“The Preacher is Insignificant”

The apostle Paul is perhaps the best known among all the disciples of Christ. That likelihood is owed to the fact that it was Paul who carried the gospel “to the ends of the earth.” It was Paul who was responsible for the conversion of countless thousands of gentiles throughout the Roman world, the city-state which at the time was the dominant power in the ancient world. Yet, we have scant knowledge of Paul outside the New Testament.

The Lesson of Charlie Kirk

 

As most of you will likely be aware of by now, Charlie Kirk, a firebrand conservative commentator, was gunned down at the campus of a Utah college yesterday as of this writing. Mr. Kirk was famous for engaging college students on campuses all around the nation with his conservative message and made no secret of his faith in Christ and the fact that, ultimately, that faith and the message of the cross is what matters and what will make a difference in our society.

Whose Rights?

The other day on Capitol Hill, senator Tim Kaine was interrogating a witness during a recent Senate Foreign Committee hearing. During the question-and-answer session, Riley Barnes, whom President Trump has nominated to be assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor, said that human rights are divine rights. In other words, the rights that we all agree every human possesses come, not from the government or any other earthly entity, but from the Creator.