A Knight's Blog

  The News outlets in The US are consumed with politics. Heck even entertainment and music is laced with political undertones and overtones. Many right wingers use religion, particularly Christianity to plug candidates and causes, invoking that Jesus wants Americans to vote a certain way. In contrast, The left and liberals tend towards humanism and a lack of invoking God, save for in racial circles claiming victimization. The truth is God is being used in US politics like he was during The Crusades, with a Neo Deus Vult (God Wills It). And to me its alarming. The fusion of Christianity and politics is a dangerous rode because it has been done before in Byzantium with Emperors who were tyrants with swords, laws, and crosses (war, judicial reforms like Justinian, and ecclesiastical power) and the Popes who acted like absolute monarchs in late Middle Ages who gathered as much temporal power, that is political and worldly power as they claimed spiritual power, leading to the scandal of...

  The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have stood the test of time. The four turtles Leonardo (Leo), Raphael (Raph), Donatello (Donnie), and Michelangelo (Mikey) all have distinct and lovable personalities, Leo is the stalwart leader, Raph the hothead warrior, Donnie the brainy inventor, and Mikey the silly embodiment of being a teenager with his battlecries of “Chowbunga,” and “Booyahkasha!” The story of the turtles is simple, four turtles swimming in mutagen ooze are transformed into humanoid turtles who learn Ninjitsu from their mutant Rat Sensei (master) and father figure Splinter. In TMNT 2012-2017, Splinter is Hamato Yoshi, leader of a Ninja clan (Hamato Clan) who is betrayed by his step brother Oroku Saki who becomes The Shredder. Oroku Saki kills Yoshi’s wife, reduces the Hamato Clan castle to flames and takes Yoshi’s daughter and in The Mask of Zorro Don Raphael fashion raises her as his own daughter Karai. In this series the mutagen comes from The Kraang, brain shaped aliens ...

  In 1859 a pious woman named    Anna Bartlett Warner created a theologically rich hymn called “Jesus Loves Me This I Know.” The hymn illustrated the simplicity of the gospel, that Jesus loves us and is a perfect buckler against the accuser of the brethren who attempts to make God seem harsh.  Later in 1862 a man named William Batchelder Bradbury added the famous refrain and repetition of “Yes, Jesus Loves Me”: “Jesus loves me—this I know, For the Bible tells me so; Little ones to Him belong— They are weak, but He is strong. Refrain:    Yes, Jesus loves me,    Yes, Jesus loves me,    Yes, Jesus loves me—    The Bible tells me so! Jesus loves me—He who died Heaven's gate to open wide; He will wash away my sin, Let His little child come in.  Refrain Jesus loves me—loves me still, Though I'm very weak and ill; From His shining throne on high, Comes to watch me where I lie.  Refrain Jesus loves me—He w...

  Very few songs in contemporary Christian Music attempt to describe The Lion of Judah side of Jesus. In part the reason is fear of obscuring The Lamb of God who was slain for us, that grace will be missed by souls that need to believe. However, The Lion and Fire & Brimstone preaching has its place to “rouse a deaf world,” (C.S. Lewis).  The collaboration between Kutless and Disciple on the single “End of the World” is nothing short of visceral and haunting. It opens with direct quotes from Revelation and the Prophet Joel about the Seals breaking, the Moon turning blood red, and stars falling from the sky after showing planets and the galaxy. Then the lyrics turn ot the streets will run with blood, a reference to the blood of the wicked will be one hundred miles long (Revelation 14:17-20NLT) and up to the bridle of Jesus’ horse (Revelation 14:20). It then goes totally into a course of your will breaking and there is no hiding from the wrath of lamb, and that you need to “g...

  There is an effort to confuse definitions in the Bible. The newest is “Son of God.” This designation of Jesus is crucial because it is central to the gospel, “And Simon Peter answered and said, “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God,” (Matthew 16:16) , “who was declared the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead, according to the Spirit of holiness, Jesus Christ our Lord,” (Romans 1:4), and “All who declare that Jesus is the Son of God have God living in them, and they live in God.” (1 John 4:15). These days they are claiming Son of God is same as Christ the anointed one (ESV Study Bible, Hans F. Bayer, Ph.D., Aberdeen University, which is false!!! Christ is a different designation than Son of God), or in Hebrew Bible “that it means one one who has a special relationship with God.” That is not what it means regarding Jesus! Son of God is specific designation: “the title "Son of God" refers to  the status of Jesus as the divine son of God the Father...