A Knight's Blog

  We enjoy judging others. There is a spiritual pride in deciding that someone else is not measuring up to rules we find in Scripture or in our churches. And yet there is a great amount that Christ says about, “Judge not, that you be not judged. For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye?,” (Matthew 7:1-3) and “But when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her..” (John 8:7).  Why are these sayings ignored? Why does the Cross, the symbol of God’s Mercy get used to crush people? The answer is the Mob. We want to crucify those who do not measure up to hide our own frailty and that we arn’t measuring up. It’s easy to cry, “let me take the speck out of your own eye, when I have log in my owm.”  We are so keen ...

  The Main Source that supports the claims in this Post is  Diarmaid MacCulloch’s Little Lower Than The Angels: The History of Christianity and Sex, Chapter 2, 2024.  We are inclined to think that the attitudes that have pervaded in the Church towards sexuality come from The Bible. That God wants sex for procreation purely and solely. This was the Medieval Church’s stance, and where it comes from its not the Bible. Rather it comes from the Greco-Roman culture of Antiquity, which was forged by Philosophers like Plato and Aristotle. In the Greek Culture, Self Control was seen as Honor, to the point that sexual enjoyment in excess was considered a weakness and betrayal of your masculinity, and the blame for sexual excess was placed upon women. This concept that you must curb your pleasure, and not enjoy Sex too much arrived in the Church through Monasticism and Asceticism, how? Because the Medieval Roman Catholic Church used Plato and Aristotle    as a lens for int...

  I have become very alarmed by the fear pervading over churches. People have become so guarded, that to become a friend in some circles requires that you attend that church two years or more till they will decide you are not crazy. What is so concerning about this is fear is not of the LORD. There are 365 verses on Fear in the Holy Bible, one for each day of the year. The most famous is, “God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and sound mind.” (2 Timothy 1:7). It is key to note that the three in that verse: power, love, and sound mind are the weapons against fear because, “There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love,” (1 John 4:18), power of the Holy Spirit I have witnessed makes fast bonds with people when allowed to manifest, and a sound mind is one guarded in Christ, “And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your m...

  I recently posted about a Frances de Sales giving some good advice, and I must rescind that post. Sales teaches in Chapter Six of To Philoea or Intro Into The Devout Life (Tan Classics) that doing the Sacrament of Penance means acknowledging that “you have lost God’s grace, and merit hell.” This is utterly false, we do not incur the wrath of God,  “Therefore much more, having been justified now by His blood, we will be saved by Him from wrath!” (Romans 5:9), and we are saved . We do not merit hell when we sin anymore, for Jesus has paid for our sins once for all time, otherwise he’d have to suffer forever, “For Christ did not enter into a holy place made with human hands, which was only a copy of the true one in heaven. He entered into heaven itself to appear now before God on our behalf. And he did not enter heaven to offer himself again and again, like the high priest here on earth who enters the Most Holy Place year after year with the blood of an animal.   If that h...

  The former Newsboys Member Michael Tait, has been found with allegations of watching rape, and preying on two minors who were boys ( https://cbn.com/news/entertainment/shame-and-tragedy-john-cooper-issues-bold-proclamation-michael-tait ). This is rocking the Christian community when many have been still recovering from the sexual scandals in the Southern Baptist Churches and the Roman Catholic scandals.  I find myself personally effected because I preferred Newsboys when Michael Tait was lead singer, especially songs like “We Believe” which is a shortened Apostle’s Creed song, and their version of “Holy, Holy, Holy.” Now I will not be able to listen to Tait and those versions of the songs just as I will not buy or look at Thomas Kinkade’s paintings after he left his Wife Nanet and family to be with mistress. Sin can taint your witness, especially sin as vile as Tait is alleged to have done.  So many Christians in the limelight fall like stars. There was Jimmy Swagger wi...

  I have seen all The John Wick films. Something you can say about them is the action never disappoints, and the plot is not difficult to follow. Getting to explore the world of assassins and the rules that govern their lives is something that we as Christians may have pause over, for this world no doubt exists, and to whisper about it even feels dpangerious. That said when a Spin Off was announced, In The World of John Wick: Ballerina, which would focus on a woman assassin who is ever as badass as Mr. Wick, I had reservations that this was from same place that has tried to usurp men from their place in stories, for example Star Was with Kathleen Kennedy’s “The Force is Female!” And the clear retcons in the Star Wars Saga to make women seem superior as in Ahsoka, with Master Tano herself besting The Chosen One, and in The Acolyte, two twins who were created by the dark side, making Anakin’s immaculate conception seem trivial. This has been the agenda, to supplant Man and promote wo...

  It seems rational as Christians that we should marry Christians. It makes sense, that you would want Christ at the center of your Covenant marriage. The pitfalls of marrying an unbeliever is not only how it will effect potential children with unbelief, rather you afe marrying the devil, “You used to live in sin, just like the rest of the world, obeying the devil—the commander of the powers in the unseen world.He is the spirit at work in the hearts of those who refuse to obey God.” (Ephensians 2:2). At any moment that person can be an agent of the evil one to torment you. While it is true Christian spouses ars not devoud of swlfihisness, the flesh, and demoninc influences m, the difference is that they do not harbor the evil one inside them (Ephensians 2:2). They can be influenced bu mmy him as Peter was (Matthew 16:23), but being potentially influenced is not the same as being possessed, and utterly dominated as a unbeliever can be by the demonic.  The greatest Biblical rebu...