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Why do some shopping carts have square wheels?

This is not a riddle. Rather, it’s an overstatement of something we’ve probably all experienced. (If you haven’t experienced it, you rely too much on Amazon and you need to get out more.)You go to the grocery store and take a cart, and pushing it down the aisle is like pushing it on a railroad track. The reason? Someone took that cart too far into the parking lot, the wheels locked up, and it…

So Where's The Blessing?

I’ll be brief. Here’s the scripture verse for context: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. – Genesis 12:3 This is the “John 3:16” of Zionism. You’ve certainly heard it quoted often by people like Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee, John Hagee, maybe even President Trump. It’s quid pro quo and a lot more. God…

Will You Also Leave?

This was a painful question Jesus asked His disciples after preaching arguably His most divisive (and misunderstood) sermon. The crowd was large and Jesus sounded like He was preaching some form of cannibalism. “Eat My flesh”?? Truly, this was a hard saying. There was no Old Testament text that supported or gave context to His command. Moses never said anything like this. I’d discussed this with…

The Outer Darkness

I broached this topic in February of 2024 when I wrote The Wedding Garment, which I invite you to review. It’s generally agreed that there are three tenses of salvation – commonly called “tenses” though we’re not conjugating a verb, but rather parsing a process. The first is justification, the second is sanctification, and the third is glorification. A Christian can properly say, “I was saved, I…

The Last Sign

I’ve been reluctant to wade into the current hysteria concerning September 23rd. I’ve seen the videos and I understand many of the things offered as reasons why the rapture MUST occur in about two weeks. But for me, there’s one major show-stopper, and it’s in Matthew 24 – And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.…

Life As Worship

We each have a primary metaphor through which we interpret life. The metaphor in your head is the standard by which you evaluate your experiences, emote, make choices, choose words, put one foot in front of the other and make it through each day. So says author and pastor John Kitchen in the preface to his transformational book, Life As Worship. Your metaphor is your reason “why” – the thing…

The Thief on the Cross

I mentioned this before in The Selfish Gospel. Talk about the Lordship of Christ or the part of works in salvation, and this account in Luke 23 frequently comes up. Maybe you’ve noticed. But the other, answering, rebuked him, saying, “Do you not even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation? And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds; but this Man has done…

A Few Loose Ends

I made a much-needed addition to my Bewitched post: I want to make one thing clear before I proceed – this is NOT to be construed as a requirement for a wife to submit to an abusive husband. NO woman – Christian or otherwise – is required or even advised to submit to physical, verbal, sexual or emotional abuse. If the husband is abusive, the wife should LEAVE HIM. Shame on me for not clarifying…

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The Envoy

Now I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals; and I heard one of the four living creatures saying with a voice like thunder, “Come and see.” And I looked, and behold, a white horse. He who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer. – Revelation 6:1-2 We’re clearly getting very close to the time of the return of King Jesus. We have scriptural…

Slavery

I have been following the activities of the new administration, and am seeing various deployments of what’s known as “The Nuremberg Defense” – that is, the proposition that people in government, and especially at lower levels, should not be held accountable for any malfeasance they may have participated in because they were “just doing their jobs.” I’ve also been reading The Culture of Disbelief…

Harmonic Atheism

This may be a “sign of the times” often overlooked. I’m not sure whether it’s the abandonment of authentic faith by genuine believers, or the discovered futility and subsequent abandonment of the “Christian god” created by American corporate churches. Maybe some of both.When someone claims to reject God, it’s helpful to determine just who or what is being rejected. Some discernment is…

I Was (Probably) Mistaken

Welcome to the day before Shemini Atzeret 2024. I am taking what may be my last opportunity to clarify my understanding of the end of the age, since expectation is quite high for a rapture event tomorrow, October 24, 2024. We shall see, of course. As we’ve gotten closer to the end, we’ve had an increase of clarity and I’ve seen one particular previous conclusion of mine that was probably…

Bewitched

Many readers may remember the 1960’s sitcom with Elizabeth Montgomery and Dick York. It was fairly clear that Samantha ruled the roost, and bumbling Darrin sort of did what he was told and otherwise stayed out of the way. This, we now see, was intentional role reversal, as well as nascent feminism. It was, of course, intentional – crafted for the sake of comedy, but also to shape the culture. Did…

The Incident

It’s now four days after “the incident” and we’d properly expect for some of the smoke to clear, and for there to be at least a reasonable framework for understanding what allegedly occurred in Butler, Pennsylvania. I’m not going to add to the growing list of conjectures. Rather, I’d like to invite us all to step back and, instead of being distracted by theories and the details, try to look at…

Are These the Days of Micaiah?

Just over sixteen years ago, Chris Anderson of Anglemar Fellowship posted an article on his web site entitled The Other Side of “the Days of Elijah” in which he reviewed the significant sequence of events in Elijah’s life, suggested a parallel to today’s world, and told us what he thought we could expect. As you, dear reader, are no doubt aware, Elijah lived in the days of Ahab and Jezebel,…

Worship Service

The American/western way of “doing church” strongly cultivates the idea that God-pleasing worship consists of specific activities performed in a sacred space by a community of believers. This is common knowledge: we “go to church” in order to worship God with other believers. We have a liturgy – an order of specific activities – generally performed or managed by professional clerics. We are…

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Disillusioned Yet?

Don’t get ahead of me – this is NOT about what you probably think it’s about. Or, as Inigo Montoya said, “I do not think it means what you think it means.” I’m referring to this recent bit of news from Navi Pillay, who is the Chairman of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry: “Israel forcibly transferred almost the entire population into a small area that is unsafe and uninhabitable.The…

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