Until recently, our nation has a long history of recognizing the importance of faith within the military.  Yet today there is a concerted attack upon Christianity in our armed forces.

Rear Admiral William Lee recently stated at a National Day of Prayer event: 

“Leaders like myself are feeling the constraints of rules and regulations and guidance issued by lawyers that put us in a tighter and tighter box regarding our constitutional right to express our religious faith.”

I'm not sure whose voices the president was referring to, since schools rarely teach what our nation's founders said, but if they did those OSU students might have recalled the words of Thomas Jefferson:

“Experience hath shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”

And one from Patrick Henry, "guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."

And of course, there's the famous line from Ronald Reagan, "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction."

So, yeah, I guess a few people have suggested that "tyranny is always lurking around the corner."

By Bill Johnson

Today is Jan and my 43^rd wedding anniversary.  Some of you have been married a lot longer than that perhaps but many of you have been married a lot shorter.

Any way you look at it, being married 43 years is a fairly lengthy period of time.  I have said recently to close ones:  “I hope to make it to 67 years of marriage.” (That is if we remain healthy)  That would put us at 90 years old. I know that that sounds ridiculous to ask for such a thing as one never knows what one will be facing as the years go by.  

Young people are precious, impressionable and vulnerable.  They are beginning to learn and observe in the earliest of days of their infancy.  They hear.  They see.  They touch and feel.  All around them are varieties of types of stimulation.

There are several Biblical principles that we would do well to teach at the earliest stages to our children and grandchildren.  What we watch and listen to DOES impact.

To see these 9 principles see below: