Tag Archives: kingdom

Vox Dei

There’s something odd about the West’s shift from modernism to postmodernism. On the one hand, we would be wise to remember that the two are kin to each other. We can debate over whether they are father and son, older … Continue reading

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Christian Nationalism

My father told a lot of jokes. That’s what dads do. One I remember goes like this. There was a monk that had allowed nicotine to get ahold of him. Given the amount of time spent in prayer he thought … Continue reading

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Now Play Nice

It is bad enough that we are such suckers for the bait and switch. The devil has been playing this gag on us for millennia. We should have learned by now. When the angel comes along and says, “You know, … Continue reading

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Rest Indeed

Though it comes rather early in the story, I am convinced that Genesis 3:15 is not just the hinge of the Bible, but it is the very hinge of history. It is there that God responds to the serpent’s assault … Continue reading

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Alice in Negative World

Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care? There is a group of mostly younger thinkers who have embraced a paradigm that affirms that the broader culture’s relationship to Christians has gone from one generally positive … Continue reading

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On Human Cruelty and Selective Application

While we we’ve been distracted by open borders and the election primaries, most of us have forgotten Gaza’s raid on Israel. Perhaps such is deemed no longer newsworthy since we are well aware that Muslims in the middle east think … Continue reading

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May the Best Man Win

It begins, I suspect, with a far too small view of the fall. There is plenty we lament about that dark day in history’s most beautiful spot. We know that sin brought division to Adam and Eve. The two were … Continue reading

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Putting Bitterness and Envy to Death

Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field (Genesis 3:1). Part of his craftiness is encouraging us to see sin as something that we do rather than the outworking of what we are. If we can … Continue reading

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The Quick and the Dead

There’s a reason why after we are introduced to someone new that we most often ask, “What do you do?” The truth of the matter is that our identity is, to a degree, rightly tied up in our labors. What … Continue reading

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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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