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A Biography of Steve Macias

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Steve Macias (born 21 March 1990) is a commentator on matters of the Christian faith and American public policy. His work has been featured across several major platforms including the Michael Medved Show, National Review magazine,  and TIME magazine.

Steve first distinguished himself as one of the Sacramento area’s most effective young conservative activists after defeating his college administration’s attempt to silence his pro-life point of view on campus. While serving as the student body president at Sacramento City College, Steve refused to follow an administrator’s demand to have a pro-life demonstration removed from campus. The administration led a campaign to have Macias removed from his seat. Following a campus uproar and a contentious legal intervention, Steve retained his seat and won an important battle, emerging as an invigorated leader for students in the pro-life movement.

Dedicated  to bioethical education, Steve now fills a full-time role in the pro-life movement.  As a guest speaker, he has taught at conferences, universities, and seminars across the country on a variety of subjects, from apologetics to human genetics. He was recognized for his work in bioinformatics, the technological applications of biology and medicine, by the University of California Davis, and he has received honors from the California State Assembly.  Macias is a dynamic speaker on the complex dimensions of the abortion issue and the effectiveness of the youth in the pro-life movement.  His leadership has led to the creation of over forty pro-life groups, mostly on the west coast, on high school and college campuses.

At the age of 19, Steve was appointed to the board of directors of the California Republican Assembly, California’s largest and oldest conservative organization.  He also has served as an elected member of the Yolo County Republican Party Central Committee and has been involved professionally in a number of California initiative and candidate campaigns. As a vocal supporter of homeschooling, limited government, and Biblical law, Macias lauds R.J. Rushdoony as the integral influence in the development of his political philosophy.

Steve is a regular contributor at www.lifesitenews.com and www.onenewsnow.com.

Steve is currently a member of The Church of the King Sacramento, a Communion of Reformed Evangelical Church, and resides in Live Oak, California.

The Vision of Steve Macias

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“What mere man or magician or tyrant or king was ever able by himself to do so much? Did anyone ever fight against the whole system of idol-worship and the whole host of demons and all magic and all the wisdom of the Greeks, at a time when all of these were strong and flourishing and taking everybody in, as did our Lord, the very Word of God? Yet He is even now invisibly exposing every man’s error, and single-handed is carrying off all men from them all, so that those who used to worship idols now tread them under foot, reputed magicians burn their books and the wise prefer to all studies the interpretation of the gospels. They are deserting those whom formerly they worshipped, they worship and confess as Christ and God Him Whom they used to ridicule as crucified. Their so-called gods are routed by the sign of the cross, and the crucified Savior is proclaimed in all the world as God and Son of God.”
St. Athanasius, On the Incarnation

Dominion:
Our goal is a Christian world, made up of explicitly Christian nations. How could a Christian desire anything else? Our Lord himself taught us to pray: “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven” The Lord’s prayer is a prayer for the worldwide dominion of God’s Kingdom. Christianity is ultimately the dominant culture, predestined to be the final and universal religion. The church will fill the earth. The Christian goal for the world is the universal development of Biblical theocratic republics, in which every area of life is redeemed and placed under the lordship of Jesus Christ and rule of God’s law. If we trust and obey, there is no possibility of failure.

Liberty:
Nowadays, it is popular to think of laws as a restraint on life, and this is an attitude widely encouraged by existentialist humanism. The free life is the life beyond law, beyond good and evil, we are told; it is emancipation from law and morality. Our historic American position, however, has been that true liberty is under law, God’s law. Godly wisdom, which means faith and obedience, is, according to Scripture “a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her” (Prov. 3:18; cf. 11:30). According to Psalm 19:7, “The law of the LORD is perfect, restoring the soul.” Instead of being a form of bondage, God’s law is for us the condition of life.  Faith and obedience bring unity because they unite men in Christ, not in man’s will. “Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it” (Ps. 127:1).

Contra Mundum:
A great many historians saw the era after the fall of Rome as the “Dark” Ages. They saw it as such because they were statists, and Rome and Greece were their ideals. The so-called “Dark” Ages, were a time of the frontier thinkers – the church fathers – who laid down the foundations of western freedom.  It was the Church fathers like St. Athanasius that set themselves “Contra Mundum” (Against the World) and transformed all of Western thought and culture. Today America has reached a new “Dark” Age, but it will result in the death of humanistic statism, and the throes of birth for a greater Christian freedom. In the long run, we know that ours is the victory against all of the world. “This is the victory that overcometh the world even our faith”.

Reading List

Rousas John Rushdoony, a man I hold to the highest esteem, read at least one book a day, six days a week, for fifty years of his life; underlining sentences, and making an index of its main ideas in the rear.

Jonathan Edwards, by all accounts, was a dedicated and dutiful pastor. He spent an average of 13 hours a day in study and sermon preparation.

Without a doubt these were two exceptionally gifted men, but their gifts were enriched by their love for books. As a very special Prairie  Muffin has quoted,

“Books are keys to wisdom’s treasure;
Books are gates to lands of pleasure;
Books are paths that upward lead;
Books are friends. Come, let us read.”
- Emilie Poulsson

My list of Favorites:

1. On the Incarnation, St. Athanasius
2. How Should We Then Live?, Francis Schaeffer
3. Charity and it’s Fruits, Jonathan Edwards
4. Animal Farm, George Orwell
5. The Lord’s Service, Jeffrey Meyers
6. Confrontational Politics, H.L. Richardson
7. The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis
8. Orthodoxy, G.K. Chesterton
9. Through New Eyes, James B. Jordan
10. Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
11. Paradise Restored, David Chilton
12. By What Standard?, R.J. Rushdoony

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