Notes From a Sermon: Christ the King Sunday Christ the King Sunday ( John 18:33-37) is a special day on the Church calendar, like Lent or Holy Week leading up to Easter or Advent, the weeks before Christmas. Lent, Holy Week, Easter, and Advent have been part of the Christian community for more than 1,000 years. Christ the King Sunday has only been celebrated for around 100 years. In the days after WW I, when millions had died carrying out... Read more
Four years ago, Fox News lied to Americans about the presidential election. This isn’t an opinion, it’s a documented fact that Fox News intentionally and repeatedly lied about the 2020 presidential election. Fox News paid $787.5 million to Dominion Voting Systems for knowingly and willfully broadcasting lies. “Fox has admitted to telling lies about Dominion that caused enormous damage to my company, our employees and our customers,” said Dominion CEO John Poulos. Despite facing another billion dollar lawsuit because of... Read more
Mark 10:46-52 “What do you want me to do for you?” In the Grateful Dead’s Box of Rain, lyricist Robert Hunter echoed the words of Jesus when he asked, “What do you want me to do for you?” “What do you want me to doTo do for you to see you through?For this is all a dream we dreamedOne afternoon long ago” Phil Lesh,who wrote the Box of Rain music, died Oct. 25 at age 84. On Oct. 27,... Read more
Christian supporters of convicted felon Donald Trump are wrong. They are wrong just like tens of millions of Christians before them also were wrong. The first Christians were wrong when they said that only Jews could follow Jesus. Christians were wrong when they wanted Christianity as the official religion of Rome. Christians were wrong when they murdered Jews across Europe during the Middle Ages. Christians were wrong when they murdered tens of thousands of Muslims during the Crusades. Christians were... Read more
Do you follow Faith on the Fringe Facebook? Here’s a recent post and response about Donald Trump: Last week when I posted about the godlessness and immorality of Donald Trump, someone responded by questioning the faith of President Obama. Here’s an example of honest, thoughtful, Christian introspection, something that Trump is clearly, obviously, not capable of. Where is Christianity in the U.S. when some Christians believe that Trump is a Christian while Obama is not? There is a core, moral... Read more
When reading, “Why a Christian SHOULD Vote for Donald Trump to be President,” I felt sick; literally sick to my stomach. And I still don’t understand how Christians can support the godless immorality of Donald Trump. I was hoping for insight into why Christians like Al Baker support Trump. But, alas, there was no insight, just bad writing, poor reasoning, deflection and distraction, not unlike Trump’s entire career. What was missing—painfully, obviously, missing— is any Biblical justification for supporting the... Read more
As President Jimmy Carter turns 100 on Oct. 1, he reaches significant historical markers. He has lived through 40% of U.S. history since the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and more than a third of all U.S. administrations since George Washington took office in 1789. I spoke briefly with President Carter in the men’s room of Maranatha Baptist Church, after he taught Sunday school on July 10, 2011. I was standing at the restroom urinals with the 39th president of... Read more
Donald Trump is everything the Bible warns us against, in both the New Testament and the Old Testament. What is the Christian response to Trump? What does the Bible say? Repeatedly the Jewish scripture describes ungodly people exactly the way we can describe Trump. “For fools speak folly, their hearts are bent on evil: They practice ungodliness and spread error concerning the LORD; the hungry they leave empty and from the thirsty they withhold water.” – Isaiah 32:6 “A troublemaker... Read more
Notes From a Sermon: Earthly Wisdom and Godly Wisdom James 3:13-18, 4:1-8, talks about two kinds of wisdom. Earthly wisdom and Godly wisdom. Bitter envy and selfish ambition arise from earthly wisdom, the letter says. Such “wisdom” does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice. Think of those people in our lives, in history, and in the country, who demonstrate earthly... Read more
Do Christians need to be reminded that racism is immoral? Evidently. In the first presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and convicted felon Donald Trump, Trump abandoned his usual, thinly-veiled racist dog whistles and went full volume with the ridiculous lie that black people eat their neighbor’s pets. “A lot of towns don’t want to talk about it because they’re so embarrassed by it. In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs. The people that came in. They’re eating the cats.... Read more
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