The CRAWFORD STAND podcast

"Now comes the time when we resolve. Right-thinking Christians and Americans, determined to live life better, and in the new year 2025, be better soldiers of the cross and better citizens of the greatest nation in the history of mankind." "So, on to DIFFERENT AND BETTER 2025." "LIFE. Only one life and that will soon be past. Treasure every moment. Our Lord Jesus Christ came to bring us life more a...

"With God, all things are possible. ALL THINGS!" "Even an event like THE VIRGIN BIRTH. Some 2,000 years ago, an angel was sent by God to the tiny town of Nazareth in the Galilee area. The area was small, the inhabitants few, and a popular saying of the day was: CAN ANY GOOD THING COME OUT OF NAZARETH?" "Perhaps not before, but after the visit by the angel Gabriel to an unknown Mary, from Nazareth...

Christians believe they should share biblical solutions to America’s cultural issues. Rightly so, for our Lord told us as true believers to go into all the world and preach the gospel, PREACH IT! Jesus of Nazareth went even further. He said when you do so: I WILL GIVE YOU THE WORDS! When, He said, there is that God-given opportunity to profess your faith, don’t be afraid, don’t be ashamed of the g...

We the people so privileged to live in America have so much to be thankful for. God has allowed us to live in the greatest nation in human history, in my opinion. How grateful we should be. Thanks be unto God for His incredible gifts to mankind. There are so many things to be thankful for. And we should approach this wonderful time of year with gratitude and Thanksgiving Day, and Thanksgiving week...

"Elections 2024 are over, most thankfully! The campaigns for elections began so early and lasted so long that Americans experienced: ELECTION FATIGUE" "And burnout, and even despair. It seemed like the election season would never end. But it did, and Americans resoundingly and clearly voted Donald Trump as President of the United States and JD Vance as Vice President. Trump and Vance won a clear m...

"It’s over! Finally, Elections 2024 are over and done with. It may have been, say many American legal citizens, the worst elections ever. It was a season of negativity, lies, half-truths, slander, personal attacks, all of which adding up to national and international disgrace for our once-great country. The candidates and their conduct, almost all of them, were indeed an embarrassment to WE THE PE...

So many of the governments, the ruling authorities in this temporal, human world, are controlled and run by dictators. There is no freedom, no individual rights or rule of law, and no constitutions which protect the people, the citizens of that country. No freedoms at all. Those human beings, God created, have one burning priority, which totally dominates their lives. That is, the prayer, the hope...

What a privilege it is to be an American citizen, really an unbelievable privilege. If you study the history of mankind, the rise of nations, the rulership of kings and queens, and dictators, and judges, and you look at the role of common human beings like you and me, in short if you compare America to any other nation in the history of mankind, there is none like her, NONE AT ALL! We are a nation...

There comes, in some two short weeks, the most important and critical elections which our beloved America has ever encountered. Elections 2024 will determine the future, the heart and soul of America for decades to come. You, American citizen and person of faith, will vote in this election, will you not? If you are Christian, and you wish to protect your faith, the freedom you have to enjoy and pr...

Every four years it seems, we the people are told that we will face the most important election ever held in America, that for the President of the United States, and of course, the 435 representatives of the House in Congress, and as many as 35 U. S. Senators, in addition of course to state and local elections as well. EVERY FOUR YEARS! But many politicos, and even so very many Christian and evan...

Are you afraid? Do you fear the future? Are you afraid or at least deeply concerned about America, the radical changes which are occurring in our once great country, and in fact the world over. Do you fear for the future, for your family and friends, for yourself? Do you fear that America has lost its way, is now in the control and political decision making of those who are anti-American, anti-Chr...

Owe no man nothing, says the scripture. The fact remains, however, that every single American is in debt, EVERY ONE OF US. Every day of every month, we owe someone something. That debt could be as normal as a phone bill, electric bill, cell phone or cable bill, or currently repayable credit card bills. But, we always owe something if we wish to live in any reasonable way in this world. What that d...

There was a time, in America no less, when true evangelicals, real born-again Christians, were of great moral influence and persuasion numbering perhaps as many as 75-80 million citizens. The Moral Majority was founded by the Rev. Jerry Falwell Sr. and it was indeed a powerful organization, politically, culturally, and spiritually. But today, far from constituting a moral majority, the evangelical...

Do you intend to vote in this critical November election, do you? Are you registered to vote so that, unlike many others, you are a legally qualified voter? America needs your vote, YOUR VOTE! America needs your informed vote, a vote that is educated in the issues, understands the essential workings of politics and the government, and assuming you are Christian, voting for candidates and issues wi...

Work is good. Work is necessary for the fulfillment of every human being. Work is required of every person according to his or her capabilities and talents, so sayeth the Scripture. All of us must work to survive, live, grow and profit and be all that we can be and as God intended us to be. Our very own America was built on hard work, and is in fact itself a work in progress. The progress depends...

George Barna, he of the ARIZONA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY, may well be the most respected Christian surveyist in America. In a survey he conducted, released August 6, 2024, on CHRISTIAN EVANGELICALISM and Christianity in America, the Barna survey said the following: “The cultural awareness sparked by the Covid pandemic and the 2024 Presidential campaign has led millions of Americans to realize just how...

What makes a leader? Is a leader born, born with those natural leadership qualities, or is a leader made, made by experience, trial and error? A leader surely is one who steps up, steps forward, takes charge, one who recognizes the opportunity to provide direction, encouragement. A leader is surely one who is not afraid to make decisions, take risks, and in extreme cases, be willing to risk life a...

POLITICIANS LIE! All of them. Do you know of any politician at any level of government who tells the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, all the time, do you? I don’t. It is as though for one to become a politician is for that candidate or elected official to embrace the lie. To compromise, to sell the soul, or be willing to do so, to play the game, the political game. Politicians d...

IT TAKES A LOT TO GET JEWS TO SHUN DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES, so says writer for the New York Post, Adam Brodsky. It does take a lot, for traditionally, most Jews vote democratic, so say the polls. But that is changing, changing more so every day and finally for the right reasons. Far too many democrats, and democratic candidates for office are anti-Israel and consequently, more or less, antisemitic....

IT’S THE ECONOMY, STUPID! Those were the famous words of former president Bill Clinton when asked what the most important issue was in Presidential Election 1992. Clinton was right, at least about that one thing. Nothing works, everything breaks down if the economy doesn’t work and it breaks down. And the American economy is breaking down, slowly but surely. When an economic crisis occurs, or a co...

OWE NO MAN NOTHING! So says the scripture. Good advice, not only spiritual wisdom, but secular as well. Debt, unrepayable, with its pressure and tension, ruins everyone and everything. That makes reference to debt which cannot be repaid in the normal course of business or living. Tens of millions would never own a home, or a car, or be able to afford the extreme cost of education today unless reas...

I had three uncles who were Methodist ministers. They so very faithfully served parishes in the state of New Jersey. They were men who were strong Christians, biblical Christians, born-again Christians, and they were proud to be Methodists when the United Methodist Church was a biblical church to be proud of. But, like other old line protestant denominations, the UNITED METHODIST CHURCH has gone i...

FREEDOM! We are, America is, the home, the land of the: BRAVE AND THE FREE. We are lovers of freedom. It is, you could say, in our genes. We inherited that love of freedom from those who founded our great country, fought against the oppressors more than two centuries ago and built the foundation for the FREEDOMS we now enjoy today. Give us, we say with that great statesman and our forefather Patri...

In Revolutionary times, Thomas Paine said the following: “These are the times that try men’s souls”. And indeed these are the times that try women’s souls, some at least now that the United States Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade. Thomas Jefferson admonished Americans of his time that the blood of patriots must be shed from time to time in order to refresh the Tree of Liberty. In short, th...

It is becoming difficult to know what a man is, that is the definition of a real man in this woke society of ours. The definition of a man seems to change. Once a man, by both biblical and secular-societal definitions was clear, in biblical terms created by the great G-d Jehovah, the great I AM to be like him, to be the ruler of the planet and to be head of all things. That included Eve, with the...