Muscular Christianity

Your relationship with Christ is more than a Divine Emergency Kit. In this episode, Bruce Gust begins unpacking several ideas that point to how we are here to make a difference and not just an appearance beginning with "It's All Good!"

David didn't just sing, Paul didn't just write, and Jesus didn't just pray. The stood up and they spoke out. To remain silent in the face of evil is not an act of obedience as much as it's an act of cowardice and it's important to understand the difference.

Our national template is based on a Divine Absolute which implies a moral standard. That ultimately translates to personal responsibility and a paradigm where you are gauged according to your character and your choices. But to the individual who recoils at the thought of having to answer to something or Someone greater than themselves, all of the benefits associated with an approach to government based on the idea that our rights are guaranteed by God and not dispensed by a human collective, are dismissed in favor of a manufactured reality where there are no Standards, only situations.

Our national template is based on a Divine Absolute which implies a moral standard. That ultimately translates to personal responsibility and a paradigm where you are gauged according to your character and your choices. But to the individual who recoils at the thought of having to answer to something or Someone greater than themselves, all of the benefits associated with an approach to government based on the idea that our rights are guaranteed by God and not dispensed by a human collective, are dismissed in favor of a manufactured reality where there are no Standards, only situations.

Psalm 14:1 defines a fool as someone who says there is no God. What do you suppose that kind of perspective looks like when it shows up in a court of law? What is really being said by a witness when they're asked to raise their hand and swear to, "...tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God?" If there is no absolute apart from themselves, what they're really saying is, "I'll tell you what I want, how I feel, and I don't care if it's right because it's all about me."

Psalm 14:1 defines a fool as someone who says there is no God. What do you suppose that kind of perspective looks like when it shows up in a court of law? What is really being said by a witness when they're asked to raise their hand and swear to, "...tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God?" If there is no absolute apart from themselves, what they're really saying is, "I'll tell you what I want, how I feel, and I don't care if it's right because it's all about me."

Every government that has ever been conceived by man is based on a theological premise of some kind in that it structures its approach to legislation according to the way it defines a human being.

Dismantle one of the more commonly used strategies used by people who don't have something to say as much as they've got something to hide by asking the right questions.

Every government that has ever been conceived by man is based on a theological premise of some kind in that it structures its approach to legislation according to the way it defines a human being.

Every government that has ever been conceived by man is based on a theological premise of some kind in that it structures its approach to legislation according to the way it defines a human being.