Musings

  • Opinionated Thoughts…

    Opinionated Thoughts…

    An excellent book offered in Q & A form from a Reformed Christian perspective is 75 Questions Your Instructors Pray You Won’t Ask, by the late Dr. Gary North. I read this book several years ago, and last year during Christmas break I decided to pick it back up again to read through some of…

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  • The Role of Government(s) Symbolic Use of the Sword in Family, Church and State

    “The issue is not whether swords can make men Christian. They cannot. The issue is whether men can make swords Christian” –Douglas Wilson.1 “So the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, ‘The Lord is righteous.’” (2 Chron. 12:6; NASB). INTRODUCTION: Christian Nationalism is still a hot potato topic that has managed…

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  • The Analogy of the Gate Breaker: Dealing with the Preliminaries, Part I

    “…upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it” (Matt 16.18; NASB). INTRODUCTION: Admittedly a few things have caught my interest of late forcing my fingers to the keyboard. The matter that I want to begin to introduce today will be developed over a few posts. I…

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  • Our Stronghold Goes With Us: An Analogical Reflection of the Two Towers

    Introduction… Life is meant for reflection. Yes, I know it is meant for a lot of other things as well, but certainly reflection is a key component to living. Of course, the content of the reflection is of the utmost importance. Take for example, the exercise of reading. An important, although admittedly, pastime sparingly tackled.…

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  • A Cultural Mosh Pit of Christian Commitments: Where to Stand and with Who?

    Call me naive but early on in my Christian walk I assumed some things about the faith that I’d thought were “a given.” Over ten years ago, I was running a job for a commercial heating and cooling company out of Columbus, Ohio. I heard a man singing a hymn, approached him, and tried to…

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