Posts by Mark Tapscott
EASTER ISSUES 2026: Most of America’s Founders Thought Creation Required a Designer
(9:59 VIEWING) — There is in the most well-known words of the Declaration of Independence solid evidence that this nation’s founding generation was convinced through revelation and natural reason that there is a supreme being who is the source of all fundamental individual human rights. Those words, of course, are based on the Declaration’s opening…
Read MoreFAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: Daniel Webster on Faith and American Prosperity
(QUICK READ) — Daniel Webster represented Massachusetts in the Senate during the crucial decades leading to the American Civil War, so he was not present during the Revolutionary War or the writing and adoption of the Constitution. But Webster was among the chief luminaries of the second generation of American national leadership and he was…
Read MoreEASTER ISSUES 2026: Two Archeological Finds Confirm Bible’s Description of Pontius Pilate
(856 WORDS) — In his just-released masterpiece entitled “The Jesus Discoveries: 10 Historic Finds That Bring Us Face-to-Face With Jesus,” Dr. Jeremiah Johnston of christianthinkers.com shares a revealing vignette from 1840 involving Karl Marx and his tutor, Professor Bruno Bauer. Marx was then 22-years old and an atheist working on a dissertation focused on religion.…
Read MoreFAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: John Jay’s Thankful Last Will and Testament
(QUICK READ) — John Jay was one of the authors, with Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, of The Federalist Papers, which was absolutely essential to the successful effort to secure approval of the then-proposed Constitution by New York and Virginia. Without either of those states, the Constitution would likely have failed to gain adoption. Jay…
Read MoreCONSIDER THIS: Second ‘Why Israel Matters’ Seminar for Hill Aides Convenes This Wednesday
(572 WORDS) — Dr. Susan Michaels, USA President of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ) and Director of American Christian Leaders for Israel, is the featured speaker for the second of five scheduled “Why Israel Matters” seminars for congressional aides and interns. The seminars are hosted on Capitol Hill at the Faith & Liberty Ministry…
Read MoreFAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: John Hancock and the Proclamation of March 4, 1793
(QUICK READ) — Measured by its physical size, John Hancock’s signature on the Declaration of Independence was the most prominent among the 56 signers of the document that first proclaimed America’s separation from Great Britain. But that prominence was by no means Hancock’s sole contribution to the revolutionary cause and to the establishment and securing…
Read MoreFAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: Jefferson Thanks Virginia Baptists on Freedom of Religion
(QUICK READ) — Most congressional aides, like the vast majority of Americans in general these days, are unaware of the prominent role played in the founding of this nation by the various Christian churches from before the Revolution, throughout the War for Independence and on into the writing of the Constitution. In 1808, as the…
Read MoreFAITH OF THE FOUNDERS: Philadelphia Catholic Chaplain’s Independence Day Praise
(QUICK READ) — It was a typical Mid-Atlantic summer day in Philadelphia on July 4, 1779, when a chaplain whose name is lost to history delivered an address in a Catholic church there in a celebration of the Declaration of Independence. In the course of his address, this eloquent and faithful Catholic chaplain extolled the…
Read MoreMIRACLES BY DESIGN: This Video on Monarch Butterflies Will Change How You See The World
(10:25 VIDEO) — Understanding how the caterpillar becomes a Monarch Butterfly might not immediately strike you as a great place to uncover proof that God exists, but the following video is packed with scientifically verified information that will quite likely stun and amaze you. That’s not click-bait, nor pure and simple hyperbole; it’s a fact.…
Read MoreHILLFAITH EVENTS: Buckle Up Because A Great Spring Is Coming! ROOM CHANGE UPDATE
(530 WORDS) — PLEASE NOTE THAT THE OPENING SESSION OF THE FAITH AND REASON ON CAPITOL HILL SEMINAR AT 8 AM ON MARCH 4 WILL CONVENE IN SENATE HART ROOM 216, NOT IN SENATE DIRKSEN G11, AS PREVIOUSLY REPORTED. Congressional aides who are followers of Jesus Christ, or are wondering if you should be, or…
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