by Matt Kennedy | Oct 13, 2023 | Bible Study, History, Oppression, Podcast
On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady, and Nick discuss the recent atrocities perpetrated by Hamas in Israel. They talk about the clash of cultures involved, look at the biblical right of nations to wield the sword, and consider God’s on-going...
by Mark Marshall | Oct 11, 2023 | Apostasy, False Teachers and Their Enablers, History, Justice, Social Justice, Theological Liberalism, U.S. Foreign Policy, Vichycon, Woke Church
It is a good thing I do my dinnertime reading while sitting down. For yesterday evening I found myself agreeing with that old Clinton Democrat Lanny Davis. He wrote an excellent big picture article debunking moral equivalence arguments that equate Israel and Hamas or,...
by Mark Marshall | Sep 14, 2023 | Apostasy, Bible Study, False Teachers and Their Enablers, History, The Gospel, Totalitarians, Woke Church
This from Rod Dreher this past Sunday has me thinking about how we all are too prone to having our thinking held captive by the times we happen to live in. I mean, look: we wonder (or rather, I wonder) why more people, especially Christians, aren’t standing up...
by Mark Marshall | Aug 30, 2023 | History, Roman Catholics, Totalitarians, Woke Church
Pope John Paul II travelled around the world as no Pope had before and no Pope since. He flew into quite a number of varied situations. But few of them had the tension of his arrival in Managua, Nicaragua in March 1983. The cabinet of the Marxist Sandinista junta were...
by Matt Kennedy | Aug 25, 2023 | Anglicans, Bible Study, History, Podcast, The Gospel
On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady, and Nick discuss Archbishop Beach’s summer essay contest: a sermon on what it means to be a global Anglican today. They discuss that topic, applicable biblical texts, how such a sermon might go…and what...
by Anne Kennedy | Aug 20, 2023 | Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, History, Jesus, The Gospel
Photo by Jacob Bentzinger on Unsplash This is turning out to be the unexpected blogging era of musical commentary. Even as I was trashing “Oceans” last Sunday (if you love it, I’m so sorry, I totally listened to it all week out of penance), Oliver Anthony’s “Rich Men...
#179: The (Advent)ure Begins: Waiting, Hoping, and the Start of the Church Year
#178: Underwater Assurance: A Baptism Conversation with James Gad
Let Me Tell You About Human Flourishing
#177: Routes to Rebirth: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Conversion, and Evangelism
Pope Francis, Bishop Strickland and the Limits of Tolerance
