I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused it to grow. So neither the one who plants counts for anything, nor the one who waters, but God who causes the growth. (1 Corinthians 3:6-7 NET) Someone asked me how I got to know so much about pagan religion, witchcraft, satanism, etc. Some years ago, I spent…
Month: November 2023
Whatever He Says
I’ve been studying some of the evidence cited by Suspicious Observers (SO) regarding future solar catastrophes. Granted, my knowledge is limited, but you have to start somewhere. This is by no means official Radix Fidem teaching, just my own opinion. Their claims: 1. A 12,000 year cycle of galactic scale gravity waves emanating from the…
The Big Surprise
Dr. Heiser seemed to believe that Satan and his minions were not aware that Jesus came specifically to die on the Cross. I consider this a mistake. First, the Wilderness Temptation indicates that the Tempter was trying to derail Jesus’ commitment to His mission as the Suffering Servant of Isaiah. Instead, the Devil wanted Him…
A Biblical Cosmology
This is going to be a bit long. Let’s review our imagery of biblical Hebrew cosmology, the metaphors used in Scripture to guide our thinking about how reality works. It is necessarily in the language of parables, but I am not afraid to guess about a more literal explanation at times. It relies some on…
Triad of Community Building
Lots of good information in Kevin MacDonald’s “Why Are Professors Liberals?” [PDF]. It’s a bit long, but well worth your time. Along with answering the obvious question in the title, it reminds us of the utter necessity of tribalism for Covenant folks. Without a tribal identity, we are quickly overwhelmed by outside forces that are…
We Need His Presence
I love music. I can get so wrapped up in listening that I cannot read or pay attention to a conversation. But that is merely a matter of the flesh. To my spirit, music is not all that valuable as an art form in itself. Music serves only one purpose in my Kingdom service, and…
A Psychology of Election
Sometimes it helps to draw a psychological model, even if we know that the actual truth of what goes on inside of us exceeds the grasp of science. The verbiage in Scripture seems to run in different directions in different contexts because it’s beyond words in the first place. Sometimes there’s a heavy burden of…
You’re Welcome
The Covenant identity trumps all human ethnic and social identities. It’s not that you can change your personality and background, but that your flesh surrenders to the Covenant. In our fleshly human existence, there will forever be the tension between whence we came and the demands of the gospel. Our calling in Christ is to…
Draw Those Lines
We don’t need any human agency’s permission to share the gospel; we have a mandate from God. I can tell you that Substack is checking my posts (but this host isn’t). That is, whether internally or through submission to some external filter, Substack has been delaying the release of my posts so that someone can…
What’s the Difference?
Someone close to me had his kids in a private Christian school attached to the church they attend. We need not discuss the “school” part, but the “Christian” part is pertinent here. Upon an invitation, I attended a Christmas presentation a couple of years ago. The half-dozen classes performed in various ways on a stage….