Pastor's Pen

Let's blow our minds on God’s Foreknowledge: When we read in 1 Peter 1:1-2 that believers are “elect…according to the foreknowledge of God,” we might wonder how God’s choosing and our free choices fit together. Quantum mechanics offers a mind-bending analogy to challenge our simplistic views. Imagine every object in the universe having a “wave function,” a kind of blueprint describing its state. W...

Weaponized Empathy and Compassion: A Biblical Christian PerspectiveWe live in a world increasingly shaped by emotion.  I often see well-meaning and “good” people go sideways in what they stand for and I can’t help but think what a brilliant deception it is to weaponize empathy and compassion.  Especially amongst my “tribe”. However, Christians are called to discern the difference between genuine c...

Do Moral Rules Really Protect Us? What History Says About Sex, Culture, and CollapseI read this fascinating paper based on a massive book written back in the 1930s.  An Oxford anthropologist named J.D. Unwin studied 86 different civilizations and asked a simple but profound question: Does sexual freedom affect how cultures rise and fall? His book Sex and Culture is over 600 pages, but his findings...

Picture this: God sets a divine calendar with seven spectacular feasts, each a dazzling rehearsal for His grand redemptive story. In fact, these “appointed times” literally mean “dress rehearsals”. So, in a sense, in a premillennial dispensational view, these Feasts of the Lord (Leviticus 23) are like cosmic Post-it notes, reminding us of His perfect plan.Imagine the Feasts of the Lord as a divine...