“Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.” – 1 Corinthians 14: 20 Republicans are taking the Sunday school approach to Donald Trump. In Sunday school children are taught that all…
Tag: Christianity
Noah’s Flood
Anthropologists who study legends and folktales from various cultures throughout the world consistently report that the biblical account of the flood is common to practically every civilization. Noah is but one story in a worldwide collection of at least 500…
Religion that asks us to Kill for God – is no Religion at All
As a very young man this writer read Kahlil Gibran’s book “The Prophet” but I saw no particular significance to the book because at the time my belief in God was nearly non-existent. It was a bit quasi philosophical, but…
Is Martyrdom a Myth?
“But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” I Cor. 2:14 In “The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians…
Stay Under the Canopy of God’s Favor and Protection
An ounce of prevention is said to be worth a pound of cure. Never was it truer than when God levied the tenth and final plague against Egypt—a death angel sent to claim the firstborn child of every household. To…
‘ABC’s New Kind of Family’
My family and I no longer waste money on cable TV, but when we did, one of the only “Christian” programs I could find was the 700 Club, aired locally on a channel called “ABC Family.” Now, I don’t agree with everything…
No God, No American Freedom
On Friday morning, February 27, 2015, I saw Chris Cuomo pontificating on TV with a fellow CNN host, Michael Smerconish. They were talking about the annual Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) conference, and at one point, Cuomo seemed to suggest…
Sickening Barbarism Toward Children
There have been numerous and sometimes contradictory stories and images of anti-Christian slaughter coming out of Iraq and Syria right now. They cannot all be confirmed. But there is a pattern emerging: Even children are not immune from the barbaric…
George Washington’s Warning to America
George Washington envisioned an America where people of all faiths could enjoy peace. He wrote to the synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island (8/14/1790): “May the children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and…
‘CHURCH ARISE’ – During the Great Falling Away
We live in amazing times. For centuries, faithful Christians have studied God’s Word and marveled at what was foretold about the very days WE are living in right now. It must have been hard to believe the depths of depravity,…
All Roads Do Not Lead To God
“If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.” Augustine of Hippo Anyone who “thinks” they are a Christian, or “hopes” they are, probably isn’t…
Allah and the God of the Bible are not the same
Approximately a quarter of the Bible is prophecy that has to do with how the world goes in the future. It is a detailed picture of many events leading up to the well-known final conflict on earth known as the…
Homo-lobby: Making Children of Hell in America
In his day Christ constantly rebuked the religious leaders for their hypocrisy and for misleading people from acknowledging that God was doing something new in their time. While clinging to the old revelation they were leading their followers down the…
Religion and Politics Don’t Mix – A Modern Fairy Tale
America is a land of many contradictions possibly born out of her love for freedom. Some are comical while others are harmful. Most go completely un-noticed because they are often voiced and repeated but rarely ever examined or scrutinized. One…
PC Poison in the Pot
With apostasy (falling away) running rampant in the church and PC’s impassioned call for diversity and tolerance in religion what are the implications for America? Let’s see. When Jesus asked a crowd of people who felt their religion justified…