A Knight's Blog

  So often as Christians we become preoccupied with peripheral aspects of our faith. We can get focused on persecution, and live somberly, or on deliverance and see demons everywhere or prayer and start counting petitions on beads or minutes in a prayer closet.    But all of this misses the point, our heart and mind and eyes is not to be fixated on any pf these things but on Christ Jesus Our Lord, “Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” (Hebrews 12:2). Why do we allow things, even good things to hide our Lord behind a veil? Why do we become so distracted for the apple of our eye?  I have spoken to fellow Christians so divided on the end times, whither they fall into eschatological camps Premillennial, Amillennial, Post-Millennial, Pre-Trib, Mid-Trib, Partial Trib, or Post Trib that they’d sooner see each other destr...

  When computers first came online, who could have predicted they would become gateways to seeing anything that can be seen, hear anything that can be heard, and learn anything that you want to learn through the internet. Who could have foreseen they would be fused with cell phones and be on our persons all the time or on our wrist so that whatever you want to see, hear, and know is at your fingertips.  The paradigm shift created by modern technology has not only affected the secular world, with us ordering products on websites and calling food to come to us via apps, but it has altered the Church in profound ways. Its not just the giant screens and projectors in Church sanctuaries, but how we now operate and live as Christians. Once upon a time a pastor or priest would teach something and you had to pour over your Bible and memorize it to see if it was true or false teaching, now you can look up the sentence said by a teacher on a search engine which can point you to a wikipa...

  A major wind of revival is sweeping across the United States from Asbury University, Wilmore-Kentucky to fountains at A&M Galveston, Texas. It started with students during a chapel service at Asbury University KY not wanting to leave, and before you knew it 20,000 people descended on Wilmore, and then another 10,000. The School had to limit services and host the revival off campus starting last monday due to midterms. But the fire of revival seemed to spread, with one article asking “is this the next Great Awakening?”  This wind of revival is not without precedent. There have been some major ones in US history from The First Great Awakening (1730-40), The Second Great Awakening (1790-1840), The Jesus Revolution which took the world by storm in 1970’s. There have been mini-revivals since, but there seems to be a greater fire than those minivivals moving this time. In fact, in a unrelated report, former Soccor Pro turned Pastor Jesse Bradley just lead 200,000 people to ac...

  On February 23rd I was listening to The Message (Christian Music Radio Station) on Sirius XM, and Katy Nichole was being interviewed by one of The Message’s hosts for her new album “Jesus Changed My Life.” What bothered me is because she and the host had all these things in common, including a song she picked was his wedding song, the host said it was “The Universe made it so, was making the coincidences happen,” and she agreed. The Universe is a term used in Pantheism, it is said instead of God governing you, kinda like saying Mother Nature’s will. I am concerned how this terminology    has entered the vernacular of Christians, because The Universe and saying its looking out for you is Pantheism, which is defined as, “If you believe in pantheism, you see God in the whole world around you. Pantheism is a religious belief that includes the entire universe in its idea of God.” And this is what Pantheism is, “the doctrine or belief that God is the universe and its phe...

  Today begins Lent, when many denominations will commemorate the forty days Jesus wandered in the desert and was tempted by the devil before He began His public ministry. Here is the full passage:  “The Temptation of Jesus Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” But he answered,  “It is written,   “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written,  “‘He will command his angels concerning you,’ and    “‘On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.’” Jesus said to him, “Again it is written, ‘...

  Many of the High Churches have split over the ordination of homosexual clergy. Well now the Anglican (Episcopal) Church is planning on changing their language to make God gender neutral, “The Church of England is considering the idea    of using alternative language instead of referring to God in the masculine gender. he Rev. Joanna Stobart, of the Diocese of Bath and Wells, asked the church's liturgical commission chair whether that body would "develop more inclusive language in our authorized liturgy and to provide more options for those who wish to use authorized liturgy and speak of God in a non-gendered way," according to the outlet. Any changes to the words used in prayers or other liturgies using "God the Father" and Jesus Christ "God the Son" would have to be approved by the General Synod, the church's governing body. Such a move would mark a departure from traditional Jewish and Christian teachings dating back millennia,  The Independent...

  Over 34,000 people have perished in the major earthquake in Turkey. The land is now stricken with grief, and relief is flooding in from many Christian organizations. Turkey was once an epicenter Church History, it is where Constantine settled Eastern Rome, the Capitol named Constantinople, now Istanbul. There The Eastern Rome (Byzantium) endured from 330 to 1453 A.D. until it fell to the Ottoman Turks. Later Turkey would be a crucible of a Armenian Holocaust where over 2 Million Armenian Christians were killed in an act of genocide.  Some may feel that this earthquake is The Lord recompensing the nation of Turkey for its crimes against Christians from past to present: The Seljurk Turks who robbed, raped and killed Christians on the pilgrim roads to Jerusalem prompting The First Crusade, then as  The Ottoman Turks trying to conquer the Christian world with violent invasions that were stopped by miraculous Christian victories at Vienna, Lepanto, & Malta, then as the d...

  So many people are battling chronic disease, allergies, and physical conditions ranging from severe to mild. It seems like many are living in NSAIDs, seeking relief from their affliction. Often our first recourse is to pop a pill, but a time comes when that doesn’t work well anymore, needing to increase the dosage. You can feel like your caught in a rock and hard place, you need your meds, but are we suppose to live like this? With chronic conditions where we are held together by medicine? Male no mistake, I am not anti-medicine or surgery, I believe God wants us to use science and medical breakthroughs to remedy what we can. But what if you are loke the woman who spent all her money on doctors, “including a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years. She had spent all her money on physicians, but no one was able to heal her.” (Luke 8:43). She sought the hem of Jesus’ robe, she believed Christ could restore her. I believe that is still available to us today as well, th...

  Authority matters. Even when people claim to have no authority over them (anarchists) it matters. For the Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox authority is divided among bishops, councils, canons, holy tradition, and the Scriptures. They rely on tradition as much as Scripture, this is Prima Scriptura. The battlecry of the Reformation was of course Ad Fontes, “back to the sources,” in the case of the Church, The Scriptures. We Protestants often tour as our authority Scripture Alone or Sola Scriptura. But what do we mean when we say that? We mean Scripture is our standard for measuring orthodoxy (right belief), accurate theology, sound doctrine and Christian living because the books of the Bible aren’t the invention of men, they are the words of God, breathed unto us, “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work,” (2 Timothy 3:16-18). The Scrip...