During its 1980’s resurgence, the Texas band ZZ Top released its Eliminator album, which contained the hit single, Give Me All Your Lovin’. The chorus went like this: Gimme all your lovin’, all your hugs and kisses too,Gimme all your lovin’, don’t let up until we’re through. Reviewing the song’s lyrics as I write this,…
Category: Battle Lines
A World at War
Perhaps the greatest blindness of the modern church is its failure to understand that the world is at war–against the church. This war pits the church as a combatant against its opponent–or enemy–the unbelievers in the world. In fact, the war is an effort by the unbelieving world to usurp God’s rule; in other words,…
A Brief Primer on Church and State–and Oppression
“The purpose of government is to justly uphold life, liberty, and truth in order to bring increase and peace to the Kingdom of God.” This shouldn’t be a surprise. Because every government official, every government worker, every voter, every citizen, and every subject was made for one very specific purpose: to glorify God and enjoy…
The Role of the Laity in the PCA’s Battle Against the Nations
The Role of the Laity in the PCA’s Battle Against the Nations Introduction Those of us in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) have seen denomination after denomination, including our previous denomination—the PCUS, succumb to the attacks of raging nations (Psalm 2) on the church. And no matter what the points of attack have been,…
Our Lumpen Intelligentsia
Our culture’s rejection of experts these days is well founded. Experts over the centuries have told us the Earth is the center of the universe, that it is a good idea to bleed sick people, that creation is billions of years old, and that humans are the primary driver of climate change. But it is…
Why I Will Vote for Trump in 2020
In the days leading up to the 2016 presidential election, I shared with anyone who would listen why I wasn’t going to vote for Donald Trump. The primary reason for my decision was that I wasn’t sure the country would be better off with Trump as president than it would be with Hillary. I admitted…
“I am the 99%”
We live in a world today when it seems that civility is going by the wayside. And in which we are tempted to believe that things are getting worse than they have been in the past. Sometimes, however, that belief is based in the conceit of the present, a thought process where we believe that the…
The Story of Evolution
Six-day creationists, i.e., those of us who believe that God created the world in six 24-hour days, are often ridiculed as being unscientific. Even inside the church many have bent and twisted scripture to accommodate the very modern view that the universe has been in existence for billions of years. However, it is actually the…
A patriot’s perspective
David French is a patriot and a decent guy. Marvin Olasky recently published an interview with him in World Magazine. Here’s an excerpt: We’re also geographically sorting. The number of landslide counties that one side wins by 20 percent or more is the highest it’s been. The more we geographically sort ourselves, the more extreme we…
Big Science is Not Objective
Life is not easy, but it is a lot simpler than many would have us believe. Here are a few simple (but not simplistic) thoughts for us to chew on: God is our Creator and He created the world in six days. Jesus is our Savior if we repent of our sins and call on…