The foundation of the rule of the kingdom of God in the family is the unconditional love the husband has for his wife. All other attempts to express that rule without that foundation will never lead to the results we all seek—a home filled with love, joy, peace and secure children who reflect the kingdom in their lives. This love is not the destination; it is the starting point. Nor will it ever be consistently present in my life as a husband until I…

Is there a more vilified, denounced and disparaged concept in our current culture than what immediately springs to mind when the average citizen, Christian or not, hears the word “patriarchy?” To this person, the word is synonymous with selfishness, tyranny, subjugation, and abuse, but the word means simply the “rule” of the father in the family, and the Bible teaches that patriarchy is the only model for a kingdom family (1 Timothy 3:4, 5). This kingdom model is an historical one, first followed in…

As I read the news, I feel like I am living in a crazy, loony-tune cartoon-world. Men are deciding they are women, are demanding that we call them “she” and “her,” and teachers are being fired for refusing to deny biological science when they do not do so. Rather than giving these disturbed “transvestites” psychological help, society encourages them in their folly by giving them hormone treatments and even performing genital surgery to make them as much like the sex they prefer as possible.…

We saw last week that we, as genuine believers in Jesus Christ, have been given work to do here on the earth. We were saved for a purpose—to join with Daddy in His family business of ruling over the earth, practically and not theoretically. How in the world do we do that? We are not holding on against the encroaching hordes of godlessness, waiting breathlessly for Jesus to come back and save us. What do we need to know in order to rule, just…

As our country has gradually moved away from its Christian roots and the culture those roots produced, the results have been amazing. I can remember distinctly what family life was like 50 years ago, Christian or non-Christian, and the contrast to today’s families is dramatic. For example, I recently visited with a friend, a young single adult, who had just babysat the six-year-old daughter of a young Christian, regular church-going family.  The daughter had no idea what “authority,” “obey” or “respect” even meant, and…

When we “see” the kingdom of God and that all of us, yes, every one of God’s children, have been given the life-long task to actualize in time what is already true in fact—the right-now rule of Jesus Christ over the whole earth—our lives take on new meaning. We recognize a new reason for living; everything we do comes with a new purpose from a brand new foundation. However, that realization doesn’t come easily. We have been misled into believing that “ruling in the…

Immediately after WWI, a group of German Jewish intellectuals were interested in expanding Karl Marx’s view of economic Marxism to include a cultural aspect as well. They realized that Western Civilization (a product of Christianity) was too firmly embedded in Europe and America to be overcome by purely economic arguments; they worked to devise a method of including cultural change in Marx’s ideas of revolution. This was a direct attack on God and the culture that always follows the true Christian gospel. The began…

The ideas that I share with you in these weekly letters have been hashed, rehashed, discussed and argued over every morning over coffee with my wife Jill for at least 30 years. Being together for thirty minutes to an hour before we each go about our separate activities is crucial to us both as we begin our day, The resultant theology (remember, theology = what God is like) is very much a corporate product. We are discovering more and more about Him as we…

As Christians progress in their faith, at some point it will genuinely dawn on them that, “Yes, I have been saved by a God who loves me, thinks I am positively adorable, and has fully forgiven me for all my past, present and even future sins.” The Christian then, very naturally, begins to look up from constantly evaluating himself and begins for the first time to look outside of himself. He has been trapped in the endemic Christian pastime of “navel-gazing,” i.e.,”How’m I doin’…

Over the the past weeks we have discussed the four pillars of truth that support the Christian faith. Those pillars form the answers from the Bible to four, comprehensive questions which provide the basis of human existence: 1.) “What is God like?” 2.) “What am I like?” 3.) “How does God relate to me?” 4.) “Why am I here?” As we have worked our way through what I believe are biblical answers to these simple questions (which I have collectively called, “Theology for Dummies”),…