Category Archives: Kingdom Notes

No Middle Ground

There is in the broader world a constant search for some safe, middle ground on the issue of abortion. Pro-lifers and pro-choicers desperately seek a via media between an outright ban and the heartless destruction of fully grown babies moments … Continue reading

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Fighting From Freedom

I have, on more than one occasion, taught a class on dystopian novels. We’ve read Brave New World, 1984, That Hideous Strength and more. I always ask my class “Why do these men, the rulers over these dark and domineering … Continue reading

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Looking Backward, Moving Forward

It doesn’t happen often, but it had happened. A book written for businessmen had jumped the fence and become something of a universal best seller. Like The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People before it, and Good to Great after … Continue reading

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Life Wins- On the Passing of John Barros

I’m not shy about the term hero. I have many of them, not because my standards are low. It’s not that I misapply the term, using it as a synonym for “someone I admire.” It is rather that a. I’ve … Continue reading

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Coming Up Repentance

Forgiveness of sins does not, of itself, erase the need, in some contexts, for painful, and fitting consequences. If a man robs a bank and then throws himself on the mercy of God in Christ his sin will most surely … Continue reading

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Us and Them

It certainly is, comparatively speaking, a subplot. But it is plenty important. As God’s Word describes the power of God’s words in creation, we ought to be astonished. God speaks, and there is light. He speaks and the whole of … Continue reading

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The Sins of Silence

Time was when those eager to not be thought fools thought it wise to stay silent. Speaking could change how you are perceived, or it could just confirm a negative opinion already held. This wisdom, whose source is in dispute, … Continue reading

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My Brother, My Father

It was 85 years ago today that a woman I never met gave birth to a boy I’ve never not known. The day I met that boy, who by then had become a man, the woman who had given birth … Continue reading

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The World and All

The Sadducees and Pharisees were no dummies. They just weren’t as smart as their enemy. As we read through the gospel accounts, it seems their strategy was simple: they would put an end to Jesus by forcing Him to destroy … Continue reading

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For Whom the Toll Belz

I was a student at Grove City College when I received a subscription to The Presbyterian Journal. It was not good looking. It had no articles apt to grab the interest of most college students. It wasn’t an academic publication. … Continue reading

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