Privacy   |    Financial   |    Current Events   |    Self Defense   |    Miscellaneous   |    Letters To Editor   |    About Off The Grid News   |    Off The Grid Videos   |    Weekly Radio Show

Articles Written By Bill Heid

Tips For The Godly Rebuilding of America

Tips For The Godly Rebuilding of America

Ezra was a model reformer in that what he taught he had first lived, and what he lived he had first made sure of in the Scriptures. —Derek Kidner, Ezra & Nehemiah (1979) “Come, the New Jerusalem!” The true story ...

Read More »

Esther

Esther

With an economy of words, the story-teller transports his listeners to a fabulous oriental world, and to a time when the Persian Empire was still young. —Joyce Baldwin, Esther (1984) Prelude to Genocide The king of Persian declared a sixth ...

Read More »

The Victory of the Kingdom

The Victory of the Kingdom

In a unique way Zechariah is one of the most important books in the Old Testament. —Charlie Brown, Peanuts (1994)  All areas of life will be consecrated to the Lord:  even the horses’ bells will contain the inscription written on ...

Read More »

Priorities And Providence

Priorities And Providence

The clouds ye so much dread / Are big with mercy. . . —William Cowper, “God Moves in a Mysterious Way” (1774) Men are always prone to put religion off with scraps and leavings, and serve God with what costs ...

Read More »

Representation and Independence

Representation and Independence

My position is this—I repeat it—I will maintain it to my last hour, —taxation and representation are inseparable. —Lord Camden, speech in Parliament (1767) The covenant idea is nothing but the expression of the representative principle consistently applied to all ...

Read More »

Can We Build Together?

Can We Build Together?

But at this seat of government there must be a fitting memorial to the God who made us all. . . . It should be a center of prayer, open to all men of all faiths at all times. —President ...

Read More »

The Restoration Era

The Restoration Era

The Restoration was actually a far more glorious time than ever before, in terms of spiritual power, though not in terms of outward glory and splendor. —James Jordan, Through New Eyes (1988)  Cyrus took the prophecy of Isaiah to heart ...

Read More »

The Covenant and Freedom (Part 2)

The Covenant and Freedom (Part 2)

Covenant was to be a lasting theme in Scottish Reformation and its aftermath, one in which they would go far beyond Calvin. —Douglas Kelly, The Emergence of Liberty in the Modern World (1992)   Scotland became Europe’s first modern literate ...

Read More »

The Covenant and Freedom (Part 1)

The Covenant and Freedom (Part 1)

A long time ago in Ireland there lived a man named Columba who loved books. —Jean Fritz, The Man Who Loved Books (1981)   My son, I tell thee soothfastlie;/ No gift is like libertie;/ Then never live in slaverie. ...

Read More »

The Hitchhikers Guide To The Dominion Mandate (Life, Universe, Happiness And All That)

The Hitchhikers Guide To The Dominion Mandate (Life, Universe, Happiness And All That)

“Surely,” said Mark, “one requires a pretty large population for the full exploitation of Nature, if for nothing else?” —C. S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength (1946)  The decree of God’s electing and predestinating love, though discriminating and particular, is, nevertheless, ...

Read More »