The Alliance of Reformed and Theonomic Churches (ARTC)

"The goal of the ARTC is unity within the nuances of certain aspects of diversity while remaining adherent to the "Five Sola" doctrinal structure of the Reformation. The ARTC does not wish to micro-manage every nuance of every congregation such as the methodology of the sacraments, head coverings, liturgy, exclusive psalmody, and non-instrumentation within the worship. These will be left to the local session. The ARTC encourages all worship to be done soberly, in right order and regulated by Scripture."

Learn more about the ARTC, including a directory of its churches, here.

Churches must reject the Federal Vision and New Perspective on Paul heresies. 

The ARTC Facebook page is here.

A meeting is planned next week for those interested in joining. From the Facebook page:

"Pastors, and administrative leaders from The ARTC will be meeting on January 15th (Martin Luther King Day) at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Reading, PA. The meeting will begin at 10am but will continue throughout the day.

Any pastor or church leader who may be interested in learning more about the ARTC federation can join us at the Crowne, or go to our website http://www.thereformationalliance.org/ to learn more.

For immediate questions please email pastor@hisglory.us."

Faith Based Security Network (Security for Churches)

About the organization:

Times are serious for churches and faith based organizations across the world. In America, we had let down our guard. American bible-based ministries had developed a westernized idea that God was somehow different here than in other parts of the world; that evil would never invade our sanctuary.

The times of denial are over; evil has invaded American sanctuaries and will continue to do so. It is time to take individual ministry readiness to the next level.

On October 18th, 2017, the IRS approved the Faith Based Security Network, Inc. (FBSN) as a 501(C)(3) public charity. We will soon be rolling out the details of how this new ministry will help law-enforcement and faith-based organizations (FBO's) work together to better prepare for the next one. And there will be a next one.

The FBSN goes beyond individual preparedness as the first Christian based security association to ever bring together the people of all types and locations of ministries as a national connected network. Not only is the time of denial behind us, but it is time to stop being silos of proprietary information.

The FBSN is a religious non-profit organization serving faith-based security and interested law-enforcement professionals with 5 services critical to improving American FBO readiness. 

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MayflowerHistory.com - An Internet Database of Pilgrim History

MayflowerHistory.com is "the Internet's most complete and accurate website dealing with the Mayflower passengers and the history of the Pilgrims and early Plymouth Colony.  This website was first created back in 1994 (when the web was still mostly text!) as a simple, but complete, passenger list of the Mayflower.  It has grown over the past twenty years as the author, historian Caleb Johnson, has researched and compiled material."

This is an excellent database for learning more about the godly Pilgrims. This page includes primary source documents and links to church, town, and court records. There is also a Research Library here.

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Landmark Events

"At Landmark Events we are passionate about teaching history to the next generation. When our children, and we ourselves, study true history they will develop a sense of context, understanding that they are not a random occurrence amidst a sea of random occurrences, but uniquely placed in time. 

"The benefits they now enjoy were wrought by the sacrifice of their predecessors, and consequently they have a duty to steward what has been given them and an appropriate weight of responsibility to provide for the following generation. As we mine the treasures of history together, we will foster a sense of gratitude for our present inheritance and nurture a vision of hope for our future."

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The Mather Project

The matherproject.org © is an outgrowth of an ongoing effort to publish Cotton Mather’s holograph manuscript “Biblia Americana” (1693-1728), a huge commentary on the Bible, currently edited by an international team of scholars, and collaboratively published in 10 volumes by Mohr Siebeck (Germany) and Baker Academic (USA). 

In focusing on the Mather Family, a renowned dynasty of Puritan ministers in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, our aim is similar to that of the Jonathan Edwards Center at Yale University and its online database of The Works of Jonathan Edwards: to stimulate interest in the intellectual contributions of some of the foremost founders and leaders of the New England Way and to provide access to the unpublished and select number of published family papers of Richard Mather (1596-1669), Increase Mather (1639-1723), and Cotton Mather (1663-1728). Their more than 700 published titles are well known and accessible through such online databases as Early English Books Online (Chadwyck-Healey), Eighteenth-Century Collection Online (Gale), and Readex (NewsBank). Their unpublished works, however, are not easily available; they are dispersed in several repositories for historical documents, including the American Antiquarian Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Boston Public Library, or are housed in Rare Books and Manuscript departments of major university libraries in the United States and Europe.

By transcribing, annotating, and introducing this body of documents and by presenting them in an electronically searchable online database, the editors of the Mather Project invite general readers, students, and scholars to (re)discover the pleasure of archival research.

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Samaritan Ministries: "A Biblical, non-insurance approach to Health Care needs"

How Samaritan Ministries' health care sharing works:

"Simply put, health care sharing is a Biblical approach to paying for health care, based on passages such as Galatians 6. Verse two says, "Bear one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ." That law is the royal law of loving one another.

"Although it's actually pretty straight forward, health care sharing can be difficult for us to understand because we are so used to thinking in terms of insurance.

"Here's how the need sharing process works in a nutshell:

Each member commits to sending a set "Share" amount each month. These "Shares" are sent directly through the mail from one household to another, to the members with "Needs". Samaritan Ministries uses a database that randomly matches Shares to Needs, so that the Sharing is coordinated and Shares go to the appropriate members with Needs."

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The Reformation Party

"Every man has the duty to contribute to the dominion mandate (“have dominion ...over every living thing that moveth upon the earth” – Genesis 1:28), which necessarily includes political involvement.  As a practical matter, most men are involved in politics in some way, but the question is how.  Are they voting for and supporting political parties which involve political alliances with heretics and infidels?  (In the US, this would include such political parties as the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, and even the Constitution Party.  For example, a significant portion of the Constitution Party is Mormon.)        

"If so, they are contributing to religious apostasy and calling down the wrath of God upon us, and contradicting the Biblical doctrines outlined in the original Westminster Standards and Three Forms of Unity, whether in ignorance or willfully. ... Can we really expect Arminians, Roman Catholics, Mormons, etc. to help in establishing reformed Christian government pleasing to God?"

Party Platform

1.  It is the duty of all men and institutions of men, including civil governments at every level and for every nation, tribe and tongue, to acknowledge the Biblical doctrines accurately summarized in the original Westminster Standards, and to suppress heresy, idolatry, and every other enemy of sound doctrine, appropriate to their station and calling.  This includes violations of both the first and second tables of the Ten Commandments.

2. It is the duty of civil governments at every level and in every nation to recognize and protect that church which adheres to the Biblical doctrines accurately summarized in the original Westminster Standards, and to be a nursing mother to that church.  And only male communicant members of that church should be allowed to vote or hold public office in civil government.

3.  It is our duty not to enter into unlawful oaths and unlawful confederacies with heretics and infidels for purposes of political expediency.

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Christian Home Industry: Promoting Industrious Homes

"Family reformation and modern technology are combining to enable Christian families to develop their family skills and work together to produce goods and services that provide income and make the family strong.  An outgrowth of the family reformation movement is the desire to work together as a family – to be productive and create value through home businesses.  

"Christian Home Industry started as a desire to help Christian home-based businesses develop broader awareness of their products, and has developed into a comprehensive online marketplace that promotes both our vendors and the concept of the industrious family that drives them."   

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Explicitly Christian Politics

"So how does Explicitly Christian Politics help us?

§  It acknowledges the authority of God’s Word for all of life, including politics;

§  It acknowledges that men, institutions and nations are accountable to God’s law;

§  It provides for the qualifications for civil rulers in order that they rule justly and keep civil government within its God-ordained boundaries;

§  It provides for limited civil government, thereby setting the foundation for godly justice, ethics, unalienable rights, private property and free enterprise;

§  It guards the most fundamental of institutions: marriage and family;

§  It protects the life of the unborn;

§  It promotes God’s ordained order, under which education, healthcare, welfare, and economics are not the responsibility of government, but of other institutions;

§  It urges the adoption of Christian civil government, which ultimately displaces the ideas of secular humanism, and

§  It transforms the political debate into a contest of fundamental belief systems, making it possible to expose unbelieving humanist policies.

"There is a great need for all believers to apply Scripture to all aspects of their lives, including politics. To the degree that Bible-believing Christians embrace ECP, it will be instrumental in restoring liberty and limited government, in exposing and displacing socialistic institutions, and in rebuilding a public Christian political conscience and worldview. This web site aims to expand a discussion of what Explicitly Christian Politics is and why it is essential, and how Christians can be effectively involved in it."

  

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The Christian Liberty Party

COMPACT of MUTUAL CONSENT

In the Name of the Most Holy and Undivided Trinity. Amen.
Believing that Almighty God is the source of all power and authority in civil government, that the Lord Jesus Christ is the Ruler of nations, and that the revealed will of God is the supreme authority in civil affairs; perceiving that the forces of unbelief and pluralism have labored diligently to divorce America from her Christian heritage and Biblical law; and viewing with deep alarm the resulting corruption of our politics, the moral chaos of our society, the loss of our liberties, the apathy of our citizens, and the impending judgment of God upon this nation for its deliberate and grievous rejection of the lordship of Christ and the authority of His Word, we the members of the Christian Liberty Party hereby solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and of one another covenant, combine and associate ourselves together under the terms of the following articles, that we may labor together through all wise and lawful means for the accomplishment of the ends herein set forth. 

The PURPOSE of the Christian Liberty Party shall be:

• to establish in every state an orderly association of families as a Christian political party;
• to promote the Biblical principles of self and civil government, and the establishment of godly order in society;
• to restore to America’s citizens the knowledge and responsibility of her Christian heritage;
• to equip individuals and families in the vocation of citizenship; and,
• to elect qualified leaders and candidates who understand and operate according to the standard of God’s Word.

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Top 10 Theonomy Resources Posts for 2010

Below are our 10 most clicked on links from 2010 (technically up to January 4, 2011).  The kinism heresy is an extremely hot issue, as posts about it dominate the list.

By God's grace, we look forward to a new year contending for Christian civilization.  May God bless our fellow warriors who share the same vision.

1. R. J. Rushdoony versus Kinism 

2. John Weaver is not a Kinist

3. On Burning Books and Demolishing Idols: Part 1: Religious Pluralism: Irrational and Evil

4. The Kinist Tower of Babel

5. Kinism is not pro-Theonomy, but anti-Theonomy

6. Seminary Founded by D. James Kennedy Infected by Federal Visionists

7. Refuting anti-Theonomy Straw Men: Part 1: Separation of Church and State

8. The Westminster Confession of Faith versus Kinism

9. Refuting Kinism: Part 2: Genesis 11:8, 9 (The Tower of Babel) 

10. Rethinking the Pagan Origins of Christmas (by Brian Abshire) 

Where We Have Been And Where We Are Going (National Center for Family-Integrated Churches)

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Event Bloggers: A Project of Providence Report.com

About EventBloggers.com – Welcome to the newest exciting avenue for you to stay up to date on conferences, festivals, and other special events around the country. You don’t have to sit at home wondering what is happening at the events you wanted to attend. We are here to bring you the latest updates so that you can see, hear, and be a part of all the action. Watch our videos with interviews and coverage, view photos from the events, and read our ongoing blog posts. Be sure to join our FaceBook, Twitter, and YouTube pages so that you can get instant updates and interact with others who are excited about the events!

About Providence Report – EventBloggers.com is part of a larger vision for a journalism organization with a global reach – Providence Report. We are excited about our planned 2011 launch of this organization that will inform and equip the body of Christ for disciple-making to fulfill the Great Commission of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and to demonstrate the good news of the gospel around the world.

    

Covenant Commission

 

"Covenant Commission is a Christian ministry dedicated to the glory of God through proclaiming the supremacy of Christ in reforming the home, church, and civil government. It is for Christ's Crown and Covenant that we exist.

"Covenant Commission was established because of the need for churches, organizations, and Christians to rise up against the socialistic takeover of America. The time is long past for American Christians to stand up.

"And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none. Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD." -Ezekiel 22:30-31

"There is the need of ministries dedicated to regeneration, revival, and reformation. Some are focused one or the other but most are even deluded and, therefore, misleading Christians. By no means are we the only ones who have not bowed our knees to Baal. However, those who should be leading the cause of righteousness are in fact the ministers of Satan.

"If there is any hope of restoration, it will be from the grassroots. Therefore, Covenant Commission was formed to answer the call in standing in the gap. Will you stand with us?"
   

Mid-Atlantic Reformation Society

"We are a small group of Christians who recognize that God, in His love, mercy, and infinite wisdom has not only provided the means of forgiveness through His Son Jesus Christ, but has also provided, in the Old and New Testaments, all necessary directions and instructions for a just, happy, and productive society.

"These instructions apply to all God-ordained spheres of government, namely self-government, family government, church government, and civil government.

"Our goal is to promote these principles. We believe that the modern church, for generations, has increasingly failed to apply God’s Word to all of life, having a focus that is self-centered and incapable of affecting the societal institutions that crumble around us.

"Our work is dedicated to turning the ship, for the very positive benefit of our families, churches, communities, and nation, to the honor of the King of Kings, Jesus Christ.

"We receive no funding from any ecclesiastical or political institutions.

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The Institute for Theonomic Reformation

"The Institute for Theonomic Reformation is dedicated to the restoration and application of Biblical Law and Biblical Ethics so as to faithfully encourage an explicitly Biblical Christian rule for both a national and global Theonomic culture.

"The ITR is a Christ-centered, non-profit organization, which seeks to empower the Christian, and the church, so as to fulfill God’s cultural commission of Christian responsibility.

"Through extensive theological scholarship, exhaustive resources, directives and strategies, the ITR is committed to setting forth the Scriptural vision for reforming and rebuilding the Biblical foundations of the entire human civilization."

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The Plymouth Rock Foundation

"The Plymouth Rock Foundation seeks to preserve, rehearse and propagate the rich Christian heritage of the United States of America, beginning with the Pilgrims."

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Institute for Nouthetic Studies

"The Institute for Nouthetic Studies exists to train counselors to effectively minister the Word of God in the counseling room. We do so by providing a comprehensive curriculum which can be studied by extension-without traveling to a campus. All courses are presented on DVD which the student studies at his own pace in his own home.

"INS features the teaching ministry of Dr. Jay E Adams, the pioneer and leading authority on truly biblical counseling. Explore our website and consider joining a growing number of students who are studying biblical counseling through the Institute for Nouthetic Studies."

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Deliverance from Debt (Gary North)

"This site is aimed at two audiences: (1) Christians who know they have too much debt, and who are ready to commit to digging themselves out from under; (2) experienced Christians who have been down that road, got off it, and are ready to help others to achieve what they have achieved.

"This is a Christian site. People of other faiths are invited to help find deliverance from debt and to help others to do the same, but the focus is on Christianity and its view of debt. The site is to help Christians who have fallen into a trap."

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Genevan Foundation for Cultural Renewal

"Genevan Foundation for Cultural Renewal was formed as the entreprenurial effort of the Marcus Serven family, often referred to as The Serven Clan. We desire to be a catalyst, encouraging familes to apply Scripture to every area of life. It is all of the Bible for all of life, and not just on Sundays, but all throughout the week."

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