First Baptist Church Cedar Vale

The NorthField Podcast Network · Eight Things Used By Government To Take Over a Population   I came across a sermon that shook me this week.  Here is a quote from this sermon here:   Back in 1932 a devout atheist by the name of Aldous Huxley wrote  Brave New World .  Brave New World  was a dystopian novel that looked at the future and assumed that it wouldn’t be very long before the West was completely captive to totalitarianism—that is rule by a dominant force, where you have only two classes: the ruling class and all the people who are subjected to them. In  Brave New World , he portrayed what life would be like. It was about seventeen years later that George Orwell, another devout atheist, wrote  1984 , another dystopian novel that looked at the future. And just examining those recently in my own thoughts, I drew out of those two pictures of totalitarianism in the future of the West, what are pretty amazing, prescient insights from a cou...

  Introduction Our impending cultural collision can be seen in what the Navy calls a “steady bearing rate.” If you see a ship off your starboard bow at 30 degrees, and then half an hour later, it is bigger, but still at that thirty degrees, that is called a steady bearing rate. If it keeps up, with the other ship always getting bigger and always at 30 degrees, you are eventually going to have yourself an incident at sea. The grasping overweening overreach of our would-be overlords is exactly like this. Their lusts are increasingly demanding, and every day they get bigger. Almost every day they are always right there, 30 degrees off the starboard bow. And every day they demand that we kowtow to some larger absurdity. If I were still in the Navy, the collision alarm would have already sounded by now, and all the watertight doors would be shut and cinched tight. In the meantime, an awful lot of Christian leaders who invested heavily in the  status quo ante  are very intere...