Crime and Punishment, A Biblical Perspective (audio)

Crime is rampant throughout the world and affects everyone. Over 10 million crimes are committed every year in America. Every 3 seconds a crime occurs against someone’s property. Capital and other violent crimes occur about every 35 seconds. America’s response to crime (like most nations) has largely been to build prisons to keep criminals, and this at an annual cost exceeding $30,000 per inmate. These “correctional institutions” have done little to correct the problem and in many ways have helped develop more professional criminals.

God has a better way to deal with law breakers. The Bible reveals to us the cause of crime and why crime flourishes, but more importantly how to deal with crime. It gives us both preventative and corrective measures. The emphasis of God’s Word in dealing with criminal acts is restitution to the victim and restoration of Godly order. This audio examines Biblical restitution, the death penalty, theft by voting, and much more.

 

Crime and Punishment, A Biblical Perspective

Crime is rampant throughout the world and affects everyone. Over 10 million crimes are committed every year in America. Every 3 seconds a crime occurs against someone’s property. Capital and other violent crimes occur about every 35 seconds. America’s response to crime (like most nations) has largely been to build prisons to keep criminals, and this at an annual cost exceeding $30,000 per inmate. These “correctional institutions” have done little to correct the problem and in many ways have helped develop more professional criminals.

God has a better way to deal with law breakers. The Bible reveals to us the cause of crime and why crime flourishes, but more importantly how to deal with crime. It gives us both preventative and corrective measures. The emphasis of God’s Word in dealing with criminal acts is restitution to the victim and restoration of Godly order. This booklet examines Biblical restitution, the death penalty, theft by voting, and much more.

Paperback Booklet, 24 pages

 

Liberating the Nations

Biblical Principles of Government, Education, Economics, and Politics

The Bible teaches, and history confirms, that to the degree that nations have applied the principles of the Bible to all spheres of life is the degree to which they have prospered, been free, and acted justly. Learn Biblical principles as they apply to various spheres of life. Examine the role of the church, the family, the media, and civil government in a nation, and learn what you can do to bring Godly reform.

212 pages, paperback

The Christian Roots of America

Two sessions that present a sound introduction to the Christian foundations of America.

  1. The Separation of Church and State
  2. Evidence of the Christian Foundations of America

How the Bible Educated America to Live in Liberty

Biblical education produced the unique nation of America – the most free and prosperous nation in history. Families and churches assumed the responsibility for the education of all citizens. The biblical philosophy of education prepared people to live in liberty and pass on to posterity the character and worldview necessary to maintain that liberty. The rise of secular education and government schools has produced a decline of moral and academic excellence, which had led to a loss of liberty. The solution is to restore the educational philosophy, methodology, curriculum, and structure upon which America was built.

Author: Stephen McDowell

Paperback, 28 pages

Manumission and the Advance of Christian Liberty in America

Case Studies of the Lynch Family and Other Leading Virginians

by Stephen Andrew Langeland

While many modern proponents of revisionist secular history present America as a fundamentally racist nation, with slavery as its original sin and its founders as hypocrites for advocating liberty while owning slaves, the truth is that the Founders of America took greater steps to abolish slavery than any other group of people up until their time. They ended the slave trade, outlawed slavery in eight northern states, and forbid slavery in the Northwest Territory and new states formed therein. While a small minority of early Americans owned slaves, many that did liberated them through manumission.

Manumission refers to the voluntary act of freeing a slave. Just a few short months after the British surrender at Yorktown, the Virginia General Assembly passed an act allowing for the private manumission of slaves, an action highly restricted under colonial rule. The motivation of each slave holder to free their slaves varied from one individual to another; however, in every case this action was completely voluntary. Virginians of all statuses manumitted slaves, from humble Quakers to Founding Fathers. Many manumission documents show an individual slave being freed, while the largest documented manumissions freed almost 500 individuals. This manumission movement was inspired by Biblical scripture, natural rights, and newly secured liberty. Thousands of enslaved people were freed in this manner throughout Virginia during the 80 years prior to the Emancipation Proclamation, giving us a glimpse of an alternate path to a peaceful end to slavery in the United States.

paperback, 52 pages