He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord holds them in derision. Then he will speak to them in his wrath and terrify them in his fury, saying, “As for me, I have set my King on Zion, my holy hill.” > — Psalm 2:4–6 (ESV) Imagine you and some friends sitting together after…
Freedom. It’s the word that ends arguments. Not because it settles them — because both sides want it. The left invokes it. The right invokes it. The person who can’t explain what they mean by it invokes it the loudest. Nobody argues against freedom. The concept is designed to be irresistible. In the United States…
We naturally tend to assume that the ancient world is separated from us by an impenetrable barrier of historical distance and cultural difference. When we look back on ancient people, or even medieval people, the logical conclusion is, “They are nothing like us.” We are confident to assume that, lacking the modern advances in science,…
Psalm 2 packs a lot of punch in twelve short verses. It was written approximately three thousand years ago, but its relevance is immediate. If you read it slowly, with one eye on your phone and one eye on the text, you will have a hard time convincing yourself it wasn’t written last week. As…
Clickbait. Gotta love it. Clickbait works because it is a form of irresistible manipulation. Those who use it just know that people are unable to say no to some forms of temptation. Let’s take a look at a few examples out of the hundreds plaguing the Internet. “Most people have only been to four of…