ECCE

      Jesus taught about the Kingdom of God with great authority as He taught the Beatitudes, the Lord's Prayer and the Golden Rule. He taught that with the Kingdom of God comes the righteousness of God. Jesus told His listeners not to be worried about what they will eat, drink or wear. If God provides glory for the flowers and food for the birds of the earth, how much more will He care for you? "Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek): for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need for all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for these things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." (Mt. 6:25-34, excerpt).      Do not be conformed to this world but be tran...

      Abraham Lincoln gave a famous speech at Gettysburg and part of what he said to describe the United States' republic was "a government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth." But is this what we really want? By the people?      Scriptures tell us that the welfare and deliverance of a nation does not come from the people: "I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth . My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof and be glad. O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together. I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and he delivered me from all my fears...This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles...Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD...The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles." (Ps. 34:1-17, excerpt, see also Ps. 50:1...