Published Monday, January 23, 2023

WE ARE MEETING

This Wednesday at NOON

Central Oklahoma Home Builders

TAKING MY

COUNTRY BACK

RECOVERING FROM

NATIONAL AMNESIA

THIS WEDNESDAY

The voices of evil have inflicted the nation with a largely unchallenged revolution. The bulk of the American pulpits have, for the most part, remained silent regarding the devastation these cultural forces have been inflicting upon our children, our families, and the American church.

Author and Trump rally speaker, Dean Sharp, comes to OCPAC Foundation this week to speak of a national amnesia which has overcome our educational system, tainted the political landscape, and numbed the American people.

Dean was the keynote speaker at six Trump rallies

in the 2016 presidential campaign which

ushered Trump into the White House.

He is a fount of knowledge, capable of hosting an entire week of seminars. This is made obvious when reading his two-volume set, Where Did My Country Go? and Taking My Country Back. He is convinced there is a path to victory. It is a path that will be populated by an educated citizenry.

Dean Sharp has discovered that history itself provides each of us the guide for a reversal of the ravages we have suffered. Within its pages beams the light which will eviscerate the dark forces which have destroyed China, Venezuela, and so many civilizations of the 20th century.

Dean is a voice of encouragement

regarding the national promise

inherent in a rejuvenated citizenry.

There will be a book table both before and

after the meeting enabling you to access his books.

Where Did My Country Go?

Taking Back My Country

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church leaders, and your pastors!

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11:00 AM Doors open

11:30 AM Lunch

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420 East Britton Road, OKC, OK 73114

SEE YOU AT THE WEDNESDAY LUNCHEON

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The Gang of One

The story of Fan Shen

A Product of Government Education

This week’s speaker will address the morphing of the American mind and the acceleration of that process in the past decade.

The American culture is now so radicalized that those in academia must curtail their speech in order to survive in our universities. Even businesses and medical practices require politically correct speech to remain employed.

When I was reviewing Dr. Fan Shen’s Gang of One this weekend, I was struck by the fact that the book was published in 2004.

At the time, Dr. Shen was a professor at a college in Minnesota where he remained until 2019.

He was perennially rated “awesome” at “ratemyprofessor.com” by his students.

Obviously, freedom of speech and thought was a bit more approved of in the U.S. at that time.

The political climate in the U.S. has been radically transformed since Dr. Shen published Gang of One, his anti-communist book.

Just a few weeks ago, OCPAC Foundation entertained former Space Force Commander, Matthew Lohmeier, one of the most gifted minds in the U.S. Military.

When Commander Lohmeier published his own anti-communist book, Irresistible Revolution, he was immediately fired by the White House.

Commander Lohmeier’s book is much more gracious than is Dr. Shen’s. Of course, Dr. Fan Shen was describing life under communism on the other side of the world. Commander Lohmeier exposed its current presence within the highest ranks of the U.S. military.

The Gang of One is the personal story of twelve-year-old Fan Shen, son of two members of the Maoist Cultural Revolution.

He began his career as a Communist revolutionary on May 17, 1966, the formal launch of the Cultural Revolution.

On that day, he joined fellow schoolmates recruited as members of the Red Guard.

Together, they burned many of their families books.

They burned books which

did not have a red cover.

Books approved by Mao had red covers!

The stories he tells are gruesome and parallel some of the major stories included in Yang Jisheng’s The World Turned Upside Down.

One of the first stories Yang Jisheng tells is of the public barbaric humiliation and death of General Luo Ruiqing, former Chief of Staff of the People’s Liberation Army. Young Fan Shen tells this as an eye-witness who was close enough to the stage to almost touch the general.

Like the rest of the Chinese youth, young Fan Shen had so internalized the communist creed’s of the “Great Leader” (Mao), he remembers having no sympathy for the man in front of him who was being humiliated, tortured and dying.

Recalling his childhood, Fen Shen writes in his Gang of One:

Chairman Mao, the Great Leader, officially launched the Cultural Revolution in his May 17, 1966 proclamation in the People’s Daily, calling for the masses to smash the five-thousand-year-old Chinese culture and to rid the country of any foreign influence, in order to build a brand-new communist culture. ‘Power to the Red Guards!’ said the Great Leader. ‘Expose and destroy the hidden enemies who have been sleeping among your ranks!’ ordered the Great Leader. Overnight, people young and old all rose at the summons of the Great Leader.

In time, young Fan Shen’s pro-Red Guard sympathies began to diminish. He witnessed horrific brutality and torture of people in his neighborhood who he knew to be harmless and who were productive members of the Chinese community.

He would eventually gain passport to America, receive a masters from the University of Nebraska (1976) and a Ph.D. from Marquette (1992), and become a freedom loving American who would live to write of what Marxism looks like up close.

I am in hopes we can bring him to Oklahoma’s educational and governmental institutions to bring the face of communism to those for whom it remains an abstract fairy tale intent on the destruction of the American cultural landscape.

Communism has left millions tortured, maimed, and dead in the nations it has touched all over the world.

A few thousand of you read this newsletter each week. I would challenge you to connect with us through our meetings, or through communicating by email and begin the process of getting involved in bolstering the Christian cultural foundations of Oklahoma that we may cast a light on our nation, the last bastion of freedom in the world.

Christianity is the very foundation of human thought.

It is the foundation of free & prosperous societies.

We are in desperate need of returning

our nation and our state to Biblical foundations.

Thank you for your activism.

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I'll see you at this Wednesday's luncheon!

11:00 AM Doors open

11:30 AM Lunch

NOON to 1:15 PM Meeting

Central Oklahoma Home Builders Association

420 East Britton Road, OKC, OK 73114

God bless!

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Published Monday, January 16, 2023

A note from

OCPAC FOUNDATION PRESIDENT

BOB LINN

FROM OKLAHOMA'S CAPITOL

A NATIONAL CHALLENGE

It was Oklahoma’s steadfast and unshakable commitment to Christian and conservative ideals last November that made possible some lofty moments on the capitol steps last Monday as Governor Kevin Stitt delivered his second inaugural address.

November’s voters remained unmoved by the well over 50 million dollars of combined campaign money from outside organizations including the teacher’s union (NEA/OEA) begging us to shun both Governor Kevin Stitt and Education Superintendent Ryan Walters. 

None of this was lost on the Governor, as he said:

Because it was you - the voter - who rejected special interests last November that were fighting to stop our Top Ten agenda. You recognized that these hidden groups were fighting to preserve their monopolies, their control and unfair advantage.

Governor Stitt elevated his comments to a national audience as he quoted two U.S. presidents, Lincoln and Reagan, and boasted that unlike much of the rest of the nation, Oklahoma did not set the constitution aside during the global Covid scare in 2020.

He stated:

In 2020, Oklahoma did not put our Constitution in the attic! Nor did we set aside the principles of our forefathers who sought to establish a government guaranteeing the individual’s right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. The great American Dream has endured in this state.

He spoke of the American dream as having found a home in Oklahoma when emphasizing that we maintained our loyalty to constitutional principles. The Governor noted further that it was for that reason alone, while the rest of the world’s economies shriveled, Oklahoma grew.

He reminded us of those Reaganesque ideals of the eighties when he reflected on the essential nature of government that is small and limited:

In Oklahoma, we acknowledge that the

government doesn’t create jobs! 

Government’s role is to ensure a level

playing field for everyone to compete.

We have bureaucrats in Washington DC who think the only solution to improving the plight of our fellow Americans is more government.

But government is not the solution to our problems…

Most of the time, government IS the problem!”

He gave more than a tithe of his time to speak of the future of education in Oklahoma. He spoke of a future where education is placed under the full authority of parents who are set free from governmental control over children.

The Governor envisions a time when the individual taxpayer, the one who funds education, will determine how those funds are used for each child.

Governor Stitt further stated:

And that means, we must give students more access to learning methods that fit their unique needs. We need MORE schools - not less schools like the fearmongers claimed when we called for change.

We expanded education freedom for more students because we believe every kid deserves the best education possible, regardless of his or her economic status or zip code.

Referencing the national economic and moral disasters imposed upon us from Washington, he closed with a challenge:

Friends, today I am asking you to join me.

Leave Washington DC to its political games

and let us focus here at home where

we are all Oklahomans.

With that kind of bold talk and with equally bold action, I believe Oklahoma may have a man who can serve as an example to the nation. A man who, in his faithfulness in the smaller things of state government, will inspire a return, nationally, to the Christian and conservative ideals that made the nation great.

We are in desperate need of returning

our nation and our state to Biblical foundations.

Thank you for your activism.

IMAGES FROM THE

GOVERNOR'S INAUGURAL BALL

Our OCPAC Foundation Board of Directors were well represented at the ball. Many of our members were in attendance at this year's Inaugural Ball as well.

May God bless the Governor

May God bless the Governor's family

May God bless Oklahoma

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WADE BURLESON

Democracy, the Enemy of Liberty



LAST WEEK

Riley Flack

"The Dad from Stillwater"

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Democracy the Enemy of Liberty

Rachelle and I attended Governor Stitt’s Inaugural Ball in Enid on January 7, 2023. Kevin is doing a great job leading our state, and Ryan Walters is joining him as the Superintendent of Public Instruction to help future generations of Oklahomans understand our heritage.

Our elected state leaders need OCPAC Foundation support as they are preserving the Constitutional and Christian principles of Liberty that have made our nation great. 

One of my favorite authors is Erik von Keuhnelt-Leddihn who wrote multiple classic works on Leftism before his death. Some of his best works can be downloaded for FREE from the Mises Institute:

Liberty or Equality: The Challenge of our Time

Liberty or Equality: The Menace of the Heard

Leftism: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Marcuse

Erik von Keuhnelt-Leddihn will help you understand that democracy is dangerous; a representative Republic is the Constitutional government of the United States. Marxists want the United States to become a democracy.

Fight the idea that the United States should be a democracy. Fight it with every fiber in your being. The United States is a representative Republic; if we ever become a simple democracy, we will die as a nation.

Benjamin Rush wrote:

A simple democracy is the devil's government." 

Every democracy throughout history has

died a violent death under eventual dictatorship.

Erik von Keuhnehlt-Leddihn writes:

Democracy turning to dictatorships is no new story.

Even Burke welcomed the French Revolution in the beginning.

Eminent Americans praised it. But it all ended in a forest of guillotines.

Mr. Woodrow Wilson enthusiastically welcomed Alexander Kerensky's government which was to make Russia "fit for a league of honor." But how long did it last?

The Weimar Republic, the near-republican Italian monarchy, the Spanish republic, the "decolonized" free nations from Haiti to Tanzania, from North Vietnam to Indonesia, Latin America from Santo Domingo to Buenos Aires all have been grievous disappointments to "progressive" Americans, all terminating in dictatorships, civil wars, crowded jails, confiscated newspapers, gallows and firing squads, one-party tyrannies, sequestrations, nationalizations, "social engineering."

~ Erik von Kuehneldt-Leddihn in his classic work, LEFTISM.

Governor Stitt and Ryan Walters will make some "unpopular" decisions as they lead our state in 2023. 

Support them. Fight for them. These leaders advocate the foundational Constitutional and Christian principles that have made the United States and the state of Oklahoma a superior place to live in terms of liberty.

LAST WEEK AT OCPAC

RILEY FLACK

STILLWATER HERO

OCPAC Foundation Board Chairman, Wade Burleson, did a magnificent job of providing context for Stillwater dad, Riley Flack, to tell his story.

Oklahoma will see a rapid turnaround as more parents follow his lead and let school boards know that Oklahoma parents represent a Christian and a moral people who will not tolerate uncivilized behavior and pornographic educational materials in the schools for which our tax dollars pay.

Watch the Riley Flack interview here.

Watch the complete meeting here.

Find the presentation on Rumble here.

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Published Monday, January 9, 2023

WE ARE MEETING

This Wednesday at NOON

Central Oklahoma Home Builders

THE IMPACT

OF ONE DAD

HE TELLS HIS STORY

THIS WEDNESDAY

In 1939, Columbia Pictures produced a story about an ordinary citizen who transformed Washington, D.C. It was a box office success trailing only Gone with the Wind as the highest grossing movie in the 1930s. The film starred Jimmy Stewart and was titled Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, an ordinary citizen who stood firm on principle.

Riley Flack, this week's OCPAC Foundation speaker, brought that story to mind. Riley is a Navy veteran from Stillwater, Oklahoma. When he discovered that the Stillwater Schools were allowing boys in the girls bathrooms last February, he entered into combat mode to protect his daughter.

Riley soon brought Oklahoma's Secretary of Education to Stillwater's school board meeting. The issues Riley addressed with the school board were more than boys in girls bathroom. Riley made national news when he addressed all the pornographic books the school board was making available to the children.

He raised public awareness of the issue and helped bring it to the forefront of the Oklahoma Legislature.

His action protected his daughters from

the moral decay of the Stillwater Schoolboard.

Riley made national news and

appeared on Laura Ingraham's Angle

and Jesse Watter's World (FOX).

Riley and his story are a shining example of the impact one person can have in correcting public policy. It is an example of the role the Christian community should play in fostering the health of the community. Watch him address the school board here.

Oklahoma's youth will soon lead us. Our diligence in keeping watch over Oklahoma's educational institutions is mandatory for our future.

Please bring your friends, family,

church leaders, and your pastors!

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11:30 AM Lunch

NOON to 1:15 PM Meeting

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SEE YOU AT THE WEDNESDAY LUNCHEON!

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BOB LINN

The French Revolution has Come to America



WADE BURLESON

Divine Guarantee

LAST WEEK

Bob Linn | Gov. Frank Keating | Robert Hefner V

BOB LINN

The French Revolution has come to America

Godless secularism defined the French Revolution. It is an ideology which devastated France. The godly ideals which motivated the American Revolution produced a government which has endured into its third century. The secular revolution of France birthed more than a dozen different governments and fostered the French misery which inspired Victor Hugo's 1832 novel, Les Misérables.

Secularism produces chaos and death.

It represents the same threat to the American classroom.

In June of 2017, best-selling author Os Guinness stated: 

The culture war now at its deepest roots is actually a clash between 1776, what was the American Revolution, and 1789 and heirs of the French Revolution.

When William Federer included the above quote this weekend in his American Minute, he went on to note that:

The American Revolution was preceded by a Great Awakening Christian Revival, but in contrast, France's Revolution was preceded by the eroding of morals by lewd theater, brazen infidelity and Voltaire's anti-Christian philosophy. 

Robespierre and the French Revolution tore down statues, defiled churches and desecrated graves in an effort to erase France's Christian heritage.

Yale President Timothy Dwight wrote July 4, 1798:

"About the year 1728, Voltaire, so celebrated for his wit and ... his hatred of Christianity ... formed a systematical design to destroy Christianity and to introduce in its stead a general diffusion of irreligion and atheism.” 

The atheism and the bloody nature of the French Revolution’s slaughter of its own people became the model of all subsequent socialist revolutions. 

The moral and academic turbulence in Oklahoma’s classrooms is founded in atheism. Atheism and its moral relativism are the centerpiece of revolutions.

One of Italy’s preeminent political thinkers and philosophers, Augusto Del Noce observed that atheism is not an accessory element of Marxist revolutions, but rather, it is the most important and foundational element. He noted that Marxist revolutions require that ethics be subordinated to the progress of the revolution. 

Secularism, in a partnership with its most closely-related corollary, atheism, enables a culture to become comfortable with moral chaos. It is what propelled the American sexual revolution. It is why today in our Oklahoma classrooms, school boards see nothing wrong with pornography and are happy to promote gender theory to our children.

It is what will bring America to its knees if we do not articulate clearly its danger and provide leadership in a better direction.

SECULARISM AND ATHEISM REPRESENT

POLITICAL HELL TO ITS CITIZENS

The West was built by leaders who understood the foundational role Christianity plays in the building of civilizations. If we are to restore what Western Civilization bequeathed to us, we must restore education.

Hungarian Prime Minister, Victor Orbán, is successfully rebuilding Hungary because he understands the vital importance of foundations.

Orbán has stated:

The European crisis has not come by chance but by the carelessness and neglect of their responsibilities by leaders who have questioned precisely those Christian roots.

Christianity is the foundation of Western Civilization.

It is the irreplaceable fabric of a civilized society.

In 1998, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote Russia in Collapse. He closes his Russia in Collapse by quoting an elderly Orthodox woman who said, “None of us need a Russia without God.”

The path to recovery of our founding American ideals required a return to the Bible that shaped those ideals. When we have to pass legislation banning pornography in our children's schools, we have lost our way as a culture.

Come this Wednesday and

come help change the world.

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For a complete listing of the 14 forms of government fostered by the

1789 French Revolution, see William Federer's American Minute here.

My thanks to Mr. Federer for the inspiration which

became the preamble of my article this week!

WADE BURLESON

Chairman of the Board

The Future

and

MY LORD'S GUARANEE

President Bob Linn and our super speakers at OCPAC Foundation keep us up-to-date on all the events in Oklahoma and the nation. Periodically, I give some encouragement from a biblical perspective since OCPAC Foundation is an educational non-profit focused on educating people regarding Constitutional and Christian principles. 

We may be facing some tough times in the days ahead as a nation. Economically, socially, and politically, the horizon may seem dark. For you personally, there may be some trying times due to personal illness or family issues that your friends at OCPAC Foundation are not even aware you are facing. 

With that in mind, I’d like to encourage you with a poem I wrote many years ago for a family in our church who was facing a very difficult time. May you be blessed reflecting on the biblical principles conveyed through the poem.

My Lord’s Guarantee

There are days you’ll hear news that burdens your soul.

Words will come that cause you to feel less than whole.

Those times are planned by Me for a special reason,

To give you My comfort in your particularly dark season.

I may not always make things perfect and secure,

But I will show you two things that are absolutely sure.

My unconditional love for you will never change or abate.

And your life is not in the hands of earthly chance or fate.

I have taken hold of you and supported you by My hand,

To ensure the evil around you will not forever stand.

Assurance of My love is found not in what you can see.

It is established in the personal faith you have in Me.

It may be that I designed this affliction to end with death.

For this reason you must trust Me with your every breath.

You came to this world with nothing but My love for you,

And it is this unfailing love that will see you through.

“Nothing of the future is left to chance; nay, not the falling of a sparrow nor the losing of a hair is left to haphazard, but all life events are arranged and appointed. The Lord has ordained our path in his infallible wisdom and infinite love.”

I praise God for the work He is doing in our midst.

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Christianity is the very foundation of human thought.

It is the foundation of free & prosperous societies.

We are in desperate need of returning

our nation and our state to Biblical foundations.

Thank you for your activism.

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I'll see you at this Wednesday's luncheon!

11:00 AM Doors open

11:30 AM Lunch

NOON to 1:15 PM Meeting

Central Oklahoma Home Builders Association

420 East Britton Road, OKC, OK 73114

God bless!

LAST WEEK

THE TASKS AT HAND IN 2023

Last week, Bob reviewed a bit of the presentation by former Space Force Commander, Matthew Lohmeier and his documentation of the infiltration of the communist party into the American military. Bob reviewed on of Ronal Reagan's favorite researcher of the communist infiltration in America, W. Cleon Skousen.

Skousen's The Naked Communist was promoted by Dr. Ben Carson on Fox News as an accurate and thorough presentation of the communist party in America. The book is a resource for the 45 goals of the communists in America which are recorded in the U.S. Congressional records.

Matthew Lohmeier's book, Irresistible Revolution is available at OCPAC Foundation meetings and can also be ordered on Amazon.

Christian patriots filled the History Center's Chesapeake room to hear first-hand where we are in our military's policy on communism and Marxism. Many gave to the cause and received an autographed book from Matt.

WE MUST REPAIR OKLAHOAM EDUCATION

Former Governor Frank Keating, as always, provided powerful reasons to turn the reins of the taxpayer educational dollar back to the parent.

Robert Hefner V provided reasons we must better educate our youth in the science of energy and counter the globalist's misinformation campaign of catastrophic global warming.

Senator Shane Jett spoke of the Foundation's vision of using our media to impact the state and the nation.

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Published Monday, January 2, 2023

WE ARE MEETING

This Wednesday at NOON

Central Oklahoma Home Builders

THE STATE OF THE FOUNDATION

2023

WHAT WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED

WHERE WE ARE GOING

by Foundation President, Bob Linn

Our future rests on the impact we are having on Oklahoma's youth. My seven-year-old grandson thought it important to stand with me last Wednesday and brought a rousing applause when he answered my political query. Regrettably, he is back in Colorado and will not join us this week.

For a number of years, we have pushed initiatives to return authority over the family's educational dollars to the family. No people are a free people when their government requires them to forfeit their own educational dollars to institutions controlled by government.

While we call ourselves the land of the free, until we terminate the government's authority to use a family's money to fund a government educational program, we are under a tyranny. Our founders, in another context, called that taxation without representation. We fought a war over the issue.

It is clear that political realities and the elections that shape those realities are grounded in the nature of the people of any given society. As Christianity blossomed in Europe, men and women began to re-think the role of government. It was the work of Columbus, the Puritans, and the Pilgrims which laid the foundation for a concept of government which required great sacrifice and leadership to establish.

Because our constitution works only for a Christian & moral people, it is in jeopardy today. The solution is an effort to restore the spiritual, Christian, and cultural foundations of society, beginning in Oklahoma.

We must restore the integrity of education from kindergarten through our colleges and universities. We must rally the troops to get all this done.

We have made a great deal of headway in 2022. This Wednesday, we will unfold what is before us in 2023 and the roles played by both the OCPAC Foundation and OCPAC Action.

Joining me will be Senator Shane Jett, Bott Radio's Joseph Palmer, a representative from the the oil & gas industry, and Wade Burleson. We will talk about our video production, radio broadcasting, textbook writing, school boards, and what OCPAC Action will be doing.

Please bring your friends, family,

church leaders, and your pastors!

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WADE BURLESON

The New Years Message of

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

LAST WEEK

Space Force Commander Matthew Lohmeier

Attorney General John O'Connor

WADE BURLESON

Chairman of the Board

NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS

from The Prince of Preachers

CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON

June 19, 1834 - January 31, 1892

Charles Haddon Spurgeon preached to a 5,500-member church in London for 28 years. Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations, among whom he is known as the "Prince of Preachers". He was a strong figure in the Reformed tradition, opposing the liberal and pragmatic theological tendencies in the Church of his day.

LONDON'S METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE

The church had 5,500 members

and the auditorium seated 6,000.

Charles Spurgeon led the Metropolitan Tabernacle of London from 1853 to his death in 1892. He preached before British Prime Ministers and the Royal Family.

The last New Year's message Spurgeon preached was in 1892. He said:

Let me tell you, in a few words,

what I see as I look into the new year.

Notice that Mr. Spurgeon resolved to "see" and not "be."

Spurgeon sought to

see in the new year:

God’s Sovereignty

“I see a highway cast up by the

foreknowledge and predestination of God."

“Nothing of the future is left to chance; nay, not the falling of a sparrow nor the losing of a hair is left to haphazard, but all life events are arranged and appointed. The Lord has ordained our path in his infallible wisdom and infinite love.”

God's Guidance

“I see a Guide provided as our companion along the way. To Him we gladly say, ‘Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel.’ ”

He is waiting to go with us through every portion of the road. ‘The Lord, He it is that doth go before thee; He will be with thee, he will not fail thee.’ We are not left to pass through life as though it were a lone wilderness. Jesus says, ‘I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.’ ”

God's Strength

“Beside the way and the Guide, I perceive very clearly, by the eye of faith, strength for the journey provided.

There is a hospice on every pass over the Alps of life and a bridge across every river of trial which crosses our way to the Celestial City. Holy angels are as numerous to guard us as fallen ones to tempt us.

We shall never see need which our gracious Father has furnished no supply.”

God Glorified

“This year we trust we shall see God glorified by us and in us. If we realize our chief end, we reach our highest enjoyment. It is the delight of the renewed heart to think that God can get glory out of such poor creatures as we are.”

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Whatever is before us in 2023, let's follow Spurgeon's example.

I resolve to see God’s sovereignty and rest in Him.

I resolve to see God’s guidance and follow Him.

I resolve to see God’s strength and rely on Him.

I resolve to see God’s glory and live for Him.

I praise God for the work He is doing in our midst.

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Christianity is the very foundation of human thought.

It is the foundation of free & prosperous societies.

We are in desperate need of returning

our nation and our state to Biblical foundations.

Thank you for your activism.

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I'll see you at this Wednesday's luncheon!

11:00 AM Doors open

11:30 AM Lunch

NOON to 1:15 PM Meeting

Central Oklahoma Home Builders Association

420 East Britton Road, OKC, OK 73114

God bless!

LAST WEEK

COMMUNISM IN THE U.S. MILITARY

Former Space Force Commander, Matthew Lohmeier, revealed the shocking developments which have taken place within the U.S. military. Marxist ideology has a stronghold over all our bases.

Encouraging is the number of military from the highest to the lowest ranks who are not sympathetic with the new Wokism. Matt sacrificed an extraordinary future with the military and in government in order to expose what is happening.

Christian patriots filled the History Center's Chesapeake room to hear first-hand where we are in our military's policy on communism and Marxism. Many gave to the cause and received an autographed book from Matt.

He is committed to the fight and we hope to partner with him.

This presentation represents confirmation from the inside of the U.S. military. It contains information no other high-ranking member of the military dares to provide. Under the current administration, to speak out, even respectfully, means the end of a career.

Commander Lohmeier's presentation is highly respectful and well documented. Under the Biden administration, it meant he was no longer welcome in the armed services.

MATTHEW LOHMEIER

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ATTORNEY GENERAL

JOHN O'CONNOR

John O'Connor was our special guest. He spoke about Oklahoma issues. While he will continue to play a number of important roles in our state, this was an opportunity for us to say goodbye to our beloved Attorney General.

We have an army of men and women to carry the torch given us by our forefathers. Come join the mission to restore our communities, our state, and our nation.

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Published Monday, December 26, 2022

AN UNFORGETTABLE

OCPAC FOUNDATION MEETING

This Wednesday at NOON

Oklahoma History Center

800 Nazih Zudhi Dr., OKC,. OK 73105

REGISTER TODAY

or

Pick up $10 tickets at the door

U.S. SPACE FORCE

COMMANDER (ret.)

MATTHEW LOHMEIER

with

U.S. Senator-Elect

Markwayne Mullin*

and

ATTORNEY GENERAL

JOHN O'CONNOR

THREE MEN WITH OKLAHOMA ROOTS

IMPACTING NATIONAL POLICY

Lt Col Matt Lohmeier understands at the deepest level that America is under siege. When his book exposing Marxist infiltration into the highest levels of the U.S. military was published, he sacrificed his extraordinarily promising military career.

Knowing the risk, for the sake of preserving this God-blessed nation and its military from the poisonous false promises of socialism and communism, he published Irresistible Revolution: Marxism's Goal of Conquest and the Unmaking of the American Military.

Matt was trained in Oklahoma and lived in our state for several years before he took a command position at the newly formed U.S. Space Command in Colorado.

His book passed through all the established military review boards and censors before publication. Still, Biden's administration and the new U.S. Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin, removed Matthew from Space Command after they read it. 

Why remove Matthew Lohmeier for telling the truth? Because he courageously shows how the new training of military personnel is based on Marxist principles, and the administration that approves of such training by logical deduction is either sympathetic to or supportive of Marxism. 

Matthew writes:

"Marxism justifies the destruction of what is, asserting that a revolution will bring about something that will be better. The past ought to be destroyed; traditional religious and cultural sites must come down, because they are, after all, only a symbol of the oppressor, those with privilege. They are vain monuments to those who unjustly wield power in the old society. To maintain the vestiges of old society is to perpetuate oppression."

The United States is in the beginnings of a Marxist Revolution. Good people need to hear from Commander Matthew Lohmeier to recognize the danger and what can be done to stop it.

A simple action from you to be part of the Republic's defense force is to attend this Wednesday's OCPAC Foundation meeting at 11:30 pm at the Oklahoma History Center. 

“American patriots see in Lt Col Lohmeier exactly the kind of leader they hope to see in those who wear the uniform of the United States military and swear an oath to protect and defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic.”

— Debbie Georgatos, host of the America, Can We Talk? show

and of the Women for Freedom Summit

"There is no one in this country that is doing more to help defend America and promote the vision and values of our founding fathers than Matt Lohmeier! I have never met anyone who better understands the challenges we are facing today from the “enemy within” than Matt. And absolutely no one articulates the related threats and potential winning strategies with more clarity and aplomb!"

— ROD BISHOP Lt Gen USAF (Ret)

President, Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services, Inc

Matthew Lohmeier is author of the bestselling book Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military.

His book Irresistible Revolution was published in May 2021, at which time Matt was a respected active-duty commander in the newly formed US Space Force.

For publishing and speaking about his book, then-Lieutenant Colonel Lohmeier was relieved of his command and subjected to an Inspector General investigation launched from the Pentagon.

He subsequently joined the nation’s biggest media personalities to discuss the proliferation of Marxist-rooted critical race theory (CRT) in the military and its divisive impact on the force and mission. 

Bring your friends, relatives, your legislator, and your pastor to this year-end event.

Register at Event Brite here.

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* The U.S. Congress is on notice that they may be called into special session between Christmas and New Years. Should Congressman Mullin be in Washington, we will work to get him to join us by a video connection.

Please bring your friends, family,

church leaders, and your pastors!

REGISTER AT EVENT BRITE HERE

Tax-deductible donations accepted at door.

WEDNESDAY LUNCH

Oklahoma History Center

11:00 AM Doors open

11:30 hors d'oeuvres

NOON to 1:15 PM Meeting

Oklahoma History Center

800 Nazih Zudhi Dr., OKC,. OK 73105

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WEDNESDAY LUNCH

Doors open 11:00 AM

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Meeting NOON to 1:15 PM

Table of Contents

BOB LINN

No Red Guard

TWO WEEKS AGO

Kyle Williams and Enid's Christ Tree

BOB LINN

No Red Guard

In 1966, twelve-year-old Fen Shen became a member of Mao's Cultural Revolution as a Red Guard. He quickly understood that he was fostering not a better society, but, rather, human injustice, misery, torture, and murder. It is what Marxism in practice looks like. Many of the victims were people he knew.

Fen Shen resolved to leave the Chinese Cultural Revolution and was able to escape to America. His memoirs are detailed in a book called Gang of One. It reveals the horror and evil of Marxist ideology when put into practice.

Our speaker this Wednesday discloses the documented shift in the American military advocating for the ideals of Marxist ideology.

Pictured below is Spenser Malone, a 2018 West Point Graduate. He is ready to be a part of the aggressive Marxist take-over of the U.S.

This photo makes clear that the Communist revolution has come to America in great strength.

If you want to do something to resist the revolution, come to the OCPAC Foundation meeting at the Oklahoma History Center this Wednesday.

We are in the midst of a cultural war in Oklahoma, as are all Americans. It is a war that pits the devout adherents of secularism found in the movements of militant Marxism against Christ and his people.

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Christianity is the very foundation of human thought.

It is the foundation of free & prosperous societies.

We are in desperate need of returning

our nation and our state to Biblical foundations.

Thank you for your activism.

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I'll see you at this Wednesday's luncheon!

11:00 AM Doors open

11:30 AM Lunch

NOON to 1:15 PM Meeting

Oklahoma History Center

800 Nazih Zudhi Dr., OKC,. OK 73105

God bless!

TWO WEEKS AGO

VIDEO NOW AVAILABLE

Kyle Williams is leading the way to re-establishing the Christian foundation of the consciousness of society. The Christ Tree project in Enid, Oklahoma is unique, and we pray that other municipal leaders around the state and the nation would follow his lead.

Here is his presentation to OCPAC:

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Published Monday, November 21, 2022

A note from

OCPAC FOUNDATION PRESIDENT

BOB LINN

HOW WORDS HAVE

EVANGELIZED NATIONS

THROUGH MUSICAL ADORNMENT

The origin of the cosmos was verbal. We know this from the opening chapter of Genesis. There we learn that because “God said,” and there came light, the cosmos, and ultimately, our First Parents.

The War of Good versus Evil

is Being Waged with Words

The assault on Oklahoma’s educational system and our American Republic is verbal. As Sir Roger Scruton noted in his book Fools, Frauds, and Firebrands:

The first concern of revolutionary movements on the left has been to capture the language, to change reality by changing the way we describe and therefore the way we perceive it.

Or, as George Orwell put it in his 1984:

Newspeak was the official language of Oceana and had been devised to meet the ideological needs of English Socialism. Newspeak was designed not to extend but to diminish the range of thought.

Even our dictionaries are cooperating with the communist insurgence into our schools.

The Cambridge Dictionary has joined Merriam-Webster in changing the definition of “Woman” and “Man.” One definition of “Woman” states, “An adult who lives and identifies as female though they have been said to have a different sex at birth.” David Harsanyi comments, “Ideas are corrupting language, and language is corrupting thought.”

Find more from last weekend's Agenda.

The Word Became Flesh and Dwelt Among Us

All this came to my mind because we are all scurrying this week to prepare for the trappings which surround an event which took a very young teenage girl by complete surprise.

Mary would give birth to the one the Apostle John called The Word. Her depth of knowledge of the Word of God has been on public display for more than 2,000 years just 46 verses into in Luke’s Gospel.

The devout Christian, Johann Sebastian Bach, set Mary’s testimony to music in preparation for the Christmas festivities in Leipzig in 1723 in a twelve-movement oratorio.

Not quite 20 years later, in 1741, George Frederic Handel composed the Messiah, also putting the Word of God to music. It has become an international Christmas classic. He signed it “SDG” (Soli Deo Gloria/To God be the Glory). Something Bach was also known to do.

Commenting on the Messiah, Handel said:

I did think I did see all heaven before

me, and the great God Himself.

Shortly before his death, Handel expressed that he was:

In hopes of meeting his good God,

his sweet (precious) Saviour, on

the day of His resurrection.

For more on sacred Christmas music,

see American Minute with Bill Federer here.

Upon hearing the Hallelujah Chorus, England’s King George II stood to his feet. The words of the Biblical text Handel selected combined with his music has had a massive impact the world over.

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The Messiah in Beijing

Messiah was performed at China’s Forbidden City Concert Hall (Beijing) in December of 2001. It was only the second performance since the Chinese Communist Party took over in 1949. It was the first time that the work was sung in Chinese in a concert hall instead of a church.

The conductor was the devout Christian and well-known conductor, Su Wenxing (苏文星) .  Of his conducting the Messiah, he said, "Many great composers such as Bach and Handel were loyal Christians. Since I became a Christian, I have had a new understanding of them and interpret them much better," he said.

The China Source told the story here:

The applause lasted for ten minutes. A staff member of the theater said that this scene is too rare. The Messiah is incredible. For the climax of the world-famous Hallelujah chorus the audience stood up and sang softly. This scene was very impressive. The applause echoed in every corner of the theater, and with every curtain call of Conductor Su, the applause suddenly exploded. The flowers on the stage piled up. The audience continued their thunderous applause. For a young conductor, people gave the highest praise—Changming’s applause.

Pray that the magnificence of Bethlehem and

the power of Jerusalem would overwhelm China!

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The Words in Messiah Sung in Zulu

In 1993, Dr. Sam Shabalala made history by being the first black person to translate the Messiah into isiZulu. He is also a devout Christian who knows the power of the work Handel has given us.

Listen to a very inspirational 5-minute, professionally recorded, presentation of the Durban, South Africa choir sing notable portions in isiZulu here.

The Light of the Word of God will overcome

the Darkness of Orwellian Newspeak

God continues to move, as Mary noted in Luke’s recording of her “Magnificat,” from generation to generation. What began in Bethlehem and consummated in Jerusalem is the divine light which carries the blessings of Abraham to the nations as promised 4,000 years ago.

We must aggressively fight to prevent evil people from perverting the words we use to communicate. As we engage the culture, we must also know that the Word who flung the stars into space is laser-focused on the progression of mankind on earth. He will continue to provide both light and life.

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We don’t meet this week, but be sure to purchase tickets to hear former Space Force Commander, Matthew Lohmeier, Attorney General John O’Connor, and U.S. Senator-elect, Markwayne Mullin* at the History Center, Wednesday, December 28.

NEXT WEEK

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2022

11:30 AM to 1:30 PM

$10 entry

OKLAHOMA HISTORY CENTER

HOR D'OEVRES

It will be our final meeting of the year and our welcome to the year ahead of us in 2023.

Buy your ticket here.

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*President Biden may call for a Special Session for the U.S. Congress. If so, Congressman Mullin will be in Washington D.C. after Christmas. If this occurs, we will see if we can get him on a zoom call.

We are in desperate need of returning

our nation and our state to Biblical foundations.

Thank you for your activism.

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Table of Contents

WADE BURLESON

Orwell, Newspeak, and Wikipedia

LAST WEEK

Kyle Williams and Christmas in Enid

WADE BURLESON

Orwell, Newspeak, and Wikipedia

ORWELL, NEWSPEAK, AND WIKIPEDIA

by Istoria Ministries

Dec 15, 2022



This article has been edited for length and may be read in its entirety at Istoria.

Forcing a nation to change its language and vocabulary becomes the means to deceive and manipulate the masses to move from a society characterized by individual liberty to a country of governmental tyranny.

In George Orwell’s 1984, language becomes the mind-control tool of evil forces. Their goal is to destroy the will and imagination of the individual by forcing conformity to a new way of speaking.

Orwell called it Newspeak. In Newspeak words no longer mean what they used to, and a refusal to comply with speaking the new language leads to punishment. Forced compliance to the country’s new language becomes the ultimate weapon of authoritarian and tyrannical leaders.

Orwell describes Newspeak as a fundamental tool for the ascent to power when he states that:

Newspeak was the official language of Oceana and had been devised to meet the ideological needs of English Socialism. Newspeak was designed not to extend but to diminish the range of thought.

~ Orwell, 1984

That is precisely why Wikipedia is so dangerous. The liberal activists who control the site are contributing to the destruction the Republic of the United States by forcing a change to our language. I am now banned as an editor of Wikipedia.

I had the audacity to use the pronoun “he” when I edited Sam Brinton’s page on Wikipedia. 

Until last week, Sam Brinton served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy. He was in charge of Nuclear Waste in the United States.

Sam Brinton is an outspoken advocate for LGBTQ and sexual transitioning. He is pictured prominently on the internet dressed in woman's clothing.

Joe Biden’s administration appointed him in the name of “equality.”

But this story is not about Sam, no matter how disturbed he may or may not be.

This story is about liberal activists controlling Wikipedia and forcing a language change in culture. It is a warning to Christians who refuse to resist because they think it is “loving and kind” to go along with Newspeak.

A society of liberty becomes a hierarchy of tyranny when good people give in to the demands to change their language into something nonsensical, illogical, and confusing.

In an entry to Wikipedia, Wayne Besen, an LGBTQ reporter, wrote about Sam’s claims of abuse. Sam has publicly stated that when a youth, his Southern Baptist Missionary Parents physically and emotionally abused him through shock therapy and other torture in an attempt to convert “we” (his pronoun) out of his gender confusion.

Even though writer Wayne Besen is a part of the LGBTQ movement, he was compelled to challenge Sam’s story. However, he employed Newspeak to do it.

Here is how Besen (and Wikipedia) tell the story:

I reached out to Brinton, and they were oddly inaccessible, communicating indirectly through intermediary LGBTQ activists in the Boston area, where they were attending MIT. The reason for Brinton’s scarcity had to do with two simple questions I had asked them: Who was your conversion therapist and in which facility did the therapy occur?

~Wayne Besen, Too Good To Be True.

In case the comments leave you a bit confused, here is how the story would read if using proper English:

Writer Wayne Besen reached and to Sam Brinton and he was inaccessible, communicating with Besen indirectly through intermediary LGBTQ activists in the Boston area, where he was attending MIT. The reason for Brinton’s scarcity had to do with two simple questions that Wayne Besen had asked him. Who was your conversion therapist and in which facility did the therapy occur?

Resist the Attempt to Change Your Language

In the words of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Live Not by Lies!

For using the proper biological pronoun “he” on Wikipedia in a recent edit, I am banned for a year as an editor of Wikipedia.

I have a friend named Matthew Lohmeier. Matthew, the first Commander of the United States Space Force, wrote Irresistible Revolution: Marxism’s Goal of Conquest and the Unmaking of the American Military.

Matthew Lohmeier reveals the undoing of the American military began with a “change in the language” within the instruction manuals of our military.

When discussing the way language is weaponized to assault a nation, Matthew notes in his book how language was used in Mao’s Cultural Revolution. He tells the story of Fan Shen, former Chinese Revolutionary, and author of the book, Gang of One.

Lohmeier writes in Irresistible Revolution:

Revolutionaries were engaged in a relentless effort to expose and destroy “hidden enemies” of the revolution. One of the ways they did that was by constantly changing language and altering the meaning of words, watching who would adopt the new vocabulary and who would accept it. Shen recollects that it became a “totally confusing war of words.

President Joe Biden fired Matthew

because of this erudite and prescient book.

He’s flying to Oklahoma next week to speak to a group of concerned Oklahomans at The Oklahoma History Center. 

Marxists always make a change in standard, logical language the first move in destroying a country’s culture and government.

American citizens, I urge you not to succumb to the forced language change in our country. Newspeak must be resisted at all costs. Refusing to change our pronouns when we speak and write about other people is a low-cost, effective way to fight to keep our country from turning into Orwell’s 1984.

I’m praying for Sam Brinton. I will, however, never be a party to his and others’ attempts to force me to use the pronoun “they” when referring to him.

I love this country too much.

LAST WEEK AT OCPAC

KYLE WILLIAMS

ENID CHRIST TREE

Kyle Williams has established a model for cities all over the state. Actually, he is an example for every city in the world.

We are working on providing an edited video.

Find the presentation at the

54-minute mark on Rumble here.

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Published Friday, December 16, 2022

SPACE FORCE

COMMANDER

MATTHEW LOHMEIER

with

U.S. SENATOR-ELECT

MARKWAYNE MULLIN*

and

ATTORNEY GENERAL

JOHN O'CONNOR

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Wednesday, December 28, 2022

A Year-End Event for All Oklahomans

11:30 am -1:30 pm

The Oklahoma History Center

800 Nazih Zuhdi Dr,

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Commander Matthew Lohmeier (Ret.)

United States Space Force

Best-Selling Author

Irresistible Revolution:

Marxism’s Goal of Conquest and

the Unmaking of the American Military

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Commander Lohmeier has chosen Oklahoma to tell the story of his highly decorated Air Force career and subsequent dismissal from military Service by President Joe Biden for exposing the undoing of the United States Armed Forces.

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JOIN US DECEMBER 28 AT THE

OKLAHOMA HISTORY CENTER

Lt Col Matt Lohmeier understands at the deepest level that America is under siege. He has taken a stand and sacrificed his extraordinarily promising military career for the sake of preserving this God-blessed nation and its military from the poisonous false promises of socialism and communism.

“American patriots see in Lt Col Lohmeier exactly the kind of leader they hope to see in those who wear the uniform of the United States military and swear an oath to protect and defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic.”

~Debbie Georgatos, host of the

“America, Can We Talk?” show

and of the Women for Freedom Summit

“There is no one in this country that is doing more to help defend America and promote the vision and values of our founding fathers than Matt Lohmeier! I have never met anyone who better understands the challenges we are facing today from the “enemy within” than Matt. And absolutely no one articulates the related threats and potential winning strategies with more clarity and aplomb!”

— ROD BISHOP Lt Gen USAF (Ret)

President, Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Servies, Inc

 Commander Lohmeier’s book Irresistible Revolution was published in May 2021, at which time Matt was a respected active-duty commander in the newly formed US Space Force. For publishing and speaking about his book, then-Lieutenant Colonel Lohmeier was relieved of his command and subjected to an Inspector General investigation launched from the Pentagon. He subsequently joined the nation’s biggest media personalities to discuss the proliferation of Marxist-rooted critical race theory (CRT) in the military and its divisive impact on the force and mission. 

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*The Biden administration has placed the United States Congress on notice that he may call for a special session after Christmas. If so, Congressman Mullin would be in Washington D.C. on the 28th. In this event, we will seek to have him by zoom.

Published Monday, December 12, 2022

WE ARE MEETING

This Wednesday at NOON

Central Oklahoma Home Builders

NO ENTRY FEE

PROCLAIMING CHRIST

TO AN ENTIRE CITY

THE ONE ENID

THE TREE IS A MARKER

FOR THE TRUE ONE

THE IMMEASURABLE ONE

With the intention of building community, strengthening bonds and reinvigorating the meaning of Christmas, Kyle Williams, our speaker this Wednesday, is seeking to make Christ the center of life in Enid, Oklahoma.

Kyle Williams is a wildly successful businessman and entrepreneur in Enid. 

Kyle and his talented team of The One Enid, have set out to capture the hearts and minds of their city, championing as their keystone piece, the Christ Tree. It is a 140-foot tall, live-cut Christmas tree. For perspective, the ever-famous Rockefeller Christmas Tree averages 77 feet.

The tree is a marker for the true One, the immeasurable One, God.

 The massive tree, containing countless sprigs of fir, also represents us and our community. No two sprigs are the same, and they come together to form a magnificent sight. Each one is unique, yet an integral part of the whole, just like we are described in 1 Corinthians 12.

When the town’s residents and the 40,000 guests of the city gather with their families, all are surrounded by the project’s beautiful Christmas trees. Many fun events are also at hand. However, the one thought the team hopes all will remember is this:

Soli Deo Gloria.

All glory be to God.

May you find your Joy, Hope, and Peace through Christ, not only this holiday season, but everyday.

Come meet Kyle Wednesday and hear him tell the story of the project, the connections to the forests of California, and the many political and community leaders who share his vision to transform our state.

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The One is a multi-event experience spanning through the holidays in Enid, Oklahoma. The keystone of our event is the world's tallest fresh-cut Christmas tree, measuring at an astonishing one hundred and forty feet tall.

Please bring your friends, family,

church leaders, and your pastors!

THERE IS NO ENTRY FEE

Tax-deductible donations accepted at door.

11:00 AM Doors open

11:30 AM Lunch

NOON to 1:15 PM Meeting

Central Oklahoma Home Builders Association

420 East Britton Road, OKC, OK 73114

SEE YOU AT THE WEDNESDAY LUNCHEON!

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WEDNESDAY LUNCH

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Lunch 11:30 AM

Meeting NOON to 1:15 PM



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Table of Contents

BOB LINN

Returning to our Foundation



WADE BURLESON

C.S. Lewis & Politics

LAST WEEK

Billboard Chris Elston Video

BOB LINN

Returning to our Foundation

The day after Thanksgiving, Jane and I spent two nights in Enid with our “Colorado” family. We were there to be a part of the festivities surrounding the lighting of the world’s tallest Christmas tree.

What impressed me was the 40,000 people in the public square who heard about the majesty of Christ and the need for the entire community to pay Him reverence. Many came only to watch the lighting of the world’s tallest Christmas tree. All heard about the divine light revealed in the world’s greatest story.

U.S. Senator James Lankford and U.S. Senator-elect, Markwayne Mullin were both there to support the project and to lend their influence to the message of the need of all people everywhere to make Christ the center of their lives.

In the prologue of The Book that Made Your World, East Indian scholar, Vishal Mangalwadi, wrote this:

The Bible created the modern world of science and learning because it gave us the Creator’s vision of what reality is all about. That is what made the modern West a reading and thinking civilization.

The Enid event is a reminder of the dependence of mankind upon divine verbal revelation (the Bible) for its foundation in science, literature, philosophy, music, and the fundamentals of all economic endeavors and governmental structures.

Professor Stanley Mattson, founder of the C.S. Lewis Foundation, noted that:

In polite society, the mere mention of the Bible often introduces a certain measure of anxiety. A serious discussion of the Bible can bring outright contempt.

Indeed, political leaders like Italy’s Marcello Pera and Hungary’s Victor Orbán are rare even in the Bible belt of Oklahoma. We hope for more who will state first and foremost that we as a culture must return to our Christian roots or suffer the loss of any kind of civil society.

For those reasons, I admire the participation of Senator Lankford and Congressman Mullin in the important Christ-event hosted in Enid. May God give us many of those who will represent without apology our fundamental ideals from our city councils to Washington.

Professor Mattson is quite passionate about the importance of a return to the Christian roots that nourished and guided Western Civilization. He said:

A culture can barely begin, let alone sustain, any serious intergenerational attempt to comprehend, interpret, and respond to the riddles of life and the universe unless it has some reasonably comprehensive worldview. In the Closing of the American Mind, Alan Bloom – a Jewish professor – acknowledged that it was the Bible that gave critical impetus to, and sustained, the West’s intellectual endeavor of examining al the great ideas, be they true or false.

Another associate with the C.S. Lewis Foundation is Dr. Harry Lee Poe, the Charles Colson Professor of Faith and Culture at Union University.

He states:

The Bible forms the background for any discussion of science and religion in the West. The dominant religious view in the West for the last fifteen hundred years has been Christianity. For centuries, the Bible served as the foundational source for the Western understanding of reality.

I invite you to join me this Wednesday as OCPAC Foundation welcomes Enid’s Kyle Williams, one of the leaders in the resurgence to re-discover the foundations of Western Civilization. Foundations which have been masked by the cloak of secularism. It is these anti-Christ advocates who have sought to bury academia, and with it, the church, the family, and the nation with it in a sea of confused darkness.

Come be a part of the OCPAC Foundation family as we seek to shine the light of Christ on all of Oklahoma, the nation, and the world.

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I've made a number of references to C. S. Lewis. Below, Wade Burleson notes the thoughts of the one-time atheist who became a noted Christian writer. C.S. Lewis played his role well in re-introducing a new generation to the profound and critical role of Christ in all things. 

We are in the midst of a cultural war in Oklahoma, as are all Americans. It is a war that pits autonomous mankind against Christ and his people.

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Christianity is the very foundation of human thought.

It is the foundation of a free & prosperous societies.

We are in desperate need of returning

our nation and our state to Biblical foundations.

Thank you for your activism.

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I'll see you at this Wednesday's luncheon!

11:00 AM Doors open

11:30 AM Lunch

NOON to 1:15 PM Meeting

Central Oklahoma Home Builders Association

420 East Britton Road, OKC, OK 73114

God bless!

WADE BURLESON

Chairman of the Board

C.S. LEWIS & POLITICS

"A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion; to ignore the subject may be fatal cowardice for one as for the other. But if either comes to regard it as the natural food of the mind—if either forgets that we think of such things only in order to be able to think of something else—then what was undertaken for the sake of health has become itself a new and deadly disease" — C.S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis believed that like digestion, politics is not everything, nor is it nothing. It's important, but it's not life itself. Politics is a practice that is necessary to protect and promote the temporary life God has provided for us on earth.

POLITICS HAS ITS LIMITS

The important principle for Lewis was that Christians ought to remember politics has its limits. Lewis believed that the best Christian political thought and action was accomplished not by pastors wanting a "Christian America" but by Christian businessmen in business and Christian doctors in medicine, and Christian citizens in society, practicing the craft of politics by applying the Golden Rule to the ugliness of politics.

“The practical problem of Christian politics is not that of drawing up schemes for a Christian society, but that of living as innocently as we can with unbelieving fellow subjects under unbelieving rulers who will never be perfectly wise and good and who will sometimes be very wicked and very foolish."

~C.S. Lewis, "The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment," in God in the Dock, 292

Lewis believed that the best way for Christians in any nation to view politics and politicians was through the lens of Natural Law, what Lewis called the Tao (pronounced 'Tow').

Lewis believed that the Tao (Chinese for "The Way") was a set of "Natural Laws" impressed on the heart of every human being. The Tao leads people to treat others with respect and dignity, to protect and provide for the defenseless, to resist oppression, and to pursue justice. How this is done may vary, but the moral principle, or Tao, abides within all men and all religions.

I am reading The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis, and in the appendix of this classic work, there is a thorough description of Lewis' Tao. In politics, Lewis argued that you ought to listen to the words and carefully observe the behaviors of those candidates running for office, for in the end, those who live their lives by natural law will be the only effective leaders in a sick society that is anti-everything Christian.

Unfortunately, we live in a day when young people only know Tao as a nightclub in Las Vegas and have never considered it as the laxative for the clogged and polluted politics of our day.

And even worse, we live in a time when pastors don't even know Tao is a nightclub, nor do they know that in the sick society in which we live, it's more important to practice Tao in the race for office than it is to say you are a Christian. 

We would do well to listen to C.S. Lewis.

LAST WEEK

A STUNNING

PRESENTATION

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Published Monday, December 12, 2022

WE ARE MEETING

This Wednesday at NOON

Central Oklahoma Home Builders

NO ENTRY FEE

PROCLAIMING CHRIST

TO AN ENTIRE CITY

THE ONE ENID

THE TREE IS A MARKER

FOR THE TRUE ONE

THE IMMEASURABLE ONE

With the intention of building community, strengthening bonds and reinvigorating the meaning of Christmas, Kyle Williams, our speaker this Wednesday, is seeking to make Christ the center of life in Enid, Oklahoma.

Kyle Williams is a wildly successful businessman and entrepreneur in Enid. 

Kyle and his talented team of The One Enid, have set out to capture the hearts and minds of their city, championing as their keystone piece, the Christ Tree. It is a 140-foot tall, live-cut Christmas tree. For perspective, the ever-famous Rockefeller Christmas Tree averages 77 feet.

The tree is a marker for the true One, the immeasurable One, God.

 The massive tree, containing countless sprigs of fir, also represents us and our community. No two sprigs are the same, and they come together to form a magnificent sight. Each one is unique, yet an integral part of the whole, just like we are described in 1 Corinthians 12.

When the town’s residents and the 40,000 guests of the city gather with their families, all are surrounded by the project’s beautiful Christmas trees. Many fun events are also at hand. However, the one thought the team hopes all will remember is this:

Soli Deo Gloria.

All glory be to God.

May you find your Joy, Hope, and Peace through Christ, not only this holiday season, but everyday.

Come meet Kyle Wednesday and hear him tell the story of the project, the connections to the forests of California, and the many political and community leaders who share his vision to transform our state.

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The One is a multi-event experience spanning through the holidays in Enid, Oklahoma. The keystone of our event is the world's tallest fresh-cut Christmas tree, measuring at an astonishing one hundred and forty feet tall.

Please bring your friends, family,

church leaders, and your pastors!

THERE IS NO ENTRY FEE

Tax-deductible donations accepted at door.

11:00 AM Doors open

11:30 AM Lunch

NOON to 1:15 PM Meeting

Central Oklahoma Home Builders Association

420 East Britton Road, OKC, OK 73114

SEE YOU AT THE WEDNESDAY LUNCHEON!

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WEDNESDAY LUNCH

Doors open 11:00 AM

ENTRY IS FREE

Tax-deductible donations accepted at door.

Lunch 11:30 AM

Meeting NOON to 1:15 PM



Optional Lunch: $10

Table of Contents

BOB LINN

Returning to our Foundation



WADE BURLESON

C.S. Lewis & Politics

LAST WEEK

Billboard Chris Elston Video

BOB LINN

Returning to our Foundation

The day after Thanksgiving, Jane and I spent two nights in Enid with our “Colorado” family. We were there to be a part of the festivities surrounding the lighting of the world’s tallest Christmas tree.

What impressed me was the 40,000 people in the public square who heard about the majesty of Christ and the need for the entire community to pay Him reverence. Many came only to watch the lighting of the world’s tallest Christmas tree. All heard about the divine light revealed in the world’s greatest story.

U.S. Senator James Lankford and U.S. Senator-elect, Markwayne Mullin were both there to support the project and to lend their influence to the message of the need of all people everywhere to make Christ the center of their lives.

In the prologue of The Book that Made Your World, East Indian scholar, Vishal Mangalwadi, wrote this:

The Bible created the modern world of science and learning because it gave us the Creator’s vision of what reality is all about. That is what made the modern West a reading and thinking civilization.

The Enid event is a reminder of the dependence of mankind upon divine verbal revelation (the Bible) for its foundation in science, literature, philosophy, music, and the fundamentals of all economic endeavors and governmental structures.

Professor Stanley Mattson, founder of the C.S. Lewis Foundation, noted that:

In polite society, the mere mention of the Bible often introduces a certain measure of anxiety. A serious discussion of the Bible can bring outright contempt.

Indeed, political leaders like Italy’s Marcello Pera and Hungary’s Victor Orbán are rare even in the Bible belt of Oklahoma. We hope for more who will state first and foremost that we as a culture must return to our Christian roots or suffer the loss of any kind of civil society.

For those reasons, I admire the participation of Senator Lankford and Congressman Mullin in the important Christ-event hosted in Enid. May God give us many of those who will represent without apology our fundamental ideals from our city councils to Washington.

Professor Mattson is quite passionate about the importance of a return to the Christian roots that nourished and guided Western Civilization. He said:

A culture can barely begin, let alone sustain, any serious intergenerational attempt to comprehend, interpret, and respond to the riddles of life and the universe unless it has some reasonably comprehensive worldview. In the Closing of the American Mind, Alan Bloom – a Jewish professor – acknowledged that it was the Bible that gave critical impetus to, and sustained, the West’s intellectual endeavor of examining al the great ideas, be they true or false.

Another associate with the C.S. Lewis Foundation is Dr. Harry Lee Poe, the Charles Colson Professor of Faith and Culture at Union University.

He states:

The Bible forms the background for any discussion of science and religion in the West. The dominant religious view in the West for the last fifteen hundred years has been Christianity. For centuries, the Bible served as the foundational source for the Western understanding of reality.

I invite you to join me this Wednesday as OCPAC Foundation welcomes Enid’s Kyle Williams, one of the leaders in the resurgence to re-discover the foundations of Western Civilization. Foundations which have been masked by the cloak of secularism. It is these anti-Christ advocates who have sought to bury academia, and with it, the church, the family, and the nation with it in a sea of confused darkness.

Come be a part of the OCPAC Foundation family as we seek to shine the light of Christ on all of Oklahoma, the nation, and the world.

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I've made a number of references to C. S. Lewis. Below, Wade Burleson notes the thoughts of the one-time atheist who became a noted Christian writer. C.S. Lewis played his role well in re-introducing a new generation to the profound and critical role of Christ in all things. 

We are in the midst of a cultural war in Oklahoma, as are all Americans. It is a war that pits autonomous mankind against Christ and his people.

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Christianity is the very foundation of human thought.

It is the foundation of a free & prosperous societies.

We are in desperate need of returning

our nation and our state to Biblical foundations.

Thank you for your activism.

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I'll see you at this Wednesday's luncheon!

11:00 AM Doors open

11:30 AM Lunch

NOON to 1:15 PM Meeting

Central Oklahoma Home Builders Association

420 East Britton Road, OKC, OK 73114

God bless!

WADE BURLESON

Chairman of the Board

C.S. LEWIS & POLITICS

"A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion; to ignore the subject may be fatal cowardice for one as for the other. But if either comes to regard it as the natural food of the mind—if either forgets that we think of such things only in order to be able to think of something else—then what was undertaken for the sake of health has become itself a new and deadly disease" — C.S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis believed that like digestion, politics is not everything, nor is it nothing. It's important, but it's not life itself. Politics is a practice that is necessary to protect and promote the temporary life God has provided for us on earth.

POLITICS HAS ITS LIMITS

The important principle for Lewis was that Christians ought to remember politics has its limits. Lewis believed that the best Christian political thought and action was accomplished not by pastors wanting a "Christian America" but by Christian businessmen in business and Christian doctors in medicine, and Christian citizens in society, practicing the craft of politics by applying the Golden Rule to the ugliness of politics.

“The practical problem of Christian politics is not that of drawing up schemes for a Christian society, but that of living as innocently as we can with unbelieving fellow subjects under unbelieving rulers who will never be perfectly wise and good and who will sometimes be very wicked and very foolish."

~C.S. Lewis, "The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment," in God in the Dock, 292

Lewis believed that the best way for Christians in any nation to view politics and politicians was through the lens of Natural Law, what Lewis called the Tao (pronounced 'Tow').

Lewis believed that the Tao (Chinese for "The Way") was a set of "Natural Laws" impressed on the heart of every human being. The Tao leads people to treat others with respect and dignity, to protect and provide for the defenseless, to resist oppression, and to pursue justice. How this is done may vary, but the moral principle, or Tao, abides within all men and all religions.

I am reading The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis, and in the appendix of this classic work, there is a thorough description of Lewis' Tao. In politics, Lewis argued that you ought to listen to the words and carefully observe the behaviors of those candidates running for office, for in the end, those who live their lives by natural law will be the only effective leaders in a sick society that is anti-everything Christian.

Unfortunately, we live in a day when young people only know Tao as a nightclub in Las Vegas and have never considered it as the laxative for the clogged and polluted politics of our day.

And even worse, we live in a time when pastors don't even know Tao is a nightclub, nor do they know that in the sick society in which we live, it's more important to practice Tao in the race for office than it is to say you are a Christian. 

We would do well to listen to C.S. Lewis.

LAST WEEK

A STUNNING

PRESENTATION

When we asked Billboard Chris to come to OCPAC Foundation, we knew it was going to be an incredibly interesting meeting. We had no idea that the presentation would have such a dramatic impact on our members.

This presentation is a classic and a must-see.

BILLBOARD CHRIS AT OCPAC FOUNDATION:

WATCH HERE

WATCH BILLBOARD CHRIS PROMO

ONE-MINUTE PROMO

WATCH ENTIRE OCPAC FOUNDATION

MEETING HERE

SEND THIS OCPAC FOUNDATION

NEWSLETTER TO A FRIEND HERE

OCPAC FOUNDATION is a 501 (c) (3).

Gifts are tax-deductible.

Bring your checkbook this Wednesday!

Make your tax-deductible donation