Many of America’s founding fathers believed that slavery would gradually end. They did not foresee the cotton gin and the textile revolution.
The following is from Zaakir Tameez, Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation, 2025:
“Thanks to cotton, slavery had expanded after the time of the Founding, instead of declining as the Founders had thought. ‘Nothing is more clearly written in the book of destiny than the emancipation of the blacks,’ Thomas Jefferson once wrote. One of Jefferson’s best friends, the French general Marquis de Lafayette, also believed that slavery wouldn’t last much longer after the American Revolution. ‘I would never have raised my sword in the cause of America,’ he explained decades later, ‘if I could have conceived that thereby I was founding a land of slavery.’
“Only a few years after the ratification of the Constitution, slavery began to expand. In 1793, Boston Brahmin Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin,.. see full report
The following is from Zaakir Tameez, Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation, 2025:
“Thanks to cotton, slavery had expanded after the time of the Founding, instead of declining as the Founders had thought. ‘Nothing is more clearly written in the book of destiny than the emancipation of the blacks,’ Thomas Jefferson once wrote. One of Jefferson’s best friends, the French general Marquis de Lafayette, also believed that slavery wouldn’t last much longer after the American Revolution. ‘I would never have raised my sword in the cause of America,’ he explained decades later, ‘if I could have conceived that thereby I was founding a land of slavery.’
“Only a few years after the ratification of the Constitution, slavery began to expand. In 1793, Boston Brahmin Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin,.. see full report
John Dewey: Founder of America’s Public Education System, Destroyer of the Old America
Enlarged - July 28, 2026 (first published February 22, 2024 as “John Dewey Founder of America’s Educational System”)
Enlarged - July 28, 2026 (first published February 22, 2024 as “John Dewey Founder of America’s Educational System”)
“When humanist John Dewey and his disciples took over the emerging government-education system created decades earlier to advance collectivism, the fledgling system was still in its infancy. By the time he died in 1952, though, it was a well-oiled collectivist machine that would obliterate America’s religious, intellectual, and political heritage more effectively than any force previously imaginable. ... By the time Dewey and his disciples worked their magic, the scheme would culminate in a nation in which the overwhelming majority of high-school seniors violently reject the biblical worldview, and in which most young people describe themselves as socialist. On top of that, the system would produce a nation in which less than a third of those same seniors would even be considered “proficient” in.. see full report
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan
TURKEY’S FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS ISRAEL IS BURDEN HUMANITY CANNOT BEAR (Friday Church News Notes, July 24, 2026, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told CNN Türk that Israel has become “a problem for the entire international community” and that “Israeli authorities have become a burden humanity can no longer bear” (“Turkish FN Fidan,” World Israel News, July 3, 2026). He is unwittingly citing Scripture. The prophet Zechariah said, “The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him. Behold, I will make.. see full report
When the Bible Permeated British Society
July 23, 2026
July 23, 2026
The following is excerpted from Why We Hold to the King James Bible, available at the Books and Courses sections of www.wayoflife.org -
Though seldom acknowledged by historians, the free distribution of the Bible was the most significant influence in England’s era of greatness.
For the first time in its history, the Bible permeated British society in the 16th to 17th centuries and propelled the nation out of the spiritual darkness in which it had long dwelt under Rome’s hand. Protestant Britain has never been a thoroughgoing godly nation, but the Bible had a great influence for good.
In 1525, William Tyndale published the first printed English New Testament and the first translated from.. see full report
Though seldom acknowledged by historians, the free distribution of the Bible was the most significant influence in England’s era of greatness.
For the first time in its history, the Bible permeated British society in the 16th to 17th centuries and propelled the nation out of the spiritual darkness in which it had long dwelt under Rome’s hand. Protestant Britain has never been a thoroughgoing godly nation, but the Bible had a great influence for good.
In 1525, William Tyndale published the first printed English New Testament and the first translated from.. see full report
Speculative Prophecy
July 21, 2026 (first published March 15, 2016)
July 21, 2026 (first published March 15, 2016)
The following is excerpted from The Future According to the Bible, available at the Books section of www.wayoflife.org -
There are large numbers of ministries that focus almost exclusively on prophecy. They are keen Middle East watchers; they delve into the New Age; they find signs in the heavens; they speculate about the mark of the Beast and keep track of computer technology.
I call this speculative prophecy.
Sometimes they set dates. A prominent example is Harold Camping, founder of Family Radio. He set dates for the Lord’s return in 1988, 1994, and 2011. Finally in 2012, not long before he died, he repented of his dating-setting schemes. But by then he had confused a lot of.. see full report
There are large numbers of ministries that focus almost exclusively on prophecy. They are keen Middle East watchers; they delve into the New Age; they find signs in the heavens; they speculate about the mark of the Beast and keep track of computer technology.
I call this speculative prophecy.
Sometimes they set dates. A prominent example is Harold Camping, founder of Family Radio. He set dates for the Lord’s return in 1988, 1994, and 2011. Finally in 2012, not long before he died, he repented of his dating-setting schemes. But by then he had confused a lot of.. see full report
Friday Church News Notes
July 19, 2026, Volume 27, Issue 29
DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA (Friday Church News Notes, July 17, 2026, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - We publish this information to challenge God’s people to do what Christ has commanded us to do, which is to pray for the nation (1 Timothy 2:1-6) and to fulfill the Great Commission that is repeated in Matthew 28:18-20; Mark 16:15; Luke 24:44-48; and Acts 1:8, at the heart of which is building New Testament churches as the pillar and ground of the truth (1 Timothy 3:15). Conservatives of all stripes can do politics, but only born again Bible believers can do the things Christ has commanded. The hour is very late. It’s time to focus like a laser on obeying Christ and calling upon Him to do great and mighty things, for He has promised to Great Commission churches, “Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world” (Mt 28:20). On America’s 250th birthday, July 4, 2026, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) claimed 120,000 members, more than any socialist organization in U.S. history.. see full report
July 19, 2026, Volume 27, Issue 29
DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA (Friday Church News Notes, July 17, 2026, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - We publish this information to challenge God’s people to do what Christ has commanded us to do, which is to pray for the nation (1 Timothy 2:1-6) and to fulfill the Great Commission that is repeated in Matthew 28:18-20; Mark 16:15; Luke 24:44-48; and Acts 1:8, at the heart of which is building New Testament churches as the pillar and ground of the truth (1 Timothy 3:15). Conservatives of all stripes can do politics, but only born again Bible believers can do the things Christ has commanded. The hour is very late. It’s time to focus like a laser on obeying Christ and calling upon Him to do great and mighty things, for He has promised to Great Commission churches, “Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world” (Mt 28:20). On America’s 250th birthday, July 4, 2026, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) claimed 120,000 members, more than any socialist organization in U.S. history.. see full report
Booker T. Washington Gets an Education
July 16, 2026
The following is excerpted from our new book History of Blacks in America and Their Baptist Churches. See the Free eBooks filter button at the Books section of www.wayoflife.org.--
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) was a slave who was liberated at age eight by Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation during the U.S. Civil War (Jan. 1, 1863). The illiterate boy pursued an education and became a prominent educator, businessman, author, and orator. He promoted the uplifting of his people through education, moral integrity, and skilled labor. He was the first head of the Tuskegee Institute (today the Tuskegee University) where he befriended George Washington Carver.
Washington was a Christian. He was a Baptist. He began and ended each day in prayer and read the Bible to his family every morning. “As a man of deep personal faith in God, he would never speak publicly unless he had first sought ‘the blessing of God upon.. see full report
July 16, 2026
The following is excerpted from our new book History of Blacks in America and Their Baptist Churches. See the Free eBooks filter button at the Books section of www.wayoflife.org.--
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) was a slave who was liberated at age eight by Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation during the U.S. Civil War (Jan. 1, 1863). The illiterate boy pursued an education and became a prominent educator, businessman, author, and orator. He promoted the uplifting of his people through education, moral integrity, and skilled labor. He was the first head of the Tuskegee Institute (today the Tuskegee University) where he befriended George Washington Carver.
Washington was a Christian. He was a Baptist. He began and ended each day in prayer and read the Bible to his family every morning. “As a man of deep personal faith in God, he would never speak publicly unless he had first sought ‘the blessing of God upon.. see full report
Evidence for the Creator Is Irrefutable
Enlarged July 15, 2026 (first published March 26, 2015)
Atheists claim that there is no evidence for God, and agnostics claim that the evidence is not sufficient. The Bible reveals the secrets of men’s hearts to show that atheists and agnostics are deceiving themselves.
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are.. see full report
Enlarged July 15, 2026 (first published March 26, 2015)
Atheists claim that there is no evidence for God, and agnostics claim that the evidence is not sufficient. The Bible reveals the secrets of men’s hearts to show that atheists and agnostics are deceiving themselves.
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are.. see full report
Darwin: The Tormented Evolutionist
July 14, 2026
The following is excerpted from Seeing the Non-existent: Evolution’s Myths and Hoaxes, 638 pages, available as a free eBook at the Books section of www.wayoflife.org. See the "Free eBooks" filter button.
In rejecting God and promoting life as a product of blind evolution, Darwin was sinning against his own conscience and he suffered greatly for it. He was afraid of being branded “the Devil’s chaplain.” He was “destitute of faith, yet terrified at scepticism” (Desmond, Darwin, p. 268). “When Darwin did come out of his closet and bare his soul to a friend, he used a telling expression. He said it was ‘like confessing a murder’” (Desmond, p. xviii).
The full title to.. see full report
July 14, 2026
The following is excerpted from Seeing the Non-existent: Evolution’s Myths and Hoaxes, 638 pages, available as a free eBook at the Books section of www.wayoflife.org. See the "Free eBooks" filter button.
In rejecting God and promoting life as a product of blind evolution, Darwin was sinning against his own conscience and he suffered greatly for it. He was afraid of being branded “the Devil’s chaplain.” He was “destitute of faith, yet terrified at scepticism” (Desmond, Darwin, p. 268). “When Darwin did come out of his closet and bare his soul to a friend, he used a telling expression. He said it was ‘like confessing a murder’” (Desmond, p. xviii).
The full title to.. see full report
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