Pastor's Blog

We would not be far from the mark to say that the primal sin that lies at the root of all sin, is that self-will which refuses to be content with limitations on our (supposed) freedom. Jude tells us of certain angels "who did not stay within their own position of authority" and suffered the consequences of their overreaching (Jude 6). This was also the sin of Adam and Eve. They were not content to be subordinate to God, even though they were created in his image and were placed at the head of his creation. They just had to have more. They had to be "like" (equal to) God. They had to know good and evil for themselves, rather than let God define their moral world for them. This mother of all sins carries over into marriage. One of the principle temptations women must resist is a desire to rule over their husbands, contrary to the created order (Gen. 3:16). Consider Korah. He had high privileges as a Levite, but not content with these, he coveted the priesthood also (...

I've just finished reading a very interesting, and a very troubling book: Who Killed the Constitution : The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. Bush , by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. and Kevin R. C. Gutzman. Many Americans worry that the Constitution is dying. Leading the chorus are those critics, mostly on the Right, who decry activist judges for rendering the Constitution more and more irrelevant with their twisted decisions, which substitute their political preferences for the nation's highest law. In recent years other voices, mostly from the Left, have joined in, deploring President George W. Bush and his administration's supposedly unprecedented attacks on the Constitution. We have bad news for both sets of critics: the Constitution is already dead. It died a long time ago. (From the introduction) The authors go on to examine "the dirty dozen," twelve of the most eggregious examples of the federal government's disregard of constitutional auth...