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Showing posts with label morality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label morality. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 7, 2025

The Pastoral Letter to the Cornerstone University Board of Trustees has been delivered: How will they respond?

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Our Letter to the Cornerstone University Board of Trustees: With Signatures  has now been sent.  If you wish to see the name of each pastor ...
Monday, September 23, 2024

Sermon Video: Abram fails to live by faith - Genesis 12:10-20

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Abraham and Sarah are heroes of the faith, but their lives had challenges just like our own, and they failed to meet some of them with faith...
Wednesday, October 18, 2023

What the furor over the Witch Walk in Franklin can teach us about Christian cultural engagement

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Downtown Franklin during last year's Witch Walk As many of you in the Franklin area will have noticed, a post on the St. Patrick Parish ...
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Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Listen to the Word of God: 62 Scripture passages that refute 'Christian' Nationalism - #14: Matthew 18:3-4

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  Matthew 18:3-4      New International Version 3 And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you wil...
Thursday, September 8, 2022

Listen to the Word of God: 62 Scripture passages that refute 'Christian' Nationalism - #11: Matthew 7:1-5

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  Matthew 7:1-5     New International Version 7 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will b...
Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Listen to the Word of God: 62 Scripture passages that refute 'Christian' Nationalism - #2: 2 Chronicles 19:7

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2 Chronicles 19:7 Now let the fear of the Lord be on you. Judge carefully, for with the Lord our God there is no injustice or partiality or ...
Friday, June 10, 2022

The Bible doesn't mandate that Christians support Democracy, BUT preventing the Evil that Autocracy would unleash in America does

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  The Bible doesn't support Democracy.  Then again, the Bible doesn't denounce it either.  In fact, the Bible mentions Democracy not...
Thursday, March 3, 2022

Moral Clarity: God help us if we can't see that Vladimir Putin and his war are Evil.

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Commenting on the social media feeds of others is "like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get."  I recentl...
Monday, January 31, 2022

Sermon Video: The Moral Cowardice of Pontius Pilate, Mark 15:1-15

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We often think of cowardice in physical terms, as in standing up to the bully on the playground, but moral cowardice is both more consequent...
Sunday, October 18, 2020

Sermon Video: Make use of what God has given - Mark 4:21-25

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 In a series of 4 connected sayings, Jesus explains the nature of the world that God created, emphasizing that the Truth is intended to be d...
Tuesday, October 13, 2020

When is governmental action morally justified? The morality of COVID-19 responses to protect less than 1%.

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This is a serious question, I'm actually curious about what you would answer: Given that as of today, 10/13/20, there have been at least...
Friday, October 9, 2020

A vulgar anti-Trump sign and an attempt to kidnap the governor of Michigan - Biblical wisdom for an uncivil society: "'I have the right to do anything' you say - but not everything is beneficial." 1 Corinthians 10:23-24

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1 Corinthians 10:23-24 (NIV)  23 “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anythi...
Monday, September 21, 2020

Sermon Video: Grace is Greater than Law - Mark 2:23-3:6

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 Having been accused by Pharisees of violating the letter of the law regarding the Sabbath, Jesus reminds them of the way in which David vio...
Friday, September 18, 2020

A Moral Hierarchy: A refutation of William Barr's, "Other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history."

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Speaking at Hillsdale College on September 16th, Attorney General Willaim Barr responded to a question about religious freedom and COVID-19 ...
Tuesday, September 15, 2020

God and Politics: Greater than, less than, or equal to?

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 I often speak and write about the danger of a too cozy relationship between the Church and political power, but this warning also begs a fu...