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O, Woe Is Me!

O, Woe Is Me!

Rather than star as the martyrs in our self-devised tale of woe, we should actively look for allies in the redemptive story that God is working in our lives.

What We Tolerate
What We Tolerate

As a self-governing people, we must pursue personal and public righteousness.

Being Independent
Being Independent

Americans believed themselves to be a self-governing people long before 1776.

Colored Red
Colored Red

It is one thing to let your opponents handle your marketing, it is something else to let them define your agenda. Republicans have allowed Democrats to do both.

Defined, Or Defining?
Defined, Or Defining?

It is up to us to control our attitude, outlook, and reaction to our circumstances.

MOST RECENT

Volume and Mass

Depending on your perspective, campaigns either try to convert political volume into a mass of support through messaging, or use the volume of messaging to conceal their lack of mass.

Who Are The Idiots?

Whatever bad things one has to say about school boards are more appropriately directed at the citizens who elect them… or ignore them.

Remembering the Horror

The Holocaust reminds us that when one abandons God and His precepts, when one looks to government as the savior, a cult of death and destruction is but a step away.

Protecting Words

Just as we go to great lengths to preserve the original copy of the Constitution, so the people at Qumran wanted to preserve the written fundamentals of their faith.

Liberty Is Enough

The most ensnaring shackle isn’t necessarily a physical one placed on wrists and ankles, but the choice some make to perceive the world as a slave.

Cowards in the Pulpit

If liberty is to die here, that death will have been preceded by whimpers of ecclesiastical acquiescence.

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Two Places, but No Body

Two Places, but No Body

While intellectually fascinating to discuss where Jesus was buried, it misses the bigger point: we are talking about looking at an empty tomb.

Rule of Law

Rule of Law

Left to their own devices, powerful institutions will eventually serve only themselves—including our courts.

The Law, Understood

The Law, Understood

Designed as a blessing, the law had been corrupted. Jesus put the law back in context.

The God Who Heals

The God Who Heals

In this virus crisis or any crisis you’ll ever face, there is an answer.

Building in Vain

Building in Vain

Herod the Great built to satisfy his vanity and lust for power. What about us?