I recently did some ghostwriting for a blog on the subject of “Salt of the Earth.” I consider myself a curator and a reporter, but I do have thoughts and perspectives of my own, which I am not bashful to share, (as I hope you have noticed) but I listen Read more…
I began the “Head-banging” theme in Blogs 28 and 29. Click the Play button to begin In the late summer of 2021 at Covenant Church in Texas, we lost the beloved Senior pastor, Ricky Texada. As was announced on a particular website “Ricky Texada, senior pastor of multi-site Covenant Church in Read more…
There are those idolaters, those who carve out ideologies with no regard to God’s standards (and violate the second commandment) who can do it masterfully. They have a certain manipulative genius as they export their carved images into the culture. They take their place as college professors, political leaders, extremely Read more…
Though it is not referenced in the context of the second commandment there is one thing we can count on from the wickedness of idolatry. A group of people who have carved out an image (a false ideology or philosophy), and are serving it, will often make demands of others Read more…
After Gail’s passing the head-banging ceased for a few years, but then, for me, the head-banging began again; but this time on a global level with overkill compulsory mask-wearing; PCR testing that when manipulated just right can produce COVID diagnoses recorded as a great deal of false positives. This means Read more…
During the time that my late wife, Gail, struggled for her life at the end of 2016 I had an experience with one of her doctors, now my doctor, that, in these uncertain days, has come back to disturb me and point me to reasons I should stay disturbed. It Read more…
You shall not make for yourself a carved image . . . you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. As I pointed out in previous blogs, violation of the second commandment has nothing to do with a wood-working project. It has much more to do with allowing Read more…
On its surface the second commandment makes what seems like an ultra-simple demand of those who want to obey God: don’t make a carved image and worship it. Most people have never, ever done so. I haven’t. I have never taken a block of wood and a whittling knife and Read more…
I have always found myself fully sobered and my attention completely arrested by the second commandment read in its entirety. Most Christians know the “Sunday School version” of this commandment where we are told not to make for ourselves a carved image. And because most people, who have even taken Read more…
The greatest hymn on the doctrine of the Church, “The Church’s One Foundation,” was written in 1866 in defense of the inspiration of the Pentateuch and the Book of Joshua. Bishop John Colenso of the Church of England espoused the liberal theology of “higher criticism” and attempted to remove these Read more…