https://theaquilareport.com/a-consideration-of-certain-of-the-pope-of-romes-remarks-on-palm-sunday/
I both agree and disagree with Hervey regarding the pope's statement - 'God, who always rejects violence'.
Prevost/Leo made what could be described as a sloppy statement. It needs clarification.
https://www.vcy.org/crosstalk/2026/02/16/presidents-politics-prophecy/
Sometimes I can't help myself. Given my background and upbringing in Fundamentalist and Dispensational circles, I do like to 'check in' every once in awhile and see what's being talked about and how the issues are framed.
I was looking at the website of one of Scott Brown's upcoming conferences on Christian Entrepreneurship. It was the usual fare from these Agrarian-Dominionist Theonomic types. I've seen it all before. I decided to look up the background and credentials on the speakers and I noticed one has the last name of Botkin which is well known in those circles. The Botkin girls in particular have generated a great deal of attention.
The original request made by Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters was for Bibles that included the Pledge of Allegiance, Constitution, and Declaration of Independence. The scandal in the media played up the fact that this seemed to be an order for Trump Bibles.
Recently I heard a sermon which I continue to think about. Based on a section of Psalm 119, the visiting speaker did a decent job moving through the passage verse by verse and exhorted the congregation to focus on Scripture, make it central to your life, meditate on it, and so forth. So far so good.
In reference to the recent attacks based out of Gaza, I found it very interesting that a Hamas spokesman mentioned a movement to re-establish the Solomonic Temple as one motivation among others. That's not something you're going to typically hear in the mainstream media.
I post this with a few comments just to call attention to the
kind of Two Kingdom Theology which needs to be rejected and opposed. It caught
my eye because the author (Tom Hervey) was critical of Larry Ball, a Theonomist
writer I have countered on many an occasion. Happy to see someone answering him,
I was nevertheless mostly disappointed in Hervey's response.
https://churchandfamilylife.com/podcasts/6390cc89fad8bafe3a9ec787
At about the twelve minute mark we come to:
5. Be on a Budget
Budgets are very helpful, but contrary to the narrative being
provided, there are people who spend years trying to get that money set aside
for tires or whatever and can never get there. Life keeps happening and because
the margins are too tight, they can't meet those goals. Others have volatile
incomes – shift workers whose hours change every week, or those who are
self-employed. A sickness can throw everything off and then while you're trying
to get it back on track – a car repair comes up that you can't pay for.
Sometimes it can take months to get back on track, but by then something else
has likely happened. These people are not necessarily doing anything wrong –
they're simply struggling.
https://g3min.org/on-baby-grands-and-expensive-hymnals/
This would have to be reckoned as a sequel to a previous post
responding to G3 on the issue of pianos. Apparently this ministry website
excels at missing the point.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/usps-can-require-christian-to-work-on-sundays-court-rules.html
This is a case of worldly thinking
being passed off as Christianity applied. It's more rights-based ethics – file
a lawsuit and call on the state to compel your employer to give you what you
want. It's an abnegation of gospel testimony, an attempt to wed Christianity to
the power of the state. And this thinking is the result of Dominionism, the
utter confusion of the True Kingdom that calls us to take up the cross with a counterfeit
kingdom that seeks to sanctify the world and its hallmarks – the sword and the
coin. Bow to its ethic and its fallen prince will grant you the kingdoms of the
earth. This is how far removed from the New Testament this doctrinal and
ethical system is.
https://www.breakpoint.org/is-it-biblical-to-honor-our-nation/
Evoking the memory of the apostate Richard John Neuhaus, BreakPoint commentator and Colson protégé John Stonestreet attempts to address the dangers of idolatry regarding nationalism, and yet in keeping with patterns often seen in his commentaries he misses the central point and falls into error.
Rather than seriously seek to limit or warn concerning the
dangers of nationalism, he in fact encourages it and blurs the lines that
already cloud contemporary Evangelical thought.
https://www.newgenevaacademy.com/master-of-divinity-in-worship-and-liturgy.html
The Dispensationalist teacher Jimmy DeYoung died in August of Covid-19. I had listened to him on and off for years. His programme appeared on the local Evangelical radio station and it seemed like many times we were in the car when it aired. I took great exception to his teachings. Misunderstanding the Bible on a massive scale, the outworkings of his aberrant theology took a particularly bad turn when it came to political Zionism and support for the often violent Settler movement in the West Bank, and Likud policy in general.
https://www.vcyamerica.org/crosstalk/2021/06/14/u-s-flag-under-attack/
Every once in awhile I grit my teeth and listen to an episode
of this radio programme that represents a fusion of John Birch Society-inspired
ideology and Protestant Fundamentalism. Not everything on the show is bad but
most of it is and some episodes are certainly worse than others.
This episode (linked above) was one of the bad ones. The
entire discussion is rooted in a false premise and as such the whole discussion
goes off the rails.
