Country for Sale: Fire Sale to the Highest Bidder
Country for Sale: Fire Sale to the Highest Bidder Caution: Kingdom Under Reconstruction — Fire Hazard July 4, 2026 After 250 years, the American flag still waves — thirteen stripes, fifty stars, and...
The Modern Colosseum: What Sports, Spectacle, Leadership, and Law Reveal About What We Worship
The Modern Colosseum: What Sports, Spectacle, Leadership, and Law Reveal About What We Worship Every civilization builds temples. Ancient Rome built the Colosseum — a monument to spectacle, adrenaline,...
Happy Father’s Day — Holy Father’s Day
Happy Father’s Day — Holy Father’s Day A reflection on earthly dads, spiritual fathers, and the Eternal Father who holds us all Father’s Day in the United States has always carried a quieter, steadier...
The Two Invitations: A Political Birthday Gala and the Banquet of God
The Two Invitations: A Political Birthday Gala and the Banquet of God for readers seeking a Christ-centered lens on public life There are moments in public life when an event becomes more than an event....
When the Flag Is Raised in Distress: A Biblical Warning About Hypocrisy and the Heart of a Nation
When the Flag Is Raised in Distress: A Biblical Warning About Hypocrisy and the Heart of a Nation Flag Day invites Americans to remember the adoption of the United States flag — a symbol meant to represent...
Function Over Form in an Age of Spectacle
Function Over Form in an Age of Spectacle America has always wrestled with the tension between what faith looks like and what faith does. But in today’s political arena, the gap between form and function...
Sexual Immorality vs. Immortality: A Biblical Perspective on Sin, Hypocrisy, and Redemption
Sexual Immorality vs. Immortality: A Biblical Perspective on Sin, Hypocrisy, and Redemption Scripture draws a striking contrast between sexual immorality and immortality. One reflects humanity’s tendency...
When a Works‑Based Christian Meets a Grace‑Based Gospel
When a Works‑Based Christian Meets a Grace‑Based Gospel Why the journey from self‑reliance to surrender is one of the hardest—and holiest—transformations in the Christian life. Most Christians don’t...
The Triple Threat Christ: Judge, Advocate, Redeemer
The Triple‑Threat Christ: Judge, Advocate, Redeemer Everyone recognizes corruption. We see it in governments, courts, corporations, and institutions. Scripture goes further: corruption runs through every...
Innocent Until Proven Guilty — and the Gospel That Declares Us Guilty Until Made Righteous in Christ
Innocent Until Proven Guilty — and the Gospel That Declares Us Guilty Until Made Righteous in Christ “Innocent until proven guilty” is one of the most stabilizing principles in American law. It theoretically...
Render to Caesar, Render to God: What a $1.8 Billion Settlement Can’t Buy
Render to Caesar, Render to God: What a $1.8 Billion Settlement Can’t Buy When Jesus said, “Render to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s” (Matthew 22:21), He wasn’t dodging a political...
When Power Becomes Profit
When Power Becomes Profit When power becomes a pathway to personal profit, a nation’s moral foundations begin to rot. Scripture warns that those entrusted with authority face a unique temptation: to...
Honoring Mothers: A Biblical Calling in a Modern Holiday
Honoring Mothers: A Biblical Calling in a Modern Holiday Mother’s Day may be a young holiday, but the instinct behind it is ancient. Long before Congress set aside a Sunday in May, Scripture wove maternal...
The Possibility and Peril of Deathbed Repentance
The Possibility and Peril of Deathbed Repentance The question is as old as the church: Can a person who lived in deception — especially a leader who deceived others — truly repent at the end of life...
The Reception of Deception
The Reception of Deception Deception rarely arrives suddenly. It comes quietly, gradually, almost politely. Like the old illustration of the frog in slowly heated water, danger becomes fatal long before...
Kings Day – Wear Orange
Kings Day – Wear Orange Pella, Iowa • May 2, 2026 Every May, Pella turns orange. The tulips open, the klompen echo on Franklin Street, and a small Iowa town remembers a story older than its storefronts...
Hypocrisy, Performance, and the Politics of Ananias and Sapphira
Hypocrisy, Performance, and the Politics of Ananias and Sapphira The story of Ananias and Sapphira in Acts 5 is remembered for its severity, but its deeper warning is far more familiar than we like...
When the Sky Keeps “Falling”: A Modern Parable of Warnings, Extensions, and Credibility
When the Sky Keeps “Falling”: A Modern Parable of Warnings, Extensions, and Credibility We all know the stories. A boy cries wolf—again and again—until no one believes him. A chicken runs in panic,...
The Mustard Seed That Refuses To Stay Small
The Mustard Seed That Refuses To Stay Small How Jesus’ smallest parable became the Church’s global calling Christians love the mustard seed because Jesus loved the mustard seed. He chose it not for...
O the Hypocrisy! IMHO
O the Hypocrisy! IMHO There is something almost comic—if it weren’t so spiritually dangerous—about watching a large, self‑important institution attempt to instruct a worldwide Christian movement on what...