Sam Bridgman joined me for a discission a few years back on the Liberty Cafe. Below is a lightly edited transcript of our discussion; you can listen to it here. Sam and I and our families attended church together at the time. I won’t introduce Sam here; you’ll find out a lot about him in…
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The Fear of the Lord: A Homily on Joshua 5:13-6:27
As the story opens in today’s passage, the people of Israel were finally at the place they had feared 40 years ago when Moses had sent men to spy out the land of Canaan. Upon their return, Joshua and Caleb had told them: “The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an…
Into the Promised Land – A Study of Joshua
Upon the death of Moses, Joshua was called to lead God’s people into the Promised Land, the land that God had promised to give to them through His covenant with Abraham. It was to be their land; no man would be able to stand before them all the days of their life. God would not…
Return from Exile: A Homily on Ruth
The story of Ruth is one of the most beautiful stories in Scripture. By faith, a young gentile woman is delivered from a pagan land, blessed with a faithful husband, and gives birth to a son renowned through the land who becomes part of the lineage of Jesus Christ. There is so much to the…
Return from Exile: A Five Week Study of Ruth
The story of Ruth is one of the most beautiful stories in Scripture. By faith, a young gentile woman is delivered from a pagan land, blessed with a faithful husband, and gives birth to a son renowned through the land who becomes part of the lineage of Jesus Christ. This is a five-week study to…
Churchill and the Crusades
There’s been a lot of online banter about both Churchill and the Crusades. My main response is that it is amazing how many people want to judge history based on modern events and perspectives. We have seen this recently with the American founding, the Civil War, etc. And now with Churchill. Was Churchill an imperialist?…
A Waste of Brainpower and Money
Americans spend more than $50 billion a year on space exploration. This includes not only money spent on rocket ships, space stations, and satellites, but also on scientists and researchers at universities and elsewhere. But a funny thing is happening. The more money we spend, the more most of the scientists find out they are…
Politicians Can’t Stop Spending Our Money
“Nor shall [a ruler] acquire for himself excessive silver and gold.” – Deuteronomy 17:17 Yesterday, the Texans for Fiscal Responsibility team, Andrew McVeigh, Vance Ginn, and myself, testified during the Texas Senate Finance Committee’s hearing of property taxes. I want to discuss some interesting points worth noting from the hearing. Before I get to the hearing, let me…
U.S. Federal Renewable Energy Subsidies are Driving the Energy Transition
“We have heard testimony … about the threat climate change poses to entire sectors of our economy … So, what are we, the federal government, doing to protect against these threats? Actually, we are subsidizing the danger. As we’ll hear today, the United States subsidizes the fossil fuel industry with taxpayer dollars.” – U.S. Senator…
Liberty Requires God-given Rights Exercised in Free Markets
“Many persons, having never viewed the subject (of liberty) in this light, charge us with excessive zeal, when they see us so warmly and earnestly contending for freedom of faith as to outward matters, in opposition to the tyranny of the Pope.” – John Calvin Most Americans these days are more worried about the tyranny of…