Greetings! My name is Norm Rust - as a believer in Jesus Christ, saved by His grace alone since 1976, I have been burdened and impassioned by God to share with others the wonderful heritage that we have been blessed with and the dangers that now assail us - my heart’s desire is to share with men, women, boys, and girls the importance of standing for and upholding the foundations of our faith and freedom so that our nation will remain a beacon of freedom and a blessing to millions, not become a byword of scorn and shame to the world.
Truly, I believe our nation is at a crossroad - the current generation will either walk the path of restoration and rebirth concerning our national blessings or walk a crumbling, perilous path of eroding foundations and diminishing light. I believe the keys to which way we will turn are simple: Will we, once again, acknowledge God and His sovereignty over us? Will we, once again, acknowledge our sins, rebellion, and apathy and seek His forgiveness and restoration? Will we, once again, acknowledge the responsibility to which believers in Christ have been called?
We must remember, proclaim, and defend truth! We must not, any longer, forget, remain silent, or give ground! Either way, we shall indeed reap what we sow…
If you are a group, school, congregation, or organization that strives to teach, remember, proclaim, and defend, I would be honored to share with you a message of inspiration and challenge so that we all, together, may honor the Lord as citizens of His Kingdom and of our nation.
We have been in a battle for the hearts and minds of our citizenry, particularly our young people for decades and sadly, many Christians are still unaware or are apathetic concerning that reality. Note the following quotes and stories from those who would deny and destroy the historical record and foundations of our faith and freedom and have a strategy and desire to do so:
"Education is thus a most powerful ally of humanism, and every American school is a school of humanism. What can a theistic Sunday school, meeting for an hour once a week and teaching only a fraction of the children do to stem the tide of the five-day program of humanistic teaching?" Charles Potter, 1930
"The battle for humankind's future must be waged and won in the public school classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their role as the proselytizers of a new faith: A religion of humanity -- utilizing a classroom instead of a pulpit to carry humanist values into wherever they teach. The classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and the new -- the rotting corpse of Christianity, together with its adjacent evils and misery, and the new faith of humanism." John Dunphy, 1983
“A Christian home school girl in New Hampshire has been ordered into government-run public school for having "sincerely held" religious beliefs. Alliance Defense Fund-allied attorney John Anthony Simmons has filed a motion to reconsider. He says this ruling is dangerous to home schoolers because it will set a precedent for other cases.
Every time you have a court order that uses a wrong standard or misapplies constitutional law, everyone's rights are eventually at stake…” Aug 27, 2009 One News Now.com
These examples should sober us and impel us to action, but, there is hope! There are millions in this nation who still bend the knee and raise their hearts in prayer and worship to the Sovereign Lord of heaven! It is not too late, but do you believe, as I, that as time wanes, our resolve must wax to ever increasing levels of passion and devotion to the cause? If so, let us act together, pray together, work together so that we may have an adequate answer when asked, “What did you do to preserve freedom in your generation?”
The challenge is before us, NOW - there is no time to wait, no chance to pass our responsibility on to someone else or to a later generation. I look forward to co-laboring with you in this vital work - is there anything more important than securing the blessings of spiritual and national liberty for ourselves and our posterity? Is there?….
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“It is the eternal struggle between these two principles --right and wrong -- throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time..." Abraham Lincoln
"At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. Abraham Lincoln 1838
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men WERE free." Ronald Reagan
In His Matchless Power and His Eternal Victory!
Norm Rust
Founder, S.H.A.R.E.
Norm Rust has home schooled his three children unto graduation and has taught Biblical Studies, American History, World History, Comparative Religion, Comparative Worldviews, and Government to all ages for over 25 years in church, home school, classroom, co-op, and tutorial settings. Norm graduated cum laude with a B.A. degree in history from UMBC, was a member of the Phi Betta Kappa National Honor Society and Dean’s List for Academic Achievement. He also attended Capital Bible Seminary, achieving a GPA of 3.94 over 59 credit hours. Norm has served extensively in all areas of church ministry, including ten years on the board and as president of the Baltimore Area Christian Education Association. He has recently founded S.H.A.R.E. - Sharing History: America’s Rediscovery Experience. To arrange to have Mr. Rust speak or teach at your home school group, church, school, tutorial or co-op in hourly, daily, or weekly formats, please contact him at rust5532@hotmail.com or at 410-242-1329. Fees are determined based on time and distance, but are always reasonable… Lord bless! Galatians 5:1
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