Human Government – Page 4 – A Thimble-full of Theology for Daily Living

Are You the ONE: Daily Thoughts from 1 Samuel (1 Samuel 9)

Neo was the one. Sorry, for those of you who are not aware of the movie trilogy Matrix, robots have taken over the world and are using humans as batteries to power their robotic selves. The humans are

Inviting Despotism: Daily Thoughts from 1 Samuel (1 Samuel 8:10-22)

The greatest fear the leaders of the newly successful American revolution was that their country would be susceptible to a kingship of its own. They took great pains to establish a government with a relatively

Need versus Want: Daily Thoughts from 1 Samuel (1 Samuel 8:1-9)

My grandkids have learned a pretty neat trick. When they want something they tell me they need it. What self-respecting grandparent is going to deny a grandchild something they need? What do we really

New Testament Local Church Government

Writing to one of his team members the apostle Paul instructed, “Appoint elders in every community” (Titus 1:5). As Paul and Barnabas were returning to the towns where they had planted churches

Daily Thoughts from Acts: God Our Refuge (Acts 23:12-35)

When it was day, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. There were more than forty who made this conspiracy. They went to the chief priests

Daily Thoughts from Acts: Religious Freedom (Acts 21:27-40)

When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, seeing him in the temple, stirred up the whole crowd and laid hands on him, crying out, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who is teaching

Daily Thoughts from Acts: Truth to Power (Acts 7:1-53)

And the high priest said, “Are these things so?” And Stephen said: “Brothers and fathers, hear me. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

Daily Thoughts from Acts: Joy Despite Persecution (Acts 5:12-42)

But the high priest rose up, and all who were with him (that is, the party of the Sadducees), and filled with jealousy they arrested the apostles and put them in the public prison. But during the night

Daily Thoughts from Romans – Human Government and Christians (13:1-7)

Daily Thoughts from Romans – Human Government and Christians Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted

Daily Thoughts from Micah: The Day of Our Watchmen (7:1-7)

Daily Thoughts from Micah: The Day of Our Watchmen Woe is me! For I have become as when the summer fruit has been gathered, as when the grapes have been gleaned: there is no cluster to eat, no first-ripe

Daily Thoughts from Exodus: Justice for All (23:1-9)

The poor deserve justice just like everyone else and those who pervert it will face God’s wrath.

Daily Thoughts from Exodus: Taking Law into Our Own Hands (21:12-32)

We see, then, the justification for jurisprudence, the consideration of motives and guilt, as means of making sure that the law is applied correctly and justice is done in a society.

Daily Thoughts from Exodus: Sixth Command (20:13)

The sixth commandment is not properly translated, “You shall not kill.” Killing is not prohibited in every form by God, but only certain forms of killing are prohibited.

Daily Thoughts from Exodus: Third Command (20:7)

“Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?” Is the third commandment a prohibition against such an oath?

Daily Thoughts from Exodus: Complaining (15:22-27)

Thus begins an ongoing pattern of relationship between Moses and the people of trial and subsequent complaining.

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