The Reason For My Faith

About Me

My name is Chuck Ness, and I have been a blogger since 1998. I began writing commentaries on Christian and political matters for a few blogs as a guest writer, about 11 years later I was picked up by the Chico Enterprise Record’s as a blog writer in 2009. At the time I lived in Chico CA, and I frequently commented on articles posted in the blog section of my hometown newspapers website. One of the blogs I frequented was Post Scripts. 

After some time, the owners of the blog, Jack Lee and Tina Grazier, invited me to write as a guest for them. It wasn’t long before my writings came to the attention of the editor, Jack Winn, and he offered me my own blog on Norcal Blogs, which carries all the blogs of the Chico Enterprise Record News Paper. I accepted and began writing my own blog articles. I named my blog, “GATE”. For the next couple years I had the number one blog with the paper. At one time I was averaging 100,000 visitors a Month,, which made it the number one Blog in Northern California. On the average, more than 3 times as many visitors read my blog than any of the other blogs.

Unfortunately, a company out of Arkansas purchased the Enterprise Record, and immediately started replacing people. The papers editor, Jack Winn was the first to go, and soon many writers were let go. The new owners had a different idea of what they wanted. Truth was not one of the things they cared for. Within a few Months I was told that my bog would be canceled. It was, sadly, a purely political decision. They then removed my blog and deleted everything I had ever wrote. As if I never existed.

Fortunately, I did see the change coming and that is when I decided to create a blog with Google Blogspot. You will see some articles still linked there. I was hoping to move my articles from GATE to there for a repository of my work. However, the changes came quickly, and I was able to save but a handful of articles, because they locked me out and deleted everything I ever wrote for the paper.

Eventually I ran across Archive.org, which has a program called the Wayback Machine which crawls around the WWW saving stories written in the WWW for it’s historical archives. Leftists do not believe in allowing opinions that disagree with their beliefs, and thus they try to squelch anyone who may present a different opinion than they do. Heck, they don’t even want the truth reported. Just look at how they report about Donald Trump and any Christian conservative these days.

 I originally named the blogspot blog, “The Way One Vike Sees It”. The name “OneVike” was derived from my love of the Minnesota Viking Pro Football team. I used to considered myself their number one fan. Thus “OneVike”. I’m originally from Duluth MN, which is on the Southern tip of Lake Superior in Northern Minnesota. I’m 50% Norwegian, and a descendant of the Nordic Vikings. So I used that as my moniker. Something I did for about 20 years wherever I needed a name to use. I went by OneVike. There are a few other OneVike’s out there, but I do believe I am the only one who was ever successful at writing. That explains the reason for the blogspot URL I used.  

Eventually I began writing under my own name, Chuck Ness.  Then about 2020 I changed the name of my blog to, “The Reason For My Faith”, as I began to writing mostly Christian commentaries. I still delve into politics from time to time, but it is rare, and even then my faith always comes through in my political opinions.

Well, then one day Google started to unpublished my old articles they disliked and censoring new articles I was writing. So I had to find a new outlet, and this is why I am now using WordPress. Depending when you read this, I may or may not still be using the name, “The Reason For My Faith”. I am planning on officially purchasing a domain name and depending on the price I will see what my site will end up being called. For now it will be, “The Reason For my faith.”

Now that I got the past out of the way, here is a little about me today. I am a born again Christian who enjoys talking religion and politics. I have always believed that it is the Christian’s obligation to understand the workings of our government as well as they do the precepts of God. Jesus tells us, 

“Be wise as serpents and harmless as doves” (Mark 10:16)

It is with this understanding that I approach life, I guess that is why I consider it every Christian’s duty to understand the world we live in. If we pray for wisdom, God will grant us the knowledge we need to know the truth. Then we will be able to properly rule the world we live in. Unfortunately we are often times ruled by evil men who despise God. These men think they have gained the knowledge needed to rule us, but they lack the wisdom needed to use that knowledge properly. Thus they have been educated beyond their intelligence. Solomon tells us, 

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. Proverbs 9:10

So with no knowledge of the Holy One, they cannot discern what is right or wrong, what is good or bad. Our founding fathers understood the need to know the Holy One, and they gave Him credit for our independence. They wrote our Constitution with His precepts in mind. They also understood that men needed to be educated if they were going to rule themselves. Madison is quoted as telling his fellow Americans, 

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

So it is with this understanding that I feel it to be incumbent upon me to share with others that which He has blessed me with. Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you.