Blog Posts

  • They Will Come For You At Night

    When totalitarian forces take over a civilization, it begins at night. During the day you may go to your job and fraternize with friends. You may stop in at the bakery or the local coffee shop and chit chat with the owner. The knock on the door comes after your neighbors are in bed and…

  • Moral Courage

    When our ancient ancestors – the descendants of Noah – began to multiply, form clans, and spread abroad upon the face of the earth, they had a mandate from God to do so and the promises of God that 1) He would not destroy the earth with another flood, and 2) the dread of humanity…

  • Losing Your First Love

    Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks; I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast…

  • Pastors and Politics

    It was probably back in the early 2000’s during a trip to Michigan when I picked up the Ann Arbor News and found an opinion piece written by a local pastor about politics and the pulpit. Ann Arbor, home of U of M, is a bastion of liberal politics, so I was curious what this…

  • Hamiltonian Wisdom: Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton

    My wife suggested that I watch Hamilton when it became available to stream on Disney+, but just as I was about to start it I realized that I was potentially in danger of ruining a good book (think of the poor wretch who watched the movie Jurassic Park before reading the book!), so I grabbed…