A Knight's Blog

  There are some people who think they can blend Buddhist and Christian beliefs together. George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars once quipped, “I am a Methodist-Buddhist,” feeling that he could combine Christ’s teachings about love your neighbor with the Zen of Buddhist meditation. The problem is fundamentally, Buddhism and Christianity are diametrically opposite. I would even go as far as to say that Buddhism is the direct opposite of Christianity even more so than Satanism. The reason, is that Buddhism ultimately is about self. Yes, Buddhists claim especially in more mystical and traditional schools to be concerned with creation and others, but it all comes from the prism of building yourself up; your own enlightenment, at the end of the day, its about you being on The Eight Fold Path to destroy your suffering, while in contrast Christianity embraces suffering, “ Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces cha...

  As Christians we are told to take responsibility for when we hurt another person. In specific when we sin against someone, we are to seek out forgiveness and reconciliation. Some of us agonize over if the choices we made did lasting damage to someone, and we often think of them saying, “this is all your fault!” In fact I am reminded of Burton’s Batman, “you made me and I made you,” exchange between Batman and the Joker. However, this is actually not true. Jack who became the Joker was already a vile man, and the Joker persona merely gave him gravitas to rise as kingpin. Batman made a choice, he chose to promise his parents he would fight the evil of Gotham as the Dark Knight to avenge their deaths, his parents did not do demand this of their son. At some point we have to come to the point that people own their own choices. Yes you maybe influenced by hurt from other people, and emotion, and it valid to say they share blame, much like verse, “What sorrow awaits the world, because ...

  The Judas Spirit is a betrayer spirit. It’s characteristics is that it is someone close to you, that you thought you could trust and loved, and they eventually become a traitor. This spirit is probably one of most invidious, because you as a Christian thought the person among you was a dear and close friend, and they turn out not to be. The Judas Spirit can be in Christians, because Judas who was a disciple of Jesus our Lord, he saw great miracles, and even was given powers of the Holy Spirit (Luke 9:1). A Judas cannot be spotted easily at the onset, because one of the ways it operates is that it is in a person you thought loved you, even a spouse potentially. As a result this spirit has an impact unlike others and you find yourself like our Lord saying, “Judas, you betray me with a kiss?” (Luke 22:48).  Something though that differs from how the Judas spirit operated in time of Antiquity and this modern age was that even Judas was repentant, and remorseful, “When Judas, who...

  One of the most jarring moments as child is learning at Santa Claus, the mystical and magical man who is suppose to bring you presents is not real. For each child the discovery is at a different age, some its sooner, others later. The problem, and I have said it before, is that the Santa Hoax, specifically the Santa Claus that is perpetuated by parents to their children, not St. Nicholas who did exist, has a detrimental effect on trust between parents and children. If you lie about Santa, they can extrapolate that the Savior is also a fiction, and this imperils their souls! You wanting them to be part of the Santa fun are setting them up to distrust you and by extension the truth of the Gospel later, especially when they go to schools that throw doubt at validity of our faith.  Should we not do the Santa Claus thing? Should we ban the hoax? Well there is a middle ground you could take, which explain truthfully that Santa was a real person named St. Nicholas, but he has gone ...

  There is a great Casting Crowns Song that is called “Follow Me,” in which he chorus says, “when you are at the end of yourself, follow Me, we I have lost my way, follow Me.” The song encapsulates a truth of the Christian walk, that when all our bearings go away and we feel as if everything is topsy turvey, keeping following Jesus.    While I agree with this sentiment, I would add one more level to it, “Keep Talking to Jesus.” One of the common things we do as humans is when troubles beset us we either go to human consul, or we do all this research via YouTube, and etc, to get a handle on it. And while these are noble and good things, they cannot be a substitute for talking to the Savior.  Talking to Christ really is jus prayer, prayer is talking to our Lord. It can be more formal with closed hands and eyes closed, or as you walk about under your breath, or in tongues, or recitations like the Our Father. The point is you are talking to Jesus, and that is the importa...

  Atheists are very bold about their unbeliefs when their lives are going well. They enjoy their freedom to do whatever they want free of a “Higher Power,” until they get cancer or their plane is about to go down in a crash, then they are saying the “Our Father Prayer,” and “Jesus have mercy,” faster than oxygen masks can drop down. Because the honest truth is there are few fully committed Atheists, I mean people wiling to risk that there is not an eternity and God going to judge them.  It is incredible how fear of harm and the fear of death can make someone so adamantly against the faith become fastly theistic. Part of this is that no matter how brave a face atheists put on, the fear of death governs them as it does most people, and it is only Jesus that can take the fear of death from having its sting,  “Because God’s children are human beings—made of flesh and blood—the Son also became flesh and blood. For only as a human being could he die, and only by dying could he ...

  I was a major fan of Tron: Legacy with the adventure of Sam Flynn and it made me love The Grid. I saw the Original, but it never clicked the way Legacy did, so when Ares was announced I was hyped. When I saw the trailer I had the impression that this was going to be Clu’s Vision from Legacy, the Programs would invade our world and take it over, and the apocalypse would ensue. Well the story did take a turn in directions I did not expect, and frankly I am glad it did. Rather than rehash what people already can read about the film, I am going to get into Biblical symbolism and messages of the film.  I want to start with the name Ares, God of War. There was a time in Bible when the Israelites called The LORD God their Baal, their war god, and the Lord tells them, “no longer call me Baal, call me Ishi, Husband.” (Hosea 2:16). This is exactly what becomes of Ares, he goes from a god of war program, to experiencing humanity, and acting like a caring husband to Eve Kim, the CEO of ...

  We are entering into the Season of Hope, the Christmas Season in which we remember when Christ, the Hope of the World came. It is with some excitement that we are seeing here in the West a growth in interest in the Faith. Bible sales are up 11-22% ( https://billygraham.org/decision-magazine/articles/publishers-see-major-surge-in-bible-sales-after-charlie-kirk-s-assassination ). Youths are attending churches. And I can confirm that this year, when I went decoration shopping that there has been so many Nativities, and Stars of Bethlehem to choose from, I almost have decision paralysis, when a year ago and the year before that, finding a Nativity at a local department store was like those Pickers who go through people’s old sheds, attics, and stuff, and find something valuable.  I really think a good start to this season, is a focus on Hope. That there seems to be a reprieve, a pause if it were in the West of anti Christian and antichrist to an extent. That we can celebrate Chr...