Posts Tagged ‘perfect law of liberty’

[E]xamine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good; abstain from every form of evil. (1 Thessalonians 5:21-22) President Trump, America’s King Cyrus? In Part 2, I began a biblical examination of President Trump’s inaugural speech. For everyone who looks to Yahweh1 as their sovereign and thus His Word as their authority, I cannot […]

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to […]

Now while Paul waited … at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry…. Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other[s], He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he […]

 [T]he law is ignored and justice is never upheld. For the wicked surround the righteous; therefore, justice comes out perverted. (Habakkuk 1:4) November 19, 2013, was the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. The speech has become iconic. On June 1, 1865, Senator Charles Sumner described the Gettysburg Address as a “monumental act” […]