Intimacy without obedience is promiscuous and pathetic. As it turns out, authority and obedience are erotic necessities. But you can’t have either without a covenant — and covenant vows, of necessity, obligate the husband to take responsibility and require the wife to render honor and obedience. This is why the common practice of removing “to …
7 Reasons Your Taxes Will Go Up
Or rather, 7 reasons your taxes will go up if you let them . . . 1. The first reason is that politicians say they won’t, and politicians need to lie about things like this. The most recent instance of this was Obama’s promise that if you make under 250K your taxes will go up …
Holy Spirit Markets Are Kind of Like CostCo
So let us begin this brief economic primer with these inspirational words from Dave Barry: “The question is: What can we, as citizens, do to reform our tax system? As you know, under our three-branch system of government, the tax laws are created by Satan. But he works through the Congress, so that’s where we …
A New Perspective on (Ron) Paul
One of the great problems that is created by abdication by political leaders is that it unleashes forces it cannot control. When this starts to happen, the leaders (who have been grossly irresponsible) start lecturing the forces they have created on their duty to “be responsible.” That is, as they say, the icing on the …
Tax Cheats
When considering the subject of our duty to pay taxes, the Bible seems plain enough. But let’s consider the difference a few italics can make. “For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God’s ministers, attending continually upon this very thing. Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is …
Legalized Plunder
Here it is, in a nutshell. The state is either under authority or it is not. If the state is not under authority, it has no authority — only power. That means that prudence might dictate doing what they say, but conscience never could. So the only way conscience can direct the citizenry to obey …
A Cute Little Thing With Brown Eyes Named D516808
There are three basic approaches to religion that are possible. We may opt for escape, we may lust for power, or we may exercise dominion. HT: Gary North The first doesn’t want Christ to rule over us, but wants to evade the personal consequences of this decision. When Christ is not acknowledged as Lord, somebody …
Without Property Rights There Are No Human Rights
One of the complaints made against King George III in our Declaration of Independence was this one: “He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.” Multitude of new offices. Swarms of officers. Harassment from the government. Eating out our substance. …
Meum and Tuum
So let’s come at this from another angle. We are talking about whether goverments can steal, and once that seemingly obvious point is settled, at what point their taking becomes pillage. And the brief answer is that it become indefensible when they can’t defend what they are doing from the Word of God. In City …
More on Government Thievery
The discussion about what constitutes governmental theft is most important — because an awful lot of it is going on these days, and an awful lot of Christians do not appear to have the principles straight on how to identify it. The Scriptures are clear — qualification to rule must include a hatred of covetousness. …