IndyWatchmanIntroduction Freedom is an exciting concept but greatly misunderstood by today’s Christians. Twenty-four Hundred years have greatly submerged the truth beneath multiple layers of misguided human commentary and wild imaginations. The Bible is a mysterious Book and can easily be misunderstood, given the fact that man is a fallen creature having a mixture of both […]
“Vengeance is mine saith the Lord, I will repay.” Yet very many Christians across this land disagree with God and buy up guns and ammunition, enlist in the military, and belong to police forces. This response to God is rebellion and unbelief. They rip the reins of power and authority from the hands of […]
The weed is a wild, untamed thing,With no redeemable worth,Growing in forgotten places,On the fringes of the earth.Your form is unconventional,And your colors unrefined,But there’s a weird attraction,To your risky, course design.You bloom where there is no notice,In the cracks and in the dust,Promoting sin’s defiance,And the power of this world’s trust.While you secretly seek […]
In my quest for truth over the years I have frequented various Churches and associated with those of different belief systems. I have gradually gravitated towards the Anabaptists because of their sacred history and persecution. I suppose that I fell more in love with their history than I have with the present-day Anabaptists who appear […]
from Milton’s Paradise Lost “Nor more; but fled Murmuring, and with him fled the shades of night.” Close at mine ear one call’d me forth to walkWith gentle voice, I thought it thine; it said,Why sleepst thou Eve? now is the pleasant time,The cool, the silent, save where silence yieldsTo the night-warbling Bird, that now awakeTunes sweetest his love-labor’d song; now reignesFull Orb’d the Moon, and […]
It is very common for Christians to believe that God accepts them because of their righteousness of works and good deeds. Consequently, new Christians are taught or led to believe that they “must” do good deeds to be accepted by God, but is this correct? God accepts us despite our inability to satisfy His righteous […]
Christian Freedom, A Pretext? What is a pretext? A pretext is an accepted reason (a lie or trick) given to justify a course of action that is not the real reason. Freedom, as commonly defined by both the Church and the world, is, by definition, not freedom at all, but rather a pretext. As many […]