United States

"He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great..." (Genesis 48:19).

The United States' history is tied to Great Britain's by more than just a revolution. The story begins with a promise to a patriarch, passed down to two brothers—the ancestors of two of the world's greatest superpower nations. Find out more below.

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World News and Trends: Potential trade war between America and China

USA Today reporter David Lynch writes: "After years of inconclusive skirmishing, trade tensions between the United States and China are about to intensify . . . "
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Will the Special Relationship Survive?

We'd better hope so. The unique relationship that America and Great Britain have forged for more than a hundred years has done much to foster freedom, open markets and good will. When it passes, the world will be a different...
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World News and Trends: Severe drought grips parts of America

Reporting from Denver, Patrick O'Driscoll wrote in USA Today: "Drought, a fixture in much of the West for nearly a decade, now covers more than one third of the continental USA."
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Could Jesus Be Elected President?

If Jesus was on earth today and ran for president, would most Christians recognize His agenda and vote for Him?
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A Page on the World

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John Adams, the Prophet

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Jamestown's Significance for Americans 400 Years On

Four centuries ago the first English settlers arrived in Virginia, establishing a colony that laid a foundation for the future United States of America. What are the lessons of Jamestown 400 years later?
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Brother Nations with Different Historical Perspectives

Is it possible that the founding peoples of the British Commonwealth and later of the United States and Canada are descendants of the supposedly "lost" tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh?
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Brother Nations with Different Historical Perspectives

Is it possible that the founding peoples of the British Commonwealth and later of the United States and Canada are descendants of the supposedly "lost" tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh?
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Lessons on Immigration from Jamestown

As Americans debate the issue of immigration, they would do well to learn from the lessons of history!
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World News and Trends: America and Europe hit by loss of bees

"Hundreds of millions of honeybees have vanished in 22 US states, leaving keepers financially crippled and jeopardising £8 billion [or $16 billion] of crops that needed insects for pollination" (The Times, Feb. 19, 2007).
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World News and Trends- Americans and Britons bored with monogamy

These days adultery is becoming big business in both America and Britain. According to the London Times, "Thousands of Britons have joined a [Web] site for the married but looking" (March 13, 2007).
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World News and Trends: Germany debates the American missile shield

A proposed American missile shield to be built in Poland and the Czech Republic is designed as a radar system and missile battery to counter projectiles from rogue countries like North Korea and Iran.
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World News and Trends- Hatred of America: A global disease

Americans don't like not knowing why they are hated around the world. Of course, the United States still has some nations as friends—chiefly among the English-speaking world, Israel and in parts of Northern and Eastern Europe. But the numbers are...
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Seek God's Will First

Humility says we should hesitate to follow our first impulse, instead seeking God's will through deliberative Bible study and prayer.
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Crises in Britain, America, and Israel

These three nations are part of the larger prophetic understanding of world affairs at the close of the age.
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What Are We to Learn From the Virginia Tech Tragedy?

Without repentance and heeding the call of the Kingdom of God, life can be extinguished without the chance to understand its purpose.
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International Power Shifts Threaten the Western World

Western global supremacy is definitely on the wane as key Asian nations make significant economic progress while Middle Eastern conflicts trouble the West politically and militarily. We are in desperate need of a biblical compass so we can grasp the...
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Radical Liberalism: What's the Harm?

Lawyers argue in U.S. courts that pornography falls under the constitutional right of free speech. There is a strong movement to replace Judeo-Christian influences in schools with extreme multiculturalism. Radical feminists denounce concepts of the traditional family. Homosexuals want to...
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What Will It Mean for the West if Radical Islam Triumphs?

Defeat in Afghanistan and Iraq may not worry the average American or European, but could defeat there also mean defeat at home? Could the seemingly inexorable advance of radical Islam in the Middle East be replicated in the West?
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