Have you ever wondered why we put up Christmas trees? Why we celebrate Jesus’ birth on Dec. 25? How the tradition of Santa Claus really got started? If so, then this week’s special Christmas edition of Off The Grid Radio ...
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Returning To The True Meaning Of Christmas
Christmas tree lots and stores open weeks prior to Thanksgiving. Then we get Black Friday, and then Cyber Monday. In the midst of it all, people get pushed and trampled for chasing deals. Then there’s the balloon yard decorations that ...
Read More »The Bible, Slavery And ‘Jubilee’ Freedom
Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof. —Inscription on the Liberty Bell (1752/3) This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears. —Jesus of Nazareth (AD 30) Jubilee Bond Servants The Mosaic Law permitted ...
Read More »The Bible, Slavery And The ‘Home-Born Slave’
Our Lord Jesus was so in love with his undertaking that he would not go out free from it, and therefore engaged to persevere for ever in it; and for this reason he is able to save us to the ...
Read More »The Story Of Jesus As You’ve Never Heard It
You’ve likely read the biblical story about Jesus’ life and perhaps even have seen a few Hollywood-type movies, but you’ve probably never heard it told like today’s Off The Grid Radio guest tells it – with spiritual warfare taking place ...
Read More »Anti-Muslim Protests: Should Christians Participate?
How should Christians approach interacting with other groups with whom they strongly disagree? For example, recently there was a clash between anti-Muslim protest in Arizona’s capitol of Phoenix and others who came to support it in the face of the ...
Read More »Romanticism And Social Change
The biblical worldview is not a fairy-tale, or romantic perfectionism, but a realistic appraisal of men with their sins and shortcomings. David Chilton, Productive Christians (1981) The true Romantic always assumes his own innocence. He believes his heart and will ...
Read More »What Does The Bible Really Say About Taxes?
Benjamin Franklin once said, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” While there may be some other things in life that are certain, Franklin certainly was not far off with this statement. But ...
Read More »What The Bible Really Says About Environmentalism
When I was young, we used to sing the words to Woody Guthrie’s song, “This land is your land.” There was one part of the song in which we sang, “This land was made for you and me.” And that ...
Read More »Christmas and Revolutions
Godly men are not revolutionists: the Lord’s way is regeneration, not revolution. —Rousas J. Rushdoony Philosophy of the Christian Curriculum Herod and the Magi Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, ...
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