His people. On this week’s Liberty Cafe, we examine one form of this attack on God and the church: Side B Homosexuality and gay pastors. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | RSS
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PCA Members Should Speak Out on Overture 15
I attend a church in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). The PCA is one of the more “conservative,” or biblically sound, denominations in the United States. Yet over the last 25 years the woke progressive movement has been making inroads into the PCA like it has in many other denominations. These inroads have been…
The Liberty Café 98: Teacher Unions, Texas Politicians, and More
Teacher unions and Texas politicians are damaging, respectively, our schools and electric grid. On this week’s Liberty Cafe, we discuss why throwing money at public schools and the electric grid won’t solve the problems with either of them. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | RSS
Rescued from Exile: A Homily on Ezekiel
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you are trying to accomplish something but the information you have to sort through to do so is so overwhelming that you are tempted to give up? One example of this is the costs I incurred after my car engine stopped working one afternoon. It turns…
Texans Property Taxes are High Because Texas Politicians Like it That Way
States compete using various means to attract new businesses and residents to drive economic growth. For instance, CNBC ranks America’s Top States for Business with criteria such as Cost of Doing Business, Infrastructure, Business Friendliness, and Technology and Innovation. It also includes criteria that are more focused on residents, including Life, Health, and Inclusion and…
The Liberty Café 97: Can the Texas Electric Grid Survive the Renewable Onslaught?
Texas’ electric grid is being overwhelmed by unreliable and unaffordable electricity from wind and solar farms. On this week’s Liberty Cafe, I talk with energy expert Robert Bryce about how Texas can get out of the mess our politicians have gotten us into. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | RSS
Texas Politicians and Citizens Enable Corporate Theft
It was not that long ago that property tax abatements were illegal in Texas because they wereconsidered to be theft. The market’s job was to create jobs and grow the economy. The government’s job was toensure a level playing field for all market participants through efficient civil and criminal justicesystems and limited regulation. Acknowledging the…
Protestant Resistance Theory
Romans 13 tells us to “be subject to the governing authorities.” Yet the leaders of the Protestant Reformation, from Luther and Calvin to Knox, Rutherford, Junius Brutus, and others, had a problem: the rulers they were supposed to be subject to were trying to, or actually did, murder them. To understand what the Bible taught…
The Liberty Café 95: God and Government w/ Gary DeMar, Part II
We live in a fallen, messy world. In Part II of our interview with Gary DeMar of American Vision, we discuss how the path out of this mess is through biblical government, in which all forms of human government acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | RSS
Rule by Experts: Two Approaches to Economic Development
“The conventional approach to economic development … is based on a technocratic illusion: the belief that poverty is a purely technical problem amendable to … technical solutions.” ~ William Easterly Under significant political pressure from the left and the right, the Texas Legislature last year let expire the Chapter 313 “economic development” program that allows…