by Brian | Nov 9, 2020 | Culture, Current Events
As Pastor Joe has recently been pointing out, sometime in the mid to late first century AD, when an autocratic pagan emperor ruled the Mediterranean world, the Apostle Paul wrote this instruction to Timothy, who was leading a young christian church Asia Minor:...
by Brian | Nov 4, 2020 | Current Events, Meditations
Psalm 72, with glorious glimpses into the future, of the ruler we’re all waiting for: Give the king Your judgments, O God, And Your righteousness to the king’s Son. He will judge Your people with righteousness, And Your poor with justice. The mountains will...
by Brian | Nov 2, 2020 | Culture, Current Events
With the way things have been for most of 2020, you could be forgiven for thinking that politics have totally taken over the world. But followers of Jesus should push back on this sentiment. Is everything in life political? People will be voting tomorrow. That, of...
by Brian | Sep 25, 2020 | Bible Study, Culture, Current Events
You may have heard that, in the years when the New Testament was being written, and beyond, one of the issues Christians faced was the requirement, by the government of Rome, to offer a pinch of incense on an altar dedicated to the deity of the Roman emperor. From one...
by Brian | Sep 2, 2020 | Culture, Current Events
Adolph Saphir: Christian maturity shows itself in knowledge. We are to be men in understanding. The apostolic prayer is, that believers may be filled with the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of God. We are to “go on unto perfection.” We have received...
by Brian | Aug 17, 2020 | Current Events
This follows on a post from a few weeks ago. Here is Francis Schaeffer, speaking life! God willing, I will push and politic no more…. The mountains are too high, history is too long, and eternity is longer. God is too great, man is too small, there are many of God’s...
