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I’m going to start this post with a reference to one of my all-time favorite movies. In The Patriot, right after Gabriel goes to the church to recruit members for the militia, Reverend Oliver (Rene Auberjonois) lays down his clergyman’s wig and takes up the rifle. And this is what he tells his congregation…

“A shepherd must tend his flock.
And at times… fight off the wolves.”

I know: The Patriot is a work of fiction (even though some of its characters were real historical figures). But Reverend Oliver’s sentiment is a real one for a follower of Christ. Especially for a true patriot in every sense of the word. Real Christian patriots are loyal to a law higher than man’s. They will defend it. They will fight for it. If need be, they know that they may even be called upon to die for it. And they can ...

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Why do so many Christians, in spite of everything that their faith teaches, keep participating in such a corrupt political system? More to the point: How is it that too many professing believers in Christ still insist on supporting people like George W. Bush, who is anything but a shining example of Christian virtue?

That’s what Dr. Chuck Baldwin is asking in his latest essay…

I believe one of the reasons, if not the main reason, that Christians are so gullible lies in a mistaken, and even dangerous, intrinsic trust of government. I hear and see this attitude expressed among my brethren constantly.

Part of this problem stems from an illogical and unscriptural interpretation of Romans Chapter Thirteen. Christians have been drilled (and dare I say, brainwashed?) into believing that government is endemically good and should be thoroughly trusted. Of course, this was not the belief of America’s Founding

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Remember a few weeks ago when we discovered that VH1 was featuring my first school board campaign commercial on its show Web Junk 2.0? Well, during that same show there was a… strange… clip showing a preacher on some local community access TV station. And he was swearing like crazy! It was like every two or three seconds, VH1 had to bleep out what he was saying.

Here’s the full video…

WARNING: This video is loaded with excessive profanity
I honestly don’t know what to make of this guy. Is this for real? The way he moves around the screen is something that I’ve never seen done with a video camera before. How does something like this even get broadcast without the FCC stepping in? He calls himself “Spirit of Truth” and there’s an article about him on Wikipedia that has much more about him, including more of these ...

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This is either a very clever statement, or I have crossed a terrible, terrible line …

The “Read a Harry Potter book for Jesus!” t-shirt. So what’s the story behind the inspiration for this latest bit of mischief? I’ll admit that part of it is because as a Christian, I don’t have a problem with the Harry Potter books. But also because it really hit me earlier today, while going through a certain portion of the book Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, that there is an amazing use of scripture toward the end of the book. It’s not directly quoting from the Bible, but it’s a wonderful depiction of the nature of God.

It’s toward the end of the next-to-last chapter of the book, “The Lost Prophecy”. I was finding so many Bible verses that reflect what Dumbledore is saying there, that I literally lost count ...

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This post may get a whole lotta folks mad at me, but I don’t care. It needs to be said…

You’ve probably heard by now that the Los Angeles diocese of the Roman Catholic Church is paying $660 million to keep from going to court over long-standing allegations of sexual abuse of children by its priests.

This could have been avoided if the Catholic Church had long ago put an end to its insane policy that forbids its clergy to marry.

The Catholic Church believes that priests and nuns should be “married” to the church. That if the hearts and minds of its clergy are fully devoted to serving the Church, that this will provide an adequate substitute for the natural sex drive that almost all of us have. The implication is that if its priests and nuns are “tempted by the flesh” enough to desire sexual stimulation, then they ...

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A lady named Shirley Skidmore, who is apparently from somewhere in east Texas, sent me the following e-mail. This must be in reference to my recent post about Focus on the Family disapproving of Transformers. Here’s Shirley’s letter…

Subject: What Are You Transformed By?

Chris, Chris, Chris!

You have to be dead to the things of Christ to approve of this filtly liscensious movie. The teen starlet was dressed as a whore . Every move, every direction, every word on her account was conformed to the gutteral nature of a Godless culture. You areyond believabilty to deny that lust was the drawing card for much of the film. Pornographic techniques were used to the max here. The lanquage in both subject and vanacular was Godless. It transformed eveyone who watched it to a place farther from Christ’s standard.

Only blind and naked Christians could possibly support this film

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And I’m not just saying that either because it’s author, Jenna Olwin, is such a dear friend of ours. I mean, if she had written crap, I would not be mentioning it here even though she is a wonderful person. But the fact of the matter is, Jenna is a very good writer and she doesn’t write crap, at all. That would be fully counter to her nature. She’s too much an inherently awesome authoress, because she writes well and she’s never failed to make me think about whatever the subject is in some new and fascinating way.

Well, for her contribution this time to Silhouette, the Christian blog that she collaborates on along with several others who are way out there on the upper-left corner of the Lower 48, Jenna writes about Harry Potter and Christianity. And the whole piece is just plain golden. Here’s a ...

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I’ve mentioned this once or twice before on this blog. I’ll do it again right now: I almost went to work for Focus on the Family.

It was several years ago. And I was a Christian still young in the faith, full of “spice and vinegar” as they say and eager to use whatever talents I have for the service of the Lord.

My my my, the myriad of ways in which we spiritually grow.

People who know me have said that my faith has come a very, very long way. But along the journey I’ve become a lot more disillusioned with many of the things that we perceive as “properly Christian”. If we are going to follow Christ, then let us follow Christ for His sake, and not because we want a measure of political power out of the deal.

The Chris Knight of 1999 would have gladly gone ...

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After more than six years of George W. Bush being President, it still hadn’t hit me about what has been the most absolutely horrible atrocity he has committed during his time in the White House. And then today I read “The Worst Tragedy Of The Bush Presidency” by Christian minister Chuck Baldwin… and it hits me like an anvil between the eyes:

George W. Bush has almost completely destroyed sincere Christianity’s foothold in America. And in its place, Bush has allowed a blasphemous god of power to take the place of Christ in the hearts of many, many professing believers: idolatry on an unprecedented scale.

Here is some of what Chuck Baldwin says in his piece…

… the worst tragedy of the Bush presidency lies with something even deeper and more permanent (if that is possible). The worst tragedy of the Bush presidency is the damage he has done to

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