A Knight's Blog

  In an attempt to distance ourselves from Roman Catholicism, Protestants in history tended to downplay the other sacraments or mysteries that the Church practiced. Martin Luther recognized only two sacraments: Baptism and The Lord's Supper, known also as The Eucharist and The Communion. Most churches observe Baptism, to become a member of the Body of Christ it is seen as a fufillment of the words of The Apostle Paul, " if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. " (Romans 10:9-10). That you are confessing your faith in Jesus Christ as Lord before witnesses. However, the Second Sacrament, Holy Communion is not emphasized equally in all denominations. Anglicans, Lutherans, and mostly High Churches practice The Communion every Sabbath, every Sunday Service, making it the center piece aside fro...

   I grew up on Sonic The Hedgehog. One of my first games was playing Sonic The Hedgehog on Sega Genesis. I remember how much I loved the Blue Blur, how when I got my copy of Sonic 2 The Game, rented Sonic 3 at Blockbuster, and when for a birthday I got Sonic & Knuckles with the cartridge that allowed you to be Knux in Sonic 2 and Sonic 3 I was on cloud nine! (Near the Death Egg maybe haha). My passion for SEGA's answer to The Plumber Mario grew as I got into the Archie Comics, learning about the Freedom Fighters like Sally Acorn, Rotor, Bunny Rabot, and Antoine D'Coolette in The Sonic SatAM cartoon and the comics. I coveted my Sonic The Hedgehog Movie (Anime, OVA) which pitted the Fastest Thing Alive against Robotnik's Sonic doppelgänger robot Metal Sonic (Called Mecha Sonic sometimes in the comics and games). Then as I entered my adolescence, Sonic evolved too, the Adventure Era spread to Archie comics and the games, Adventure with Perfect Chaos, and Adventure 2 which...

   History and how it operates tends to fall into two forms, there is cyclical view, which claims that history and nations go through a circle of rise, golden age, decline, destruction or rebirth. In this view we are "doomed to repeat history," to an extent, because its hardwired in our world. The Linear view of history and nations states that we are headed to final cataclysmic event, the end of the world or end of human history. Most would say that Bible affirms the linear view, that we are headed to the End of This World (Revelation 21, 2 Peter 3:10) and The Second Advent of our Lord Jesus Christ. However, in Scripture the Lord does affirm the cyclical nature of history, when he says, "nations will rise, and nations will fall," (Job 12:23) and King Solomon, "for everything there is a season, a time to live, a time to die, a time to destroy and a time to build up." (Ecclesiastes 3:1, 3). This has lead to hybridization of the the cyclical and linear view, ...

  When we think of blessings, we like to think of positive things like our family, friends, something that happened to us that was comforting. We like to think blessings are things like prosperity, but the Bible has a different definition. Our Lord Jesus says, "Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me." (Matthew 5:11) Wait we are blessed when persecuted and mistreated?! Yes indeed, the Apostle Peter even says, "But even if you should suffer because of righteousness, you are blessed. And you should not be afraid of their threats, neither should you be troubled." (1 Peter 3:14). What the?! Yes the storm can be a blessing, and yet that is not how we like to think of it. Remember when the storm hit the apostles in boat and Jesus walked on the water, it looked bad, and yet it was a blessing for they saw The Lord demonstrate his dominion over the weather by stilling the storm, and that He is God by ...

  Persecution of Christians is on the rise globally. The ICC (International Christian Concern) has been documented in a 116pg report that over 300 Million Christians are being subjected to persecution in the form of imprisonment, torture, punishments, and even assassination! In Nigeria, Africa Christian Farmers are being run off their farms in the millions; they are mutilated even and if they return they are subjected to further mistreatment. How are we in The West turning a blind eye to Christian brothers and sisters suffering?! Oh we have pastors making millions (you know their names) while our family in Christ is being carved up, put in concentration camps, yes there are camps the size of Washington D.C. that Christians are being kept in and slowly exterminated! (https://cbn.com/news/world/christians-terrorized-around-globe-how-murder-torture-mayhem-point-growing-persecution). Our Holocaust is happening! And no one is talking about it save CBN News! The estimated persecuted when...

     Ghosting is phenomenon when someone ignores your messages, does not responds, shuns you, and behaves as if you are dead. Many use this method to deal with relationships they want to dissolve or manage. The problem is we would agree if we watch a scene like in The Witness, when the Amish community shuns the woman who falls in love with Harrison Ford as being extreme, and yet we are just like that Amish community online, and through our technology, severing people without the courage to confront them.  I am going to say that ghosting is acceptable if you are dealing with an abuser, specifically a physical, fiscal, sexual, spiritual, and emotional abuser. The Lord will understand that you need to get away from them and not respond to anything they say without a mediator such as a lawyer or safe people. So before I get into the Culture of Ghosting, I do want to say there are acceptable reasons to ghost, and that is definitely one of them. Now to explore the ghosting...

 There is no putting the genie back in the bottle, the internet and social media, and the many forms of connecting such as Instagram, Discord, Tiktok, and etc are all here to stay. What I intend to examine is not a total boycott, that is impossible, the youth of the nation is firmly tied to these programs and apps, bur rather to look at pitfalls of online life. The advent of the internet came upon us so suddenly, it seemed computers had just started to be in most homes, and then you could hear the loud sound of AOL dial up, then before you knew it you had to get DSL, then Wi-Fi interconnecting of devices appeared, then Wikipedia replaced Encyclopedias, and whoosh here we are in a Online world with social media from X to Facebook that replaced MySpace, with chat rooms like yahoo replaced by Discord. One of the chief problems is that there is a cognitive dissonance developing between online living and what is called IRL (in real life). This compartmentalization has become quite probl...

   The California fires have ravaged the area. Winds of hurricane strength made the flames spread, and the lack of water in the hydrants because the Dam that had water was under construction. This tragedy has many sensing conspiracy, as Mel Gibson who lost his house in Malibu to the fire mentioned the Arsonist caught who did not get charged, and the plans to turn those neighborhoods into climate control and migrant ready housing where people will be bunched upon one another. Others might claim this is God destroying Hollywood for all their sacrilegious and antichrist behavior and stories. Some might even say, "God is a consuming fire," (Deuteronomy 4:24) and that Christ is returning with fire, "But the day of the Lord will come as unexpectedly as a thief. Then the heavens will pass away with a terrible noise, and the very elements themselves will disappear in fire, and the earth and everything on it will be found to deserve judgment" (2 Peter 3:10). I want to ur...

   For most fans the writing on the wall for A Galaxy Far, Far, Away... was in The Last Jedi, when a hero of the franchise was turned into a disillusioned shell of what he became in The Expanded Universe (Legends). Even The Mandalorian Season 2 Finale and Book of Boba episodes, could not salvage Luke Skywalker from being desecrated by Disney. Since then we have had shows that have expressed a form of radical feminism. I want to be clear that you can write strong women and even have them be a focal point like Mara Jade Skywalker as The Emperor's Hand, and Aayala Secura. The issue is not women, it is an agenda to make men irrelevant and subservient. One of the reasons The Clone Wars series work was Anakin and Ahsoka were partners, Snips (Ahsoka) was not trying to overshadow the Chosen One, rather she added to his story and became her own unique beloved character, especially by Wrong Jedi did she sway me with that arch, it even answered why we did not know Ani had an apprentice b...

  David Dunn wrote and preforms a haunting song that says, "I wanna go back to Jesus Loves Me, for the Bible Tells me, for the Bible Tells Me So.." So often in our Christian walk we can as the song says "grow older and grow apart," that is apart from knowing Jesus personally, and instead know him intellectually through theology, doxology, and all the ologies. I am not saying knowing Sound Doctrine and Good Theology is bad, the problem is when we substitute it for the relationship with Christ. Sometimes we have to reset, to go back to where we were as the song says, which is actually Jesus' own words to one of the churches, " But I have this complaint against you. You don’t love me or each other as you did at first! Look how far you have fallen! Turn back to me and do the works you did at first." (Revelation 2:4-5).  Some of us this new year need to go back, to turn back to Christ in a personal way, and not be merely content with gnosis (knowing about)...

   In the Prophet Isaiah, Chapter Twenty Seven, the Lord tells of a day when The Leviathan, a dragon will be defeated by him with a sword, and we shall sing in the vineyard and bear fruit, " In that day the Lord with His severe sword, great and strong, Will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan that twisted serpent; Sing about a fruitful vineyard: I, the Lord , watch over it I water it continually.   guard it day and night so that no one may harm it." (Isaiah 27:1-2). These verses are fulfilled in the Book of Revelation, " Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. The great dragon was hurled down— that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him." (Revelation 12:7-9). That vineyard that is also mentioned by Isaiah, we dis...