“I believe in justice: but I am not a preacher of the gospel of justice, but the Gospel of Christ who calls us to justice. I believe in love, but I am not a preacher of the gospel of love, but the Gospel of Christ who calls us to love. I am committed to peace, [...]

Why Christianity? Do you think that religious beliefs are a cause of disruptions or even violence in society?
As we have been looking into Kingdom Grace, what it is to be accepted into the Kingdom, live in the Kingdom, live with each other and with God, a few questions may come to mind.

The law is essentially a reflection of who God is. When we try to reach God by obeying the law though, we try to reflect a reflection and hence become ever more distorted. Like fun-house mirrors, reflections on reflections, twisted and misshapen. Following a law in order to be like God is nothing short of [...]

I have built my house to my specs and now, in order to fit the building code of the Kingdom I attempt a little reform. Knock a wall down here, a wall down there, put in a window, a garage for my SUV that I’m praying expectantly for.
This is merely adherence to the law, and [...]

A Call of Christian Conscience
Christians, when they have lived up to the highest ideals of their faith, have defended the weak and vulnerable and worked tirelessly to protect and strengthen vital institutions of civil society, beginning with the family.

The hardest people to reach with the Gospel of Jesus Christ are arguably “nice people.”
There are so many who see “religion” as simply a way to make the world ‘nicer,’ to make people ‘good’ or to keep society from, as the Joker put it, ‘eating itself’ instead of simply the response required of Man to [...]

Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to an interest in existence; the refusal to take the oath of loyalty to life. The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men; as far as he is concerned he wipes out the world. His act is worse (symbolically considered) than any rape or dynamite outrage. For it destroys all buildings; it insults all women.

“Make sure you floss regularly and brush your teeth after every meal.”Floss

That was a rule in my parent’s house that I heard every day growing up. Before bed, “Did you brush your teeth?”
“Yes.”
“Tonight?”
“… no.”

There was no real discussion; it had to be done in our house as I am sure it was so in others.
My own daughter denies it as vehemently now as I once did (and sometimes still do when my wife asks). “Brush your teeth” is not a rule for the discomfort and anguish that children imagine, but to instill in us the good habit of keeping our teeth clean; one that responds to the natural inclination of teeth rotting and falling out.

The same may be said for the Law of Moses. God’s Law is not intended as the Ultimate Party-pooper, but simply a check to the fallen nature of Man; Laws that show us the reality of the world around us, meant to protect us from our teeth falling out: to keep us from harms way.

Time to expand upon the fourth point I mentioned in my first post on this topic: the propaganda put about by the people behind the gay rights movement in the late 80s and 90s. The people behind this campaign saw that the best way to halt the growing public aversion to homosexual behaviour (that [...]

In keeping with our theme of going Science Mad, and as a follow up to James’ post on homosexuality, I thought it might be good to examine this idea that homosexuality is a product of nature, a genetically determined behaviour, rather than a choice. But first – why are we doing this? Why [...]

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At one Army base, the annual trip to the rifle range had been canceled for the second year in a row, but the semi-annual physical fitness test was still on as planned. One soldier mused, “Does it bother anyone else that the Army doesn’t seem to care how well we can shoot, but [...]

Praxis: [prak-sis] – noun, plural praxises, praxes
1. practice, as distinguished from theory; application or use, as of knowledge or skills
2. a set of examples for practice

That part about “as distinguished from theory” really gets you in the gut, don’t it? I think it has something to do with finding out what loving our neighbor as [...]

Missions Blog has a D.A. Carson quote I thought worth sharing.
People do not drift toward holiness. Apart from grace driven effort people do not gravitate towards godliness, prayer, obedience to scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance. We drift toward disobedience and call it freedom. We drift [...]

Warning: The Surgeon General Has Determined That ‘Self’ Contains The Drug, Pride, Which Is Extremely Addicting And Is Known To Cause Death.
I recently prayed, “Make me humble, O Lord” but then, presumptuously, preposterously, added the clause, “but don’t break me completely.”
Bake me a cake but hold the flour, sugar, eggs and milk, will ya?
Rather like [...]

[Jakarta] has asked how to use Scripture to fight temptation. This is going to be a bit long (is it ever short?) but I think this one needs to be. If you want the short version, then I say, trust in Christ and pray His Word, walk away and let the situation pass. If that [...]

What is Christ’s deepest passion? He was always about doing His Father’s work. He preached, taught, proclaimed and died for the Kingdom of God. Christ came to establish His Father’s Kingdom and I too must be about this work. No, not because I’m a citizen nor because of the benefits a citizen receives. Honestly, I [...]

But woe unto you, O torrent of human custom! Who shall stay your course? When will you ever run dry? How long will you carry down the sons of Eve into that vast and hideous ocean, which even those who have the Tree (for an ark) [cross] can scarcely pass over? Augustine, Confessions Book I [...]

My friend Bumblebee (not the Autobot) has a post on her blog about the effects of some types of music on society and its morals. A commenter, Mark, noted, quite innocently it seems, that she needed to prove absolutely that those (warped) morals were dysfunctional to society. My response is as follows:
Ironically, it isn’t really [...]

A great article by Will Braun from Geez Magazine covers some of the points I have been pondering of late. I often wondered – in light of recent political debates, activist acts, and mega-church programs – what happened to “love thy neighbor as thyself?”Braun makes a very good point, “If my involvement in a conflict [...]