Just Getting What You Deserve? PART #1

Just getting what we deserve for not following the rules. This is A cheeky mini series of three Parts (Part #2 here “You Are Not Being Persecuted”) (Part #3 What John The Baptist Got Wrong?) I’m writing this as an illustration of what poor theology might sound like in our times. Let’s use Paul as…

Who’s Your War With?

You know why i’m discouraged of late? My christian brothers and sisters have forgotten who we are at war with, and what the solution is. Our enemy seems to have become the same enemy that secularists have. “There are dragons!” said Everyman. ” Yes…..” (said Anthem) “The old man did not put the Singer in…

Despising Each Other Over Disputable Matters & Opinions?

The scriptures actually provide some guidance to Christians in how to handle disputable matters, matters of opinion. Not every “spiritual opinion” we have needs to be forced on another, as an article of faith. A “spiritual opinion” is not a doctrinal hill we must stand on. Though both sides are masterful at taking our opinion…

Rousseau Practiced Serial Child Abandonment

Little known fact. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the French philosopher actually abandoned five children to Orphanages. Isn’t it ironic that the philosopher who wrote one of the more influential books on the nature of the child and education (Emile, or also the title, On Education), would abandon his children in this way. We often have these talks…

Why Run?

When a psalm seems to speak to you, this very day, despite being written 3000 years ago. “I am not longer a slave to fear, I am a child of God.” Psalm 11 In the LORD I take refuge; how can you say to my soul, “Flee like a bird to your mountain, (2) for…

Bigger Men And Women

“If you never encounter anything in your community that offends you, then you are not living in a free society.” – Former Canadian Prime Minister, Kim Campbell. Amazing the path censorship is taking in Canada these days. The “Lesser-Faire” wisdom of classical liberalism is being set aside to create more and more vague laws without…

The Art of War – Do We Still Require Warriors?

It is Sunday, and I was reading scripture early this morning. I came to this verse and it shook me up very deeply. “When that war breaks out, young men seem to be the cordwood in the fires of war” “Now these are the nations that the Lord left, to test Israel by them, that…

The Nail Test – Marijuana And Drug Use

Will my life creation pass the scraping nail test? Will the nail bounce and click on the seams of my life and service? Plutarch, the 1st cen Greek Philosopher, writing about virtue, asks us to consider the nail. What about Drugs and the nail test? (Hang in there, as we will be doing the nail…

The Cost Of Laissez-Faire Faith

Let me repeat this line once again. A statement I have made a hundred times. We are not paying the greater price in the struggle against global Radicalism and Fundamentalism. Moderate Muslims are paying the greatest human cost under terrorism, radicalism, and fundamentalism in every country on earth. Radicals see moderate Muslims as people requiring…

And There Was Peace – With a Wobble

“St. John of the Cross says that every quality or virtue which the Spirit really produces in our souls has three distinguishing characters…..Tranquillity, Gentleness, Strength. …. Fuss and feverishness, anxiety, intensity, intolerance, instability, pessimism and wobble, and every kind of hurry and worry – these, even on the highest levels, are signs of the self-made…