That Time I Went After an Older, Godlier Man
He was a brother in Christ—a brother I had treated like a stranger, an enemy.
While there are times we as Christians must speak out, there is never a time we can speak to a fellow Christian or about a fellow Christian in a way that fails to reflect the love of our common Savior. It’s not a memory I’m proud of, but every now and again I feel the need to... Continue Reading
Is the Law for the Righteous?
Where faith works by love, all duties will be relished, for faith working by love overcomes all difficulties.
Pray and labour for such a free, heavenly heart that the law of God and all its precepts would not be a terror to us, but sweetness and delight. “Oh how I love thy law!” David cries. We ought to have such filial and child-like affections to God and His will that we would love... Continue Reading
Humble in Cooperation; Faithful in Friendship
When we speak, act, or respond with selfishness, we knowingly fail to walk in the way of wisdom.
Do not be consumed with your own interests but make it your practice to keep Christ first by putting the needs of others ahead of your own. Be grateful for what you have rather than bemoaning what you don’t. In this way, we set ourselves apart and are witnesses to the power of God in... Continue Reading
Prone to Wander
While the plight of man is to wander, the mission of God is to place.
If God’s kingdom is already among us, then we should be taking those aspects of creation that don’t yet reflect that reality and transforming them into what they will one day be, by God’s grace and our participation. If the condition of exile is the result of separating oneself from YHWH, then what might a... Continue Reading
Pedophiles Are Proliferating in Our Schools
Inept state legislators and corrupt/apathetic school administrators have an interest in not making any waves by simply passing the trash.
The U.S. Department of Justice already has established a database for sex offenders. It is imperative that we have a similarly organized collection of information especially for educators, where school administrators are legally bound to report any and every instance of pedophilia. In the social hierarchy of prison inmates, mob bosses, bank robbers, and... Continue Reading
CRT vs. Classical Liberalism vs. Christianity
The Bible holds out a vision for working toward societies that benefit everyone, not just liberalism’s associations in which no one is to blame or CRT’s perpetual struggles of one group against another.
The Bible presents a complex view of reality and how modern political ideologies dismember parts of this complex reality, isolate them, and treat them as the whole. And it helps Christians to engage with liberalism, CRT, and other political ideologies in a way that doesn’t invest them with ultimate, messianic hope or allow them to become... Continue Reading
Passing Overture 15
A call to avoid the equivocation trap.
For men equipped with the keys to some of the most sacredly precious positions in the Kingdom of Christ, O15 simplifies the decision-making on our version of the broader homosexual clergy question. Is the man describing himself (present tense) as a homosexual, all equivocations aside? If so, as this means he is NOT above reproach,... Continue Reading
Why Did Covid Enforcement Target Religion?
Governments used COVID-19 restrictions as an excuse for religious persecution.
Religious persons today are a threat, but not to public safety as the narrative instructs us. They are a threat to the idea that the state is to be worshipped above all else, to the religion that’s trying to take their place, to the idea that it’s possible to find a compelling and complete sense... Continue Reading
Humble in Cooperation; Faithful in Friendship
Self-serving behaviors often take root in the heart of church leaders and members, destroying unity and hindering kingdom work.
Do not be consumed with your own interests but make it your practice to keep Christ first by putting the needs of others ahead of your own. Be grateful for what you have rather than bemoaning what you don’t. In this way, we set ourselves apart and are witnesses to the power of God in... Continue Reading
If the Letter to Laodicea Was Written to Us
In showing Laodicea where they fell short, God used prominent features of their culture—what would He have to say to us?
Their spiritual condition was the exact opposite of their physical reality. They were wealthy and admired in terms of money, but they were poor and pitiable spiritually. They had eye salve, but they were blind. They had fine black wool, but they were naked. And the most famous of all, they had hot and cold... Continue Reading
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