Published Monday, January 27, 2025 | | | NEXT MEETING MEETING 2025 February 5
Featuring: Senator Nathan Dahm & Others Oklahoma's Report from Inauguration SEE DETAILS BELOW. | | Send this newsletter to a friend here. | | | BOB LINN The Profound Blessing of Common Sense | | The famed 19th-century Preacher, Charles Spurgeon, declared:
The omniscient Lord of all appoints the date of every event; all times are in His hand, none are left to chance. There are no loose threads in the providence of God, and no dropped stitches. The great clock of the universe keeps perfect time, and the whole machinery of providence moves with unerring punctuality. | | In the Rotunda of the United States Capitol, the American people witnessed Franklin Graham thank God for miraculously saving the life of Donald J. Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. Saved to bring America out of an age of darkness. He prayed on behalf of the nation and its people:
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord . . . And we pray all of this in the name of the King of kings, the Lord of lords, Your Son, my Savior, and our Redeemer, Jesus Christ. Amen. | Pastor Lorenzo Sewell of Detroit, Michigan, added, “Heavenly Father, we are so grateful that you gave our 45th and now our 47th president a millimeter miracle. We are grateful that you are the one that has called him for such a time as this…” | | Thus, the nation began a turn from state-centered ideology to a people-centered focus.
From the extreme left to the extreme right, all who watched the inaugural address on January 20th, understood that this election was more than the turning of a page in American politics.
It was the writing of a new book impacting the heart and soul of the nation.
Utah Senator Mike Lee said “Today, President Trump did not merely proclaim victory, he declared war upon the betrayals and failures of a federal government, which had forgotten its primary duty to protect the American people at home and abroad and to fight for their best interests.” | | The President said it in a succinct way when he said:
What the world has witnessed in the past 72 hours is nothing less than a revolution of common sense.
The high point of his “common sense” was his bold statement that government will acknowledge only two genders. With that alone, he gave the nation back to the people. | | His American “common sense” was as clear three days later as he spoke remotely to the world’s leaders gathered for the World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos, Switzerland.
For an hour, he made it clear that the Diversity Equity Inclusion farce was over, and , in addition, America would stand up for its own economic (and energy) interests.
In other words, America was back in the hands of its people and out of the hands of Klaus Schwab, Davos, and the WEF.
Watch the Davos presentation here. | | The leftist news media (CNN) admitted:
On a giant screen, the ultimate outsider literally towered over his scolded audience of bankers, financiers, business titans, NGO leaders, political bigwigs, and diplomats.
This from one senior European business figure, asking not to be further identified:
I never recalled a single person to be so omnipresent here, especially one who wasn’t even in Davos . . . Trump’s name came up in almost every conversation.
Argentina’s Trump-like President, Javier Milei, stated while speaking at WEF on behalf of Argentina:
What once seemed like a global hegemony of the ‘woke’ left in politics, educational institutions, in the media, in supranational organizations or even in forums like Davos, has begun to crumble… Slowly, an international alliance has been forming among all those nations who want to be free and believe in the ideas of liberty. | | Restoring “Common Sense” means Abandoning the WOKE agenda and resting again on the Christian Foundations of Western Civilization
I began this article by noting the opening prayers at last Monday’s Inaugural Ceremony and the divine connections to America’s governance those prayers addressed. It is a critical topic. It impacts how we think about America’s path forward.
The path forward is found only in our children’s education.
America’s system of schools is the pathway to restoring America’s cultural identity and greatness. “Common Sense” in education must be restored.
Education must be void of pornography. Education must be void of worship of the state.
Education in America must be grounded in parental authority and respect for the God who ordains all things.
It must return to the Christian foundations of Western Civilization.
In 1988, University of Chicago professor, Martin Marty, wrote that the outcomes of presidential elections were akin to the ordination of what he called a “priestly civil religion.”
He writes that elections . . .
have to do with the deepest definitions of a people, the highest points they reach, and the most idolatrous depths in which they wallow. | | The Christian Foundations of the American Presidency Implore Christian Foundations in American Education
I spoke last week about the Father of the Nation, our first President, George Washington and his commitment to transcendent reality (divine truth) as the foundation of the nation.
Read last week's article here.
America’s second President was the devout Scripture-reading John Adams. Adams wrote this in his diary:
I am resolved to rise with the Sun and to study the Scriptures, on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday mornings. | | As President, he began his 1797 Inaugural Address by emphasizing that it was God to whom the nation’s security and protection could be attributed. He ended his comments by attributing our nation’s future to the hands of God. He said:
And may that Being who is supreme over all . . . continue His blessing upon this nation and its Government.
Clergy who personally knew Adams understood better than anyone the Christian character of the President.
On July 9, 1826, Dr. Aaron Bancroft, pastor of the Second Congregational Church, delivered the sermon at President Adams’ funeral. He said:
President Adams . . . reverenced the authority of God . . . the truth of Christianity . . . He honored the Savior . . . and he died in the expectation of becoming personally acquainted with Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, and of dwelling forever in the fullness of the presence of God . . . | | Our government’s system of schools has sought to educate our children without a foundation in the Christianity.
Christianity was and remains the foundation of our U.S. Presidents.
In Gary Scott Smith’s book, Faith and the Presidency, Smith opens with this quote from Reston:
The White House is the Pulpit of the nation, and the president is its chaplain. ~James Reston, Congressional Record, Oct. 5, 1970. | | James “Scotty” Reston (1905-1995) was a celebrated American journalist associated with the New York Times. He was born in Scottland to a poor but devout Presbyterian family who immigrated to America in 1920.
If we are to restore our national identity in a way that it is reflected from the White House to the movie theater to industry, we must remediate the foundations of American education and return it to its Christian roots.
The top priority of both the nation and the state is to restore the Christian foundations of our children.
Government at all levels (state, county, municipality) must end the current policy of an atheistic, state-centered, and morally blighted curriculum.
It is equally important that we stop state & county government from force-funneling citizen’s tax dollars to schools of the government’s choice and instead allow parents use their educational tax dollars to educate their children as they choose. | | We need to raise citizens who will be the chaplains of America's future. __________
Thanks to Curtis Bowers for the Charles Spurgeon quote and the information in his AGENDA Newsletter. Curtis is a longtime friend of the OCPAC group of missions. His books, films, articles, and speaking tours have been impactful to the culture.
Find AGENDA here. | | Thank you all for being a part of the preservation of truth in our Oklahoma culture! | Send this newsletter to a friend here | | FROM THE GOVERNOR You Are Invited . . . | | What: The People’s Rally at the People’s House hosted by Governor Stitt
Where 2nd Floor Rotunda Oklahoma State Capitol 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd, OKC, OK 73105
When Tuesday, February 4 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Why A rally for the people of Oklahoma celebrating our State’s values and focusing on reducing the reach of government.
Parking Southside parking lot of the Capitol
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Watch the entire meeting here. | | COMING FEB 5 2025 Nathan Dahm Report on Inauguration Report on Oklahoma's 2025 Legislature | | Nathan is the Executive Director for the Oklahoma Freedom Caucus and will be in Washington, D.C. today (January 20, 2025) with a number of other Oklahomans to witness the presidential inauguration.
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