A Knight's Blog

One of the greatest cancers to Christendom is Microwave Evangelism. This form of evangelism believe the Great Commission, " Th erefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit , " (Matthew 28:19) is so paramount that they go out and seek to proselytize people everywhere, weither en masse, or one on one. The effect is something akin to a used car's salesman, who wants to you to "make a deal" right now. These Microwaving evangelists approach people with a quota of souls in mind, and each candidate for evangelism is treated in a fashion that they should by the end of the conversation be confirmed in Christ, or Born Again, or Got Saved and if they aren't converted they are discarded as if yesterday's trah. The problem is that the cultural climate on the earth right now isn't at the moment like the days of Constantine the Great, Emperor Charlemagne , or even Billy Graham , whe

In rural parts of America parishes are seeing a decline in pastors by fifty percent. The reason is that pastors do not want to pastor a small church, receive a low salary, and most of all they do not want to be anonymous. Parish pastors have steady income, but they have no notoriety, no one outside their small congregation knows their name. Most graduates of seminary want to earn the trifecta of ministry: mega church, mega profits, and mega prestige. They want something akin to Joel Oste en's name recognition, salary, and following. So the farmers and rural settler must deal with a deficiet, with no pastor at all or a temporary minister. Why is this? How did serving God go from "let the weakest among you have the greatest honor," become a ego trip to be remembered by the nation and even the world with a six and even ten figure salary? What happened to wanting to be a good and simple preacher, who helps a flock through daily life, whose interests are not those of their

There is a looming sense of despair hanging over many brothers and sisters in Christ. Despite the joviality on Sundays, and the dedication on social media and elsewhere, there are those who are reaching a tipping point. Many feel as Christian in the Pilgrim's Progress, a follower of Christ imprisoned by the Giant Despair (John Bunyan). Despair is the worst demon in the air. It is said by the Apostle Paul himself, " For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself ." (2 Corinthians 1:8). The Webster's dictionary says despair is: "1) utter lose of hope, 2) the state of being discouraged and 3) to lose heart." The Apostle Paul is saying to us that in Asia, He and the other disciples were tested to the point of losing their zeal to live. This is not akin to the Apostle's other admonition that he would rather repose and go to be wit

As Protestants, we have set ourselves apart from Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox with Sola Scriptura (Scriptura Alone). The belief we hold that Scripture Alone is the authoritative measure and test of teaching, " All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness ," (2 Timothy 3:16), and to test the spirits to see if they are from God (1 John 4:1-2). While the Five Solaes weren't written at once, as in case of Ad Fontes (back to the sources), However, Solae Scriptura was a  battle cry of the Reformers. Our Protestant claim for spiritual authority is Scripture, which comes from God, " Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation of things. or from human initiative. No, those prophets were moved by the Holy Spirit, and they spoke from God . " (2 Peter 1:20-21). In contrast, our contemporaries, Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodo

Forward:  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To my avid readers I have been on sabbatical. I return now, to share what the LORD God Jesus Christ, who is One with Father and Holy Spirit has revealed to me.  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are called to be a light in a very pagan world. In many ways this is a Post-Christian World. Post-Christian in that the impetus in religion and spirituality is shifting from our True Faith (Christianity) to a pan-pagan spiritism of the Hindu, Islamic, Shinto, Buddhist, New Age, and other variety. I recently was in Germany, and the church there is dead. The epicenter of the Protestant Reformation, Wittenberg, where I beheld the rebuilt door where Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-Nine Theses, and within the Castle Church of Luther I attended service, and spiritually it was dead. During Holy Week for Catholics an