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Here is the full text of my book on civil government and theocracy. I hope it compels you to serious thought! Let Earth Receive Her King

On Donald Trump’s week-one report card in last week’s blog posting, I gave him straight A’s. I think we were all shocked at both the volume and the quality of his actions in those first seven days in office. However, anti-Trump democrats would not agree with this evaluation. The wild-eyed, frantic, ranting from a majority of their spokespersons tells us that they feel he flunked miserably.   But the issue is always “By what standard?” What are the behavioral rules by which we are measuring…

After just ONE WEEK of a second Trump presidency here is what our president had done, as enumerated by columnist Pamela Geller. It would appear that the old phrase used for politicians, who make promises they never keep, as being “All hat and no cattle” definitely does not describe Donald Trump! Are Trump’s first week results an indication that God still has plans for America to be again a Shining City on a Hill? Will we again be a beacon to the world, leading…

Last week, we investigated Martin Luther’s teaching on the Law-Gospel (Grace) distinction as presented by Dr. Hans Wiersma, a Lutheran theologian. Wiersma followed up their comments with what he called “guidelines” to understanding them. Here they are, word-for-word: “1. Keep in mind that the Word of God is (a) very sharp and (b) is stickin’ it to you.  Yeah, that’s in the Bible:  ‘The word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing until it divides soul from spirit, joints…

I began writing this blog in February 2017 and posted it on my newly published web-site. I had realized, after moving to Spokane for medical reasons, my ministry, for the first time, was not formally in and through a local church. So, I put together a web-site and started a blog to give me an identity, a “home base,” and an opportunity to still “preach” weekly. Both would be opportunities to communicate the exciting truths I was learning about my faith. In the past,…

We have spent the last several weeks working on discovering how God thinks about some basic issues, i.e., what He is like (absolutely sovereign), what we are like (absolutely sinful), and how God relates to me (absolutely by grace alone). Today we will explore the fourth and final foundation stone of what I believe God is teaching us—”What do I do now?” The answer lies buried in a seldom-referenced passage of Scripture in Genesis 1: “Let Us make man in Our image, according to…

We have investigated in some detail two of the four foundation stones for learning to “think God’s way:” 1.) God Is Absolutely Sovereign, and 2.) Man Is Absolutely Sinful. Today we will look at God’s mind-blowing solution to our sin problem: 3.) God Relates To Man Absolutely By Grace Alone. We have discovered that it is not just WHAT we think that is crucial for us, but also, even much more so, HOW we think! Once we have had an experience with the living…

In recent blog postings, we have seen that the reality of the person we really are is “as we think in our hearts,” not what we say and do (Proverbs 28:3). Furthermore, we saw that what we are thinking in our hearts bears no resemblance to the One in whose image we were created to reflect, as we live our lives (Genesis 1:26-28)! God tells us in Isaiah 55: 8, 9 that His ways and thoughts are as different from ours as night and…

The backwards, inside-out, upside-down Antioch church we investigated last week is a beautiful picture of Isaiah 55:8, 9:  “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the LORD. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.”  That church was “God’s way,” of thinking and living (natural, spontaneous, unconscious – NSU), writ large in the lives of genuine, experiential believers. We are called to…

Some time ago I was having a conversation with a good friend who is interested in theological ideas. I asked him, “Who was the leader of the church in Antioch, the home church of the Apostle Paul during his missionary journeys?” He didn’t know, because there wasn’t one! In the inscrutable plan of God, Antioch, against all odds, “just happened!” Here’s how. After Jesus’ resurrection, His 120 followers remaining from His earthly ministry were waiting together in Jerusalem, just as Jesus had instructed them,…