September 5, 2008 Hosted by John and Dee Oster. Over 88,000 visits to date.
Sarah Palin Video
To watch a unique video of Sarah Palin speaking at the church where she was saved, Wassila Assembly of God, last year after she was elected governor and before she was famous. Click here.
Role of Hope
On October 13, 1908, the Church of the Nazarene was born as a national denomination in a tent in Pilot Point. Texas. After the civil war, similar minded holiness groups from the east, west, and south came together and forgetting their regional differences they forged a national movement that 100 years later spans the globe with a positive message of hope based on the infilling of the Holy Spirit through entire sanctification.
When the union was completed the delegates
Dr. Phineas Bresee, Nazarene Founder
inside the tent spontaneously rose and began to march around the tent singing "Hallelujah Amen." This seminal event was fortunately captured on an early camera in the vintage shot shown above. courtesy of the NazareneArchives in Kansas City.
This year the denomination celebrates its Centennial with a synchronized worldwide multilingual worship service on Oct. 5.
Why Heritage Home Believes in the Christian Culture of Hope
You and I have the power and God's mandate to make this a better world, but for this to happen we must do something in concert to release this power. Power in and of itself just lies there. We have to release its energy. We can tap this energy by acting together in prayer and in the truth of Scripture. This has happened before.
A biblical Christian worldview permeated the minds of the founders of the United States of America in 1776.Today, there is a pressing need to recover that worldview that gave us the mental and spiritual power to create a nation of unprecedented personal liberty. That liberty is endowed by God but it is protected by the United States Constitution. In 2008 we are in danger of losing that priceless personal liberty to a debilitating worldview of secular social pessimism. Our aim is to support restoration of the positive Christian worldview of empowering personal liberty. To do this we must return to the Constitution of the United States as originally drafted and understood or as lawfully amended.
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LifeStory Writing is a ministry of Olathe College Church, keeping our heritage alive for our children, grandchildren and friends. These one-page "slices of Life" are unique and powerful. Please check out this effective ministry led by J. Paul and Marilyn Turner. I have been a participant in these groups since their inception. There are over 60 participating writers and the stories are grouped by the writers' names for your convenience.
John McCain stands alone as GOP standard bearer for president of the United States. Click his name for his stand on abortion from his website.
Five Choices--Voters in 2008 at every level have essentially five choices that they must make--choices concerning Life, Liberty, Security, Community, and the Economy. Upon these five issues turn our future.
Vote Your Faith Voters are the first responders to national crisis. Each new crisis demands a seasoned response. Joel and I are nearing completion of a breakthrough new book tentatively entitled "Vote Your Faith."
Waking Up Washington Sen. Nick Jordan challenges Rep. Dennis Moore in Third District Race in Kansas.
Christian Worldview --The Oklahoma Wesleyan University Worldview Institute is located on the OWU campus in Bartlesville, OK. The Institute examines public life and policy from the Christian worldview.
The vision that created America. Liberty is the vision that brought America into being. Read the history of the liberty that we enjoy.
Heart Songs by Alieghya. Our friend Alieghya Clark was murdered May 28, 2006, just short of her 22nd birthday. Before her tragic and untimely death she had entrusted us with her notebook of poems which we have continued to make available in Heritage Home Journal. Please read as she defiantly tells the Devil--"You Have Not Won," her words ringing out as it were from the grave. Take time to read "Outside My Comforting Walls" which is especially poignant in light of the circumstaces of her violent death.
The Prairie Poet. Our Mother, Edith Grace (Gordon) Oster died Oct. 1, 2007 at the age of 101. She wrote many poems, some serious, some funny, during her long years on the Nebraska and Dakota prairies. She is now buried on the edge of the sandhills near Gordon, Nebraska, but you can read her poems right here in Heritage Home Journal.
Speaking before prime time at a Democratic National Convention that is reaching out to evangelical Christians, Nancy Keenan acknowledged religion among Democrats. But she said the right to abort a pregnancy is one of the party's "core moral values."
The platform ratified Monday states: "The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade and a woman's right to choose a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay."
Keenan noted that Democrats also support a woman's right to give birth and raise her child or put her child up for adoption.
