As we go back in time from Mary and Joseph not being direct royal office holders, back 500 years over the full interlude they knew about as their history, and we can see what led to the end of the direct royal Messianic line we looked at yesterday. As existed in Israel before Judah, there […]
So what happened to the royal line if Mary and Joseph weren’t royalty for Jesus to inherit? Why the 500-year-plus silence? As the author of RevelationLogic.com called it in conversation to me, there was “a curse upon the royal line.” “Surely not!,” you say. “After all, David was promised a throne that would last forever.” […]
Joy to the world! The Lord is come. Let Earth receive her King! But wait. Mary was no princess turned queen mother and Joseph was no king. Unlike nearly every king before Him, Jesus did not have birth parents who were office-holding royalty and who died leaving behind their office to their offspring in direct […]
Time is of little consequence to God. He stands outside of it. A day is like a thousand years and a thousand years no different than a day. But it is noteworthy that He uses the flow of time in our lives to allow for both action and interlude. Why would He do that for […]
Lord God, we come before You ashamed of our conduct. We have set aside Your truth and followed after lies. We have rejected You as our source of truth, indeed the Way, the Truth, and the Life and instead made culture our compass. We have failed to heed Your voice declaring “This is the way; […]
Lord God, we repent of disregarding the elderly and violating Your command to honor our father and mother. We repent because of what it means on the human scale to devalue the wisdom and sacrifice of prior generations, and also as a reflection of disregard for You as our Father, and Jesus’ sacrifice which was […]
Lord, we repent of devaluing life. We have selfishly looked to our own interests and have ignored the humanity and Image-bearing of others—a treasure to be guarded for our fellow man. We’ve turned our backs on children…those in the womb, as if their lives were throwaways because we didn’t want them. We failed to love […]
Lord, we remember Your actions in the creation of the United States of America. How You gave us founding fathers who inscribed their uncommon wisdom into our Constitution, wisdom You gave to keep people in our nation free from tyranny. You preserved us through the Revolutionary War at the cost of countless lives because those […]
Some people claim to want justice. From God and man. Justice from man I can understand because we’re all supposed to be equal under the law. It doesn’t feel that way and I’ll get to that in a moment. There comes a time in the life of a nation when we have been complacent, sat […]
Cling to hope in the Good News that God gives us. One attribute of God that I find most encouraging is that God is omnipresent. He’s always there. Doesn’t always feel like it, but He is. Scripture says, “Psalm 139:1 You have searched me, LORD, and you know me. 2 You know when I sit […]
