Jesus vs. “Faith Leaders” (Or: Everything is Theological)
It wasn’t long ago that the most aggressively anti-Christian elements in our culture at least pretended to be committed to “keeping religion out of politics”. We were told again and again that “religion and politics don’t mix” and that we should “keep our faith in its place”. Then a funny thing happened on the way […]
King David: Not A Product Of Safe Spaces
What kind of culture produces the likes of King David? What kind of culture doesn’t? And which one are we closer to these days here in “the land of the free” and the home of the NSA? (Hint: We don’t know the difference between a boy and a girl, we need safe spaces at […]
Liberty, Tyranny & Romans 13
How has God defined His creation of civil government? The question itself sounds more than a little weird to the typical American ear these days. The notion of civil government as God’s creation is foreign to us. Even so, and as Scripture makes abundantly clear, civil government is indeed His creation. It’s His property. With […]
Are we acting more like citizens of the Kingdom of God or are we acting more like citizens of Babel?
In our actual approach to life, liberty, law, government, and everything else, are we behaving more like citizens of the Kingdom of God or are we behaving more like citizens of Babel? Are we striving to build life and culture on God’s terms? Or ours? Are we a people defined by repentance, reformation, and restoration? […]
Bookends Of History And The Resurrection Of Knowledge
Why are we here? Why do bad things happen all around us? Is there any meaning or purpose to it all? If so, what is that meaning? These are some of the fundamental questions that we explored in last week’s Tennessee General Assembly Bible study as we wrapped up our six-part “Know Your Enemy” series. […]
Know Your Enemy: Understanding the serpent, the fall, and the nature of rebellion against Jesus.
How important is it to rightly understand what happened in Eden when the serpent made its pitch and Eve bit on it (literally)? How important is it that we understand the basic foundation of the satanic proposition recorded in Genesis 3 so that we might identify and confront various versions of the same lame lie […]