The Distraction of Political Entanglement: Part III Welcome to the third and final part to the series on political entanglement. If you haven’t read Part I or Part II, I would kindly recommend you read those first. In the last post, I discussed how someone’s faith can become entangled with […]
The Distraction of Political Entanglement: Part II
The Distraction of Political Entanglement: Part II In this post, we’re continuing the discussion on the entanglement of faith and politics. In the Part I, we started off by defining entanglement. I explained that human government is one of many world systems and described how it was distinct from God’s […]
The Distraction of Political Entanglement: Part I
The Distraction of Political Entanglement: Part I The majority of nations in the world are some form of representative republic. This means that the citizens of those countries are given an opportunity to shape their governments by supporting and voting for their preferred representatives. This influence is extended to the […]
God of the Watch
God of the Watch Three years ago, while the world reeled from the world-wide COVID virus epidemic, my wife and I learned that she had breast cancer. We later found that the cancer had spread–first to her lymph nodes and then to her reproductive system. The following months would involve […]
Crossing the Event Horizon
Crossing the Event Horizon “No individual is an absolute terminal of the love of Jesus. He reaches through us toward others. Indeed he is not satisfied with us until he has made us eager to reach out and help others as he himself is to reach them.” Frank Laubach, You […]
The Obscure Pervasiveness of Sin
The Obscure Pervasiveness of Sin The idea of sin has become a nebulous concept in Christianity. Some behaviors are viewed as less immoral than they may have been. Some believers emphasize some sins over others. Other sins appear to be largely ignored. While God has a very clear and emphatic […]