The CRAWFORD STAND podcast

Every two years the very same thing is said when Americans vote:            THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT VOTE IN AMERICAN HISTORY!   They, all of them whoever they are, are right. It is in many ways the most important, fundamental vote Federal, State and Local America has ever had.    It seems as though Americans are mobilized, ready for action, ready to vote now more than ever. So many Americans wh...

So, my fellow Americans and my fellow Christians and in fact all people of faith, you should know by heart, by memory the inalienable rights which the first amendment confers upon you and me as citizens. You should champion those words; you should discuss and educate with those words. For AGAIN, without them and the rights they convey, there is no FREEDOM. There is no DEMOCRACY! You and yours shou...

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. So say those who believe in the absolute, unadulterated, unabridged rights of the first amendment to the blessed USA constitution. I agree with that wholeheartedly, do you? Today, however, public universities, education in general and even much of America think differently. If I disagree with what you say, I will no...

“The Ultimate danger is that progressive Christianity can send a person to hell.” Those were the words of Franklin Graham of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. If there ever was an oxymoron, the term progressive Christianity is the ultimate. CHRISTIANITY IS CHRISTIANITY. It is what it is, means what it says, cannot be reinterpreted or interpreted away. Christianity is a belief system, with...

A staggering 42% of Pastors have considered quitting full – time ministry. That is a result of a recent study conducted and reported by Jon Brown of Fox News. That study quoted one Pastor Ferguson who previously served in ministry but now resigned, who said: “There is no doubt rates of clerical burnout are increasing” The Pastor at pastorate has always presented pressures potentially detrimental t...

I first went to the great state of California in the year 1957. The first thing I saw after deplaning was: CALIFORNIA IS A STATE OF MIND A fabulous state of mind. A land exciting, gorgeous, naturally beautiful border to border and most importantly a land of opportunity. A land where entrepreneurs could thrive, work was plentiful, a democratic land indeed, truly American in every way where anyone c...

YOU WILL BE A BLESSING TO ALL PEOPLES! That was the divine promise to Abraham. Leave your home in Mesopotamia, go where I show you and I will make of you and your seed a great nation. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and their wives Sarah, Rebecca and Rachael were the chosen of Jehovah, the great I AM were the ancestors of the Jews and those responsible for the founding of the great nation of Israel. THEY...

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...

I WILL BLESS THOSE WHO BLESS. AND WHOEVER CURSES YOU I WILL CURSE. AND ALL PEOPLES ON EARTH WILL BE BLESSED THROUGH YOU. Those were the words of the great God Jehovah, the great I AM, a warning sent to all peoples for all times in Genesis 12:3. If there is no other reason to care for and bless the people of the promised land Israel and the Jews, and there are many, many more, not falling under the...

HONOR THY FATHER AND MOTHER. So says the scripture. It is not a suggestion but a commandment. In today’s Cancel Culture, it is more often ignored than followed, like so many other so–called commandments. The BIBLICAL TEN are far more often ignored than observed. In time’s past, we the children were ordered to respect our elders, and especially our parents. That included doctors, lawyers and above...

HONOR THY FATHER AND MOTHER. So says the scripture. It is not a suggestion but a commandment. In today’s Cancel Culture, it is more often ignored than followed, like so many other so–called commandments. The BIBLICAL TEN are far more often ignored than observed. In time’s past, we the children were ordered to respect our elders, and especially our parents. That included doctors, lawyers and above...

It is, woke culture is, anti–American. It is also very passionately anti–Christian. One such awakened member of the woke culture said most bluntly: “I hate Christianity as much as I hate America.” Why was never made clear. Wok–ers don’t need reason for their hateful conclusions. They want the history of our great Country gone. They have destroyed monuments. They have introduced Critical Race Theor...

It is, woke culture is, anti–American. It is also very passionately anti–Christian. One such awakened member of the woke culture said most bluntly: “I hate Christianity as much as I hate America.” Why was never made clear. Wok–ers don’t need reason for their hateful conclusions. They want the history of our great Country gone. They have destroyed monuments. They have introduced Critical Race Theor...

Roe v. Wade, that infamous case which created out of thin air a constitutional right for abortion, was in fact unconstitutional. As the Wall Street Journal described Roe, it was a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1973 which was nothing more than a LEGAL INVENTION. It was politically driven, the legal product of a very liberal Supreme Court under the influence of Chief Justice...

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...

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...

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...

“We live in really scary times”. Those were the words of a person living in western New York, a verbal reaction to the firebombing of the CompassCare pro–life pregnancy center in Buffalo, New York. The firebombing was carried out by a radical, leftist, progressive group JANE’S REVENGE. The terrorists left this writing on the wall: JANE WAS HERE. There of course was no reaction from the left, nothi...

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...

It really is not all that popular to be a conservative today, is it? The liberal side of our society stereotypes a conservative as biased, narrow, even fundamentalist. A conservative is oppressive, defensive and for many offensive. But what exactly is a conservative? Can any individual human being be classified as a conservative in every way, for every occasion or every issue, anymore than a liber...

I am a born again Christian. I do not believe in abortion. I think it is morally wrong, biblically unacceptable. But if my daughter was raped or the victim of incest, I would allow her to have an abortion. In fact, I would encourage it. Those words come from one of my fellow Christians, were not mine. They came from a dear friend who is a very strong Christian. His argument was seemingly well take...

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...

ALL RELIGIONS ACCEPT ABORTION. Guess who said that. Not me my fellow Christians and fellow Americans, not me. Those were the words of the President of the United States Joe Biden who as we know is an ardent pro–abortion President which doesn’t seem to matter to the Roman Catholic church. He remains a member in good standing while he abdicates abortion, MURDER. But the early Biden, Senator Biden fr...