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…
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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…
Stupidity of Pragmatism
Decision Making When we’re confronted with choices in life, how do we navigate them? There’s nothing wrong with considering possible consequences of our choices and weighing them. We can create our “pros and cons” lists and do risk assessments. However, that’s only part of the equation, and it should be the smaller part! Trust in…
Job’s Redemption
Growing up in the church, I was taught a lot of concepts about God that I have later come to realize simply are not true. One such teaching is the idea of multiple plans for redemption through history. A summary of this idea would go something like this: Adam and Eve were in perfect relationship…
Itching Ears
In the second letter Paul writes to Timothy, we see him warning of a time when people will go looking for lies. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening…
Righteous Strikes
Open to Correction Confrontation is never comfortable. It can be especially unpleasant when that confrontation rubs up against our egos. Yet we find David both admitting the good and asking that he both receive it and accept it well. Let a righteous man strike me—it is a kindness; let him rebuke me—it is oil for…
Comfort Makes Cruel
Job is a book that records the life of a man who has been turned upside down. Satan has been given permission to afflict him in nearly every way in an attempt to prove he is only faithful to God because of the blessings he had received. In the midst of this suffering, as he…
Delayed Justice
Famous Wicked In reflecting upon the way of the world, Solomon observed an injustice. Then I saw the wicked buried. They used to go in and out of the holy place and were praised in the city where they had done such things. This also is vanity. Ecclesiastes 8:10 He starts with their end at the beginning. Finally,…