March 30, 2025
“Until we know all the basic facts about that day, Americans will have no reason to be confident that justice has been served.” — John Daniel Davidson, Senior Editor at The Federalist The events that occurred on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, 2021, and the question of who is to blame is a divisive and […]
Tags: anti-Trump bias, Brian Sicknick, delayed National Guard deployment, Donald Trump, false allegations, Hillsdale College, House Democrats, Imprimis, January 6 attack on Capitol, John Daniel Davidson, omitted information, Ray Epps, security footage, Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack
Posted in Politics |
March 23, 2025
One of the books I’ve been reading lately is Decision Making God’s Way by Gary T. Meadors. It has some good stuff in it and, as usual, I keep an eye out for sections that might make good articles in themselves. So, this week I have an excerpt that talks about, you guessed it, the […]
Tags: 2 Timothy 3:16.17, Christian scholars, creative constructs, decision-making, direct teaching, Gary Meadors, hermeneutics, implied teaching, prescriptive vs descriptive, reading Bible, record of redemptive history, scriptural commands, theological systems, What is normative?, worldview and values set
Posted in Religion |
March 16, 2025
The other week I posted “My Take on the Sons of God and Nephilim in Genesis 6”, wherein I reviewed four Study Bible commentaries regarding Gen. 6:1-4 (from two previous posts) along with a couple extra sources. This week I’m doing basically the same thing but for a longer passage, Gen. 9:18-29. As before, I […]
Tags: Curse of Canaan, disrespect, Ham's sin, mocking, Noah drunk, Noah naked, sexual assault, weird Bible passage
Posted in Religion |
March 9, 2025
Derick Dickens is a professor, speaker, and writer in the Reformed Presbyterian tradition. He is also a Facebook “friend”, so I see his posts and have cited him at least a couple times on this blog. This week’s “article” is based on Derick’s response to someone else (probably on FB) in a discussion about Calvinist […]
Tags: Augustine, compatibilism, Derick Dickens, determinist philosophy, divine influence, free will, John Stuart Mill, Kantian autonomy, materialism, Reformed theology, sovereignty of God, spiritual regeneration
Posted in Religion |
March 2, 2025
“Wishing doesn’t make things so. It’s time to get hard-nosed and real about what’s going on so we can stop this nightmare before it spins completely out of control.” — Col. Kurt Schlichter, U.S. Army, Ret. Conservative columnist/commentator Kurt Schlichter — who is also a retired Army colonel and a trial lawyer — put out […]
Tags: bigger threats, Donald Trump, enormous costs of blood and treasure, Kurt Schlichter, mineral reserves, NATO, peace attempts, Russia, Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine War, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Posted in Politics |