OCPAC Weekly Insights Monday Edition August 5, 2019
| | This Wednesday's OCPAC Meeting August 7, 2019 | | In Person & Live on Facebook Rev. Mike Biggs Pastor | | Pastor Mike Biggs pastor, Christ the King Presbyterian Church, Norman, OK . You will be fascinated by the connections between Christendom and international political development. Reverend Biggs is quite a scholar. | | Join us THIS WEDNESDAY! NOON to 1 PM at Olivet Baptist Church NW 10th and Western, OKC Lunch Available: See Below! $2 donation to church if not eating | | We have just upgraded! Experience our blazing speed! JOIN US STATE-WIDE | | Today's Content
Forgotten Foundations: How Scripture spoke to the West by Bob Linn
Last Week at OCPAC Immigration solutions already on the books! Dr. James Taylor Changing Political History Through Constructive Incrementalism
YOUR POLITICAL ARMY OCPAC and City Elders
This Week's Call to Political Action
From Last Week: Final Reminder Calling the NEA to moral sanity
New Book Recommendations | | Forgotten Foundations: How Scripture Spoke to the West by Bob Linn | This Wednesday, we will focus on Western Civilization and how it has shaped the governments of the world’s leading nations. Western civilization is the flower of a multifaceted cultural development which features literature, music, art, science, and industrial development. The very Word of God has inspired the minds of men with a Godly calling to flourish in the arts and sciences based on the inspiration emanating from the Scriptures. Those carried by history’s greatest book have proven to be God’s instruments to bring glory to Christ. Western Civilization flourished in their wake.
To whet your appetite, I wanted to bring to light the role Scripture, history’s Great Book, has played in the writing of the world’s great literature. | Pictured above is acclaimed writer and Pulitzer Prize winner, Marilynne Robinson. The New York Times featured her editorial, The Book of Book: What Literature Owes the Bible. She opens with this bold statement:
"The Bible is the model for and subject of more art and thought than those of us who live within its influence, consciously or unconsciously, will ever know.”
| No name in the history of Western Civilization carries more literary weight than William Shakespeare. Born April of 1564, the providence of God placed him in the wake of Luther and the Reformation. His nearly 200 works include Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth. He covers the breadth of human life with a universal point of reference: The Holy Bible. This is underscored by his over 800 references to the Bible. | On the heels of Shakespeare was John Milton and his monumental work, Paradise Lost. Milton was only twelve years old when the Mayflower set sail, but he would live to use his literary skills on behalf of the Puritans and their work to achieve political and religious liberty in England. His passion to see biblical government in England (purity in all areas of human government: the state, the church, and in the self-government of the lives of its citizens) was the source of his inspiration. His writing inspired the Puritans and Oliver Cromwell. The Cromwellian reformation gave England a decade of moral and political stability never since achieved.
Even Homer pales in comparison to Milton. Homer gave us the Iliad and the Odyssey depicting a bit of Greek conflict. Milton gave us Paradise Lost, a colossal work depicting God, the angels, demons, Heaven, Hell, and all mankind. This work, described by scholars as the “greatest epic in the English language” would not have been written had it not been for the revelation of Christ in His written Word. | Russian novelists Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) and Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) are among the most prominent of the literary giants of the 19th century. They played important roles in my teen-age conversion to Christ.
No one novel impacted me as did Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. Dostoevsky placed on the title page this quote form John 12:24:
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, except a grain of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abides alone: but if it die, it brings forth much fruit.” | Another 19th century writer, Charlotte Bronte (England), closed her magnum opus from the same Bible that Dostoevsky used to open his own most famous work. Quoting from the closing of the Revelation of Christ, she writes the closing words of Jane Eyre with the words of the Apostle John:
“Amen; even so come, Lord Jesus!” ~ Revelation 22:20 | Regrettably, the NEA and OEA have deep animosity toward the Christian faith. Therefore, in the government schools they control, our children will never be taught any of this. I was not. For more on the NEA and OEA, see their most recent maneuverings in the final section below.
Much more could be said of the foundational role of the Word of Christ in the most profound literature of the West. This Wednesday, Mike Biggs will connect the political dots. We will all develop a deeper appreciation for the political and cultural foundations we enjoy on Oklahoma soil.
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Last Week Dr. James Taylor Candidate Oklahoma's 4th congressional district | Last week, Dr. James Taylor displayed his knowledge both of the Word of God and the U.S. Constitution. He revealed that inherent in both are laws regarding immigrants which would immediately solve our crisis. No more laws and no more debate needed! The answers lie in a clear reading of both!
"JT" represents the kind of grounded thinking we need in Oklahoma! He will be on the ballot in the 2020 Republican primary for the 4th District Representative for the U.S. House. To witness the discussion, see the video here.
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Join us at OCPAC. If not eating our $7 lunch, we ask for a $2 donation to Olivet Baptist Church to pay for utilities. THANKS! | I'd like to invite you to bring your children and grandchildren to the weekly OCPAC meetings. Build a foundation for the role of Biblical thought in their political views. Only as we train our future leaders will we be able to anticipate the maturing of the Kingdom of God expressed both through the church and through the State. | Help Right The Ship in Oklahoma! This Wednesday NOON to 1 PM Olivet Baptist Church 1201 NW 10th St, OKC, OK 73106 | | Changing Political History Through Constructive Incrementalism | | Constructive incrementalism differs from the current approach fiscal conservatives embrace at the federal, state and local level. It is not only policy changes but process changes at the program level that drive the direction of government Conservatives have failed over the years to fully understand the future impact of changes which seem minor at the point of initial attack. | | Thankfully, the regulatory moves of the Obama administration are being undone by the Trump administration. However, big government supporters and their bureaucrat co-conspirators have been highly effective in more hidden ways. The cunning leftist re-tooling of operational aspects of various government programs at all levels are having a corrupting impact on government. How we combat this Machiavellian stealth and deceit involves a re-tooling that is not as difficult as it seems. It requires first that we avoid a one-track point of view.
When the obvious frontal approach is unavailable, the application of Constructive Incrementalism keeps us moving forward effectively. When opportunities for ‘major’ change is limited, available minor changes represent immediate and effective alternatives with long-range consequences. | | Guiding Principles:
Identify what fiscal conservatism, fully implemented, would look like in any government program
Identify the issues that have led that to the program’s current flawed status
Examine the political, regulatory, and processes that would make corrections
Use our available political or legal leverage to correct the issues
Understand that even with failures at the federal level, state and local change remains available.
Recognize that one of the fundamental issues that separate conservatives and liberals is that we view government only as a service delivery mechanism while they view it as an employment mechanism too. | | OCPAC leadership is moving forward with details of our formal alliance with City Elders. The organizations are not being merged, but working together in order to utilize each other's strengths.
Hear the vision of City Elders here.
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FROM LAST WEEK, OUR FINAL REMINDER:
The Union Representing Public School Teachers Affirms LGBTQ & Abortion National Education Association NEA | | For those with family members in government schools, the first week of July 2019 brought some depressing news. The annual meeting of the union representing government school teachers met and passed Business Item 56.
The item honors non-binary (aka genderqueer indicating a spectrum of gender identities not exclusively either masculine of feminine) & trans people (people who think they are of a gender other than indicated on their birth certificate).
Equally regrettable, it affirms the moral validity of Roe v. Wade and the right to murder pre-born children.
As mentioned earlier in this OCPAC email, the NEA (National Education Association) is interested first and foremost in transforming America from a Christian nation to a secular, statist, Marxist nation. Of course, the OEA (Oklahoma Education Association) is an NEA affiliate.
Sign the AFR petition here. American Family Radio
Read the NEA Business Item 56 here. | | We have a $7 lunch solution through Eagle One Pizza.
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From Wed July 24, 2019: Shooting Back Charl Van Wyk
From Wed August 21, 2019: Crimes of the Educators Blumenfeld & Newman | | Not A Daycare Still an important read | | Dr. Piper is one of God's choice men. He is leading the way in the American Church and in the American Christian University by calling for a return to epistemological bedrock. I urge those of you who have not read his book, Not A Day Care: The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth, to order a copy today. It is available very inexpensively here. | | Help support OCPAC'S mission. Join OCPAC or send a contribution today! To print donation form and mail a check, use the MAIL DONATION button below: | | The button below will enable you to electronically join OCPAC or to make a donation through our website: | | | | | | |
