From the Home Place

September 13, 2025

Dear readers, I will always attempt to speak truth with and to you because of my respect for you and because of my love for God. Today, I’m going to jump into a topic that I feel rather inadequate to discuss, so we all need to pray for wisdom and discernment as I write and as you read. I know that some will disagree with my statements, and that is fine. I just ask that you disagree from a biblical view and not just from a view put together from hear-say or theory.

In reference to the “end of the age,” Jesus made this comment in Matthew 24:4, “See to it that no one misleads you.” For the past fifty years, many have been misled by false teachers. Some of those false teachers have been pastors, and in my opinion, many have come from our college and university campuses. For all of my secular higher education years, I read from their books and have listened to their lectures of how “only ignorant people believe in the God of the Bible and in absolute truth.”

In my mind, it is these two statements that have been driven into the minds of young people for at least half-of-a century, to the point that the majority of Americans now believe these two statements to be true. Oh yes, it begins way before college-age students are indoctrinated to turn against God. It begins in grade school when the state teachers are required to teach the “facts” of evolution. So called facts that spit directly into the face of God.

Let’s just say that you as parents take you little one to Sunday School at a church of your choosing. A church that loves your little ones and teaches them that they are fearfully and wonderfully made in God’s image. That God Himself spoke all of the world around them into creation. Your child hears these amazing stories from a Bible teacher and comes home excited about what they have learned.

Fast forward a couple of years and they enter public school, where now their loving teacher begins to explain the “theory” of evolution. A teaching that was not declared to be absolute truth by the man who developed it. He himself said that it was his personal theory, and near the end of his life stated that, “I might have been wrong.” This theory was adopted by those great professors who have taught our teachers for decades that this theory is absolute truth and that they should teach it with confidence. Not only are they now equipped to teach this theory by their institutes of higher learning, but they are now required to teach by their state government.

So these dear teachers teach your child about evolution, in direct conflict with the “stories” their Sunday School teacher taught them. Now you child has to make a very serious decision, which teacher is telling them the truth, they one who teaches them five days a week, or the one who teaches them for a few minutes once a week.

I pause here to remind each of us of the old Native American statement, “Inside every person there is a white dog and a black dog, which one is the strongest? The one you feed the most.” Five days a week versus one hour per week??? As I stated earlier, the theory of evolution is in direct conflict with biblical teaching.

Now, if the above story describes the experience of your little ones, and quite likely the story describes your life as well, now we have a conflicted mind. A conflicted mind that has been the ploy of Satan since the time of creation. Genesis 3:1-2, “Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the Lord God had created. And he said to the woman, “indeed, has God really said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden?’” (Note the “?” at the end of the statement.)

Satan planted a seed of doubt in Eve’s mind, and that seed of doubt still grows today. You see my friends, a person either follows God, or has doubts about God, nothing new. The part that greatly concerns me is this: In today’s culture, I am told that I need to accept opinions and lifestyles that do not align with biblical teaching, but then when I refuse to do so, I’m branded as the one who is the “enemy” of higher learning.

Where does the “tolerance” go when a person like Charlie Kirk openly says that we need to follow the God of the Bible instead the god of this world? It is at this point in the life of the United States of America, that the conflict started in Genesis 3 is lived out and the murder of Genesis 4 is carried out!

I return to where we began two days ago, we are a conflicted nation. And as with all conflict, I shoot at the solder of the enemy. It seems to me that therein lies the problem, we see different opinions as an enemy instead of realizing that Satan is our true enemy.

Declaration, I am not angry at public school teachers who get their orders from a federal system that threatens to withhold financial assistance if local schools and teachers don’t play by their “Big Brother” rules. And parents, if you want your child to love God, you must work hard at balancing the time and truth ratio that your child receives.

I’m simply stating what I believe men such as Charlie Kirk stated, “I am not your enemy.” Satan always has been and always will be the enemy of anyone who desires to follow God. This is a spiritual war, not a physical war, though it is played out in the physical realm. It seems that the only decision is which dog will I feed the most? “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

Feeding the white dog with you, Neal