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#6: A Whole New World: SCOTUS, Self-Definition, and the Christian Life

by Matt Kennedy | Jun 22, 2020 | Jesus, Podcast, Religious Freedom, The Gospel, U.S. Politics

In this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady, and Nick discuss the Supreme Court’s recent Bostock decision, continue their exploration of the world’s anti-Gospel, and consider what the Christian life will look like in a world that, more and more,...

Whatever Happened to Mark 12:17?

by Mark Marshall | Apr 20, 2020 | Coronavirus, Religious Freedom, U.S. Politics

The other day I was thinking (which in my case is quite dangerous) that during this coronavirus crisis we have heard a lot from Romans 13, but we have heard very little from Mark 12:17. Further, I cannot recall hearing that or the parallel verses of Luke 20:25 and...

The Authoritarian Temptation

by David Fischler | Mar 30, 2020 | Religious Freedom

New York City mayor Bill de Blasio has had it with religious types insisting on continuing to meet for worship amid the COVID-19 crisis. They are ignoring him, and according to the Washington Examiner, they’re gonna regret it: “A small number of religious...

The Gospel is Not At Stake

by Matt Kennedy | Mar 18, 2020 | Go to Church, Religious Freedom, Spirituality, The Gospel

I have great faith in the government’s capacity to take a moderately bad situation and turn it into an epic job-killing, life-changing, debacle that requires decades of recovery. That being said, I have three kids down with a flu unlike any flu I have ever seen. We...

The Holy Family: Wokes Wrong; Cons Confused

by Tim Fountain | Dec 29, 2019 | Bible Study, Biblical Illiteracy, Jesus, Religious Freedom, The Gospel, Theological Liberalism, U.S. Politics, Woke Church

Photo of Hong Kong protests by Ng Han Guan, Associated Press Mary, Joseph and the baby in their care traverse borders and overlapping political realities in the Biblical narratives of Jesus’ birth. An attentive and honest reading of these main historical sources...

It Can’t Happen Here

by David Fischler | Dec 6, 2019 | LGBTQIetc, Lutherans, Religious Freedom

That’s the title of a Sinclair Lewis novel about the coming of fascism to America. The Nobel Prize winning writer contended that, if it could happen in civilized Europe, it could happen in the United States as well. Here’s one form it will take: The...