A Knight's Blog

  I am convinced what will destroy humanity is the same sin that destroyed Satan, pride. I talk to humanists and atheist and they say things like “eternity I cannot fathom, and sound horrible with no ending,” or “God is all knowing, that must be boring or suck.”  The fact that people in their hubris would presume to judge God and say what they think something they cannot possibly understand or know like eternity and omniscience baffles me. One person I speak with is so determined to believe only reason and science is reality, and they deny the higher reality of Christ. They are so wise in their own eyes, when Jesus is the source of all wisdom, “Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” (Colossians 2:2-3). And yet this person’a life is full of misery and pain, they will not allow anyone to pray for a miracle for them, to lay on hands, because they trust in science.. it is like watching someone on fire, and you keep saying, “drop and roll!” And they d...

  We are born into a world that is constrained by time. This makes us have linear perspective, with birth, life, and death. And yet our Lord Jesus tells us that death is not the end, “Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?” (John 11:25-26) and we believe there is a paradise for us his people and perdition for those who are against Him. The realm problem though is not trusting this, its that our minds have trouble grasping eternity. Some people even have said that eternity frightens them, and they would rather cease to exist. I am going to explore why this is and why it is normal to feel this way to an extent in this life, and the provision our Lord has made for the next.  Eternity is not something we can fathom. No beginning, no middle, and no end is as foreign to us as breathing in space or underwater. And yet the One True God ...

  A Suicide Bomber just blew themselves up at a Syrian Church, killing twenty-two Christians.  ( https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c307n9p43z9o.amp ). I mourn our brothers and sisters who have been slain, and they join the Martyrs in Heaven, “They shouted to the Lord and said, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you judge the people who belong to this world and avenge our blood for what they have done to us? Then a white robe was given to each of them. And they were told to rest a little longer until the full number of their brothers and sisters—their fellow servants of Jesus who were to be martyred—had joined them.” (Revelation 6:10-11). I warned that this was coming this week in a post “Maligning The Faith” ( https://sirjeffreypendragonblog.blogspot.com/2025/06/politic-maligning-faith.html?m=1 ) in which I gave counsel that we need to as Christians be “Shrewd as serpents and gentle as doves,” (Matthew 10:16) and not wear in public Christian iconography like cro...

  Man of God is the true story of Bishop Nektarios, a man who is slandered and persecuted by Synods of the Church who fear his asceticism and “pure and undivded deotion to Christ” (2 Corinthians 11:13). As a result he has to flee Egypt, his Slanderers having convinced the Patriarch, Nektarios’ own mentor and friend that he is a Judas. Rather than try to fight back, Nektarios bears with these false accusations and prayers for those, in vein of Jesus’ teaching, “pray for those who despiterfully use you.” (Matthew 5:44). Once he is in Greece he finds that his priviledges as a Priest are limitited to burials and praying for the sick, so bad is the slander from Egypt, that he finds himself not able to sustain a stable income or food, and sitting next to homeless man he says, “When the Lord is your only hope, it is then that you can feel his presence. I have been blessed lately to share in your sufferings.” These words are powerful, “when God is your only hope,” I have been pressed to th...

  I have written extensively on the pitfalls of Eastern Christianity, particularly the traditions of Eastern Orthodox that contradict the Scriptures. However, there is one area that I feel Eastern Christians get right that I wish we in the West would import. The concept of Mystery, that God is mysterious, that He has a right to conceal a thing, and that we need not always understand but have faith and trust His Ways. In the West, we want answers, exegesis and Bible answer men. Interestingly, the famous Bible Answerman, Hank Hanegraaff left Protestantism to become an Eastern Orthodox, he left having to give answers for the Mystery. On a slavic level I find that troubling, because the Eastern Churches do not espouse the Gospel according to Romans 10:9-10, John 3:16-18, Philippians 3:9, Acts 15:1-11, Acts 4:10-12, and Ephesians 2:4-11. Theirs is similar to the Roman Catholic Church, with all its penance and works, which is not the gospel, but a different one (Galatians 1:8-9). It is b...

  It is rather dismaying how much easier it is to make unbelieving friends than Christian friends. To make a Christian friend at church is akin to having to go on dates, and prove yourself a worthy contender to be their friend. This can take years, as you attend Bible studies, and small groups, endeavoring with every fiber of your being to have fellowship. In stark contrast, unbelievers make fast friends, it reminds me of when you are kids and you say, “your favorite color is blue?! We will be best friends!” (Paraphrase of Jerry Seinfeld, Seinfield Series). An Unbeliever does not put a person through this social triage, simply all you have to have is one thing in common, one interest whither it be anime, fantasy realms like Star Wars, or Sports.  Why is this the case? Why is it so hard to have community and friendship in the church? The answer is threefold. Firstly, churches since Luther have functioned as academia or theology schools of sorts, where the focus is the sermon, w...

  In the Chosen Season 5, Episode 2, Jesus takes a whip and cleanses the Temple of money changers. In the scene Jesus says, “this court use to be filled with the sounds of prayer, now it is filled with sound of animals.” This comes from the words of Jesus who says, “And He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’” (Matthew 21:13). The Temple was no longer a place of worship and prayer, it was a market selling indulgences in the form of animals. This happened again in Rome, Martin Luther saw the Indulgence sellers at St. Peter’s Basilica selling salvation, forgiveness for dead relatives, and saint medallions and crosses for protection for some coin; as John Tetzel said, “when the coin in the coffer rings a soul from purgatory springs.” Martin Luther in the Spirit of Christ cleansing the Temple nailed his 95 Thesis to the door, and The Reformation began literally as complaint about what Christ was cleansing t...