A Knight's Blog

  The Legend of Zelda is perhaps the most famous series of video games. The story revolves around a Princess named Zelda being abducted or assailed by an evil sorcerer called Ganon, also known as Ganondorf, who seeks to twist the World of Hyrule into darkness. Rising up as a knight to help the Princess is Link, the titular hero  that the player plays with his usually green tunic and cap, pointy ears, and Master Sword (Exalibur) and shield. No matter what evils await, or tribulations, Link fights Ganon and his schemes till the bitter end. At the center of this conflict is The Triforce, a triangle of triangles, each separated into a shard of Courage, Wisdom, and Power. Link possesses Courage, Zelda has Wisdom and Ganon has Power. Since A Link to A Past & Ocarina of Time, the three pieces of the Triforce are of three goddesses worshipped by Hylians, Din the goddess of Power, Nayru the goddess of Wisdom, and Farore the goddess of Courage. The Triforce is split between three, Ganon, Zel

  We live in a day and age when church sanctuaries look more like sports centers and worship is like a concert. Massive big screens with graphics replace altars and crosses, and a stage aptly is there for the life coachesque Pastor who will tell you the Good News and positive passages like “I have come that they may have life, and that they may have  it  more abundantly,” (John 10:10),    and ignore, “I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation, distress, and suffering. But take courage; I have overcome the world!” (John 16:33). The transformation of churches began with the ill advised Seeker Friendly Movement that went to secular advisors in marketing and door to door to find out what would make people go to church, entertainment. The problem is church is not suppose to be entertainment! It is suppose to be the gathering of the ecclesia, the family of Christ to pray, worship, study the Scriptures, and remeber Christ’s death til

  Target hired an artist to do apparel who is a Satanist who claims “Satan loved you,” ( https://www2.cbn.com/news/us/target-partnering-lgbt-pride-artist-who-creates-satanic-imagery-and-trans-demon-art ), Wal-Mart sells full on Satanist shirts ( https://www.walmart.com/c/kp/satanic-t-shirts ), and etc. Let me answer that claim Satan loves you, he doesn’t, he made our ancestors give up paradise so that generation after generation suffers futility (Romans 8:20-22). Satan is a liar and murderer, “For you are the children of your father the devil, and you love to do the evil things he does. He was a murderer from the beginning. He has always hated the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, it is consistent with his character; for he is a liar and the father of lies.”(John 8:44). The claim Satan loves you is a lie, he is a liar! He deceives the world, “And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole wor

  “In the gospel, the whole truth is clearly contained." -Zwingli We never tire of the gospel. We return to the scene of Jesus crucified in liturgies, Scripture, and Easter because the central truth is therein contained. God came to rescue sinners, and He did it through a brutal death of the cross. The image of Christ Crucified mesmerizes us because it is The Gospel in an image. The Four Gospels in our Bible all contain teachings from Jesus, some have eschatology, others details about His birth, but all contain an in depth account of our Lord’s Passion, Death, and Resurrection. Because in that is the goos news, the truth that sets us free, that God became a man to bear the sins of all man and reconcile man to God, rather than leave us in the bitter cold separation and self delusion of earning heaven by good works, The Son of God tore down the veil of separation and earns heaven by His completed work ok the cross.  We never tire of the evangelion, for it is the centerpiece of our f

  The world around us seems to be going mad. Mass shootings, make up genders (I have a wife and kids, but feel like a woman so I am a woman), child sex changes, radical hormone therapies, declining birth rates, banning stoves, banning beef & rice, banning washers, and more.  The words of St. Anthony are coming true, “A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us.” (St. Antony the Great). This has even been fulfilled literally by people assaulting people in public, and the mad person gets free and the citizen who fights to protect themselves gets locked up.  We are seeing a great reversal, where criminals are allowed to commit crimes with no consequences and good citizens are treated like criminals use to be.    Scripture speaks of these seasons, “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for

  We humans have great self delusions. We live our lives as if we have infinite amount of time, putting off reconciling with a loved one, certain that there is time to say what we need to say. Part of this delusion is founded in the nature we are born with. We were meant for paradise, to live  Forever in the Garden of our God. So we carry on in that manner, ignoring the signs of decay and requiems around us. At funerals we have a moment of reflection, a passing jolt that    time is not infinite, that death, separation will come, and then when we put away the black clothes (white & other colors in other cultures) we forget all over again. We become deluded once more that we can postpone those goodbyes, words we have left unsaid, and connections we wish to make before Christ takes us home.  There is a movie I highly recommend, Meet Joe Black, starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Brad Pitt. The story is Death, the Grim Reaper takes a human body(Brad Pitt) to see what life is like before h

  The New Testament provides no verse to prove or disprove Christ having a beard. We in fact have no mention of Jesus having long hair either. So why does Jesus have long hair and a beard in most paintings? The answer to the beard    is found in prophecies of Jesus from the Old Testament, “I offered my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard; I did not hide my face from mocking and spitting.” (Isaiah 50:6). We know in that list Jesus was beaten, mocked, and spat on: “Some began to spit at Him, and to blindfold Him, and to beat Him with their fists, and to say to Him, “Prophesy!” And the officers received Him with slaps in the face.” (Mark 14:65), “Now the men who were holding Jesus in custody were mocking Him and beating Him,” (Luke 22:63), “They spat on Him, and took the reed and began to beat Him on the head,” (Matthew 27:30), “They kept beating His head with a reed, and spitting on Him, and kneeling and bowing before Him.” (Mark 15:19); so It stands to

  Many in their devotions feel the presence of the Lord. At services The Holy Spirit can descend, and Christ Jesus speak to our minds and hearts. In private prayer The Pater (Father) may prognosticate to his pilgrims. But what of when God goes silent? When the charisma stops and the voice of the almighty is stilled? Worse what if his presence fades or perhaps you cannot access it due to stressors, tormentors, and life cares and worries? What as Christians are we to do when we feel separated from God’s voice and presence?   The answer is to carry on. To keep praying, seeking, worshipping, and reading Scripture. If God’s voice is quiet, then fill that quiet with praise and prayer. If you cannot feel His presence, then use that time to study the Holy Bible, memorize the verses when you hear not voice of God, for then you are hearing God, what He said in 66 Books, and thus fill the vacuum.  The moments of God’s silence and absence of his dynamic presence is when we need faith must, to trus