Moral Science Club

  Satan’s Frightening Rise Many people who are religious and many who are not have said that they feel Satan is rising in recent years. For the purpose of clarity I want to focus on a select number of areas that are most obvious because they follow a family resemblance of the devil detailed in the Bible; Satan's fingerprints in today's headlines. If you don’t believe in the Bible or Satan, I still feel that you will find the following thought experiments very provocative. First, Satan has always been on the move but he always surprises us. The world asked itself, “How could a developed nation like 1930s Germany have fallen for the sham of fascism?” You may have seen that horrid clip of well-dressed, obviously upper-crust Germans, watching emotionless as naked Jewish men, women, and children were herded into a box truck and moments later watched as a thick tube was attached to the rear of the truck to pump a poisonous gas into it. The group of men looked on as if they were watch...

 Wittgenstein said that the goal of philosophy is "to show the fly the way out of the fly bottle" (Philosophical Investigations, article 309). And, while Wittgenstein is slowly showing us the way to Jesus, I'll cut to the chase and proclaim the truth that Jesus is the way out of the fly bottle. That's right, Jesus said, "I am the Way (out of the fly bottle), the Truth, and the Life." 20 years ago today, I cried out to God, accusing Him of doing a bad job. He gave me a vision that night and woke me up early that morning to meet Him. The Holy Spirit glowed above my bed, embracing me spiritually and sensationally. This experience turned on the fulcrum of the vision, what infinite loss - and gain - it was that the Son of God died for my sins. You see, the bottle that I lived in was my body apart from Christ, my flesh that contaminates my thinking, breeding resentments, perversions, and unhealthy desires. Jesus shatters that with His death on the Cross and brings...

There has always been a strong political divide in the United States dating back to the very beginning of our Republic. The founders came up with a brilliant way to disqualify British rule called the Declaration of Independence. In it they declared that rights came from God, not the crown, not from government. Since the crown had long usurped those rights, it was no longer relevant and British rule was abolished, creating the United States of America, a unique country in history because it was created by philosophy, not by conquest. But not everyone agreed with the way the Republic was established. The institution of slavery was deeply entrenched in the South. Slavery was in direct violation of the Declaration of Independence, doing exactly what the Declaration expressly forbid. Slavery was akin to what the British had done; usurp the God-given rights of men and women. The party that came to the defense of slavery became known as the Democratic party, strongly defined after the presi...

 This was my 2021 Mother's Day Poem to Mom.   She taught me to stand up From dodge ball to baseball to unfairness to business. With tears I see her fade But I know she taught me, and here I stand, in principle, born again, and standing firm in the power of the Word. With tears I see her fade, But I know the lion she was, and is and always shall be. She taught me to stand up, to sing praises to the Lord, who is our only good, To bring Heaven to this lowly earth, To disrupt realities with forgiveness and acts of unrequited love. She taught me to stand up, when all the world would sit down. She taught me to stand up. She taught me how to conquer all. She is my all, and always will be my all; my first all.

We like to say that Christ is the way, the truth, and the life, but often we do not cede our reasoning to him. Paul writes that we have the mind of Christ and often Christians do not use that mind God has made available to them through His Word and His Spirit.<br /> <div> While we have made the decision to follow Jesus, the old self is not going to give up too easily. We confess Jesus Christ as our Savior yet continue to reason as we did before. I am including myself in this critique. We have become absolutely convinced that God has spoken His love into our hearts, giving us access to the mind of Christ and to the guidance of the Holy Spirit. While salvation is a wonderful thing, it is only the beginning. We cannot grow in faith if Jesus is not the Lord of our reasoning.</div> <div> And, to be clear, by the Lord of our reasoning I will give an example; you have a decision to make between what you and your self-interest is telling you but it clashes with what...

ARE YOU RUINED? THOUGHTS FROM ISAIAH 6   Note: Bible Study Fellowship is inaugurating their comprehensive, 30-week Bible study of the Prophet Isaiah.  Go to  http://bsfinternational.org/  to find a study near you.   Isaiah 6   Isaiah's Commission    1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted, and the train of his robe filled the temple. 2 Above him were seraphs, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. 3 And they were calling to one another:    "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty;    the whole earth is full of his glory."    4 At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke.      5 "Woe to me!" I cried. "I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have s...

THE MESSIANIC FINGERPRINTS OF JESSUS CHRIST PART ONE   The deeper one digs in the Old Testament the  more clear  the revelation of the coming Messiah Jesus becomes. The Bronze Snake that The Lord asks Moses to craft is one of those clear Messianic illustrations that Jesus Himself  referrs  to in John 3:14-15. But there's another tricky aspect of the bronze snake; the Second Commandment forbids the carving of any graven image. Is God asking Moses to violate His own Commandment? It would seem to the skeptic that God's contradicting Himself, so let's take a closer look at the Commandment.       Exodus 20:4-6. "You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on earth below. You shall not bow down to worship them for I, The Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sins of the father to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me but showing love to a thousand generations ...