Samson's Jawbone

Samson's Jawbone: THE GROWING PANDEMIC OF FOOT-IN-MOUTH DISEASE, Spe... : One Sunday morning, as I was taking notes on my pastor's sermon, someone passed a small folded slip of paper down the pew to me. It ...

It would appear to many, especially the political pundits, that Donald Trump may very well be the Republican Candidate for President of the United States of America. And the Internet gives all of us plenty of opportunity to like or endorse or reject or hate the man. In doing any of the above, I suggest that Conservative Christians have the hardest job in many years of deciding which of the above options we should pursue. Is God calling Conservative Christians to refuse to vote for Trump? Can Conservative Christians endorse Donald Trump and look God in the eyes at Judgement? And can Conservative Christians support or vote for a man with the moral and spiritual failures that Trump clearly carries with him? And can Conservative Christians reject Trump's candidacy when knowing that action will result in less votes for Trump, when every vote for Trump cancels out a vote for Hilary Clinton. In other words, withholding a vote for Trump will almost assure four more years ...

I began Samson's Jawbone with the intention of helping Christian understand how to live "as a light in a post Christian era." We live in an increasingly secular world and are confronted daily with situations that challenge our Christian beliefs. It is becoming increasingly difficult to know the right thing to do. Persecution of Christian is increasing around the world and in the US the boundaries on our religious expression are becoming tighter. I started Samson's Jawbone in an attempt to help Christian understand a biblical world-view, and since all spiritual truth has moral outcomes and all moral or ethical questions are lived out in the public arena, JAWBONE unapologetically speak to social and political issues. Yes the blog reveals my biases, that is, I am convinced that a Christian world view is a conservative world view. Conservatives and Christian believe in responsible liberty, The gospel gives people freedom to make their own choices, but holds them  accou...

Samson's Jawbone: Hope Fell From the Sky in August 1945 : And so he began: Seventy-one years ago, on a bright cloudless morning, death fell from the sky and the world was changed. A flash of ligh...

And so he began: Seventy-one years ago, on a bright cloudless morning, death fell from the sky and the world was changed. A flash of light and a wall of fire destroyed a city and demonstrated that mankind possessed the means to destroy itself. The death that fell from the sky on that "bright cloudless morning" laid a new foundation for peace and restored order. The War with it's 60 million dead had demonstrated man's capacity  to destroy itself. The bomb prevented civilization's self-destruction. The bomb prevented civilization's self-destruction. Why do we come to this place, to Hiroshima? We come to ponder a terrible force unleashed in a not-so-distant past. We come to mourn the dead, including over 100,000 Japanese men, women and children, thousands of Koreans, a dozen Americans held prisoner. The force unleashed that killed so many was unleashed long before the fateful day.  After many envoys had gone from China pursuing peace, Japan invaded...