Obvious Truths Are Not To Be Scorned
“People have gone from knowing basic, simple truths, to saying such simple truths are evil and oppressive.”
Matthew Littlefield
Reverend Matthew Littlefield is the pastor of New Beith Baptist Church. He is an ordained Minister in the Baptist Union of Queensland. Matthew has a Masters in Theology.
What Else Does The Bible Say About Alliances?
“A righteous nation looks to God and a foolish nation, to alliances.”
How Could God Kill His Own Son?
“Jesus was not some helpless human being sired by some Zeus-like deity in a nubile human beauty and killed in some petty ritual.”
The Church Is to Blame for the Destructive Extent of the Mandates
“Instead of being at the front of this issue, having roundly condemned evil from the start, the Church sat on its haunches and cuddled up to the world, submitted itself to the mandates, stayed quiet about their injustice, and in some instances even enforced them in their spheres of influence.”
Why Only White People Can Be Racist
“The progressives quite fittingly have dusted off the original usage of the word racism and applied it to western peoples today to suppress their desire to defend their nationalities.”
What Does The Bible Say About Alliances?
“We are at ease like fattened calves enjoying the ride on the trailer to the slaughterhouse.”
How to View the War in Ukraine?
“This war is not a border crisis between a major power and minor power. It is a war between a regional power and the global aggressive empire, with the minor power caught in the middle.”
Three Biblical Pillars of Non-interventionism: Borders and Alliances (Part II)
“Nations have every right to defend themselves or to attack neighbours who are provoking them in dangerous ways. But not to simply extend their power over another nation, or rule another nation.”
Three Biblical Pillars of Non-interventionism: Sovereignty of Nations (Part I)
“There is a reason so many conservatives, libertarians, and right-wingers loved Trump’s anti-intervention election rhetoric because we had all seen how much of a disaster foreign wars could be. However, some people think we just went about it wrong, and should still try to intervene.”
War Is a Racket
“During war, the con man is given his best possible market: a populace that frowns upon critical thinking, along with governments and media that together stoke up hatred for the enemy and a spirit of ‘Let’s just do something,’ because nothing is worse than not doing something, so doing something becomes doing anything, and certain businesses just happen to be able to find a way to monetize those somethings and anythings.”
Defending Conscience: How Baptists Reminded the Church to Defy Tyranny
“But though we expected criticism, what we did not expect was how few in the more prominent roles of Baptist Church leadership around the country were willing to speak out against tyranny.”
Ukraine, Russia, and Jesus: Should We Intervene in Foreign Wars?
“You may immediately think: what relevance does the ministry of Jesus have to this whole situation with Ukraine? If you are a Christian, then let me tell you, this is precisely the problem with how we engage in world affairs as Christians.”
What Does the Bible Say About Conspiracy?
“This natural inclination to trust even clearly flawed and dishonest authority makes a lot of people who have genuine concerns and who are genuinely skeptical of aspects of the narrative loath to publicly question it.”
No Time to Die: A Review and a Lesson for Our Day
“We tell each other lies about the fight for free will and independence, but we don’t really want that. We want to be told how to live. And then die when we are not looking.”
The Gospel Has Many Political Implications for a Nation
A generation that refuses to apply the political implications of the Gospel to their society will be a generation that quickly watches their nation return to its pagan roots. It’s not a coincidence that we are seeing this happen in our day, because many people have forgotten just how the Gospel affected change in the West.
Forgotten Covenant: A Review
“Indeed, there is a caricature view among Christian that law is bad, and the gospel is good. But this is neither biblical nor helpful.”
Was Feminism A Christian Idea? Part B
“When people say that the culture of the day, and by that I mean the era of the Scriptures, which granted is a very large window, did not empower women, they are certainly correct in some contexts, and definitely wrong in others.”
Was Feminism A Christian Idea?
“…social justice is a redefinition of justice. Justice needs no qualifier, only application.”
There Were Empires That Were Based On Slavery, But They Were Not European Colonial Powers
“To say that the West only got as powerful as it did because of slavery, is also wrong, because other empires were engaged in slavery, many to a much higher level and yet the West outstripped them.”
Environmentalism Is Bad For the Environment
The ideal environment for man and animal was not in a jungle, not in a forest, not in a wilderness, but in a garden.