When it comes to being an American who’s truly free from sinful slavery, context and definition matter!
As you prepare to celebrate Independence Day, stop and realize that the “freedom” our U.S. founding fathers wrote about and fought for is freedom to do what’s right in God’s sight.
This is why an American Revolutionary War cry was “No king but King Jesus.” And it’s why U.S. Founding Father John Adams said he wanted to live in a free country where he could exercise his Christian values without punishment.
So embrace your freedom! But instead of redefining freedom as freedom to sin and do whatever you want, understand that true American freedom is our freedom to obey God rather than obeying immoral tyrants – including the tyranny of our own flesh.
The American Founding is a unique and remarkable moment in human history, marking the beginning of a new order of the ages. It was the first time the people, as the only earthly source of political authority, exercised their right to establish government based on their consent.
As Alexander Hamilton observed in the opening salvo of the first Federalist paper, Americans were “to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government on the basis of reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force.”
The Founding generation understood that they were dramatis personae on the world stage, cast and called to prove the capacity of mankind for self-government. If they succeeded, the forces of despotism would never again find their ambitions unobstructed.
Biblical freedom is not self-centered. It is others-focused. Christ sets us free not so we can do whatever we want, but so we can finally do what we were created for—loving God and serving others.
In a culture that defines freedom as individual rights, God’s Word reframes it as relational responsibility. The freest people are those who no longer live for themselves.
Practical advice: Look around. Who can you serve today? What can you sacrifice to uplift someone else? Use your freedom to bring life and healing to those in need.
So, stand firm. Don’t go back to chains. Live free—not for yourself, but for Christ and His Kingdom. Use your liberty to bless others, walk in holiness, and glorify God. That is true freedom—and you have it in Christ.
“Whosoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.” – Benjamin Franklin
“I have always said and always will say that the studious perusal of the Sacred Volume will make us better citizens.” – Thomas Jefferson
“The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.” – John Quincy Adams
“A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.” – Samuel Adams
“Because we have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion … our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” – Letter of President John Adams in 1798
Wednesday, June 18, 2025, 11:09 am | Randy Thomasson
Have you noticed now we’re fighting for basic civilization?
The war in Los Angeles County is about enforcement of immigration laws and laws against hoodlums (those burning, vandalizing, injuring, and looting).
Twenty years ago, enforcing laws regarding social order wasn’t controversial. But since then, the Democrat Party has bared its New Communist soul to engage in “revolutionary terror” and “well-organized violence,” and to elevate their raw, naked power over any written laws.
So, on June 14, when millions of Leftists held their “No Kings” protests, SaveCalifornia.com went public about how the hypocritical Left has been slavishly obeying tyrants for years, and that the biggest “king” in California is the unconstitutional and evil Gavin Newsom:
Regarding what the biased Big Media call “protestors,” these hoodlums and vandals attacking police and property are nothing more than re-baked “Black Lives Matter” racists and anarchists — devoted to devilish, Marxist/Communist ideology, which justifies “revolutionary terror” in the pursuit of raw, dehumanizing power.
As SaveCalifornia.com reminded our social media follows on June 7:
But the Lying Left doesn’t relent in the face of facts, does it?
This is why perhaps the most wicked Democrat in the California State Legislature announced his anti-ICE bill on June 16. Yet the author, homosexual activist Scott Wiener of San Francisco, is ignoring a key factpointed out by Fox News reporter Bill Melugin: “California has zero authority/jurisdiction to regulate what federal law enforcement does.”
This bad bill targets ICE agents by trying to prohibit them from covering their faces, and requiring them to show ID on their uniforms, by name or other identifier.
Todd Lyons, ICE’s acting director, has defended his officers using facemasks (https://tinyurl.com/5624f7jh), saying they wear them to protect themselves from death threats and online harassment.
Lyons said at a news conference earlier this month in Boston to announce nearly 1,500 arrests in the region as part of a monthlong “surge operation”: “I’m sorry if people are offended by them wearing masks, but I’m not going to let my officers and agents go out there and put their lives on the line, their family on the line because people don’t like what immigration enforcement is.”
And now, it appears Newsom & Co. is about to get another public black mark for their unconstitutional, anti-American support of violent insurgents.
On June 17, all three judges on a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel seemed to agree that a U.S. president has vast discretion to deploy the military, including a state’s National Guard, where needed.
There’s no definite date when this 3-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will rule. There’s also no court order in effect that pulls back or limits President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth using the California National Guard to protect federal agents and assist with immigration enforcement.
As these battles rage, please stand with SaveCalifornia.com for Right over Wrong and Good over Evil. Donate confidentially
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them. The Bible, Romans 1:28-32
Wednesday, June 11, 2025, 8:21 pm | Randy Thomasson
All the evidence points to men being special and fathers being vastly influential, even essential.
This Father’s Day week, please do something to honor a father you know. They need your affirmation, especially when the media, culture, and bad government policies tear them down.
Below is proof on the importance of fathers. Skim it to excite you about the great good that fathers can bestow upon their children. And if you’re a feminist skeptic, who thinks a woman can do everything a man can do, get ready to think anew!
Fathers are far more than just “second adults” in the home. Involved fathers – especially biological fathers – bring positive benefits to their children that no other person is as likely to bring. They provide protection and economic support and male role models. They have a parenting style that is significantly different from that of a mother and that difference is important in healthy child development. David Popenoe, Life Without Father, (New York: The Free Press, 1996), p. 163.
One of the most vital aspects of a dad’s contribution to the lives of his kids lies precisely in what Dr. Popenoe calls his “significantly different parenting style.” Men and women are different. As a result mothers and fathers parent their children differently.
Dads, for instance, love their children “more dangerously.” That’s because they play “rougher” and are more likely to encourage risk-taking. They provide kids with a broader diversity of social experiences. They also introduce them to a wider variety of methods of dealing with life. They tend to stress rules, justice, fairness, and duty in discipline. In this way, they teach children the objectivity and consequences of right and wrong. They give kids insight into the world of men. They prepare them for the challenges of life and demonstrate by example the meaning of respect between the sexes. In connection with this last point, research indicates that a married father is substantially less likely to abuse his wife or children than men in any other category.
Fathers encourage competition, engendering independence. Mothers promote equity, creating a sense of security. Dads emphasize conceptual communication, which helps kids expand their vocabulary and intellectual capacities. Moms major in sympathy, care, and help, thus demonstrating the importance of relationships. Dads tend to see their child in relation to the rest of the world. Moms tend to see the rest of the world in relation to their child. Neither style of parenting is adequate in and of itself. Taken together, they balance each other out and equip the up-and-coming generation with a healthy, well-rounded approach to life.
And here’s my personal encouragement for professing Christian fathers and their wives:
When fathers are strong, practical hope for our nation increases.
If you want a good culture and good government again, strengthen your own home with fathers being the center of it.
For when a man reads the Word of God and grows in God’s purposes, he needs and deserves his wife’s support, not her distrustful opposition.
Bottom line, we need real men to love King Jesus, and real women to intrinsically respect the man as the family’s loving leader. As a result, good wives receive more security, love, purpose, and peace.
This Father’s Day, let’s intrinsically value fathers and husbands – let’s strengthen men to be the men that God designed them to be!
My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, Nor detest His correction; For whom the Lord loves He corrects, Just as a father the son in whom he delights. Proverbs 3:11-12
Endure your suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline? Hebrews 12:7
Put him into the garden – to dress it, and to keep it. — Horticulture, or gardening, is the first kind of employment on record, and that in which man was engaged while in a state of perfection and innocence. Though the garden may be supposed to produce all things spontaneously, as the whole vegetable surface of the earth certainly did at the creation, yet dressing and tilling were afterwards necessary to maintain the different kinds of plants and vegetables in their perfection, and to repress luxuriance. Even in a state of innocence we cannot conceive it possible that man could have been happy if inactive. God gave him work to do, and his employment contributed to his happiness; for the structure of his body, as well as of his mind, plainly proves that he was never intended for a merely contemplative life. Adam Clarke commentary on Genesis 2:15
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