The Christian Law Association works diligently to keep America open for the Gospel.  Along the way, over nearly forty years of legally defending soul winners, attorneys for CLA have met some very wonderful people.  This month we want to introduce two of these people to you.

Pastor Glendy Hamilton and Pastor Corey Seulean have been used of God to win thousands in America to Jesus Christ. Both of these men have taken on a personal challenge to lead at least one person to Jesus Christ every day. Encourage your heart by reading the stories of these two faithful men who show us that "with God nothing shall be impossible."

Dr. Nathaniel Abraham, Ph.D., is a biologist, scholar, and research scientist specializing in zebrafish, developmental biology, and programmed cell death.  He was fired from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, a highly esteemed research facility based in New England in March of 2004.  The reason?  Dr. Abraham believes in Creation and does not accept evolution as a scientific fact.  With his termination, Dr. Abraham became one of many scientists and academics who have dedicated years of their lives to the pursuit of scientific knowledge; but because they are unwilling to spout the "party line" with respect to evolution, they are being forced out of their field.

Read how CLA is defending the rights of this Christian scientist to practice his profession consistent with his faith.

Many important religious liberty issues that will be working their way through the courts in 2008 that require our attention and fervent prayers. 

The year 2008 will be a year in which election results, particularly for the Presidency and the Senate, will likely result in Supreme Court appointments that will set the course of American history for decades to come.  There is no doubt that a culture war is going on in America.  One of the key battlegrounds in this war is our nation's court system, primarily the Supreme Court, but also lower courts at every level.  Will America's future be decided by judges who want to evolve our Constitution into a more malleable document that can move America even farther away from its Christian foundations?  Or will our judges begin to look to the original intent of the Constitution as a document that presumed America's reliance on God to preserve the Union?

Can you separate the myth from the fact?

Has the Supreme Court ever banned the singing of Christmas carols in public schools?  Are communities legally banned from including religious symbols in Christmas holiday parades or civic programs?  The first text message ever sent was a Christmas greeting?  You will greatly enjoy this entertaining look at the popular myths and unknown facts surrounding the celebration of Christmas in America.

As we Americans gather around our Thanksgiving tables this year, we must make sure that our children understand it is the God of the Bible we are thanking.  Some school children today are being told that on that first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrims held a feast to thank the Indians for helping them survive in the wilderness.

It is especially important in these dangerous times that Americans continue to thank God for His bounty and His blessing on our nation.

By Dr. David Gibbs, Jr.
As Americans, we are profoundly blessed. In fact, America has overwhelmingly prospered as a nation since a few groups of struggling pilgrims and colonists arrived on our shores nearly 400 years ago searching for a place where they could worship God freely.  These early settlers formed the United States as a land of opportunity, growth, and optimism—a place where they could raise their families and organize their communities according to the laws of God.

Now, just a few centuries later, our nation has been incredibly blessed by God.  We no longer struggle as the early settlers did, but do we really appreciate how much God has blessed us? How can it be that our nation is slowly being transformed from a God-fearing, common sense-driven community into an increasingly godless, lawsuit-frenzied land?  

A newly constituted United States Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts, handed down three 5-4 split decisions recently that have important implications for Christians.  In three seemingly unrelated issues, the new make-up of the Supreme Court is clearly having an impact.  On the matters of issue advertising, government funded faith-based initiatives, and public school student discipline, the newly constituted Supreme Court made three strong statements that support the view that the Constitution must be interpreted based on the original intent of the Founders.

Dr. David Gibbs, Jr.

At the Christian Law Association, we know that prayer has been the deciding factor in many of our court cases.  Prayer has influenced presidential elections and legislative actions which have affected untold millions of lives.  God commands us in His Word to pray for our nation.

It was America’s founders who first developed a dependency upon God through prayer, although that dependency is slowly eroding today as anti-Christian forces hostile to Jesus become more powerful in our culture.  But God is faithful.

The question is, how faithful are we?

The first permanent settlement in America was dedicated to God and to the expansion of the Christian faith.  When a company of English settlers reached what is now called Jamestown, Virginia, one of their first acts was to plant a cross in the sand and claim this new land, not for England, but for God.  That cross was planted on April 29, 1607, exactly 400 years ago this month. 

Most modern historians emphasize the difficulties faced by the Jamestown settlement and play down or ignore completely the spiritual goals of this colony.  While other primary goals were to establish trade, find a route to the Orient, and make sure the Spanish did not control the entire new continent, another stated and important goal was to expand the Kingdom of Christ in this New World.