Those who think the Lord’s Prayer and Jubilees support their political goal of blanket debt forgiveness should take a closer look at the Bible and Jewish history. Two authors of ...
“No man can serve two masters” (Matthew 6:24). The fine print at the bottom of the website where I signed up to receive some religious newsletters read: “From time to ...
I am a man of peace; but when I speak, they are for war. – Psalm 120:7 As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it and ...
… the devil took him to the peak of a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. “I will give it all ...
“Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly.” Lev. 19:15 It doesn’t take much time to notice that ...
Calling them to Himself, Jesus said to them, “You know that those who are recognized as rulers of the Gentiles domineer over them; and their people in high position exercise ...
One of the more overlooked ways in which Jesus brought God’s ethical ideal into full bloom — or as Matthew 5:17 puts it, one way he “fulfilled” the Old Testament ...
This guest post is by Steve Wilder. Steve is an electrical engineer and homeschooling father of four. There are three views Christians hold about war: (1) Some believe Jesus taught ...
Our dear friend Larry Reed, an advisor to LCI and former President of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), recently released his book Was Jesus A Socialist? and it follows on ...
Bloodshed Leads to More Bloodshed Whatever happened to the rifleman? I’ve got a job for the rifleman. He really knew how to settle the score When mercy knocked on the ...
We sometimes hear conversations which contain claims like, “Jews are so sneaky,” or “Christians are so intolerant,” or “Asians are so smart,” or “Blacks are so violent.” Imagine this type ...
Was Jesus a socialist? Was he revolting against wealth and money itself? Or was he actually challenging people who use the violence of the state to prosper? I have my ...
Because there are such common misconceptions about what libertarians believe, we are often pushed into defining ourselves by explaining what libertarianism is not. We are eager to tear down straw ...
This week, the Political Correctness religion mass hallucinated that Trump called illegal immigrants animals because many of its members feel that way and deeply want to atone for it. Media ...
The centuries immediately before and after the 100s CE in the Greco-Roman world were increasingly violent. There were frequent uprisings, attempted coups, assassinations of political leaders, reform efforts and massacres ...
The subject of the kingdom of God is worth returning to again and again because a biblically-informed understanding of the kingdom emboldens the people of God for Spirit-filled kingdom demonstration. ...
Coinciding with the release of his new book 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sat down with me earlier this week in New York ...
American Christians just can’t quit our addiction to power. We have no problem with the notion that a majority should be able to use the coercive power of the State ...
“The truth shall set you free.” — Jesus Christ The truth, as Jesus demonstrated, is not conceptual but perceptual. That is, it is embodied, not abstract knowledge. The truth can only be ...
* Today’s guest post is by anthropologist Spencer H. MacCallum. A Wakeup Call for Christian Libertarians The Teacher of Galilee: A Seer Who Really Did See “How tantalizing,” economist ...
David Gornoski is your neighbor. Besides regularly contributing to LCI, he also gave a fascinating talk at our Christians For Liberty 2016 Conference about mimetic theory, Rene Girard, and understanding ...
“My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” – Jesus of Nazareth to his imitator Paul of Tarsus Around the world this season, humans of every ...
Ron Paul is the only major presidential candidate Christians could hire without sinning against Jesus in my lifetime. What I mean by “sin” is doing that which is against the ...
A problem people have when thinking about the lasting legacy of Jesus is the tendency to either objectify him as a ticket into a spiritual in-crowd status or dismiss him ...
I was recently informed that Lawrence Reed, President of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), will be on the Up For Debate Radio Program on the Moody Radio Network this ...
Malcolm Muggeridge was a journalist and contemporary of C.S. Lewis. I have seen him quoted by Christian writers multiple times in recent days, which is particularly interesting since he is ...
Sometimes you read an article and it strikes you as extremely important for your walk with Christ – what follows is one of those. This essay was written by my ...
Christians throughout the centuries have always communicated the good news of the Kingdom of God in the vernacular of their surrounding culture. They have engaged those around them by making ...
During a breakout session at the 2015 International Students for Liberty Conference, I was part of a panel with Norman Horn, Jason Rink, and Chris Wolske. In brief comments before ...
This is a video review of the book “If You Are the Son of God” by Jacques Ellul, French theologian and professor of law. (Published by Wipf and Stock.) Ellul’s ...
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