There are accusations of the American Heroes I’ve represented in my art, being deists. While these influences may have been around, Billye Brim talked with Gloria Copeland about what really shaped America in the 1800’s on the ‘BVOV’ broadcast week of November 16th 2009, reading from ‘2000 Years of Charismatic Christianity’:

“‘Colleges on the East Coast had become hotbeds of rebellion. Students proudly professed to be atheists, agnostics, skeptics or infidels.’ And so the [President at Yale] was the son in law of Jonathan Edwards, ‘…and he preached a series on infidelity. The spiritual stir resulted in one third of the student body professing faith in Christ… Revival fire started engulfing Dartmouth and Williams and other colleges…”

Billye read how this eventually led to a revival in Cain Ridge, Kentucky that would change the course of America:

“They say that this work spread in every direction… the Spirit of God prevailed over infidelity and deism which was rising up, and the religious character of the United States was assured for generations to come… The Great Awakening got us to be a nation, and this Awakening, the Cain Ridge Awakening turned us to have these Bible belt, moral ideas and respect for the Bible… It’s still affecting us to this day. You go to Europe and you go to some other places and you know, Gloria, it’s not that way like it is here. And we’re going to hang onto it.”

Is it any wonder why there’s such a battle over prayer in schools today.

People have forget their nations’ real history, the true stories, here in England and in America.
Billye Brim talked about the Second Great Awakening in America with Gloria Copeland on the ‘Believer’s Voice of Victory’ broadcast week of November 16th 2009 and read from 2000 Years of Charismatic Christianity:

“‘As the 19th century dawned, America was again morally bankrupt’, they’ve been founded, they’ve had the Declaration of Independence, they’ve got their Constitution, but the morals have gone down again. ‘A generation had come of age that knew little of the revival that had swept the nation 60 years before’… ‘Negative influences from the French Revolution penetrated American society. This concern prompted fervent prayer that precipitated a national, spiritual awakening…’”

I’m hoping that the negative influences of President Obama’s radical socialist agenda today will provoke a new Holy Spirit led Awakening in America. Surely the sacrifices and advancements those men and women made, cannot be dismissed and dismantled right in front of us.

Running out into my Dog Breed Cartoon Portraits art gallery wing are a Beagle, Yorkshire Terrier and Doberman Pinscher (below). And these pets all have a retro pink flavor.
The Doberman à la Pink is available as a numbered limited edition of only 12 in three versions as well as an ACEO, so don’t let this pastel color-coated canine get away!

Just to caution you, when it comes to my speaking out, either here in my blog or on YouTube, you may have noticed, I’m not concerned about being politically correct or shying away from controversial subjects. And my YouTube Channel now has 6 Playlists of my videos. I’m still Vlogging at weekends, but the uploads will only be in ‘My Vlog’ Playlist for a month or two, (so it’s worth subscribing on YouTube or following me on Twitter if you don’t want to miss any).
‘Israel’, ‘Religion and Politics’, ‘Christianity’ and ‘On Location and Events’ make up the rest of my Playlists along with ‘Art Gallery’ which contains all those ‘1-Minute Art Spotlights’.
And I’ve re-titled a couple of uploads from a few months ago which I believe are very powerful. After all, it’s usually the title that grabs a YouTube viewer isn’t it? Did you ever see that one, I’ve rather straightforwardly renamed ‘Is masturbation a sin‘…?

After over 700 unique eBay Members’ feedback comments, I still pay close attention to what every one of my Buyers says after purchasing an art print through the douglasrickard eBay store. Here are some which made me smile from the past few months. ‘gped8306’ wrote about ‘Charcoal and Oil - Venice’:

“This is a beauty and so is Venice and so is the artist”

‘looseinthelilacs’ wrote about her ‘Charcoal Drawing - Pug

’:

“the little face is so precious…you can be very proud of yourself…thank you for sharing your art”

And ‘halfvastproductions’ wrote, after receiving an ACEO of ‘Story Lines - The Aristocats Characters’:

“Beautiful ACEO. Daughter confiscated it immediately.”

Billye Brim corrected the ‘revisionist history’ of America I’ve been mentioning, with Gloria Copeland on the ‘Believer’s Voice of Victory’ broadcast week of November 16th, ‘Praying in Unity’:

“America was born out of The Great Awakening. One Harvard professor I read after in my studies said, ‘If you want to understand colonial America, and the birth of America, and the wording of the Declaration of Independence, you have to have studied the Great Awakening.’
And of course Jonathan Edwards was the first preacher in it… In education [The Great Awakening] led to the founding of a number of academies, Princeton, Brown, Rutgers, Dartmouth’… all grew out of the Great Awakening! They were all started, to train preachers. I wonder if they know that now…
And then there came, out of that came the Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Franklin was a dear friend of [preacher, George Whitfield], and words of the Declaration of Independence came out of [his] preaching.”

Today, academics are trying to revise history alleging that Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia as America’s first secular school. They won’ t tell you that Thomas Jefferson did ensure that University of Virginia students would be taught religious instruction and morals. And it was non-preferentialism in one particular Christian denomination, that was actually the reason Thomas Jefferson wanted no clergyman as university president or a specified Professor of Divinity.
And meanwhile according to a November 22 article in the New York Post, the future of American academe, namely Columbia University and Rutgers University is susceptible to inducement by an Islamic foundation charged with being an illegal front for the Iranian regime. Is it any wonder that the director of Rutger University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies said:

“Neither Hezbollah nor Hamas are terrorist organizations…”

Or that the professor of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs has publicly excused President Ahmadinejad’s call to wipe Israel off the map.

Being from Britain I can say how grateful I am for America’s godly influence even in my own personal life, while all around me in England would sometimes seem to have forgotten our very own Christian heritage. So Happy Thanksgiving, America.
And by way of thanking you, I’m premiering two American Presidents today, Thomas Jefferson and Teddy Roosevelt. And there’s even a special section at in the Historic Heroes gallery wing of DouglasRickard.com on what President Roosevelt said about what would happen if the teachings of the Bible were removed from American life.

So have you found any more of the secret passageways leading to hidden surprises around my online galleries at DouglasRickard.com? Some of them are through links in the product checkout page; and may pose challenges like “Decide whether Abraham Lincoln would consider America a Christian nation” [below] in the Historic Heroes gallery wing. And other links tackle questions visitors may have. On some of my Military art checkout pages in the Christian Art gallery wing, there are links offering visitors to “read a transcript of Kenneth Copeland teaching on how a man of war can conduct himself above and beyond all reasonable conduct whilst keeping the love commandment” [below]. I for one, wouldn’t be able to resist learning how they could do that.

With America on my heart and yet being so dismayed by the Democratic Party’s policies on abortion, experimenting on unborn children and changing the definition of marriage, I was undecided about whether to complete my President Obama drawing [below].
So I let you decide whether I should complete or trash the artwork. The result of the poll at Blogger.com was a 50/50 split with six votes. Two comments counted on my YouTube Vlog; the first said how:

“…God will lead [me]”

The second:

“Tear it up Brother”

But five comments on the formerly syndicated version of my blog at the douglasrickard eBay store, swung your vote in favor of my finishing the drawing. Okay, watch this space…