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The Ruination of Robin Hood

  Once upon a time Robin Hood was actually about a English Yeomen who was Christian, and fought the evil Sheriff of Nottingham and the wicked King John. I remember King Richard Lionheart, the Crusader, was even praised and Robin even working to fight in his name. Among Robin’s merry men was the Friar Tuck who blessed unions in Sherwood and fought alongside the men in Lincoln Green.  The early Robin Hood was full of positive Christian themes, an Outlaw who decides to defy a Usurper to the throne, Prince John. It is in this era we had Disney’s famous animated Robin Hood with anamorphic characters, Robin and Maid Marian being Foxes. Before that was Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, in which Flynn did his fencing with swagger. However, from then on things grew darker, with Kevin Costner’s Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham played by Alan Rickman being an Occultist who serves his Mother a Witch, and Morgan Freeman a Muslim companion to Robin Hood. Then in the BBC Robin Hoo...
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Crucifixion Culture

  We are living in a period when people are quick to crucify others, wither it is digitally on reddits, forums, and Discord, or even in person at work. The trigger figure to shoot people with nine inch nails in a metaphorical sense is quick. It seems like at any moment someone is ready to be Judas, and get Pharisee Posse ready to give false charges or slant what was posted so as to get someone nailed to the cross. What is behind this and as Christians how are we to respond?  The truth is this behavior is here to say. The Scriptures tell us,” This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.” (John 3:19). People love the darkness, and part of that darkness is this world, which the Ruler of is the devil, who at any moment has power over them, “You used to live in sin, just like the rest of the world, obeying the devil—the commander of the powers in the unseen world. He is the spirit at work in the hearts...
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“Only Human After All”

  There is a popular song by Rag’nBone Man that goes in chorus, “I am only human after all! I made mistakes, I am not a messiah, I am only human after all.” The song has a powerful almost gospel sound to it and is reminder that we are only human. There is a temptation from our Family of Origin, and even in Church to be expected to be Sin Eaters, Saviors and even Perfecti who are pure and holy. Then when we fail it is far more painful because the expectation on us was Atlas level, with a planet on our shoulders.  I think an apt comparison for us as Christians comes from a scene in Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith, Anakin Skywalker believes he can learn a god like power to save his wife from vision of death in childbirth. He turns to the dark lord of the Sith for help and ends up turning on everything he loved. But the focal point here is that the Jedi and Sith wield these incredible powers to levitate things, caste lightning, do flips, call weapons to their hands, but ...
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It Is Alright To Wrestle With God

  In our Faith there is tendency to adopt a belief that we must Obey God without question, and do as He wills or we are rebels and sinners. I want remind people that one of the most famous Patriarchs, Jacob not only sinned, He wrestled with God (Genesis 32:22–32). Yes it was physical, but I believe even spiritual, and in process Jacob got a blessing and limp, like a sheep that has their leg broken. I am going to come back to this wrestling in a moment.  When God led those Israelites into the Wilderness, he was so infuriated by their sins, by their rebellion, that He was going to wipe out the Israelites, to which Moses said, “But Moses begged the Lord his God, “Lord, don’t let your anger destroy your people. You brought them out of Egypt with your great power and strength.    But if you destroy your people, the Egyptians will say, ‘God planned to do bad things to his people. That is why he led them out of Egypt. He wanted to kill them in the mountains. He wanted to wi...
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The Problem of Halloween

  Halloween is a holiday that is steeped in darkness. The Occult profess that it is their Easter and Christmas combined, and Anton LeVey, Founder of the Church of Satan said, “I am glad Christian  parents let their children worship the devil one night of the year.” Granted it is dubious to trust the word of someone who venerates the Father of Lies (John 8:44). Churches have had an uneasy relationship with Halloween. The term Halloween was an attempt at the Roman Church to Christianize a Pagan holiday called Samhain, and a time when witches worshipped their gods. Halloween means “All Hallowed Eve,” (Hallowed means Holy, as in Hallowed Be Thine Name) because the next day, November 1st,    is “All Saint’s Day.” Though the attempt to Christianize Halloween did not meet with the same success of Christmas.   Since then churches have adopted one of two typical responses to Halloween. The first is to ban the holiday, and consider it a Satanic feast that no Christian sho...
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Humble Towns Produced The Redeemer and Reformer

  On October 31st, we shall be celebrating The Reformation, when Martin Luther nailed the 95 Thesis to the Castle Church door in Wittenberg, Germany. The Reformation gets its name from Ad Fontes, “Back to the Sources,” which in art was to go back to Romanesque and Greek style, but in religion it produced the Devotio Moderna Movement and ultimately The Reformation that lead to going back to The Scriptures, and Christianity as found in the New Testament.  What is remarkable is that the towns from which the sweeping changing of the world would come, were obscure, and not considered prized by any contemporaries of the time. Nazareth, from which Jesus our Lord gets the namesake to differentiate him from others as in Jesus of Nazareth, had such a bad reputation that the disciple Philip said, “Nazareth? Can anything good come from Nazareth.” (John 1:46). And yet when Christ died upon the cross for all our sins, it was written by Pontius Pilate, “Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum (Abbrevi...
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Leadership Fatigue

  Being a leader is hard. You have to take responsibility for those who follow and who participate, and the fatigue that comes mentally, physically, and spiritually can cause a leader to burn out. The problem with most leaders people will claim is “they do not delegate,” to other leaders. This can be true, and sometimes it is not, sometimes the other leaders do not manage their responsibility in the matter, a good example was the disciples who had trouble casting out a demon in a boy, and Jesus had given these disciples the power to caste out demons (), and yet they failed and everyone came wanting Jesus to fix it. The response of the Son of God and God Incarnate is a great example of what it feels like to be a leader, “You unbelieving generation,” Jesus replied, “how long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring the boy to me.” (Mark 9:19).  Leadership fatigue hits you when you have been the one keeping the ball rolling for the project, or the plot in a ...
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