Election politics are in the air and clogging nearly every pore of our ubiquitous masks. In fact there is nothing like a national election to rip off a few of our face coverings and reveal the real person that was …
4 Biblical Lessons for Children about How to Vote Read more »
Teaching children well, and wisely, and Christianly is an entire life project. It is not something that can be accomplished by importing mass education and its apparatus into our homes.
In the course of a day, how many times do you make contact with the suffering of another living being? Really, if you counted them, how many would there be? It is 6:00 a.m. your radio alarm clicks on and …
Image attribution: DonkeyHotey/flickr/license With the dogs of war close to being released and rockets even now likely being readied, it seems a wise time (past time) to ask what our nation ought to be doing in relation to belligerent buffoons …
Photo credit: sari_dennise/flickr/license The drug war, so called, has become a fixture in the news cycle as every city, county, federal agent, cop, detective, undercover agent, or agency hack of whatever stripe, has stacked up his career arrest record picking …
Image credit: Saad Akhtar/flickr/license American Sins are Not New It was only a few years ago that parents worried about their children worshiping Wiccans (Harry Potter), or watching morally debauched TV (Friends). Now children are also being abused within debilitatingly …
Leaders Tear Down Culture & Rebuild (Gideon Pt 3) Read more »
Merciful Justice & Cruel Compassion Why do we label biblical justice archaic, culturally irrelevant, or downright cruel? We often render guilty verdicts against God’s law without even knowing what it says. We draw grotesque caricatures of commands we would rather …
Image Attribution: Marcus O. Bst/flickr/license American Covenant I have read the Mayflower Compact (Covenant) numerous times. The Compact formed the first civil government by Europeans coming to America. It was written and signed in 1620 by the Pilgrims before they …
Image credit: Nicolas Raymond Judgment on Israel—Gideon’s Back Story In my previous article on Gideon I discussed the importance of one righteous man standing in the face of impossible odds. We saw how the angel of the Lord selected one …
One Thing that Will Propel a Nation to Victory (Gideon, pt. 2) Read more »
Evangelism is hard, fake jesus makes it harder. Talking with someone ignorant of Jesus gives you somewhat of a blank slate upon which to sketch an understanding of the person and work of Christ: His love, justice, compassion, holiness, His …