Leftists are grim because they hold to a philosophy of greed and despair. What’s our excuse?

Reflections on Life & Liberty
So much time is spent "in the fight" that it is easy to forget what we are supposed to be fighting for. To answer that, join Michael Quinn Sullivan each week as he puts the continuing fight for life and liberty in historical, biblical, and personal context.
Leftists are grim because they hold to a philosophy of greed and despair. What’s our excuse?
Yes, stones and dry bones could be used to greater effect.
Activists shouldn’t forget who they brought to the dance.
The fake Jesus created in the modern age is a virtue-signaling tool of the progressive elite.
Are we helping our fellow citizens join the fight?
For better or worse, zealots change the world.
God seems to delight in a subversive humor that puts tyrants in their place.
We can be nice serfs, or we can be effective citizen-leaders.
Refusing to accept the yoke of tyranny is the highest expression of liberty.
Tyrants want us to forget just how extraordinary it is to be an American.
Do we want to be a Christian nation in name or in practice?
Do we crave the approval of men or of God?
The government only has to give us what it first took from us.
Monarchy and democracy are two sides of the same coin upon which tyrannies had been built for eons.
As citizens, we have failed to inspire sufficient fear in our elected servants.
“America will be great if America is good.”
We’re called to love God and love others, not ourselves.
To appreciate salvation, we must embrace our spiritual context.
“Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.”
Liberty isn’t achieved in timid nibbles, but through bold actions.
The decline of the crony establishment media might just be what saves our republic.
Lies are created when facts are taken out of context.
Neither heavy stones nor flimsy excuses can stop the Messiah.
Easter reminds us that our faith is based on very real events.
“Let not your hearts be troubled.”
To be a self-governing republic, we as individuals must first govern ourselves.
As citizens, we are called to a higher purpose.
Modern education is designed to produce serfs, not champions of liberty.
Move from passive recipient to active participant.
The measure of our joy is found where we direct the vision of our hearts and minds.
Sin blinds us to many things, but perhaps most especially the truth of who we are.
In the fight for liberty, we not allowed to give up, back down, or walk away.
Chorazin had a spectacular view of the Sea of Galilee, but an even better view of history of history in the making. They squandered both.
Too often, conservatives cede the selection of the rhetorical battleground to the left. It is why we are losing.
People who cower and cringe rarely fight back. The political elite wants us to live lives full of anxiety so that we can be more easily controlled.
Joy to the earth! The Savior reigns!