Tag: in the united states
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Welfare Without Hellfire: Wisdom From Proverbs 31 About Helping Those In Need Without Enslaving Them
In Proverbs 31, Solomon is not telling women how to be women of God. He is advising his own sons to look for certain character qualities in an excellent wife. He is passing on advice from his own mother, Bathsheba, and even using her as the example of an excellent wife. Solomon, I’m sure, has…
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Systemic Oppression and the Christian
Systemic oppression has taken many forms over the eons including tribalism, nationalism, racism, politicism, supremacism, victimism, social darwinism, etc… I have waited to address the issue of systemic oppression from the pulpit because we walk through the Scriptures and we had not yet approached a text that addressed the subject and I had no immediate…
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What If The State Removes Our Religious Freedom?
Submit your questions on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or by using the contact form on this blog. If our religious freedoms are taken in the United States in our day, they will be taken under the guise of ending discrimination, which even most religious people would say is a noble agenda. After all, we are now…
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Shooting Law Enforcement Officers
There was a time, when I lived in Wake Forest, NC and was visiting home that I got pulled over by a police officer. I was on an Oklahoma back road so that I could avoid the tolls, going through either Cyril or Apache. The speed limit was 25 miles an hour and I was…