We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws… And there is no health in us. —The Book of Common Prayer (1552) Where the heart is changed, the life ...
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The Importance Of Electing Godly Rulers
Our choices seem to be between a man who hopes to be a god and one who thinks he already is one. —Pastoral prayer, November 3rd 2012 …To withhold your contempt from men’s vices is an act of moral counterfeiting, ...
Read More »Absalom: Portrait Of A Broken Home
…A guilty man is less independent and less confident in making a stand in terms of his rightful authority and responsibility. —Rousas J. Rushdoony, Foundations of Social Order (1972) Thus conscience does make cowards of us all. —William Shakespeare, Hamlet, ...
Read More »The Sure Mercies of David
The “throne” covenanted to David’s Son was the throne of the universe, not the throne of earthly Israel. —Philip Mauro, The Gospel of the Kingdom (1927) God’s Promise to David In 2 Samuel 7, God made an incredible promise to ...
Read More »David’s New Covenant Church
Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion, city of our God. —John Newton (1779) Israel’s eschatology always focused on David, not Solomon, and Zion, not Moriah. —Peter Leithart, From Silence to Song (2003) The Ascension of the Ark After its ...
Read More »When Tyrants Turn To Magic
Our policy, for the moment, is to conceal ourselves. Of course this has not always been so. —C. S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters (1941) The Witch at Endor God would not answer Saul. Not by prophets or dreams or the ...
Read More »Biblical Strategies For Resisting Tyranny
Caine: What is the best way to deal with force, teacher? Teacher: As we prize peace and quiet above victory, there is a simple and preferred method—run away. —Kung Fu, Warner Brothers (1972) One should not employ force if he ...
Read More »Rebellion and Witchcraft
Who are you to tell me how to live! — Humans after 1950 Ethics, not ritual, is primary in Christian theology.—Gary North, Unholy Spirits (1986) A Half-Hearted Executioner God gave king Saul an order. Through the prophet Samuel, He said, ...
Read More »The Deadly Mixture Of Church and State
Not the Church becoming State, but the State becoming Church, mark that well. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (1880) I am King and Priest. —Leo III, emperor of Byzantium (8th Century) When Sacrifice Is Sin The enemy had assembled his ...
Read More »Why We Elect Handsome Tyrants
We see a tall person and we swoon. —Malcolm Gladwell, Blink (2007) A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. — The Declaration ...
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