Last week I posted about the idea that God appoints to all nations their leaders, and how he uses that as a instrument of judgement as well as blessing. Today, I’m going to go over a specific instance where God explained how he intended to bring judgement on Israel in the form of a bad…
Month: October 2022
Divine Appointment
God Over Government As I’ve discussed in a previous post, a Christian should always be looking only to God for moral guidance and not to government. Also, that the government’s role is to be God’s wrath against wrongdoers and our obligation as Christians is to respect that position as enforcer that the government has been…
Vengeance is God’s Business
In our polarized society, facts can often be presented to us as if they are one dimensional. That is to say, they are presented as if they exist in a vacuum and can only possibly lead to a single conclusion about a single topic. Take the title for instance. Some people would read this as…
Wicked Patterns
Life Advice No matter where you’re getting life advice, or the area of life for which you’re getting advice, it is likely that you will eventually be encouraged to start taking small steps toward a goal in order to start building a pattern of life that will lead to a goal. Most change doesn’t happen…
The Narrow Door
The inspiration for the name of this blog is a common refrain from the Old Testament, but also imagery that can be found in parables like the one in Luke 13. It’s the image of the “straight and narrow” path of following God’s commands. The warning is that, to turn either to the right or…