I don’t care much about the Chinese “spy” balloon gliding silently through the upper atmosphere over the United States. But I’m clearly in the minority.
While creating or maintaining a “Christian nation” sounds good on paper, it’s a project doomed to fail.
This goes to show how quickly war turns people into rabid collectivists. Suddenly “Russians” become the bad guys (and gals). All of them.
Statism and nationalism are the problems, not the cure. Instead of building an empire (whether in America or the Middle-East), we should be dismantling the empire.
A video going around Facebook shows a grieving widow reaching out to touch a flag-draped coffin as it comes off an aircraft. As the gut-wrenching…
The FBC Dallas pastor got one thing right. Christians need to quit saying the Pledge. If you claim citizenship in the Kingdom of God, why would you pledge fidelity to an earthly kingdom?
About those flags…why is the American flag on top?
Staring through a nationalistic lens leads to a warped theology of the Kingdom of God. God’s nation isn’t the United States, or Germany or any other earthly realm. God’s nation is his church.
We’re all citizens of another kingdom which is fundamentally at odds with other kingdoms seeking to rule the world, or part of it. We are outposts of heaven living as strangers and foreigners among the nations. And we need to be reminded of that identity every single day.
