Approaching the Victims and the Beatitudes

Recently a famous black sports reporter, Jason Whitlock, expressed his alarm at the tenor of Black Lives Matter protests, including his disagreement on some of the false assumptions (not all the assertions are wrong) and the tenor of the Democratic …

The Ultimate Clash of World Views 

In one of my recent posts, I distinguished and sought to define the differences between the liberal-left of center Democrat, the leftist Democrat, and the radical far-leftist.  The radical left is based on an integrated world view to a much …

Rising Anti-Semitism 

Decades ago Derek Prince, the great Bible teacher, and leader told of his conversation with a friend after Israel became a nation.  The friend states that the issue of Antisemitism was a sociological issue, that Jews were persecuted in the …

Complexity of Political Terms and Left and Right

THE GREAT  COMPLEXITY OF POLITICAL TERMS LEFT AND RIGHT, AND EXTREME LEFT AND RIGHT, AND RADICAL LEFT AND RIGHT, AND MODERATE LEFT AND RIGHT makes our discussion of issues difficult.  We use these terms to show that there is a …

Selective Empathy And Biblical Compassion

A family relative is a strong supporter of the Black Lives Matter protests and has played down the violence and riots that come more from the mostly white radicals that have hijacked the movement.   My daughter in law wrote …

Marshall Mcluhan and a Warning on Media

I first heard the name Marshall McLuhan from the lectures of Francis Schaeffer in the fall of 1967 at Wheaton College.  The late Francis Schaeffer was the greatest popular philosopher/apologist in the Evangelical world of that time.  I wonder how …

The Righteous King: Lessons from Psalm 72

Psalm 72 is attributed to David and is written for Solomon.  The Psalm is called an Enthronement Psalm, one that would be recited at the enthronement of the King according to some scholars.   In Christian interpretation, the Psalm is …

Corona Thoughts at Mid-July

Back in April, I sought to wade through the many prophetic words being given on the Coronavirus.  If you remember, the prophetic words about what would happen were of three kinds.  One was that it would be an unmitigated disaster …