A Knight's Blog

It is crucial we always return to the basics or fundamentals of our faith. The apostle Paul balanced preaching the simple gospel with deeper mysteries, “When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling. My message and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith would not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power. Among the mature, however, we speak a message of wisdom—but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. No, we speak of the mysterious and hidden wisdom of God, which He destined for our glory before time began” (1 Corinthians 2:1-7). He knew that we need a dose of remembrance and revelation; we need the cross ever before us and close ...

In the 17th Century the religious sect of Puritans banned Christmas in England. The offense of having holly in your home or singing a Christmas carol was five shillings which back then equates to our modern money as £28.44 which $36.39 USD! That is 28 pounds or 36 dollars every time you are caught by the Puritan Prohibition Police for singing a carol or harboring Christmas contraband like a evergreen tree!  The Puritan zeal against paganisms in the Christmas holiday were not without merit. The Winter Solstice celebrated by Norse and Druids, and the Romans called it Saturnalia (worship of the sun god, Soli or Saturn). When the Puritans mention Satanic elements in the prohibition they are referring to left overs from paganism like the wreaths which were used to worship Roman and Norse gods, and the bringing into a house the fir tree as the Druid Occultists did and which the Puritans probably cited, “Even their children go to worship at their pagan altars and Asherah poles, be...

December 23rd is the First Day of Hannukah or Chanukah, The Festival of the Rededication of the Temple from the Maccabean era. It commemorates a miracle where the Menorah in the Second Temple had nof sufficient oil, but burned for nine days without oil. For us Christians Hannukah is not particularly a holiday we venerate, since the Second Temple was destroyed by Titus in 70 A.D. and we no longer need a temple because God does not dwell in temples of stone, “However, the Most High doesn’t live in temples made by human hands,” (Acts 7:48), and we Christians are now the temples of God Almighty, “Don’t you realize that all of you together are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God lives in you?,” (1 Corinthians 3:16), “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own,” (1 Corinthians 6:19), “so that, if I am delayed, you will know how each one must conduct himself in God's household, which is ...

This time of year is when most people aim for cheer. Charities bring in donations and department stores cut their prices. For many the stress of the holidays can be a strain that is difficult to bear. The pressure to buy a gift that appeases the expectations of our loved ones has turned the season into a bizarre competition to express love with gifts.  Each year the same Xmas circus puts its tents up to convince people they can show their appreciation for others with materialism. The expectations get grander each year until the whole convention becomes a burden, rather than a means to show you care. This is the nature of the holiday beast, it seeks to feed and in time you find your bank account and energy devoured.   As Christians we have the only means to emerge out of this mountain of materialism. To press that holiday beast back into the oblivion it came from. Our answer is Christ, He is able to cut through the holly facades that have covered this holiday. Only...

In the Middle Ages some of the greatest carols were wrought on parchment aloft. Within this post they sing, to ring in Xmastide offerings! Enjoy!  —————————————- 🎵 Veni Redemptor Gentium St. Ambrose, 340-397 A.D.  1. Veni, Redemptor gentium; Ostende partum virginis; Miretur omne saeculum. Talis decet partus Deo. Come, thou Redeemer of the earth, and manifest thy virgin-birth: let every age adoring fall; such birth befits the God of all. 2. Non ex virili semine, Sed mystico spiramine Verbum Dei tactum est caro, Fructusque ventris floruit. Begotten of no human will, But of the Spirit, Thou art still The Word of God in flesh arrayed, The promised fruit to men displayed. 3. Alvus tumescit virginis. Claustrum pudoris permanet; Vexilla virtutum micant, Versatur in templo Deus. The virgin womb that burden gained With virgin honor all unstained; The banners there of virtue glow; God in His temple dwells below. 4. Proc...