“With All The Many Miracles” — Trusting God’s Sovereignty in a Fallen Political World

How Calvin’s Two Kingdoms Doctrine, Jesus’ Words on Caesar’s Coin, and Paul’s Example Guide a Christian in Politics Without Building a Theocracy

My Official Campaign Song - I love to sing it too, sing along when you read below. I love a great baritone voice, easy to sing along with.

I chose “With All The Many Miracles” by Greater Vision as my campaign theme song because it captures how I see this race. It is not about my strength or clever strategy. It is about trusting that God is sovereign even when the odds look impossible. That perspective comes straight from Scripture and is deeply informed by John Calvin’s teaching on the Two Kingdoms.

Calvin’s Two Kingdoms Doctrine
In his Institutes of the Christian Religion (Book 4, Chapter 20), John Calvin taught that God rules the world through two distinct kingdoms:The Spiritual Kingdom (the Church)

Christ rules here through His Word and the Holy Spirit. This kingdom is concerned with eternal salvation, the conscience, faith, and true piety. Its weapons are spiritual — preaching, prayer, and the sacraments — not the sword.

The Civil Kingdom (the State / Temporal Government)
God ordains human magistrates and laws to restrain evil, punish wrongdoing, and promote outward justice and peace in a fallen world. This is the realm of Romans 13:1-7 — governing authorities are “instituted by God.”Calvin was very clear: Christians live in both kingdoms simultaneously and have responsibilities in both. He rejected the idea that believers should withdraw from public life in pursuit of false purity. Serving faithfully as a magistrate, judge, or citizen is a legitimate Christian vocation. However, the two kingdoms must not be confused. The Church does not rule the state, and the state does not control the Church’s conscience.

Jesus’ Words as the Foundation
This doctrine flows directly from Jesus Himself. When the Pharisees tried to trap Him with a question about taxes, Jesus asked for a Roman coin and said, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s” (Matthew 22:21). With Caesar’s image on the coin, Jesus affirmed that we have legitimate obligations to earthly government while our ultimate allegiance belongs to God.Jesus also declared, “My kingdom is not of this world” (John 18:36). His kingdom is spiritual and will only be fully realized when He returns in judgment. Until then, His disciples were to live as citizens of both realms — honoring civil authority without confusing it with the Kingdom of God.The Apostle Paul applied Jesus’ teaching practically. As a Roman citizen, he appealed his unjust treatment to Caesar (Acts 25:11), exercising his legal rights under Roman law. Paul later wrote in Romans 13 that governing authorities are instituted by God to bear the sword against evil. Both Paul and Calvin were doing expository application of Jesus’ own words: honor the civil kingdom where it fulfills its God-given role of restraining evil, while keeping the spiritual kingdom pure and distinct.

Contrast with Sharia Law -
Sharia law represents the opposite approach — the complete merging of the spiritual and civil kingdoms under Islamic jurisprudence. In its strictest forms, Sharia claims divine authority over every aspect of life: criminal law, family law, economics, speech, dress, and even thought. There is no meaningful separation between mosque and state. The ruler enforces God’s law directly, often with brutal penalties for apostasy, blasphemy, adultery, or homosexuality.The perversions are obvious and well-documented:
• Women have severely restricted rights.
• Apostates and blasphemers can face death.
• Religious minorities live as second-class citizens.
• The state becomes an instrument of religious coercion rather than a limited tool for common peace.

Calvin would have rejected Sharia-style systems outright. He insisted on the distinction between the two kingdoms precisely to prevent the kind of religious tyranny that plagued Europe for centuries.

Application to America and My Campaign -

The United States was founded with a deliberate separation of church and state — no national established church, no religious test for federal office. This was wise. It prevents the coercion and corruption that come when religious institutions control the sword.

At the same time, the Founders never intended for Christians to be excluded from public life. They expected believers to bring their moral convictions into the public square while respecting the rights of others. This is the genius of the American system: Christians can participate fully in the civil kingdom without demanding that the state become a Christian theocracy.
This is very different from the “Moral Majority” approach of the 1980s or some modern versions of Christian Nationalism, which can blur the line in ways that resemble the very theocracy the left fears and loves to caricature.

I am running for Congress NC #2 not because I crave power or want to impose a theocracy. I am running because I believe God has called me, as an ordinary man with real-world experience, to serve faithfully in the civil kingdom — to fight corruption, protect parental rights, defend the unborn, secure borders, and promote policies that help working families rather than elites and special interests.

Whether I win or lose in November, the calling remains the same: trust the Shepherd, walk through the valley with integrity, and leave the results in God’s hands.That is the heart of my campaign theme song. It is not a victory anthem. It is a trust song.And for a man who started delivering the Philadelphia Bulletin at age 12 in 1969, then added the Inquirer, and followed politics all through high school and into adulthood, that is enough. Do your part to help Michael Whatley win the US Senate seat for NC, and Judge Michael Byrne these guys are Christian too, and support, vote for all your local REPUBLICAN candidates in November, and if you are in District #13, vote for another one of the Christian family for reelection Brad Knott….. We all need God to help us all win, like Romans 13:2 says.

Together We Win

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Please help me retire Rep Deborah Ross in November with your votes, feet and prayers, help getting the word out, and a generous donation to help us spread the news. Our fight is against the Forces of Darkness, that infest our country. God will be with us all, if we ask Him to be there.

Gene Douglass

My reason for living and my testimony verses:
Galatians 2:20,21 Yeah, look them up for yourselves…. And read the whole book of Galatians while you are at it.
John MacArthur on the Book of Galatians - A great series

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