Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.
1 Peter 2:17
Is it a matter of the heart? Is it a matter of the words we speak in public or private? 
In the United States, does it apply to the President? The Congress? The Supreme Court? The Constitution?

Are these statements true?
The government has a moral obligation to help the poorest and neediest members of our society.
Education is a fundamental (unalienable) civil right of every individual.
It is immoral for bank presidents to be making millions of dollars while the country as a whole suffers because of bad banking practices.

The gentle sound of raindrops hitting the thirsty ground woke me the other morning. This is normally a welcomed sound in our parched corner of South Carolina., but we’ve had two drenching rains in the two weeks since my husband, David, and I moved into our dream bungalow, and all this rain has been a [...]

A friend of mine wrote this recently. We have been talking about original sin, specifically the question of whether or not all humans are guilty because of Adam’s sin. Here are some interesting insights from my friend…
The doctrine of Federal Headship states that God holds people responsible for the actions of others who represent them. [...]

I came upon a blog this morning called Christian Skepticism, also a group on Facebook.   I questioned their motto:   “We are incredulous and skeptical of any truth claim that does not originate from or is not glorifying to the Trinitarian God (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) or detracts from Holy Scripture.”
Isn’t this motto a [...]

There is no conceivable reason why man should have rebelled against God.

“What is the gospel?” I asked her.

“Jesus died for our sins,” she responded.

“What does that mean?”

“Uhhh… I’m not sure.”

The incarnation of Christ is the turning point of human history. God himself enters the arena of humanity and earns the title “Emmanuel” – God with us. Although most evangelical Christians would agree with the statement that Jesus was both fully man and fully God, there is disagreement over exactly how the two natures were [...]

Last night as I was doing some reading for my course on ancient numismatics in the peaceful ambiance of Sydney’s Darling Harbour, I came across a bit of information that immediately aroused my curiosity—namely, that the deification of Roman emperors was typologically communicated on Imperial coinage by means of a star over the emperor’s head. [...]

Alexander Solzhenitsyn
at Harvard Class Day Afternoon Exercises,
Thursday, June 8, 1978