A while back I watched a short but insightful video featuring Dr. Carl Ellis at Reformed Theological Seminary. At first, when he stated, “All theology is contextual; all theology is historically and culturally determined,” I thought he was saying all theology was subjective. But that is not the case. The point he makes is that…
Category: Liberty
The Problem with Big Government
I recently spoke to the Brazos Valley Republican Club about the problem with Big Government. We focused on the problems with Texas’ budget, property taxes, and electric grid. While there are a lot of problems in Texas that Christians and conservatives need to deal with, such as election integrity, Democrat chairs in the Texas House,…
Yahweh Miśrâh: Christ, the Lord of Politics
A proposal being debated in my church and denomination (the Presbyterian Church in America) would insert language into our Book of Church Order (BCO) that says, “Men who describe themselves as homosexual, even those who describe themselves as homosexual and claim to practice celibacy by refraining from homosexual conduct, are disqualified from holding office.” A…
Protestant Resistance Theory
Romans 13 tells us to “be subject to the governing authorities.” Yet the leaders of the Protestant Reformation, from Luther and Calvin to Knox, Rutherford, Junius Brutus, and others, had a problem: the rulers they were supposed to be subject to were trying to, or actually did, murder them. To understand what the Bible taught…
The Christian Foundations of Government: A Bibliography
I teach a high school class on government and economics at a classical Christian school. Below is the list of books and original sources that I have used to prepare for and teach the class. Not everything on the list has a Christian perspective, but even those that do not can, when viewed from a…
Will Trump Be Indicted? Why Christians Should Care
When you go out to war against your enemies, and see horses and chariots and an army larger than your own, you shall not be afraid of them, for the LORD your God is with you. – Deuteronomy 20:1 Christians’ ability to speak and live out the Word of God is under assault from the…
Thinking Economically
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). As we learn at the very beginning of Scripture, God is the Creator of everything. As such, He is also the owner of everything. Which means we have to follow God’s rules about how to use His property. The good news is that…
God & Government: A Discussion of the Theology of the State
I recently took part in a discussion with a Lutheran pastor and a reformed Baptist pastor about Christian engagement with the culture. Click below to watch. You can also listen to the podcast here.
Liberty Requires Rights Exercised in Free Markets
The free market is waning in today’s uber-regulatory world. The government tells us what we must inject into our bodies to get a job, what products we can–or must–sell, what people we must serve–or reject, the wages we must pay–and receive, the price at which we can buy and sell products, and more. Capitalism, which…
Being Conservative is No Longer Enough
We don’t need to spend time calling Americans back to conservatism; we need to call them to faith in Jesus. The modern conservative movement came to life in the 1950s around William F. Buckley, Jr. and National Review. Thirty years later Ronald Reagan and the Heritage Foundation brought it into the mainstream. When Newt Gingrich…