Sign Posts the Week of December 19, 2016

Monday December 19, 2016

Will the movie Wish for Christmas be under your Christmas tree? If not you may wish it was. “Wish for Christmas,” as distinct from “A Wish for Christmas” is the story of a teen aged girl who wishes that her parents did not believe in God. Her wish comes true. The parents cease doing what is right in the eyes of God. Instead, they do whatever is right in their own eyes. The daughter doesn’t like what she sees. Now she realizes that love for God had made hers a loving home. Bible truth had moved her parents to care about others and not just themselves. If those who wish the God of the Bible would go from the American scene get their wish then Wish for Christmas might provide a needed warning.  I am Pastor William Boylan. This is an American Sign Post.

Tuesday December 20, 2016

The birth of Christ differed from our own. We begin life at conception. Christ never did begin. He is life itself. The Bible explains. “When the time had full come, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman ...” Christ was sent forth by God in order to be born. Christ Jesus was born in order to die for sinner doomed to die. Other holy books know nothing of this saving truth. The Bible alone is God’s autobiography. It reveals how God fulfilled his promise to bless people from every, tribe and tongue and nation. When the government orders the Bible out of the sight of the American people it defeats the purpose of separating church and state. The separation exists to keep the government from doing what it is doing – namely, silencing the churches book – the Bible. I am Pastor William Boylan. This is an American Sign Post. 

Wednesday December 21, 2016  

America’s founding fathers gave us a new kind of country. In their own way they placed the nation in the hands of God. When the founding fathers placed the nation in the hands of we the people, they placed it in the hands of the Lord. In seventeen seventy-six, we the Americans were a biblically literate people. We are fast becoming biblically illiterate. Two hundred and forty years ago nearly every American home had a Bible. Steeples lined the skyline in our cities, towns and villages. Would we not be foolish to not connect the kind of people we were then by the kind of book we were then reading. Now some want the Bible put out of public sight. Can this happen and we still be the same kind of people? Let’s think about that.  I am Pastor William Boylan. This is an American Sign Post.   

Thursday Dec. 22, 2016

If you never have heard of Theophilus Parsons you are not alone. Hardly anyone alive today has ever heard of the man. Two hundred and forty years ago, the founding fathers knew him well. Theophilus put into words what Americans in their newly formed nation believed. He said, “We alone among the nations do not look upon the law as our enemy.” Parsons said this because the law of the land was the law of liberty. Biblical truth undergird the framing of that law. Today liberty is treated as a license to do what is right in our own eyes. Does this explain why many want the Bible to disappear? If Theophilus could be with us he would warn us that if the Bible goes it will take our liberties with it.  I am Pastor William Boylan. This is an American Sign Post.

Friday December 23, 2016

When I was born America still considered Jesus Christ to be a friend. Sadly that friendship is disappearing. Only a generation ago, Merry Christmas was as American as apple pie and motherhood – now many are pressured to say happy holiday instead. In Newburyport, nearly two hundred years ago, President John Quincy Adams said that the Declaration of Independence was the first social contract in human history to lay the cornerstone of human government on the first precepts of Christianity? Christ was Adams friend. In the Soviet Union, on the contrary,  the Bible was an enemy of the state. Why do some now want to turn us in the direction of the Soviet’s? Did the Soviet Union not collapse? Do we not want to keep on standing? Do we really want Christ as an enemy and not a friend? I am Pastor William Boylan. This is an American Sign Post.