A Knight's Blog

Biblical Epics and adaptations of Scripture are either a cause for joy or dread. They can inspire us and reveal to us nuggets of insight we never noticed or knew, or they can commit offense and even be sacreligious, leaving a false impression and distorting God’s truths. I tend to prefer Biblical Epics like “Ben-Hur” which are about a fictional albeit possibly existing person in the middle of Biblical events. Films like Ben-Hur and “The Robe” please me more because when it takes license and steps outside of the parameters of Scripture it does so with approval because it is not centered on a Biblical person, but a protagonist surrounded by Biblical people. Adaptations of Scripture and the persons within can be to quote Sean Connery, “be very effective or very dangerous.” (Finding Forrester). Paul Apostle of Christ falls into the former, albeit with some cons.  The Apostle Paul wrote two thirds of the New Testament, approximately seventy percent (70%). He is the most prolif...

Prosperity teachers have misled many brothers and sisters in Christ to believe that following Christ will consist of full coffers, and every comfort. These teachers claim that Christ will give a Christian “all the desires of their heart.” (Psalm 37:4). Somehow Christ’s teachings on not storing up treasures, “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also,” (Matthew 6:19-21), not serving two masters, “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money,” (Matthew 6:24), giving up family and property, “And everyone who has given up houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or propert...

The Importance of Communion, the partaking of the bread and wine to remember Christ and His sacrifice should be done with great joy and excitement!  The Communion is a celebration, originally called the love feast where Christian brothers and sisters remembered with jubilation what Jesus had done on the cross. The ceremony (Communion) only became somber and almost regimented when Paul had to address people who were abusing the Lord’s table, “But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse. 18  For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you. And I believe it in part,[a] 19  for there must be factions among you in order that those who are genuine among you may be recognized. 20  When you come together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat. 21  For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal. One goes hungry, anothe...

It is alarming how paper thin Christianity is getting in America. Recently, Evangelicals pledged to support a man who is Pimp and who has open whore houses and who is running for political office. The man isn’t reformed or repentant, having left this former way of life, nay his dens of sin are still open and well documented. When asked why Evangelicals would vote for him their answers were that he is “he is the right man for the job, he has the right policies.” It is interesting how people can divorce their beliefs from politics and other theaters of this world. Being ardent in morality at church but not when it comes to those in political office.  This paper thin Christianity is a byproduct of the Post Modern Times we live in. People who claim to be Christian take up their banner for tyrants on Monday through Saturday and then on Sunday wave the white flag of Jesus. Hypocrisy stinks and this schizophrenia in Evangelicalism is why many are fleeing to the Roman Catholic and...

Alexander Dumas’s classic “The Count of Monte Cristo” is a paragon of French novella. While his “Three Musketeers” might be more adapted and beloved by swashbuckling boys, The Count is a story for us adults. I confess that reading the mammoth 1,450 page novel was a pleasure until the thirty first chapter. For thirty chapters the reader is plunged into the tale of Edmund Dantes, first mate of Phareon ship that has recently returned from the prison island Elba that holds Emperor Napoleon captive. Dantes returns to Marseilles, his home, to greet his ship own Mr. monsieur Morrel. Edmund relates how his captain was laid sick by a fever and they laid at port of Ferraro off Elba. After assuring Ship Owner Morrel that the cargo is intact and becoming a candidate to be the new captain, Edmund Dantes visits his father and then his fiancée Mercedes who is tacitly trying to ward off the amorous advances of Fernand Mondego, who pledges his love to Mercedes only to find her like Medusa reducing...

Thank God for His sacrifice. Every day we reaffirm that we are weak vessels that aspire to holiness and find our flesh Ill disposed with our call. This frailty frustrates are noble piety, when it ought to  provoke gratitude in our hearts. Our flesh acts as a double agent in this life. For the sinner it leads to hades and death, for the saint it leads to remembrance of Christ’s death. Our Lord’s sacrifice has been a propitiation and atonement for all our sins for all time (1 Peter 3:18). There is nothing more than Jesus’ death on the cross and His spilt blood  that can save us and grant us holiness and eternal life. Our spirit and being within has been made clean by the blood of the Lamb and we await the day when we shall relieve our unstained bodies (2 Corinthians 5, whole chapter). Until then the weakness of this matter, the flesh and vessel, serves God. It reminds us lest we become deceived and believe we can be holy enough that we are broken pilgrims in need of God’s gr...