A Knight's Blog

The Church has never been this isolated. During the Great Persecution under the Emperors Caligula, Nero, Domitian, and Diocletian the Church was able to meet in secret. The ecclesia gathered together to encourage one another, but right now this is banned. Believers are forced to be seperate, to communicate via technology and unable to assemble, “And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.” (Hebrews 10:25).  This is an unprecedented period in Church history, where we are unable to gather, partake in Communion in person together, or lay hands on one another for prayer. What then can we do? The answer is to proclaim Christ. The Apostle Paul wrote letters, much of which make up two thirds of The New Testament, and their impact has echoed across Church history and in the Kingdom of Heaven. Let us adopt the Pauline model, preach Christ in the cybersphere, reaching souls acro...

This May 16th marks when Jeanne  D’Arc (Joan of Arc) was canonized by the Catholic Church. Ironic since they were the ones who burned her a the stake. Joan has acquired mythical status, a symbol of France, she is responsible for rallying French Troops to take back territories lost in the Hundred Year’s war. But more fascinating than her historical impact is here spiritual life. It is well known she received visions, prophecies, and messages from Christ and saints. She had more in common with Charismatic Christians than Roman Catholics because she believed she could have direct correspondence with God ,  “Her beliefs were not strictly orthodox, according to the criteria for orthodoxy laid down by many theologians of the period. She was no friend of the church militant on earth (which perceived itself as in spiritual combat with the forces of evil), and she threatened its hierarchy through her claim that she communicated directly with God by means of visions or voices.” (C...

In every generation we must have a reformation, a need for Ad Fontes, “back to the sources”. As the church got buried in superstitions like Purgatory in the Medieval age, now in Post Modern Age the Church is bogged down in the superstition of the Prosperity doctrine. In every generation there are men who deviate from the Scriptures leading people into Prima Scriptura, where people value Scripture and the traditions of men as equal, much as the Pharisees did, “Jesus replied, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written: “‘These people honor me with their lips,     but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain;     their teachings are merely human rules.’ You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to human traditions.” And he continued, “You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions! For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and mot...

Before Luther nailed his 95 Thesis on the Castle Church Door on Oct 31st, 1517, the Moravians or Unity of the Brethren had started The Reformation in Bohemia, and Kunwald, Czechia (Germany) in circa 1457 A.D. The Brethren had their own Printing presses, “Of the five printing presses in all Bohemia, three belonged to the Brethren; of sixty printed works that appeared between 1500 and 1510, no fewer than fifty were published by the Brethren; and of all the scribes of the sixteenth century, Luke was the most prolific. He wrote a "Catechism for Children." He edited the first Brethren's hymn book (1501), the first Church hymnal in history. He published a commentary on the Psalms, another on the Gospel of St. John, and another on the eleventh chapter of 1 Corinthians; he drew up "Confessions of Faith," and sent them to the King; and thus, for the first time in the history of Bohemia, he made the newly invented press a mighty power in the land.” (Illustrated Histor...

My time spent with Christ in the spirit has always astonished me. This year and last year I had some “dark nights of the soul,” and I was astounded how Jesus met me in all of those nights. I thought my words and feelings would at some point illicit a sigh or angry rebuke, because I felt a rebuke towards myself, but instead I found Christ there being patient with me, comforting me and bearing with my Peter like moments.  I know from experience and Scripture we serve a Good God. We sing about his loving kindness on Sundays, but when you are in a moment like “The Shadow of Death,” that I Experienced last year, and you witness both literally and spiritually Jesus take hold of you and preserve you like a rod and staff, there is no words that can articulate his gentleness, care, concern, and comfort. I like Peter felt I was about to sink on the sea, but our Savior raised me out of dark waters of doom, despair, and the shadow of death. He preserved me, and sheltered me in His arms....

I seek the Bloom of the Church of the Apostles. We saw it bud under The Reformation, almost bloom during the Charismatic Renewal, but now it is frosted by the doctrines of men (Mark 7:6-14). Men who seek to keep power, neo popes who hold their own infallibi, and who think their ideas measure with Peter, Paul, James, John, and even Jesus himself. Sadly, most attempts to make the bloom happen have lead to Scriptural legalism like Puritanism that starts dictating what a person can even wear and judged people harshly, or liberalism which abandons the truth of God in Scripture for cultural norms. The answer to these pitfalls is in Scripture, “Let two or three prophets speak, and let the rest congregation pass judgment,” (1 Corinthians 14:29), “Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the fl...

The time for Reform in the Church has come. For too long our churches have strayed from the Scriptures into “manmade religion.” (Colossians 2:23 ESV). Even the Reformation of 1517 did not purge the scourge of extra-biblical traditions that drown the True Church. Our Lord Jesus Christ spoke in earnest against the traditions of men that circumvent Scripture, “He replied, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written: “‘These people honor me with their lips,     but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain;     their teachings are merely human rules.’ You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to human traditions.” And he continued, “You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions! For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.’ But you say that if anyone decl...

With the COVID-19 virus mutating and life as we know it not returning to normalcy any time soon, it can feel hopeless. I have been privy to some suicides, some friends have lost loved ones who in their despair and depression took their lives. I have heard of others who have started taking medications for depression and anxiety. There is no doubt that this “brave new world,” we sre living in is taking a toll on people.   Right now as Christians we need to steel ourselves with the words of the apostle, “For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. So what shall I choose? I do not know. I am torn between the two. I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better indeed. But it is more necessary for you that I remain in the body.” (Philipoians 1:21-24). This must be our mantra, “to live is Christ, to die is gain.” This means we endeavor to live, to be Christ’s amabssadors on earth () and to f...