Why Liberty Matters - Dr. Marlene McMillan

5 Pillars of Liberty

The best way to make someone a slave is to make them believe they are free. Every day the rights of people around the world are eroded away under an illusion of safety. The only way to have real safety is to have true liberty. Each and every decision that you make will either move you toward liberty or toward bondage.

While you still have the freedom to determine your future, take the time for the benefit of yourself and your children to find out why liberty matters to your future. Take the time to learn all you can about how to preserve the liberty our founders paid such a high price to give us.

Liberty is the opportunity to make a choice to assume responsibility and accept the consequences. Our current national thinking is to look to someone else to solve our problems for us. We must seek truth rather than comfort if we are to retain what liberty we have.

As you ponder the 5 Pillars of Liberty, you will see the first five essential principles we must understand if we are to be able to pass the baton of liberty to our children and our grandchildren.

Pillar 1 -- Truth

You cannot draw a true conclusion from a premise of lies.

Pillar 2 -- Cause To Effect

Ideas have consequences.

Everything that happens to you is the result of an idea.

Pillar 3 -- Character

You can only have as much Liberty as you have the character to maintain.

Pillar 4 -- Independent Vs. Dependent

Only you can steward your Liberty.

Pillar 5 -- God-Given Rights

Liberty is your God-given right. You have the right (and therefore the responsibility) to maintain Liberty.

Dr. Marlene now has both a CD series and a book to teach you the first five of the essential pillars of liberty:

The 5 Pillars of Liberty -- CD series

The 5 Pillars of Liberty -- book

Additional Resources by other authors

This list is provided as a service by Dr. Marlene McMillan to help you in your quest for truth and its proper application. The books are chosen because they explain a concept or idea in the best way that I have found to date. This is not a blanket endorsement of every book the listed authors have written. You must learn to eat the meat and throw the bones away or to be able to discern truth from error. Please apply wisdom. This list is updated from time to time.

	The American Covenant: The Untold Story by Marshall Foster The flagship book of all books about liberty and Biblical principles of government. Life changing. Easy to understand. Great for Study Groups.
	American Dictionary of the English Language 1828 by Noah Webster This is the only truly Christian dictionary available. The original American dictionary that you must have for your family. Available from Foundation for American Christian Education 1-800-352-FACE or in searchable CD from Christian Technologies on the Internet.
	The Christian History of the Constitution by Verna Hall Essential to understanding Biblical Principles of Government so you can learn to govern yourself and your family. Available from FACE above—ask for a catalog when you call.
	Teaching and Learning America’s Christian History by Rosalie Slater Essential to understanding Biblical Principles of Government so you can learn to govern yourself and your family. Also, available from FACE above—ask for a catalog when you call.
	The God Who Is There by Francis Schaeffer In this great classic Dr. Schaeffer, one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, shows how modern thought has abandoned the idea of truth with tragic consequences in every area of culture -- from philosophy, to art, to music, to theology, and within culture as a whole.
	The Story of Liberty by Charles Coffin Written to the boys and girls of America in the late 1800’s so that they would have an understand of liberty in order to value it. Every adult and their children must read them today. (All the books in this series are great and are available from Mantle Ministries.)
	The Fallacy Detective by Nathaniel and Hans Bluedorn Fabulous book about discerning truth and awakening Christians to how easily they are deceived to believe lies because of the persuasive reasoning abilities of others. Written for young people, but needed by every Christian who cares about truth.
	America’s Engineered Decline by William Norman Grigg When a socialistic worldview becomes diffused throughout a culture the solutions of liberty sound unworkable to the liberal mind. Whether this is a planned decline, as Grigg says, or simply the result of generations steeped in public school humanism, this book gives a perspective not found other places.
	AuthorityResearch.com All CDs DVDs and material by Dean Gotcher Meeting Dean Gotcher is one of the most pivotal events of Dr. Marlene’s life. His materials are well researched, upsetting, hard hitting and will either make you “run to the altar or out the back door.” Dean makes a clarion call for repentance from worldly thinking and explains how most Christians don’t know enough about what is or is not Biblical to be able to take every thought captive and make it obedient to Christ.
	Whatever Happened To Penny Candy? by Richard J. Maybury Don’t let the idea that this book is written for children fool you. Most adults don’t know or understand these concepts. If you didn’t think economic crises were avoidable before, you will now.
	The 10 Big Lies About America by Michael Medved You might not like everything Medved says because his writing is purposely inflammatory. He will explain what the left is so upset about and then give you answers to some of those issues.
	Poverty And Wealth by Ronald H. Nash The book’s subtitle: “The Christian Debate Over Capitalism” says it all. Dr. Nash’s premise is that those who talk about economic and social justice should know something about economics. It is the best explanation you will ever read of why a Biblical understanding of economics will do more for the poor than socialism ever can.
	The Messianic Character of American Education Rousas John Rushdoony This book explores the philosophical premises of statist education as completely anti-Christian and anti-Biblical to be a very real threat to the survival of Christianity in America. Rushdoony contends that educators, imbued with behavioral psychology and evolution not only reject Christ as Messiah, but pretend to be themselves messiahs offering their own seductive and poisonous brand of salvation through the institution of secular humanist education.
	God and Government - Volume 2 by Gary DeMar In this second volume in the 3-book series, Gary DeMar addresses issues such as: Developing a Biblical Worldview; Worldviews in Conflicts; Sovereignty and Dominion; Sovereignty and Ownership; Financing the State and God's Kingdom; The Enemies of Biblical Economics; The Causes and Conquest of Poverty.
	The Philosophy Of The Christian Curriculum Rousas John Rushdoony It is easy to get somebody out of the public school system but difficult to get the public school indoctrination out of them. Rushdoony makes it clear that just because a curriculum is written by Christians and taught by Christians that does not guarantee that it is Christian.
	The Absolutes by James Robison There are just some things an orderly society cannot function without. A great book that teaches cause to effect thinking.
	The Bible, Homeschooling, and the Law by Karl Reed I told the author when this book was written that it should be titled: “The Bible, the Christian and the Law as illustrated in Homeschooling.” I wanted every Christian -- homeschooler or not -- to read this book because it is the best introductory Biblical law treatise ever produced in simple layman’s language.
	Understanding The Times by David Noebel By providing Christians with a readable, comprehensive outline of the Biblical Christian, Marxist/Leninist, and Secular Humanist worldviews, this text explores each worldview's fundamental beliefs with regard to theology, philosophy, biology, psychology, sociology, politics, law, ethics, economics.
	Free Enterprise Economics by Tom Rose Anything you can find by Tom Rose will enhance your understanding of Economics. He was a professor at Grove City College and I will forever cherish the times that I got to visit with he and his wife Ruth in their home. The man lived what he taught.
	Compassionate Capitalism by Rich Devos Rich understands free enterprise, creation of wealth from nothing, capitalism as it ought to be and how to inspire people all over the world to take responsibility for their futures. Read the story about Maria’s new dress on p.96 and if that doesn’t make you appreciate the difference between living in liberty and living in bondage you will never understand.
	Dead Aid by Dambisa Moyo Even after over $1 trillion has been given to Africa in the last 50 years, poverty has still not been reduced or growth significantly increased. Moyo point is that over-reliance on aid has weakened the very ones it was targeted to help and has had other unintended consequences that have created a new set of problems. You might not like her solutions, but her description of the problem is worth paying attention to.
	The Four Laws of Debt Free Prosperity by Blaine Harris and Charles Coonradt Written in a simple story format, this book is the best wedding present that you could ever give a young couple. It helps you see how it is not necessary to make large sums to build up substantial wealth and gives even people that are deeply in debt the hope and fortitude that they will need to get out of debt.

“As a young married couple who wanted to raise our children in a Godly fashion where they would know and understand not only our nation’s Christian heritage, but also why that heritage became the foundation for developing a free and prosperous nation, my wife and I were blessed by discovering the Biblical Principles of Government teachings available through Dr. Marlene McMillan. Here we discovered truth that needed to be passed on to all generations. What a blessing!”

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