by Immanuel | Sep 15, 2024 | Immanuel Beacon
As a child I used to watch a cartoon called Underdog. He was the most unlikely of superheroes, a beagle. He had the speed of thunder and other superhero powers. America loves underdogs, probably because our country was an underdog from the beginning. Other underdogs...
by Immanuel | Sep 9, 2024 | Immanuel Beacon
Where, in the Constitution, do we find the following words “a wall of separation between church and state”? Let me save you some time. We don’t. Those words are not in the Constitution or in the Bill of Rights. That phrase was penned by Thomas Jefferson in a letter he...
by Immanuel | Sep 2, 2024 | Immanuel Beacon
In his letter to the Christ followers in Rome Paul urges everyone to love without hypocrisy, with sincerity and not pretend. That creates a conundrum. The first obstacle: Define love. The English Oxford dictionary defines love as “an intense feeling of deep...
by Immanuel | Aug 26, 2024 | Immanuel Beacon
In the late 1900’s (that just doesn’t sound right) high blood pressure was tagged “The Silent Killer” because its’ deadly work was unseen and unheard until it was too late. There is a “Silent Killer” to the vitality of our spiritual lives. This silent killer… Quenches...
by Immanuel | Aug 19, 2024 | Immanuel Beacon
Paul, the author of almost half of the New Testament, talks about liberty and justification. We are justified (made right with God, just if I’d never sinned) through Jesus. Because of Jesus’s work on the cross we now have freedom and liberty from the bondage of Old...
