“They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.” –Epheisians 4:18 Those who walk as the Gentiles do, suffer from a darkened or…
Tag: Constitution
Early American History
Christianity has not followed Paul’s leadership and instructions to not “walk as the Gentiles do” (Eph. 4:17) as well as it should have. Many Greek, Gentile, and worldly ideas and practices have been adopted by various versions of Christianity over…
Triumphalism
Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. —Ephesians 4:17 The perspective, known as postmillennialism or triumphalism, has fallen on hard times for…
Some Early American History
(from In Christ–the Church at Ephesus, forthcoming.) Christianity has not followed Paul’s leadership and instructions to not “walk as the Gentiles do” (Ephesians 4: 17) as well as it should have. Many Greek, Gentile and worldly ideas and practices have…
Money As Debt
Fascinating video about how money works, showing that money is actually nothing more than promises. So the correlation between keeping promises and financial health is made clear.
Purpose
(From In Christ—The Church at Ephesus, forthcoming.) Next Paul provided the purpose for all of this: “that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you” (Eph. 1: 18). Having some sense of generic hope is…
Marriage Fidelity
What’s wrong with current marriage laws? In a recent article (Marriage Equality, 12/21/2011) the following scenario was suggested: the person you love is injured in an auto accident and is barely clinging to life in the hospital, but you cannot…
God In America
“God in America” will be broadcast on PBS for three nights starting Oct. 11, 2010. Stephen Prothero, a religion professor at Boston University, makes a similar point on-screen as he discusses the rising revolutionary sentiment in colonial America. “I think…
Koran: Don’t Burn It, Read It!
Serious public religious discussion is all but impossible these days. It seems that to hold any serious religious belief is to offend those who don’t hold that particular belief. And the more seriously you take your faith, the more offensive…
When the Kettle Calls the Pot Black
Glenn Beck’s recent Restoring Honor rally has unleashed a Jini from the proverbial bottle. It is significant that he has stood in the public square like no one else could at this point in history and called for a national…