The Meaning of the the Arizona Veto

By Ron Boehme | February 28, 2014 |

With Vladimir Putin taking control of Crimea–he was mad at the Ukrainian people for forcing out  their pro-Russian tyrannical leader– came the temptation to write on the beginning of a new Cold War.

But that can come later. We have yet to see whether President Obama will act weakly like Jimmy Carter in the 1970s or strongly as Ronald Reagan did in the 1980s.

But we do know what happened in America last week when Arizona Governor Jan Brewer vetoed SB 1062. Religious liberty died and propaganda won.

Here’s the real meaning of the Arizona veto.

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Posted in Leadership, Morality, Religious Liberty

The Leadership Vacuum

By Ron Boehme | January 11, 2013 |

We live in a world in desperate need of leadership. Good, wise leadership.

I’m sure that people in other time periods thought the same. Sin and tyrants have stalked the earth for centuries. When evil rushes in like a flood,  a new generation of leaders is needed to rise up, speak and live the truth, and point people to freedom.

The biblical book of Judges is entirely devoted to this subject. Things got bad in Israel;God raised up a good leader; the people were delivered.

In this second decade of the 21st century, I am viewing an ominous leadership vacuum on the horizon. How should we focus our prayers? And who is most responsible for the dearth of righteous leadership?

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Posted in General

Don’t Follow America: Our Light is Under a Bushel

By Ron Boehme | December 5, 2012 |

For more than two hundred years, the United States of America was a light of freedom and blessing to the world. Four hundred years ago Plymouth governor William Bradford described American civilization as “stepping stones to others” for God’s great work on earth.

Of course, it was Jesus Himself who said his people would be a “city on a hill” and Ronald Reagan applied that phrase to America’s great experiment with liberty whose statue stands in New York harbor as a “light to the world.”

But America’s light is going out–and it pains me to state the necessary corollary:

Nations of the world: do not follow the American example.

Our light is under a bushel.

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