The Messy Demise Of “christian” Nationalism

One hundred and twenty-five years ago, it was expected that the USA was to be called a “Christian” nation. Speakers and readers within were generally churchgoers, and were taught in churches, in public schools, and from other pulpits, that the so-called “American way” of the time was very much...

Recently, They who are God are doing more to force choice in this world. There are those that believe that the Holy Spirit forces nothing and no one. Please let us not forget the book called Acts of the Apostles, chapter 5, verses 1 through 11. People died by the Holy Spirit Himself, directly...

My name is Jonathan Brickman, and I am one of the Lord's many musicians. I play piano and keyboards on Sunday mornings with the rest of the praise teams, and we have a great time, the Lord gives wonderful input to all of us. He has also put together another band, outside of the church, which is...

I imagine everyone reading this has observed the dramatic uptick in the discussion of conspiracy. This seems to be happening across most of the bands of society, whether there is espoused belief in God or not. He gave commandment, when this came up a very long time ago: Indeed this is what the...

Jesus, Christ, the Lord, asked His Father for a major oneness. He asked that His Father take the eleven faithful disciples, and all others who come to believe in Him through their message, into oneness with Them. We have this in the Gospel of John, chapter 17, verses 20 through 23. And we have...

Just to mention of the Book of Leviticus these days, can evoke a groan. We just don’t put ourselves in the shoes of the folks in that book very much. But there is a way to do so, and it gets easier every year in this day and age. It has to do with depression, in other words, the personal...

The second chapter of the Gospel of John, is where we find two commonly remembered events. In the first, Jesus of Nazareth attends a wedding with his birth family, and when the wine runs out, creates a lot more out of some water. In the second, he visits the Temple in Jerusalem and becomes very...

School Murders and the Increasing There are great and terrible questions, concerning the recent increases in school murders. School murders are fueled, I will suggest, when people are given to build their inner ethics to include a joy of mass murder. The Lord did not ask the centurion (Mt...

God loves. Because He loves, He is pulling all toward Himself: the willing and the shy, the miserable and the hated, the sad and the released. He is also pulling the others: the proud, the satisfied, those who are drunk on their money or their sex or anything else. But the others do not listen...

Recently a friend introduced me to an understanding of the writings of the Prophets in Scripture, in which it is suggested that the predominant expression within is the sadness of the Father, in His misery, because of His compassion, and frustration and anger, about the terrible situation His...