A Knight's Blog

There is a hymn which has a chorus that goes “All I Need is Jesus 🎵 .” How true these four words are. So often as saints we become preoccupied with good things rather than God. We focus on regeneration rather than our relationship with Jesus, we fixate on prayer instead of the Prince of Peace, we fix our eyes on charity rather than Christ. All of these are good things, but they must come second and as fruits from Christ. He said “apart from me you can do nothing, I am the vine, you are the branches, you can bear no fruit apart from me,” (John 15:5). Regeneration or fruit bearing; building virtue and doing good works tends to become a focus, especially in cultic churches. Jesus made it clear there is no transformation, regeneration, and change except through and in Him!  When we pray is should serve as communication with Christ; to connect with Him. Should it fall short of this aim and become merely (only) petitions and intercessions, then we have missed the mark and point...

Jan Hus or John Hus was the Bohemian Reformer who contended with Roman  Catholic Orthodoxy, and advocated a more Protestant view of faith and Christian Living. However, his views did become radically Non-conformist and he believed a dangerous idea:, “The idea of Hus was different. His conception of the nature of the true Church was very similar to that held by many Non-conformists of to-day. He was a great believer in predestination. All men, he said, from Adam onwards, were divided into two classes: first, those predestined by God to eternal bliss; second, those fore-doomed to eternal damnation. The true Church of Christ consisted of those predestined to eternal bliss, and no one but God Himself knew to which class any man belonged. From this position a remarkable consequence followed. For anything the Pope knew to the contrary, he might belong himself to the number of the damned. He could not, therefore, be the true Head of the Church; he could not be the Vicar of C...

The only truly successful Ecumenical movement took place at Hernnhut, Germany, in the year 18th Century. A nobleman names Count Nicklaus Von Zinzendorf opened his land to refugees from Bohemia and other parts of the world. A Lutheran, Zinzendorf possesses Ecumenic sympathies, believing all Christians who placed their faith in Jesus Christ weither Huguenot, Catholic, Pietist, Baptist,  Reformed, Lutheran and etc all should be treated as kinsmen in the faith. His radical ideas would proodice a movement that would unite churches of all denominations with a common goal deep piety and prayer. From the count’s land came a prayer revolution where members devoted to praying seven times a day which then transformed into a 24/7 prayer house that would last for a century!  The zeal of Zinzendorf’s company of interdenominational followers led to suspicion and outrage by the Lutheran elite. It seems whenever there is unity and success the familiar giant of jealousy and envy awake...

When I use the word Protestant, I do not mean it in denominational sense, rather in that The Protestants during The Reformation affirmed and proclaimed that salvation was found by grace through faith in Jesus Christ alone. When I use the word Protestant, I mean a Christian believer who trusts and believes Jesus Christ has made the total propitiation and sacrifice for all sin, and that faith in Him equals and results in eternal life (John 6:40). The word Protestant as it is used in this post means a Christian who believes Jesus Christ is God and has made all the necessary sacrifice for sin, and believes that the Holy Bible alone is what we base our theology, doctrine, and practices on. When I use the word Protestant or Protestantism, I mean so in this sense, not to reference denominations ranging from Anglican to Presbyterian to Lutheran to Evangelical to Methodist and beyond, which fastly slipping away from Gospel as written in the New Testament and promoting destructive heresies...

There are two instances of whipping in the New Testament. The First is Jesus making a whip out of cords and driving out the money changers:  “So Jesus made a whip out of cords , and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. To those who sold doves he said, “Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a market!” His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for your house will consume me.” (John 2:15-17).  The second instance of whipping is Jesus himself receiving the whip for our transgressions: “Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged with lead tipped whips. The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe and went up to him again and again, saying, “Hail, king of the Jews!” And they slapped him in the face.” (John 19:1-3, cross ref Matthew 27:26) Jesus whipped the religious order but was...

I believe adamantly in preaching and teaching, “How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?” (Romans 10:14). We are called by our Hod and Savior to make disicples (), to teach people the evangelion and help them in their faith walk. All that being said, there is a time  to let images speak. In an age when vitriol and hyperbola is preventable in the news cycle and readers find themselves exasperated by cut throat articles, it can be centering to stare at Christ Crucified, a Crucifix. To remember that as Jesus died for our sins the crowds were mocking him and slinging their zingers. That it was also a age of unbridled intolerance and hate; and that God stepped into it and let His hands and feet be nailed to a cross for our sakes.  Sometimes the noise of this world drowns our besieged souls. The sniping and the endless arguments dro...