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Dispatches and Discernment From the Wilderness Way

30 April 2015

30 April 1945: Der Untergang

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or Downfall. This very dark 2004 film depicting the final days in the Fuhrerbunker is nothing less than powerful. In my opinion it exceed...
29 April 2015

Remembering 30 April 1975: Dick Cavett, Billy Graham and John Kerry

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http://video.pbs.org/video/2365474570/ I enjoyed watching this overview of Vietnam with a special focus on Dick Cavett and his guests. No...
28 April 2015

Politicized Media and a Lack of Christian Integrity

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Listening to Glenn Beck for a few minutes as well as some Christian Radio... interesting how they're being blurred in the minds of m...
26 April 2015

The Church in the Democratic Context

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Guatemala's Arbenz tried to work in genuinely democratic terms. He brought about sweeping changes, geared toward the wishes of the peopl...
24 April 2015

Mission Inversion

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Speaking prophetically to the world, our message, the application of Christian truth to the world situation may (at times) seem harsh and ev...
23 April 2015

The Cult of Self: It Rules the Day in Both the Left and the Right, Within the Church and Without

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Since I'm a fanatic and a ranter, it's time for another episode... Our society which is on a road to collapse and probably a viol...
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Spring 2015 Appeal

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Most that come here are curious, some are mildly interested. Some are looking for cannon fodder. But some people truly get it, they have g...
19 April 2015

1995-1996: A Year of Change

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On the morning of 19 April 1995 I was sitting in my apartment in Alaska. I was a miserable wretch, lost and in despair. Just a few weeks ear...
16 April 2015

Ukraine, NATO and Imperial Calculus

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This was a brief but interesting exchange. Please notice how general Wald, my former base commander, rejects historical contextualization. ...
14 April 2015

Kline on Theonomy and Postmillennialism

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A great quote from Kline on the anniversary of his death, 14 April 2007. As the Theonomists themselves are wont to say, their Postmill...
13 April 2015

Bush Vindicated?

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Many Christians seem to find some satisfaction in posting a video by FOX television personality Megyn Kelly. In it she's revisiting a vi...

A Rebuttal of False Claims Regarding Two Kingdom Theology and Non-violence in the Face of Tyranny

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Since I am called 'ranter', I will indeed rant. Sometimes it's called for. It is a complete and malicious falsehood that some...
11 April 2015

The Czechs Score a Very Minor Point Against the Empire

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/05/us-czech-diplomacy-usa-idUSKBN0MW0RY20150405 If it's actually supposed to be about commem...
10 April 2015

Snipers Praised and Condemned

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I recently heard Focus on the Family's Jim Daly interviewing Taysir Abu Saada the author of 'Once an Arafat Man: The True Story of h...
09 April 2015

Dominionism and Consequentialism

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BreakPoint almost always gets it wrong and even when they say something that's more or less correct, it's always framed wrong. To...
08 April 2015

Yemen Documentary

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For those interested, check out the latest Frontline episode on Yemen. The director was also interviewed on Tuesday's (7 April) Democrac...

Celebrating the Resurrection

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I wish I could say this was a joke or that it was in any way something comedic. But alas I cannot.
05 April 2015

The European Perspective on the Western Narrative

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The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream by Jeremy Rifkin copyright 2...

Denominational Dishonesty and Circularity

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When Reformed people like what you write they refer to it as 'scholarly' and when they don't like your content, it's refer...

For Sola Scriptura, it's a Bad Moon Rising

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The moon is full tonight and it's the first one after the Spring Equinox... It must be Easter. It's all right there in Ephesia...
04 April 2015

Memphis 1968

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Early morning, April four Shot rings out in the Memphis sky Free at last, they took your life They could not take your pride Not ex...

More Internet Clutter

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Recently I've encountered (more than once) a blog post reading: Now blogging at Patheos To which I respond: Now, no longer...
01 April 2015

Lessons from the life of AW Pink

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1 April is the anniversary of AW Pink's birth, so I thought I would re-post this piece from 2011. There's an updated version of the ...
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30 March 2015

A Book on the Legacy of Pat Robertson

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The Most Dangerous Man in America? : Pat Robertson and the Rise of the Christian Coalition by Robert Boston Copyright 1996 Promet...
27 March 2015

The Wasting of Colombia: Profiting from the War on Drugs While Destroying Integrity and Civilization

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js_2OkN1w8I I was spending some time on the Drug War with my kids and made use of this video. I found it ...
25 March 2015

Ruining a Good Thing

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The Internet desktop experience is being ruined by mobile devices and stupid gizmos. I do not like Google but I have to applaud them for the...
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2 Timothy 2.14-19

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2 Timothy 2.14-19
22 March 2015

The Manufactured Reality of Ted Cruz and his Father

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZBgLSJj4Jg   Wow, this guy knows absolutely nothing about Scripture or the God of Scripture. The Bible...

The US-Israeli Dynamic: The Concerns of a Worldwide Empire and the Aspirations of a Regional Hegemon

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Margolis doesn't mince words in his latest commentary. It is amazing how despite the chaos resulting from the destruction of Iraq, desp...
17 March 2015

Iranian Cinema

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I know I've spoken of this in the past but it's worth revisiting. If you are interested in a truly edifying and moving cinematic exp...
15 March 2015

The Shapur Effect in Pakistan

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Those who attack churches are murderers and enemies of Christ, even when they attack congregations that are not Biblical. They don't kn...
14 March 2015

The Right Contemplates Crossing the Rubicon

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Margolis offers accurate and astute commentary on the recent debacle with Netanyahu and the activities of the American Right. I thought the ...
12 March 2015

Extra-Scriptural Commitments Trumping the Text

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https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/who-killed-jesus-christ/ This article represents a grave error to be avoided. While I can apprecia...
10 March 2015

The Most Evil Man in Town

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Imagine a nice little town tucked away in the woods and hills, a quaint slice of Americana. There are dozens of these places like this aroun...
08 March 2015

A Musing on Evangelical Antithesis, CCM and the Christian Right

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The Supreme Court decisions regarding Bible reading and prayer in public school no doubt played a part in the unification and resurgence of ...
04 March 2015

Magisterial Protestantism and America's Founding: Did Knox and Calvin Believe in Religious Liberty?

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https://store.hslda.org/from-tyndale-to-madison-p43.aspx An ad for this book turned up in my inbox. What a strange narrative these fo...

2 Timothy 2.3-13

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Notes on 2 Timothy 2.3-13
27 February 2015

Christian Media: Slander to the Glory of God

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The Internet has inaugurated an age of information and in many ways it has proven a true blessing. It wasn't that many years ago that if...
25 February 2015

The Church as a Free Institution of Political Resistance

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The Christian Right supported and continues to lionize and venerate the activism of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland during the 1980'...
21 February 2015

Halki Seminary and US Objectives in Old Byzantium

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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/2015/01/23/january-23-2015-halki-seminary/25035/ While hardly a fan of Turkey's Erdogan, ...
15 February 2015

CNN and the 'Liberal' Media

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Watching CNN International the other morning I was struck by the coverage concerning Rafael Correa of Ecuador and the anniversary of Winsto...
14 February 2015

2 Timothy 1.13-18

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Continuing in the Pastoral Epistles... http://zionpath.blogspot.com/2015/02/2-timothy-113-18.html

A February 14th Reminder

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A link to a post I wrote last year. It continues to come up and I've seen not a few Christians caught up in this nonsense. http://prot...
01 February 2015

Defining Religion by Culture

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Non-radicalised Muslims and many political Centrists will say the Terrorists aren't real Muslims at all. Their actions contradict the t...
25 January 2015

Capitalism and Hybrid-Communism

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http://ericmargolis.com/2015/01/the-tsunami-facing-cuba/ Excellent insights here. Reading about Vietnam and looking at China I've o...
20 January 2015

I am not Charlie

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What happened in France was indeed tragic but it's also tragic that for all the attention given to this, round-the-clock news coverage, ...
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18 January 2015

2 Timothy 1.8-12

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2 Timothy 1.8-12 Notes

The Corrupting Influence of Money: An example in the American Church

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I had an interesting exchange recently with an old acquaintance who also happens to be a conservative Lutheran pastor. I harped for a moment...

2 Timothy 1.1-8

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Notes on 2 Timothy 1.1-8
05 January 2015

Insurance Games

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I don't need to dwell on how the Insurance Industry is corrupt and how misleading many (if not most) of the agents are. The ones that ar...
04 January 2015

Looking Forward to the End of All Wars

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Recently I re-watched 'To End All Wars' a movie about British POW's building the Burma Railway during WWII. I wanted to revisit ...
03 January 2015

The American Legal System on Display via Podcast

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http://serialpodcast.org/ Some of you may have already heard of this podcast. I listened to it as it was been released week by week. ...
19 December 2014

Society and Economics are not Analogous to Baseball

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I'm not going to labour the Sowell/Walter Williams criticisms but this one just struck me as a perfect summation of their 'aw shucks...
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17 December 2014

Orban and Reagan: Drug Testing and Loyalty

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Hungary's Viktor Orban has made the news a couple of times recently. The Budapest government has been increasingly moving toward the ...

Through the Looking Glass: A Journey into the Fantasy World of Thomas Sowell (7/Final)

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Sowell: It would never occur to the busybodies that multinational corporations are expanding the options of the poor in third world c...
10 December 2014

The CIA Report and False Repentance

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I guess we're supposed to be impressed. The United States government is displaying repentance, and doing an act of penitence by releas...
06 December 2014

Through the Looking Glass: A Journey into the Fantasy World of Thomas Sowell (6)

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Sowell: That arbitrary and unsubstantiated assumption underlies a wide spectrum of laws and policies over the years, ranging from urban r...
05 December 2014

Cheap Oil and Geopolitics

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While it cannot be proved, the current OPEC decision to sustain current production levels and thus drive the price of oil down even further ...
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04 December 2014

Christians in Kenya Should Denounce Militarism in All Forms

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Christians in Kenya should denounce their government for playing the American stooge and getting involved in the Somali War. I am not sugges...

Through the Looking Glass: A Journey into the Fantasy World of Thomas Sowell (5)

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Proto: As the Church continues to apostatize my hope is that the Remnant will come together with a real sense of community. The Amish figu...
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