The CRAWFORD STAND podcast

There is no greater privilege for any man or woman than that of being a: PARENT. To be the father or mother of a son or daughter is indeed life’s greatest privilege. But with that privilege comes great responsibility. Parenting, true parenting, and biblical-Christian parenting demands commitment, real commitment. When unto those parents a child is born, life’s priorities change, irrevocably change...

Are you a Christian, a real Christian? You are indeed if, in fact, you are a Biblical Christian, Bible-believing, following the pathway to salvation, and eternal life which the Bible clearly indicates. You are a real Christian if you are an EPHESIANS 2:8-9 Christian: FOR BY GRACE ARE YOU SAVED THROUGH FAITH, THAT NOT OF YOURSELF, FOR IT IS THE GIFT OF GOD NOT OF WORKS LEST ANY MAN OR WOMAN SHOULD...

Do you consider yourself an evangelical Christian, do you? If so, then you should understand the definition of an evangelical and you should define in full, clearly, and factually, what it is you believe, the real biblical definition of an evangelical Christian. That is critical; for as our beloved Bible states so clearly, we should always be ready to give a reason for the faith, a full explanatio...

Thirty percent of so-called evangelical pastors do not believe that salvation is based exclusively on confession of sins, repentance, and accepting and belief in Jesus Christ as sole and exclusive savior. In short, 30% of today’s evangelical pastors do not believe in a biblical worldview. Those were two findings by George Barna in a recent survey of 1,000 so-called evangelical pastors. Three out o...

What a man! He was the New Testament version of Old Testament David in so many ways. Paul was a Jew, a Pharisee of the highest order, completely devoted to Judaism. In his early life, no one hated Christianity or Christians more than Paul. In fact, his life’s mission was to destroy Christianity and to kill Christians, KILL THEM! He hated Christ, even though he had never met him. But then, miraculo...

God ordained that you and I live in America. Why, only He knows. You and I are privileged to live in the greatest land, the greatest nation in the history of mankind. We are blessed beyond belief, far more than we can know. No matter what may be wrong, the problems and difficulties WE THE PEOPLE face, America is the greatest. There is no nation like her, none in human history. NONE. It is ironic,...

IT IS TIME! It is time for all of us who love our Lord Jesus Christ, who are real Christians, to stand up. It is time for all of us soldiers of the cross, to: FIGHT THE FIGHT OF FAITH! Time to take action. Time to wrap ourselves in the armor of truth. It is time to embrace the shield of righteousness. It is time to be both energized and protected by the Holy Spirit. IT IS THE RIGHT TIME, to wield...

The Apostle Paul in an epistle (letter) to his very own son in the faith, Timothy, tells him with the inspiration of the Holy Spirit that any man or woman who builds a HOME, a Christian Home, must take as a first priority the ruling of that home, before anything else, before any other service, even to God himself, which includes says Paul having the children in that home in subjection. At the time...

FOR IF A MAN OR WOMAN KNOWS NOT HOW TO RULE HIS OR HER OWN HOUSE, HOW SHALL HE OR SHE TAKE CARE OF THE CHURCH OF GOD? So, husband and wife, father and mother, or one without the other in God’s providence, if you decide with God’s blessing to have children and to make a HOME, then that becomes your primary priority, and you must do it right. You must structure the home by biblical standards, and en...

There is no greater privilege for any man or woman than that of being a: PARENT. To be the father or mother of a son or daughter is indeed life’s greatest privilege. But with that privilege comes great responsibility. Parenting, true parenting, and biblical-Christian parenting demands commitment, real commitment. When unto those parents a child is born, life’s priorities change, irrevocably change...

America is the leader of the west. Or at least, it once was. We were born as a marvelous experiment in Democracy, in FREEDOM. We, the 1776ers built our country as THE CITY ON THE HILL, the bright, shining beacon welcoming all to enjoy these precious freedoms with the Pledge of Allegiance to protect, preserve and defend our precious constitution and our way of life. We were built as a nation, one n...

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...

God ordained that you and I live in America. Why, only He knows. You and I are privileged to live in the greatest land, the greatest nation in the history of mankind. We are blessed beyond belief, far more than we can know. No matter what may be wrong, the problems and difficulties WE THE PEOPLE face, America is the greatest. There is no nation like her, none in human history. NONE. It is ironic,...

IT IS TIME! It is time for all of us who love our Lord Jesus Christ, who are real Christians, to stand up. It is time for all of us soldiers of the cross, to: FIGHT THE FIGHT OF FAITH! Time to take action. Time to wrap ourselves in the armor of truth. It is time to embrace the shield of righteousness. It is time to be both energized and protected by the Holy Spirit. IT IS THE RIGHT TIME, to wield...

STUDY TO SHOW YOURSELF APPROVED! If you are a true, bible-believing, saved-by-grace Christian, and so much has been given to you by our Lord, to you and me, when so much has been given, MUCH IS EXPECTED. Every Christian, no matter the intellect, education, or academic capability, is required to: STUDY. Woke, progressive, radical, anti-American individuals, growing by leaps and bounds, count on the...

The Los Angeles Dodgers are a popular, well-known, and for the most part, good baseball team and organization. They play baseball, or at least they should, that and that alone. Their objective, their mission, is sports, clean, honest, hardworking sports, with the objective of winning the World Series. They are not qualified and should not be involved in politics, cultural or social issues and idea...

We all know about Millennials. Now we know about the so-called Gen-Z. We heard for years about the Baby Boomers and the so-called Silent Generation, old folks like me. Well, my fellow Americans and fellow Christians, I think it’s about time the great USA and the world at large heard about and from: THE SILENT-QUIET-INTIMIDATED GENERATION and that would be strong, born-again Christians, and equally...

Bill Clinton, former President of the United States declared the entire month of June as: PRIDE MONTH. That momentous, unusual presidential decision-order occurred in 1999. For the past 23 years, America has supposedly honored all things and all peoples LGBTQIA month whether or not we were supportive or believed that America should pay homage to this movement. Strange word to adopt as a slogan, th...

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...

There are many conservatives, polls say, who have become QUIET. They fear, these conservatives do, sharing their political and religious beliefs. They fear speaking out and speaking up for fear of cancelled culture retribution. The conservative culture of old has been cancelled and the progressive woke culture rules the day. These new culture majoritarians do not welcome dialogue, much less opposi...

Two kinds of fathers are there. The one Heavenly, the other earthly. The Lord of Glory, the Carpenter of Nazareth said: “I AND THE FATHER ARE ONE.” What a claim. Blasphemy by a human being if it were not true. But they were ONE, and the carpenter from Nazareth told us in unequivocal terms that the CREATOR OF THIS UNIVERSE AND OUR EARTH was indeed among so many other things a: FATHER To Him and to...

If you were born, human being created by God Almighty, between the years 1997-2012 you are a member, like it or not, of the newest generation in America: GEN Z. You would be of the age 11-26. Therefore, you are so informed, you and your Gen-Z compatriots have little if any interest in RELIGION, whatever that means. In the extreme, perhaps that means you have no interest in faith, or no faith in yo...

In 1971, Congress declared Memorial Day a national holiday to be celebrated on the last Monday in May, echoing the words and sentiments of the proclamation of General John A. Logan of the grand Army of the Republic in 1868 who stated: “Memorial Day is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers, or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the...

You matter to God Almighty. You matter perhaps far more than you know. You are: UNIQUE, one-of-a-kind, special, individual with different and better talents, capabilities, and above all: POTENTIAL. There is no one like you and you cannot be stereotyped, put in a category, or labeled, especially by age for there is only one: YOU. In the beginning, scripture and the precious book of Genesis tell us,...