One of the exciting aspects of our ultimate end laid out in Revelation is the social aspect of heaven. We will eternally reside in a city. Everyone will be known. No shadows, no fear, total enjoyment of one another and He who sits on the throne and the Lamb. What a day that will be! I’m reminded of this whenever I participate in or even hear a big choir — lots of people working together Read more…
Across the rural American landscape a century ago the major edifices were churches. We still have churches, to be sure, but they have yielded their prime status to the mountaintop palaces that we know as “public schools”. Recently a friend pointed out succinctly: “…the government schools have now replaced the church as the center of where the community comes to worship and this “new god” (the state) claims absolute authority and ownership of every area of Read more…
One winter a farmer found a snake stiff and frozen with cold. He had compassion on it, and taking it up, placed it in his bosom. The warmth quickly revived the Snake, and resuming its natural instincts, bit its benefactor, inflicting on him a mortal wound. “Oh,” cried the farmer with his last breath, “I am rightly served for pitying a scoundrel.” -Aesop’s Fables “Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast Read more…
It should not be a surprise to anyone who recognizes the sovereignty of God that He’s an economist. Do we think economic laws sprang into being on their own? I read today a funny article about one local government suing another local government over “stolen” sales tax revenues. Seems that tax revenues are getting scarce and the high-tax jurisdiction thinks it’s unfair that an adjacent jurisdiction has lower rates. This made me consider the gift Read more…
Yes, some cities in England are celebrating an orgy of destruction. So, what’s the solution? From what I’ve seen, this may or may not be a religious thing, but I have no doubt that if the rioters were “Christians” (think about that: Christian Rioters?) we would have heard about it by now as we did in the case of the Norway attacker. As reported here it didn’t take long for the mainstream media to report, Read more…
And the Jews’ Passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables; And said unto them that sold doves, Take these Read more…
(Love, love, love) (Love, love, love) (Love, love, love) There’s nothing you can do that can’t be done, Nothing you can sing that can’t be sung, Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game, It’s easy! There’s nothing you can make that can’t be made, No one you can save that can’t be saved, Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time, It’s easy! Read more…
At least it was the latest outrage a few days ago; now, the list has grown even longer with the knowledge that the US Department of State has pulled strings to assist our national perverse poster child (Lady Gaga) to perform at a “Gay Pride” event in Rome. Yes, our State Department is busying itself with some very important international concerns. Let us consider the two events: The governor of New York would bring perversion Read more…
So the NBC broadcast of the US Open last week aired a production of school children reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. One problem: According to Christiannewstoday.com, the pre-taped segment “edited out the words “under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance, not once, but twice.” But NBC is covering their little posterior. They also left out the word “indivisible”, so there: Nothing intentional, just a mistake, see, we left out another word too! Of course, NBC Read more…
One of the items Joel mentioned in our last MARS presentation was that we rarely talk about foreign relations from a Biblical perspective. Hopefully, you are coming to realize that the Bible addresses issues that we generally don’t even consider “Biblical” matters. We will most likely develop a full-blown presentation regarding foreign policy/relations sometime in the future; but for now, here are a few verses to encourage further study. Agreements, contracts and treaties between nations Read more…