The Bible and the Major U.S. Political Parties

The following is taken from the main body of Episode 5 of my NUCLEAR PASTOR: Critical Mas podcast…

In this podcast we’ll explore the issue of the major U.S. political parties from a Biblical perspective, with those 2 parties being the Republican and Democrat parties.

And we’ll conduct that exploration by defining a topic, comparing that topic to the Scriptures, and then grading both of the major political parties against that topic, giving a grade for each on a scale of 0-10.  Then, at the end when the dust settles, we’ll see if Christians can honorably vote for both or either party.

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The Bible, Abortion and Life in the Womb

The following is taken from the main body of Episode 2 of my NUCLEAR PASTOR: Critical Mass podcast…

In this podcast we’ll explore the issues of abortion and of the sanctity of life in the womb, and we’ll begin by taking a look at the issue of human life and its intersection with the image of God, after which we’ll look into some Biblical passages that will really put things into perspective for us.  From there we’ll see how these issues align in the battle between the Evil Kosmos and the Noble Kosmos, and then we’ll finish by looking at how we as Christians and churches can best minister in this arena.

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Shall Not Be Infringed

HOW THE SECOND AMENDMENT REFLECTS BIBLICAL THOUGHT

Second AmendmentIn my previous article, I established the Biblical principle that citizens should be armed for two basic reasons.  The first of these reasons is that we need to be able to protect ourselves in a fallen world against those who would do us harm.  The second of these reasons is that we need to be able to keep government from growing tyrannical, for it will always tend to do so. Continue reading

The Return of Molech

The sexually immoral Ammonites of Old Testament fame, lacking our modern medical and technical expertise, created an interesting way of dealing with the problem of the unwanted children such immorality would naturally conceive.  Their solution was to sacrifice their offspring to their demonic god Molech by burning them to death (2 Kings 23:10) on his altar.  They would simply heat the large, iron hands of Molech until they were white-hot, and then their babies would be placed upon those hands and burned to death Continue reading