Don’t Reclaim Your Life
The very fact that everything spiraled out of our control is proof that we never had control to begin with.
God may bring you to a time of great peace in which you can once again freely travel the world and pursue your every passion. But he may instead bring you a time of great suffering that is far beyond anything you experienced in 2020. Instead of wearing a mask you may wear chains, instead... Continue Reading
America’s Achilles’ Heel: Powerless Sermons and Prayerless Churches
The strength of the church is in its purity and spiritual power, not in its numbers.
Leonard Ravenhill noted that the Cinderella of the church today is the prayer meeting. The prayer meeting is relegated to a dark corner somewhere in the church on an off night so that there is little expectation that anyone will pay her any attention. She goes about unnoticed, unloved, and uncelebrated, yet she is the... Continue Reading
Zoom, the Pandemic, & the Death of Sacred Spaces
Zoom—as a medium of education and relationship—prevents us from truly connecting because of technology’s nature to divide, distract, and isolate.
Like television or the invention of writing, Zoom makes a promise that it cannot uphold. Those that wish to be monks will be monks wherever they are, but sacred spaces exist to provide a connective tissue for the rest of us. Some instructors have found that Zoom school has been highly effective for the monkish... Continue Reading
Finnish Bishop Elect Charged Over Historic Christian Teachings On Human Sexuality
Rev. Juhana Pohjola, Diocesan Dean and Bishop Elect of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Diocese of Finland has been charged by Finland’s Prosecutor General with incitement against homosexuals.
At the same time, he continued, “this does not remove the fact that, according to the Bible and the Christian conception of man, homosexual relations are against the will of God, and marriage is intended only between a man and a woman. This is what the Christian church has always taught and will always teach.”... Continue Reading
Blame the Christian!
We are not servants better than our master but like the world hated Jesus so it will hate us.
We ought not be surprised when the world hates us. For they hated the prophets who came before us. More than the prophets they hated the perfect, sinless, Son of God to the point that He who knew no sin was crucified on the cross at the hands of wicked men for everything His chosen... Continue Reading
When Hitler Seduces Marx
Critical Race Theory is as obsessed with race as were the Nazis. According to the new generation of Marxists, the political struggle is not about a struggle between the classes but a struggle between the races.
Thus, we see demands that classical music must be cancelled because it is mostly the work of dead white men. The Nazis burned books whose authors were Jewish; the neo-Nazi race theorists seek to ban anything and everything whose authors were dead white males. It’s all about skin colour. Just as the Nazis insisted that... Continue Reading
The Demon in Democracy
Communism and political liberalism are decidedly intolerant. Tolerance, thus conceived, is what the state says it is, and nothing more.
The state is a religious space with its own soteriology and eschatology. At the center of this quasi-religious state is the Festival of Reason in which the Goddess of Reason replaces the one true God who is revealed in Scripture and known by faith alone. Of course, what is here called reason is really... Continue Reading
Identity Politics, Opium of the People
Identitarianism represents not the heart of our heartless world so much as that same world’s unforgiving heartlessness pushed to its ruthless and destructive practical conclusion.
Identity politics, unlike Christianity, is not the heart of a heartless world. Far from it. Christianity calls out sin and demands repentance; but it has grace and forgiveness at its heart. The shrill voice of identity politics screams for repentance, yet it presumes that no actual act of repentance will ever be sufficient. It offers... Continue Reading
On Phobias: Remedial Logic for Illogical Times
Let’s leave real phobias to the psychologists, counselors, and their patients instead of inventing new ones to disparage our political opponents.
If you think that all transgendered people are Satanists or Communists, then that is an irrational fear, a phobia. But to claim that gender is biologically and divinely given — and not a matter of choice, however persuasive the surgeries and chemicals may be — is not transphobic. That claim may be right or wrong.... Continue Reading
Critical Race Theory: The Enemy of Reason, Evidence, and Open Debate
The denial of any role for reason or evidence appears to be at the very root of Marxism, postmodernism, CRT, and “wokeness.”
It is both stunning and appalling that critical race theory, a belief system that denies the values that have come down to us from the Enlightenment, can gain ground in 21st-century America. The pessimistic view is that societies, even those well-educated and culturally advanced, sometimes spin out of control over ideas that in retrospect seem... Continue Reading
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