A Knight's Blog

  Persecution of Christians is on an upward surge. In parts of Africa, specifically Nigeria, The Republic of the Congo, and other parts. The attention to the genocide of Christians in Nigeria in particular has made headlines, with little intervention. I am grieved thagt we are repeating the posturing beofre the Holocaust during World War II, where people read Jews were been annihilated in Germany and did nothing. Now our brothers and sisters in Christ are being killed, and the Nigerian President paid a visit to the US and was called out for doing nothing about the Antichristian pogroms being conducted on his watch.  In China over Twenty Pastors of the Underground Churches were rounded up and have been imprisoned. Fervor against our Faith and the Faithful is fever pitch, and yet there is paralysis of what do do. If we do not prioritize our Christian brethren now, what will be do when The Beast rises and persecutes the Church at the end? (Revelation 13:1-29, and Revelation 14:12...

  I was watching Joseph Prince and was rather thrilled by something he was teaching. I tend to be tough on public preachers and teachers, especially when they make huge salaries. However, I have some respect for Joseph Prince because he got up in front of his congregation once and apologized for saying a Christian can get a curse and gave Paul’s message on the only curse for a Christian is to go back to trusting in Law rather than Christ. Well in this sermon he got into the progression of prayer and the name used, he have the example of Pharisee and Tax Collector calling on God at the temple, noting that for us that evolved into saying Father, as in the Our Father Prayer, but that progression did not end, for Jesus says, “Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it,” (John 14:13-4), “Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.” (John 1...

  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...

  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...

  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 ...

  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...