Christian Responsibility in a Broken World
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 …
Category: Kingdom Series
Needed: Violent Men to Take the Kingdom by Force
Image credit: freeimages.com/Marinela Prodan & Lucretious The Kingdom Suffers Violence With ISIS making suicide bombing nearly a daily event and religious wars flaming across the Middle East it ought to be a good time to look at the words of …
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Kingdom of God Advances: Humanist Nations Totter
With a gasp of horror, conservative Christians felt their hearts ripped loose as the election counts came in. Anyone having the slightest caution of Biblical understanding reasoned that the American people have just received a severing blow to their pocketbooks …
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Answering My Critics: Do Not Vote For a Mormon Part 2 (New Testament)
Last week’s article drew an unprecedented number of comments on both sides of the question. Those who agreed with me left about the same number of kudos as the disagreers left (often) long-winded corrections of my supposedly errant conclusions. Some …
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Milquetoast Men in a Milquetoast Church
Blessed be the Lord my God, who trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle wrote David in Psalm 144. What a Godly and righteous sentiment. More than a sentiment, it is a recognition of how God often …
The Bible Belt is Tightening
To those of us trying to run a small business it was no surprise when the Gallup organization announced on April 11 that its research shows unemployment at about 20%. Here in the Appalachians, buckle of the Bible belt, it …
The Ascension: Misconceptions of the Cloud Gazers
“Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky?” (Acts 1:11) was the question of the two men robed in white. Why indeed? Why would men who had been so carefully instructed in the work of ministry stand …
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Thy Kingdom Come (on earth?)
I have been thinking about the Kingdom of Heaven lately, especially as relates to the Sermon on the Mount. I believe that the language and considerations of the kingdom have been set aside thus shortening our ability to be the …