Life Matters - July 16, 2025

Though it hasn’t been a life-goal of mine to be famous, the idea that I rank somewhere below scofflaws and outlaws such as Al Capone, Wild Bill Hickok, and the frontier version of Billy the Kid could be sorta…well…a bit disturbing, if I let it. But then, if I let myself go I could lose the peace, that Jesus paid so dearly for, over a lot of things. Whatever, there have been/are a lot of good men, better men than I, or so I assume, who have been/are all in the same boat of seeing the wicked prosper while those striving for right and good are cast aside and defamed.  

The prophet Asaph must have known what it was like as he complained in the 73rd Psalm. After verifying that God is good, he went on to write, ‘’But as for me, my feet were almost gone, my steps had well nigh slipped. For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.’’ He goes on complaining for the next thirteen verses. Complaining, comparing the “easy” life of the wicked to the “hard’ life of those trying to live life with a clean heart and innocent hands. 

“Until,” quoth the prophet, “I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.’’ He rightly understood, then, the dangers, the slippery places, the destruction, the desolation, the terrors, awaiting those who are earthly minded, living for, and focused on, this present world as the ultimate experience.  

When I consider organizations such as Planned Parenthood and the National Education Association (NEA) I am staggered by the amount of revenue taken in, coupled with the prestige and growing power that has been theirs. Until now. If the Trump administration is able to follow through with the NEA’s federal charter being revoked…we may see a new era in education. And no, by a “new era” I’m not referring to the uncharted territory of advancements in artificial intelligence sticking its proverbial (or not so proverbial) nose into the affairs of real men and women. I shall leave that for another time. 

You would think that an organization with the full and capitalized word of Education in its moniker, and the most powerful entity in charge of setting goals and direction for America’s public schools, would have education excellence as its priority. We would also think it would keep its proverbial nose out of politics, the LBGTQ+ whatever-else-agenda, partisan ideas, and resolutions. You (we) would think such an organization would be open to the concerns of parents. 

But, if we were to think the above, we would be found wrong on all counts. Even Horace Mann—the father of the American Public School system had this to say about it. ‘’We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.’’  

Corey DeAngelis reports, as disclosed to him by an undisclosed insider at the 2025 mid-summer NEA Convention, ‘’The NEA also [besides embracing other far-left ideologies] took aim at parental rights. In response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Mahmoud v. Taylor ruling, which allows parents to opt their children out of gender ideology instruction (the normalizing of certain sexual perversions) the NEA adopted a business item signaling its intent to keep pushing such content in classrooms. This defiance of parental choice shows a union (the NEA) more interested in indoctrination than education.” The NEA also passed a resolution against President Trump, calling his actions (against the NEA) ‘’authoritarianism and a violation of human rights.” 

The good news is, that since 2019 there has been a mass exodus from union controlled public schools, with over a million families opting for charter schools, private schools, or home-schooling. Parents are voting with their feet. May lawmakers follow suit and revoke the NEA’s federal charter.  

We can’t say we had no warning. Samuel Blumenfeld warned us in his 1984 exposé book titled, NEA: Trojan Horse of American Education, and added another warning in 1997, ending with this directional conclusion ‘’only those parents who have knowledge of the system [headed by the NEA] will be able to protect their children from becoming its victims.” Let us pray for the Trump administration, for removal of the NEA’s federal charter, and the writing of the Trump mandated parental school choice into federal law. 

Many parents, including my own, praise God, emerged from the 1960’s culture shocks with a rekindled diligence to form their own church (parochial) schools, a diligence that cost some of them jail time, brought upon them by over-zealous truancy officials. Parents prevailed in courts, thanks to God and the Bible-believing lawyers representing them. 

The culture shocks have continued, fomented by a continued push away from The Holy Bible to the humanistic philosophies that the NEA (as a political organ of American education) remains committed to. The NEA has run its usefulness into the ground a long time ago, and by its perverted philosophies, has become a liability to American young people, beginning with their parents. May the feet-voting continue. 

Thank God for President Trump being willing to put his political life on the line by warning us to abandon this sinking ship. Jesus, who stills the storms with a ‘’peace be still’’ has “fishing boats” awaiting all those who trust Him. Where there is life there is hope—even for scofflaws and outlaws. Proven to us by a thief on a cross, and his acceptance by our cast aside and defamed Savior, Jesus, Who is King of kings and Lord of lords. May the fame of Jesus be our life-goal. Much is understood by entering His sanctuary.

Life Matters!