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FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION: EMAIL MESSAGE TO STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION

1/26/2022

January 26, 2022

FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION

The State Board of Education (SDE) is asking for public comments before it writes the permanent rules needed to comply with House Bill 1775 prohibiting the teaching of Critical Race Theory (CRT).

The content we provide in this link was written to ensure schools comply with HB 1775.

Your comments are due by February 2 at 4:30 PM.

Send your e-mail to rules@sde.ok.gov

SIGN YOUR NAME at the end of the email.

To send email:

Mail to:

Rules@sde.ok.gov

Subject line:

Public Comment for Proposed Permanent Rules HB1775

The body of email:

Download, then copy the Word document titled, “Public Comments Proposed Permanent Rules HB 1775.” (14 pages) available here.

Paste all 14 pages into your email.

You may also add a personal story about your child or grandchild or your concerns about this indoctrination in our schools before you copy and paste the Word document.

Copy and paste the word document into the body of your email after you make your personal comments. This carefully thought-through document enables the staff at the Department of Education to know specifically what you want to have either changed or kept in the proposed Permanent Rules.

You may also simply attach the downloaded

Word document to your email.

Place your name at bottom.

These must be submitted by 4:30, February 2nd.

Where to deliver in person or to mail:

State Department of Education (Brad Clark, General Counsel, Office of Legal Services, State Department of Education, 5th Floor, Hodge Building, 2500 N. Lincoln Blvd, Oklahoma City, 73105-4599.)

You may also appear in person and speak

at the February 2 public hearing (2:00 PM):

Hodge Education Building, State Board Room, Room 1-20, 2500 North Lincoln Boulevard, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

You will be required to sign in, and time limits may be imposed. If you choose this option, bring an extra copy of your remarks to submit to Department staff.

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Thank you for helping to STOP CRT in our schools and

to defend our children against liberal indoctrination.

FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION: EMAIL MESSAGE TO STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION
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Progress of Oklahoma Race Relations | Russell Perry: Faith Overcomes Fear | Candidates Announce

1/24/2022

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Published Monday, January 24, 2022

This Wednesday at noon

Central Oklahoma Home Builders

WEDNESDAY NOON

Central Oklahoma Home Builders

NOON to 1:15 PM

Last week, we had an amazing look into the lives and service of two men for whom there is no "color barrier."

We have a legislature poised to continue to fight the Marxist push in Oklahoma's classrooms and universities who call our children oppressors or victims based on the color of their skin and to foster hate between American children.

The example of transforming Oklahoma has been established by Governor Keating and Russell Perry for the Oklahoma Legislature to follow. Legislative leaders like Wednesday's OCPAC speaker, Senator David Bullard, are working diligently to eradicate leftist (Democrat) hate.

David will be our main speaker and will tell us of the work being planned for the upcoming legislative session regarding the indoctrination of Oklahoma students into forms of racial hatred and sexual perversion. Indoctrination is taking place in classrooms all over the state from Kindergarten through higher education.

He will also reveal plans to finally address vaccine mandates for which we have all been waiting. More good news comes with upcoming legislation to deal with the abomination of abortion in Oklahoma.

Come and get ready for the role you can play in helping our conservative legislative leaders get these bills passed.

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JENNI WHITE

CLEANING UP THE

OKLAHOMA CLASSROOM

Jenni White has a passion to see the Oklahoma classroom returned to the authority of the parent, to restore academic achievement, and to remove the sexual and racial focus of the NEA/OEA.

Jenni has written for The Federalist, The American Thinker, the Heartland Institute, Truth in American Education, and The Pulse to name a few. This Wednesday, she will expose the state of the Oklahoma classroom and provide ideas for effective remediation.

SEE YOU AT THE WEDNESDAY LUNCHEON!

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MEETING LOCATION

Central Oklahoma Home Builders

420 East Britton Road, OKC, OK 73114

WEDNESDAY LUNCHEON

January 26, 2022

REGISTRATION ($5) & optional $10 lunch at 11:30 A.M.

MEETING FROM NOON to 1:15 PM

THE FIRST 120 MEALS ARE FREE

DUE TO THE GENEROSITY OF

AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY

(Free this week only!)

They will be promoting their

Grassroots Leadership Academy

which begins Wednesday night

FREE to those 18-years old and under

FREE to college students 21-years old and under.

$5 entry for all others

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ONCE PER MONTH

THIRD WEEK EVENING

CONVERSATIONS & REFLECTIONS

The third week of each month, OCPAC will move its

Wednesday lunch meeting to the previous Tuesday

evening for a special event each month.

This enables us to become accessible to a wider group of

people who are unable to attend the Wednesday luncheons.

Table of Contents

BOB LINN

Sanctifying Oklahoma's Cultural Fabric

LAST WEEK: EVENING CONVERSATIONS

GOVERNOR FRANK KEATING & RUSSELL PERRY

WILLIAM J. FEDERER

Snapshots of America's Christian War

DAVID GREENLAW

Election Message from

OKC City Councilman

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Sanctifying Oklahoma's Cultural Fabric

This past Tuesday, Governor Frank Keating and Russell Perry provided an amazing program to a packed house with a retrospective look into Oklahoma's past.

This week, the work towards a society cleansed of the shroud of racism imbedded in the myths of secularity continues as the conservatives in the Oklahoma legislature introduce legislation to finish the foundations laid by Governor Keating and Commerce Secretary Perry.

Senator David Bullard will give the first in a series of legislative briefings we will enjoy at OCPAC in the next few weeks.

Below, author and lecturer, William J. Federer presents timely notes on the history of the wider battles that America's Christian community have fought to ensure that no American is treated unfairly because of the color of their skin.

Remember that the first 120 meals this Wednesday are free thanks to the generosity of Americans for Prosperity who are promoting their Grassroots Leadership Training.

Due to their their generosity, any contribution you make at Wednesday's meeting will go 100% to support OCPAC's mission and the candidates we support!

I'll see you Wednesday for lunch!

God bless!

LAST WEEK

TUESDAY EVENING

TWO OKLAHOMA GIANTS

These two men delighted a packed room with their fascinating stories of Oklahoma's past. Their discussion should replace all the DEI programs in our state schools and universities!

WATCH THEIR CONVERSATION

at the 37-minute mark.

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A HEAVENLY VOICE!

Joel Burcham provided his incredible voice to our meeting to get us started. He closed with God Bless America.

WATCH JOEL HERE:

National Anthem 12-minute mark

Oklahoma! 36-minute mark

God Bless America 1 hour 43-minute mark

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JESSE RODGERS

FOUNDER OF CITY ELDERS

Jesse Rodgers capped the meeting with a Biblical perspective on our future and gave the closing prayer.

Find Jesse's message at the 1 hour 33-minute mark

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We Sang Oklahoma!

Oklahoma! at the 36-minute mark

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THREE CANDIDATES ANNOUNCED

LAST TUESDAY EVENING

Norman's Kendra Wesson announced her candidacy for HD 46, currently held by a leftist Democrat. She will continue to serve as co-chair of School Boards 4 Kids. Watch her at the 15-minute mark.

David Spaulding announced his candidacy for Norman's HD 45, currently held by a left-leaning Democrat. Watch him at the 19-minute mark.

State Representative, Sean Roberts, announced he will be seeking the Congressional seat of Oklahoma's 3rd District (CD3). The seat is currently held by Frank Lucas. Watch him at the 26-minute mark.

It is rumored that another qualified conservative candidate may announce for this race (CD 3). We will keep you informed.

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WAYNE HILL OK2A

State Chapter Director

OK2A is the leading advocate for the constitutional right of Oklahomans to bear arms.

Don Spencer was unable to make the meeting, so Wayne Hill, state chapter director for OK2A spoke about the upcoming legislative session.

Wayne also announced his candidacy for the Oklahoma House of Representatives to represent House District 66.

Find Wayne's message at the 3-minute mark

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THANKS TO OUR EVENT SPONSORS

OCPAC thanks Dr. Dustin York who gave a $1,000 sponsorship of our Tuesday event on behalf of his two medical clinics. Additional thanks to Rory Jett for his $500 sponsorship for the Tuesday OCPAC event.

Special thanks to Bryan Morris who made a $100 donation to support OCPAC's mission.

AMERICAN MINUTE

WITH BILL FEDERER

Edited by Bob Linn

Snapshots of the war fought by our Christian

forefathers against pro-slavery Democrats

UNCLE TOM'S CABIN

Harriet Beecher Stowe

In 1851, ten years before war broke out between the north and the south, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.

The book gained international fame and greatly stirred up support for the abolitionist movement.

It became the second best-selling book of the 19th century.

It sold 10,000 copies in America the first week it was published, and 300,000 the first year. In England, it sold over 1.5 million copies.

As you may have already surmised, the Bible retained its position as the best-selling book.

A year after the American Civil War began, President Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was on December 2, 1862.

According to The Atlantic Monthly’s Annie Fields, when Lincoln was introduced to Stowe, he seized her hand saying, “Is this the little woman who made the great war?”

Harriett Beecher Stowe's book ends by saying:

A day of grace is yet held out to us.

Both North and South have been guilty before God; and the Christian church has a heavy account to answer.

Not by combining together, to protect injustice and cruelty, and making a common capital of sin, is this Union to be saved, but by repentance, justice and mercy.

A statue in Hartford, Connecticut, commemorates the meeting of Lincoln and Stowe.

In his book, Color, Communism and Common Sense (1958), Manning Johnson wrote:

In their usual diabolically clever way, the reds took the name of a fine, sincere and beloved character made famous in the greatest indictment of chattel slavery (Uncle Tom's Cabin) and transformed him into a “dirty, low, sneaky, treacherous, groveling, snivering coward.”

This the reds did in order to make the name “Uncle Tom” the symbol of social, economic and political leprosy ... turning many ministers into moral cowards, many politicians into scared jackrabbits ... No man dare stand up and proclaim convictions counter to red agitation without running the certain risk of being pilloried."

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REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER

Second only to Lincoln

in Shaping America

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s brother was the renowned Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, one of the most popular preachers in American in the middle 1800s.

Thousands attended Beecher's enormous Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, New York, including Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman and Mark Twain.

In 1863, Beecher visited England and Scotland.

He lectured about the American Civil War, which helped erode British support for the Confederate South.

The British novelist, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, mentioned this in his Sherlock Holmes mystery "The Cardboard Box," 1893:

"The unframed portrait of Henry Ward Beecher stands upon the top of your books ... Bringing to mind the incidents of Beecher's career and the mission he undertook on behalf of the North at the time of the Civil War."

From 1854 to 1858, Henry Ward Beecher and his church bought hundreds of the new Sharps Rifles and shipped them to anti-slavery Free Soil supporters and abolitionist Republicans in Kansas.

These rifles had new 1850 patented innovations of breech-loading and self-priming, which offered quick loading, speed in firing, and accuracy in distance.

On February 8, 1856, the New York Tribune recognized their effectiveness as a weapon to fight pro-slavery Democrats. The Tribune printed that Henry Ward Beecher:

... believed that the Sharps Rifle was a truly moral agency, and that there was more moral power in one of those instruments, so far as the slaveholders of Kansas were concerned, than in a hundred Bibles ...

... You might just as well ... read the Bible to Buffaloes as to those fellows who follow Atchison and Stringfellow; but they have a supreme respect for the logic that is embodied in Sharp's rifle.

The Sharps Rifle soon became known as a "Beecher's Bible."

As Federal and State authorities forbade shipping arms to the region, rifles were packed in wooden crates marked as "Books."

When pro-slavery Democrats intercepted a case and took the guns, Beecher began to personally pass out rifles to abolitionist settlers who were headed to Kansas.

In 1855, seventy settlers founded a town in northeast Kansas named Wabaunsee, also called New Haven or the "Beecher Rifle Colony."

It became a stop of the Underground Railway for escaped slaves.

Their church still exists -- the Beecher Bible and Rifle Church.

Immensely popular, Beecher was viewed as second only to Lincoln in shaping post-war America's public opinion.

Gutzon Borglum, creator of Mount Rushmore, sculpted a statue of him.

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THE BEECHER FAMILY

Harriet Beecher Stowe and Rev. Henry Ward Beecher were the children of the famous New England minister Lyman Beecher and drew their anti-slavery convictions from him.

In 1833, Lyman debated for 18 days in a row at Lane Theological Seminary in favor of ending slavery.

Pro-slavery Democrats from Kentucky threatened to burn the campus down.

In his Plea for the West, 1835, Lyman Beecher wrote:

If this nation is, in the providence of God, destined to lead the way in the moral and political emancipation of the world, it is time she understood her high calling, and were harnessed for the work.

In The Spirit of the Pilgrims, 1831, Lyman Beecher wrote:

The Government of God is the only government which will hold society against depravity within and temptation without.

Lyman Beecher was quoted in McGuffey's Eclectic Sixth Reader, 1907:

While most nations trace their origin to barbarians, the foundations of our nation were laid by civilized men, by Christians.

In the same spirit of the 2020 Black Lives Matter, Democrats threaten to burn down Lane Theological Seminary in protest over the anti-slavery message of Christian minister, Lyman Beecher.

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KANSAS

Pro-Slavery Democrats

Anti-Slavery Republicans

Two different Kansas state legislatures were organized:

A Pro-slavery (Democrat)

government met in Pawnee

An Anti-slavery (Republican)

government met in Topeka.

The anti-slavery "Free-Staters" accused the pro-slavery Democrats of holding a Bogus Legislature.

On May 19, 1856, Republican Senator Charles Sumner condemned the Democrats bringing slavery into Kansas:

Not in any common lust for power did this uncommon tragedy have its origin …

compelling it to the hateful embrace of slavery … a depraved desire for a new Slave State, a hideous crime.

Sumner denounced Democrats and their desire to hold slaves on the House floor during his "Crimes Against Kansas" speech. In the speech, Sumner criticized South Carolina’s Democrat Senator, Andrew Butler, for his pro-slavery agenda.

Two days later, Democrat Congressman Preston Brooks beat Senator Sumner nearly to death on the floor of the Senate with a heavy cane.

After nearly killing Sumner, Brooks was praised by Southern Democrats for the attack. Many pro-slavery newspapers concluded that abolitionists in Kansas and beyond "must be lashed into submission." After the attack, hundreds of Southern Democrat lawmakers sent Brooks new canes to indicate their endorsement of the attack. Inscribed on one of the canes was the phrase, "hit him again."

In the coming weeks, many pro-slavery Democrats wore necklaces made from broken pieces of the cane as a symbol of solidarity with Preston Brooks.

Towns and counties renamed themselves to honor Brooks (Brooksville, Florida, Brooks County, Georgia, and others).

Two weeks after the attack, American philosopher and Harvard graduate Ralph Waldo Emerson condemned Brooks and the pro-slavery lawmakers, stating: "I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute one state. I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom."

This is a display of the same racial hatred that the Democrat Party today unleashed on America in 2020's Black Lives Matter riots. And, in 2022 continue to foist upon the children of America through their Marxist programs of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

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DAVID GREENWELL

OKC Councilman

ELECTION MESSAGE

I believe the mayor’s office is an important political office, not only Oklahoma City but also the entire state.

Our city generates close to 40% of our state’s economy and also serves as the host of our state’s capitol and its elected officials.

The mayor’s office has much greater influence over the operations of city government than any combination of city council members. The mayor works closely with the City Manager and also appoints members over numerous boards, commissions, and committees.

I believe Carol Hefner will demonstrate a concern for all segments of the City and its citizens. She will be a strong voice for fiscal conservatism in her fiduciary role of the public’s money in oversight of the City’s operations.

Further, I believe she will be very supportive of police officers and all first responders, knowing the risks they take on every day when they go to work.

Finally, I believe Mrs. Hefner will work on behalf of all citizens to increase employment opportunities. As a business woman, she is uniquely qualified to help industries that are important to our economy. Industries such as aerospace, energy, and manufacturing. In addition, I believe she will attract growing technologically-innovative businesses to our city.

Oklahoma City has the opportunity to return to the national stage as the shining star it was four years ago.

Under the current Mayor, Oklahoma City is experiencing increased crime and inadequate infrastructure maintenance.

I support Carol Hefner as the next Mayor of Oklahoma City!

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The Grassroots Leadership Academy

Bootcamp for Activists

Learn to advocate for freedom at local, state, and federal level:

Wednesday, January 26 6 PM to 8 PM

Wednesday, February 2 6 PM to 8 PM

Wednesday, February 9 6 PM to 8 PM

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415 NE 13th Street

OKC, OK 73104

Cost: Free

Dinner: Provided

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Tuesday evening with Frank Keating & Russell Perry | No Wednesday lunch meeting

1/17/2022

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Published Monday, January 17, 2022

This Tuesday evening at

Central Oklahoma Home Builders

TUESDAY EVENING at

Central Oklahoma Home Builders

6 PM to 8 PM

Tomorrow evening, we have an opportunity to hear from Frank Keating and Russell Perry, two men who helped transform Oklahoma.

During their time at the helm of Oklahoma government, they traveled the world together representing the values of Oklahoma.

They used their roles as Governor and Commerce Secretary to shape Oklahoma and enhance our position nationally and internationally.

They love Oklahoma and tomorrow night, they will engage in personal reflections on the many events which has made Oklahoma what it is today.

Registration deadline is NOON today!

OCPAC brings another stellar entertaining, informative, and edifying program with a conversation with Governor Frank Keating and Commerce Secretary Russell Perry. Come join OCPAC for lively reflections on Oklahoma's conservative movement – past, present and future – by two leaders who not only made history but continue to influence conservative politics in Oklahoma today.

Governor Frank Keating served as an FBI agent, U.S. Attorney, and state prosecutor, as members of both the Oklahoma House and Senate before being tapped to serve his nation by both Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. Keating continues to serve Oklahoma by fighting destructive leftist influences in our schools and universities and removing the corrosive and divisive Critical Race Theory that has plagued his beloved alma mater - the University of Oklahoma.

Russell Perry is a political conservative, businessman, banker, community leader, former state official, publisher, and broadcaster. He was appointed by Governor Keating to serve as the African American Secretary of Commerce of Oklahoma. Perry's story is not only an Oklahoma success story but is also an American success story that underscores the promise that the American Dream is for every race, color, and creed if you are willing to work hard and not take "no" for an answer. His life repudiates the Marxist lie of Critical Race Theory currently embraced by the left and democratic politics.

Both men are inductees in the Oklahoma Hall of Fame for their contributions to making Oklahoma a better place for all its citizens and both share OCPAC's conservative values.

OCPAC is proud to partner with the Oklahoma Second Amendment Association (OK2A) to make this event possible.

SEE YOU TUESDAY EVENING!

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MEETING LOCATION

Central Oklahoma Home Builders

420 East Britton Road, OKC, OK 73114

TUESDAY EVENING

January 18, 2022

REGISTRATION DUE BY NOON TODAY

(Due by noon, Monday, January 17, 2022)

MEETING FROM 6 PM to 8 PM

The third week of each month, OCPAC will be moving its

Wednesday lunch meeting to Tuesday evening for

a special event each month.

This enables us to become accessible to a wider group of

people who are unable to attend the Wednesday luncheons.

Table of Contents

BOB LINN

OCPAC's Third Week

LAST WEEK: EDUCATION's DEEP STATE

Janet Barresi and Senator Rob Standridge

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OCPAC's Third Week

On the third week of every month, OCPAC is moving its Wednesday luncheon to Tuesday evening.

We are unable to secure the Central Oklahoma Home Builders Association (COHBA) on the third Wednesday at noon and the OKC Golf and Country Club has not worked out well for us.

So, on the third week of the month, we are meeting on Tuesday nights instead of Wednesday lunch.

This also enables those unable to attend our Wednesday luncheons to attend an evening meeting on a monthly basis.

So, be sure to register by noon today for tomorrow’s dinner.

The lives of Frank Keating and Russell Perry represent two men who played significant roles in moving our state from a Democrat stronghold to a bastion of conservativism.

These two statesmen have travelled the world together representing Oklahoma. They sit on numerous boards.

But the stories they have to tell are very personal behind-the-scenes looks at the human side of Oklahoma’s past.

I'll see you Tuesday evening!

God bless!

LAST WEDNESDAY

OKLAHOMA'S

EDUACTIONAL SWAMP

Janet Barresi provided a clear roadmap to helping restoring Oklahoma education. We will be sending a special newsletter later this week enabling you to make a difference.

MLK, CRT, DEI, & Oklahoma Education

Today is MLK day. King is most quoted as advocating that men should be judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin.

This stands in stark contrast to the elements being taught in our government schools and our universities. King's ideology was in direct conflict with "Critical Race Theory" (CRT) and "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" (DEI).

We are in a fight in Oklahoma to rid our educational institutions of the racism embedded in CRT and DEI. You will be receiving a special email this week letting you know how to participate.

WATCH JANET AT THE 38 MINUTE VIDEO MARK

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ROB STANDRIDGE

Senator Rob Standridge spoke of a variety of issues regarding the state of our schools and our children's libraries.

WATCH AT THE 22 MINUTE VIDEO MARK

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KEEP US GROWING FOR THE FUTURE

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Tuesday evening with Frank Keating & Russell Perry | No Wednesday lunch meeting
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REGISTER TODAY for dinner with Frank Keating and Russell Perry.

1/15/2022

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TUESDAY EVENING

A CASUAL CHAT WITH

TWO OKLAHOMA GREATS

Special Event Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Central Oklahoma Home Builders Association

420 East Britton Road, OKC, OK 73114

Both men are inductees in the Oklahoma Hall of Fame for their contributions to making Oklahoma a better place for all its citizens and both share OCPAC's conservative values.

OCPAC is proud to partner with the Oklahoma Second Amendment Association (OK2A) to make this event possible.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 18

FOOD SERVED

6:00 PM

PROGRAM

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Central Oklahoma Home Builders Association

420 East Britton Road, OKC, OK 73114

Registration ends Monday at noon.

Joel will sing:

The National Anthem

God Bless America.

Joel Burcham's amazing voice has taken

him to concert halls all over America.

In our raucous OCPAC fashion, we

will join him in singing Oklahoma!

THERE WILL BE MORE!

God bless.

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The Swamp: Afghanistan & Oklahoma schools | Register: Banquet with Frank Keating & Russell Perry

1/10/2022

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Published Monday, January 10, 2022

This Wednesday at

Central Oklahoma Home Builders

OKLAHOMA'S EDUCATION SWAMP

A Tragedy of Academic Failure and Moral Decay

AT NOON WEDNESDAY

Central Oklahoma Home Builders

The fight against Oklahoma's parents by Superintendent of Education, Joy Hofmeister continues as she seeks to block due process. God help us were she able somehow to win her bid to become Oklahoma's Democrat Governor!

Approximately $1.5 Billion in federal money was sent to Oklahoma Education and is being distributed by Joy Hofmeister with no input from the State Board of Education. When the Federal money is depleted, the state will have to fund these projects.

Janet will reveal a document which promotes racial division and alternative modes of sexual orientation. Left on their own, we will see everything from the 1619 project to Action Civics to Social Emotional Learning.

Our children's future is at risk.

Janet Barresi will provide a path for

you to stop this pending travesty.

See you Wednesday!

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Also Wednesday:

THE TRAGITY OF

MORAL DECADENCE

Senator Rob Standridge will be with us Wednesday to expose the smut that has found a home in the Norman Public Schools and our public libraries. It is stunning that school boards, superintendents, administrators, and teachers are not tarred, feathered, and run out of town on a rail by the church!

SPECIAL EVENT NEXT WEEK!

OCPAC SPECIAL EVENING EVENT

Tuesday, January 18

6:00 PM Doors open

Both men are inductees in the Oklahoma Hall of Fame for their contributions to making Oklahoma a better place for all its citizens and both share OCPAC's conservative values.

OCPAC is proud to partner with the Oklahoma Second Amendment Association (OK2A) to make this event possible.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 18

DOORS OPEN

6:00 PM

Live Music

FOOD SERVED

6:30 PM

PROGRAM

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

SEE YOU WEDNESDAY!

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MEETING LOCATION

Central Oklahoma Home Builders

420 East Britton Road, OKC, OK 73114

WEDNESDAY

REGISTRATION ($5) & optional $10 lunch at 11:30 A.M.

MEETING FROM NOON to 1:15 PM

FREE to those 18-years old and under

FREE to college students 21-years old and under.

$5 entry for all others

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BOB LINN

The Seeds of Destruction

LAST WEEK: DEEP STATE

Oklahoma Congressman Markwayne Mullin

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The Seeds of Destruction

Cultural Marxism is destroying our public schools.

Academic achievement is plummeting. Moral values, without which no culture can survive, are being eviscerated.

The reason that God’s instructions to our first parents, Adam & Eve, are recorded in our Bibles (Genesis 1 & 2) is because they represent responsibilities that we, their children, have inherited.

The commission to Adam in Genesis 2:15 to guard, protect, and nurture God’s footprint on the earth represents the instructions for building healthy families and governments. It represents Western Civilization and it represents our duty to our children’s education.

Since 2020, we have witnessed a very public assault on Western Civilization and Christendom. Cultural Marxists, aka Black Lives Matter, are pressing very hard under the monikers of Critical Race Theory and Diversity, Equity, Social Emotional Learning, and Inclusion (DEI), to destroy America from within.

They are using our schools, universities, and other public institutions to destroy us.

The assault began long before 2020 and has penetrated the minds of our children through permeating our educational institutions and public libraries with the myths of secularity.

The result is seen in the Norman Public Schools and Norman's children's libraries that Senator Standridge will be discussing Wednesday.

What you will hear this Wednesday is going on all over the state of Oklahoma.

Dr. Herbert Schlossberg made the point that moral government will not emanate from an immoral people.

When the foundations (Christianity) are lost, the documents which emanated from them (civil law) mean nothing.

Our Oklahoma pastors and our political leaders are going

to have to boldly make all this clear to the Sooner state.

Dr. Marcello Pera is a university professor and former President of Italy’s Senate.

He summarized the writings of a number of major world leaders saying, “They held that Christianity had shaped the West and a return to Christianity could still save it.”

There is more!

Pera went on to say, “The apostacy of Christianity is exposing the entire West to the risk of a grave cultural crisis, and perhaps even to a collapse of civilization.”

Oklahoma’s pastors and church leaders must

take a stand for removing the filth that has

slithered into Oklahoma’s public sphere.

Come this Wednesday to hear Senator Standridge uncover what is really going on in the classrooms and the public libraries our children use.

Janet Barresi will follow with the things you can do to restore Oklahoma's future.

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SPECIAL NOTE

On January 18 (week after next), we are meeting on Tuesday evening to hear former Governor Frank Keating and his Secretary of Commerce, Russell Perry.

They will discuss Oklahoma’s conservative movement and how Republicans took over.

The two will comment on current efforts to promote conservative ideology in Oklahoma and what you can do today to push forward.

You’ll hear behind-the-scene stories. Invite your family and friends who are unable to attend our Wednesday lunches.

This is an opportunity to bring those who are unable to attend during the day on Wednesdays. Please help us expand our reach!

Please register & pay on-line today!

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We have both mayoral and school board elections on February 8. Please put it in your schedule, engage, and vote!

LET'S REBUILD THE FOUNDATIONS OF AMERICA

I'll see you this Wednesday!

God bless!

LAST WEDNESDAY

AFGHANISTAN AND THE

WASHINGTON SWAMP

Markwayne Mullin's rescue flights to Afghanistan painted a stunning story of bravery and determination to save innocent lives. These were lives placed at risk by the administration in Washington and the rescue effort was fought by the deep state.

This is a must-watch for those who missed the meeting and were not able to watch it on line.

Congressman Mullin also spent some time endorsing School Boards 4 Kids and said the future of the nation depended on restoring American education.

WATCH HIM HERE AT THE 1 HOUR VIDEO MARK

(1 Hour to 1 Hour 45 Minute Mark)

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REMEBERING

JANUARY 6, 2021

AMERICANS IN

FEDERAL PRISONS

Conservative provacateur, Pete Santilli joined us for an extended time via a video link. He is well versed on the imprisonment of hundreds of Americans who simply were present at the capitol on January 6, 2021.

WATCH HIM HERE AT THE 42 MINUTE VIDEO MARK

(42 Minute to 57 Minute Mark)

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WHAT IT WAS LIKE ON JANUARY 6

GAYLENE STUPIC

Gaylene made the message of Pete Santilli quite real as she talked about her first hand experience.

WATCH HER HERE AT THE 58 MINUTE VIDEO MARK

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THE GOVERNOR & NEW YEARS EVE CELEBRATION at OCPAC! | Congressman Markwayne Mullin at OCPAC this week

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Published Monday, January 3, 2022

This Wednesday at

Central Oklahoma Home Builders

REMEMBERING AFGHANISTAN

REMBERING JANUARY 6

LOOKING TO 2022

AT NOON WEDNESDAY

Central Oklahoma Home Builders

This Wednesday, Markwayne Mullin will reflection his rescue efforts in Afghanistan last year and comment on the events which surrounded the events in Washington on January 6, 2021.

The Congressman is a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Strategic Technologies and Advance Research (STAR), Defense Intelligence and Warfighter Support (DIWS) and a number of other committees.

He will encourage us in our activism in 2022.

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REMEMBERING

JANUARY 6, 2021

AND the 450 AMERICANS

and Counting

In Federal Prisons in its Wake

Conservative provacateur, Pete Santilli has been invited to joins us for a few minutes via a video link. He is well versed on the imprisonment of hundreds of Americans who simply were present at the capitol on January 6, 2021.

WHAT IT WAS LIKE ON JANUARY 6

GAYLENE STUPIC

Gaylene is deeply concerned for those who, like her, went to Washington to hear first hand what Donald Trump might say. Many went to express concern over the widely known voter fraud.

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SEE YOU WEDNESDAY!

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Let's Transform Oklahoma

NEW YEARS EVE CELEBRATION

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After such an amazing meeting last Wednesday, the OCPAC team is a bit challenged to match that going forward.

This week, Congressman Markwayne Mullin will be with us to talk about his rescue efforts in Afghanistan and comment on how the political landscape is shaping up for 2022 in Washington.

Our meeting is on January 5^th, so it will commemorate, a day early, the nation-changing events of January 6, 2021.

Thousands of Americans were in our nation's capitol to address their grievances with a government who codified an election still in grave doubt. To date, close to 450 Americans have been arrested just for being there.

Federal agents are still kicking in the doors of Americans who were in attendance and placing them in federal prison.

It is the individual states who represent the foundation and authority of our federal union and it is the states which must be called to awaken. They must be strengthened, and become focused on their duties to their citizens.

Our mission in Oklahoma calls for renewed attention on many levels. We must return the education of our children, from kindergarten to the university, back to parental control.

The contributions we citizens make through our tax dollars must enable our children to attend the schools of our choice and end the current system which uses those dollars to support schools of the government’s choice.

We must bring transparency to all our schools, from secondary education to higher education. Our school boards and our boards of regents must understand the ways in which cultural Marxism has infiltrated the classroom with its racism, its sexual promiscuity, and its academic nonsense.

Our sheriffs must understand state sovereignty and send a message to Washington that Federal thugs are not welcome in Oklahoma. In particular, if you were in Washington D.C. on January 6, your Oklahoma home and family are safe.

I encourage you all to get heavily involved in Oklahoma’s patriotic grassroots this year. From OK2A, to OKHPR, to OCPAC and organizations like the Oklahoma City Republican Women.

Let’s work to make Oklahoma a state

that honors Christ in all things.

LET'S REBUILD THE FOUNDATIONS OF AMERICA

I'll see you this Wednesday!

God bless!

AN OCPAC CELEBRATION

CLOSES

2021

Last Wednesday represented an amazing close to the 2021 OCPAC luncheon meeting season. Governor Stitt, Attorney General John O’Connor, and Secretary of Education Ryan Walters were fantastic!

Three hundred and fifty (350) packed the room to enjoy the festivities.

Senator Shane Jett opened the festivities by introducing the close to 30 elected officials in the room. Watch the meeting's start at the 4-minute mark.

Oklahoma County GOP Chairman, Ken Warner, spoke about the upcoming Reagan Dinner this coming February. Watch Ken at the 18-minute mark here.

Education Secretary Walters proved his teaching skills as his 7 year-old daughter impressed the crowd by reciting the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights.

See the performance at the 22-minute mark.

It drew a standing ovation!

OCPAC gave him a $2,000 check to help him win his campaign for State Superintendent of Schools.

ATTORNEY GENERAL

JOHN O'CONNER

The Attorney General was compelling, as usual.

He spoke of the important issues in Oklahoma that are interwoven with issues in Washington.

He also received a $2,000 check from OCPAC for his campaign.

Watch his presentation at the 27-minute mark here.

Many of our Oklahoma leaders were there and they played their role well.

State Treasurer Candidate, David Hooten partnered with harpist Jill Justice to provide 30 minutes of music as we had lunch.

OCPAC presented David Hooten a $2,000 check in support of his campaign for State Treasurer.

His performance of Oklahoma County Treasurer has proven his exceptional skills to fill the job. See the presentation at the 21-minute mark here.

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OK2A President, Don Spencer, Oklahomans for Health & Parental Rights (OKHPR) founder and President, Liza Greve played key roles in making the celebration special.

Watch Liza Greve at the 43-Minute mark here.

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OK2A's DON SPENCER

BRANDISHES HIS SKILLS

Like David Hooten, OK2A President, Don Spencer, also has a special talent. He displayed that talent and delighted the crowd! See his performance at the 48-minute mark.

NOT TO BE OUT DONE BY OK2A

OCPAC SHOWCASES ITS ABILITIES!

A week or so prior to the event, Senator Shane Jett asked OCPAC President, Bob Linn, to play the piano if a piano could be moved into the room.

Given the expense of that, Bob figured that was unlikely, so he agreed.

Of course, Shane has his ways.

So, as part of the Wednesday meeting, Bob played Debussy's Clair de Lune interwoven with Silent Night.

Bob's grandson was on hand to steady his grandfather during the performance!

See it at the 50-minute mark.

WELCOME THE O.U. SINGERS

AKA

THE OCPAC ALL AMERICAN SINGERS

The University of Oklahoma Singers, AKA the OCPAC All American Singers, were led by Dr. David Howard and their many musical offerings completed the holiday tapestry. They made Governor Stitt’s entry into the room a very special moment as they led the crowd of 350 folks in the singing of Oklahoma as he came to the front.

Watch them sing Angels We Have Heard on High at the 14-minute mark.

They sang I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day at the 57-minute mark.

This was followed by the singing of Oklahoma and the Governor's entrance.

Then, they led the room in singing happy birthday to Governor Stitt.

The group closed their performances at the 27-minute mark by singing Auld Lang Syne.

THANK YOU DAN CHEPKAUSKAS

Dan Chepkauskas with Patient Choice Coalition was our $1,000 sponsor to enable us to have the grand piano and the University of Oklahoma Singers.

OCPAC is deeply indebted to his contribution which added so much to the 2021 finale. Thanks, Dan!

GOVERNOR STITT UPSTAGES

OK2A's DON SPENCER

Prior to the event, the Governor revealed to Senator Jett that he has a couple of hidden talents. One just happened to be his ability to ride a unicycle. OCPAC just happened to have a unicycle on hand.

After the Governor entered the room to the singing of Oklahoma, and after singing happy birthday in honor of his 49th birthday (December 28), OCPAC President prepared to hand his a $2,000 check for his campaign to defeat Joy Hofmeister for Governor.

Bob hinted the decision to give the check would be a bit easier if he would demonstrate his skill. The Governor did not hesitate.

See the amazing ride and comments from Governor Stitt at the 1-hour 3-minute mark. He then made some great comments regarding the future of Oklahoma.

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SCHOOL BOARD CANDIDATES

RECEIVE $500 CHECKS

Reed Downey gives OCPAC contribution checks to a number of candidates for school board races. There are more candidates not pictures who are receiving checks.

These and many others are committed to eliminating Marxist ideology from our schools as it has surfaced in the form of Critical Race Theory and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion programs.

See the presentation at the 35-minute mark.

JESSE LEON RODGERS

Founder, City Elders

Jesse Leon Rodgers spoke of the authority of the King of Kings who is leading us on a victorious mission in accordance to His promises. It was a great close to the year, as Pastor Rodgers was able to minister to OCPAC as well as to so many of Oklahoma's top leadership.

Watch Jesse at the 1 hour 9 minute mark here.

FINAL PHOTO

Not everyone stayed to be a part of the final photo, but the Governor, the Attorney General, Secretary of Education, and a number of other elected officials enjoyed the final photo opportunity!

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12/27/2021

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This Wednesday at

Central Oklahoma Home Builders

CELEBRATING 2021

LOOKING TO 2022

AT NOON WEDNESDAY

Central Oklahoma Home Builders

This Wednesday, Governor Stitt, Attorney General, John O'Conner, Secretary of Education, Ryan Walters, and others will be at the OCPAC luncheon to help us enjoy a festive close to the 2021 OCPAC season.

They will participate with us in a light-hearted celebration of the close of an important year in the life of OCPAC.

THE SOUNDS OF CHRISTMAS

by INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN

EDGAR CRUZ

Guitarist Extraordinaire

Headliner for the Chet Atkins Guitar Festival each year, Edgar Cruz has been named Oklahoma's Top Performing Artist for the past ten years. His You Tube Video of Bohemian Rhapsody has over 20 million hits worldwide.

He will begin playing at 11:30 Wednesday morning as we begin serving lunch. He will present the sounds of the Christmas Season.

JOINING EDGAR CRUZ WILL BE

Grammy & Emmy nominated Artist

DAVID HOOTEN

David has been a soloist with symphony orchestras around the world. He was responsible for bringing Edgar Cruz to OCPAC and will join Mr. Cruz in bringing the sounds of Christmas to our closing meeting of 2021.

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WE ARE NOT DONE YET!

A number of Oklahoma's celebrities have hidden talents!

We will showcase them on Wednesday.

You will be quite amazed.

Included in the festivities will be two

of Oklahoma's top movement leaders

Don Spencer

President of OK2A

Liza Greve

Director of Oklahomans for Health and Parental Rights

Yes, they both have surprises in store for us!

INSPIRATION

LOOKING TO 2022

JESSE LEON RODGERS

Jesse Leon Rodgers is the dynamic leader of City Elders which is rapidly growing into a nation-wide organization establishing governmental, spiritual, and community leadership county by county.

Historian David Barton is first up for City Elders in 2022. David Barton is known as one of the most influential figure in the United States and is excited about helping build City Elders across America.

Jesse will speak briefly about what is ahead for 2022 and encourage us that Jesus is Lord over the past, the present, and the future. Our best days are before us!

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WE WILL BE GIVING CHECKS

TO THE CAMPAIGNS OF SCHOOL

BOARD CANDIDATES STATE-WIDE

There will be school board candidates from all over the state of Oklahoma at our meeting who will be receiving campaign checks for their upcoming races. These will be SB4Kids-approved candidates.

We will also be distributing checks to candidates for other offices.

Come help us impact Oklahoma's future.

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SEE YOU WEDNESDAY!

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WEDNESDAY

REGISTRATION ($5) & optional $10 lunch at 11:30 A.M.

MEETING FROM NOON to 1:15 PM

FREE to those 18-years old and under

FREE to college students 21-years old and under.

$5 entry for all others

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Centering History

DR EVERETT PIPER

Get on the Christmas Train

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Centering History

OCPAC founder, Charlie Meadows, called me from the hospital today to tell me that your memberships expire at midnight Friday, December 31.

So, you need to frantically renew your membership today (at the bottom of this newsletter) or give your money to Susan this Wednesday!

The future of Western

Civilization is counting

on you.

He also called to let me know that OCPAC made Face the Nation this weekend during their discussion of Critical Race Theory. Charlie thinks it is the first time we have made national news.

This past week, Bill Federer’s American Minute noted that on December 25, we celebrate the dividing point of history. He said, “The first Christmas Day stands as the Great Divide for the timing and recording of all people, things, and events that have taken place upon this earth.”

Each of history’s events from the beginning of time (Genesis 1:1 onward) bear the label of having taken place before Christ (“B.C.”) or after Christ, Anno Domini, the year of our Lord (A.D.)

He went on to say that the advent of Christ is “the one place on the long trail of time where the magnetic needle of history stands vertically and points up.”

Indeed, it is the wise among us who frame all of life in view of the Advent. This includes our family, our community affairs, the church, and government at all levels.

Join us this Wednesday as we celebrate what God has done in 2021 and what we have to look forward to in 2022.

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I'll see you this Wednesday!

God bless!

DR. EVERETT PIPER

Get on the Christmas Train

'Free at last. Free at last. Thank God almighty, I am free at last!'

By Everett Piper - - Saturday, December 25, 2021

Published in the Washington Times

OPINION:

One of the Christmas movies our family repeatedly watched when my boys were growing up was “The Polar Express.”

As you likely know, this is an animated film starring Tom Hanks as the conductor of a train that takes its passengers on a magical Christmas Eve trip to the North Pole, where the children are challenged to “believe” in Christmas.

At the end of the movie, one little boy is still wrestling with what to think of his adventure. What should he believe? What is true and what is false? Is Christmas real or just a childhood dream?

As the train chugs to a stop dropping each child off at their respective homes for Christmas morning, the conductor (Mr. Hanks) turns to this little boy and says, “The one thing about trains: It doesn’t matter where you’re going. What matters is deciding to get on.”

I can’t watch this movie without thinking of how our nation’s schools have completely bought this lie. “It is the journey that matters,” we are told over and over again, “not the destination.”

There is no such thing as a final answer. It doesn’t matter what worldview, morality, sex or gender you choose as long as you choose one. To travel is better than to arrive. Just get on a train — any train — and enjoy the ride. It doesn’t matter what you believe as long as it works for you.

But we all intuitively know something is desperately wrong with this. We know there must be more to life than simply choosing from an amoral smorgasbord of personal values, opinions, desires and passions.

At the end of the day, we understand some things are true, and some things are false, some are right, and some are wrong. When it all comes out in the wash, everyone knows some ideas are good, and some are simply evil.

When I was a college president, I reminded my students of this all of the time.

I told them repeatedly that the “liberal” arts goal was liberty.

I beat this drum over and over again. It was my one-string banjo. “A truly ‘liberal’ education is one that liberates,” I’d shout. It frees you from the consequences of those things that are wrong and lets you enjoy the beauty of those things that are right.

Put simply, I wanted my students to get on the right “train” going in the right direction so that they, and others around them, would enjoy the blessings of living a right life; a life guided by the good, the true and the beautiful rather than the opposite.

In the 1990s, another movie also featured a train ride. This train, however, was not leading to the snow-filled skies of the North Pole but, instead, to the ash-laden courtyards of Nazi prison camps.

The movie was “Schindler’s List” and, in this film, the point is made quite clear that the choice of trains does matter and that getting on the wrong one headed in the wrong direction can be a matter of life and death.

Who can watch fellow human beings herded like cattle into boxcars bound for the furnaces of Auschwitz and Dachau and argue that the joy is in the journey and that the destination is of little consequence? Who among us would be so calloused as to look our Jewish brothers and sisters in the face and say, “The one thing about trains: It doesn’t matter where you’re going. What matters is deciding to get on one and just enjoying the ride.”

Truth is always directional, and so are lies. The ideas we embrace do not remain stagnant. They are never morally neutral. Every idea — every train — will take us somewhere. We are always going in one of two directions: either toward the forgiveness and freedom that only God’s revelation offers or toward the brokenness and bondage that always and inevitably results from our fantasies and fabrications. Our choice to either embrace the truth or imbibe lies sets our course for not just our days on earth but for all eternity. It is a choice between freedom and slavery, a choice between heaven and hell.

Two thousand years ago, a child born in a manger grew to proclaim, “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free,” and the direction of the world changed.

Maybe the best Christmas reflection for all of us is this:

When we get on the right train and go in the right direction, we can celebrate and sing, “Free at last. Free at last. Thank God almighty, I am free at last!”

Everett Piper (dreverettpiper.com, @dreverettpiper), a columnist for The Washington Times, is a former university president and radio host.

He is the author of Not a Daycare: The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth (Regnery) and, most recently, Grow Up: Life Isn’t Safe, But It’s Good.

This is a re-print form the Washington Times.

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12/20/2021

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OCPAC CLOSES

for CHRISTMAS

Newsletter Monday, December 20, 2021

A number of years ago, I found myself explaining to my oldest grandson how the wise men (Matthew 2) became wise and the story of how their predecessors became students in the Christian school Nebuchadnezzar founded for Babylonian wise men. (Daniel 2)

It was Nebuchadnezzar’s famous statue dream (Daniel 2) which brought Daniel front and center in the Babylonian Empire.

Daniel detailed the elements of the dream. From the golden head, to the fragile toes, to the stone not cut with human hands.

It was a picture of the sequence of kingdoms from Nebuchadnezzar to Rome. Divine eschatology was clearly revealed when the stone demolished each of statue’s sections (empires) and turned them to dust.

The stone (Christ) became a great mountain and filled the earth. Of course, at the advent of Christ, Rome entered a stage of decline which indeed gave way to what we know as Western Civilization.

A couple of chapters later, King Nebuchadnezzar sent a communique regarding Christ to “all peoples, nations, and languages, that dwell on the earth: Peace be multiplied to you … How great are his signs, how mighty his wonders! His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and his dominion endures from generation to generation.” (Daniel 4:1-3)

One of history’s early Christmas cards

from one of its great leaders.

Daniel made such an impression on Nebuchadnezzar that he made Daniel “ruler over the whole province of Babylon and chief prefect over all the wise men of Babylon.” (Daniel 2:48)

And the rest, of course, is history.

The “wise men” of Babylon became schooled in the Christian eschatology Daniel provided. The foundation of Matthew 2:1 re-connects us with Daniel when it records, “Behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, ‘Where is he who has been born king of the Jews?’”

Of course, “he” is Jesus, the stone which would come in the midst of the Roman Empire, and fill the whole earth. (Daniel 2:35)

Isaiah, writing prior to the days of Daniel, had already revealed the incarnation of Jesus when he said that “the government shall be upon his shoulder … of the increase of his government … there will be no end.” (Isaiah 9:6-7)

All this builds on the promises to Abraham that “All the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him.” (Genesis18:18) The “filling the earth” portion of the divine vision to Nebuchadnezzar and Daniel was made the central focus of Christ’s prayer training to the church for the ages when he told us to pray, “Your kingdom come, your will be cone, on earth as it is in heaven.” (Matt 6:10)

It was at the core of the final commission of Christ to his people when he commissioned us to “make disciples of all nations.” (Matthew 28:19, 20)

Abraham is not only the father of the church (Romans 4:16), but also the father of the nations (Romans 4:17)

This Christmas season, Handel’s Messiah will

be played in concert halls all over the world.

The church has been mantled to employ those cultural pathways to make disciples of all the people of the world.

Listen here.

OCPAC is taking this week off enabling us to be with our families.

Join us December 29 as we celebrate the

victories of 2021 and look forward to 2022.

We’ll be joined by Governor Stitt.

We've also invited Secretary of education, Ryan Walters,

and Attorney General, John O’Connor.

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