Anxiety (2)
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, . .” Matthew 6:25 ESV Anxious – Heidegger calls anxiety the manifestation of “homelessness.” Anxiety is being afraid of things that are not real, things that might happen. When I am afraid of what might happen, I feel a kind of persistent, “things are not right”…
Trade-offs (The End of the Empire 8)
Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: Because you have not obeyed my words, I am going to send for all the tribes of the north, says the Lord, even for King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all these nations around; I will utterly destroy…
Anxiety (1)
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, . .” Matthew 6:25 ESV Anxious – “Please, don’t let anybody leave me.” Jessica Lynch Most of us will never know the horrors that Jessica Lynch suffered at the hands of her captors. But we immediately know the feeling expressed in her plea. Out of her…
Scribal Authority (The End of the Empire 7)
so that, just as it is written: “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.” 1 Corinthians 1:31 NASB As it is written – What happens to a civilization when the foundations of common expectation are crumbling? What shifts in public consciousness occur when the rule of law is shattered, when no one trusts…
The Sage from Galilee (rewind)
“You have heard that the ancients were told, ‘You shall not commit murder; . . .’” Matthew 5:21 NASB You have heard – Judaism rejects Jesus, but not because of his claim to be the Messiah. Judaism rejects Jesus because Jews believe that Jesus rejected Torah. Since Torah is the fundamental and unalterable basis of…
Conformity (The End of the Empire 6)
There is one body and one Spirit, just as you also were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all. Ephesians 4:4-6 NASB One faith – Theological orthodoxy contributed to the collapse of Roman civilization. In this respect,…
Multiculturalism (The End of the Empire 5)
and when the Lord your God turns them over to you and you defeat them, you shall utterly destroy them. You shall not make a covenant with them nor be gracious to them. Deuteronomy 7:2 NASB Utterly Destroy – Diversity is a good thing, right? How wonderful it is to be able to get a great Italian meal in Naples,…
Reasonable (The End of the Empire 4)
“Come now, and let us debate your case,” says the Lord, “though your sins are as scarlet, they shall become as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be like wool. Isaiah 1:18 NASB Debate – You are probably most familiar with the King James version, “Come, let us reason together.” The Hebrew verb…
Why WOKE Works (The End of the Empire 3)
And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed. Genesis 2:25 ESV Naked – In the last 200 years of the great Portuguese Empire, Portugal imported nearly 6 million African slaves to its territories in the New World. The British and the Portuguese accounted for nearly 70% of all trans-Atlantic slavery. …
