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IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . So the war in Iran has been going on for a little over a month now, and enough of it has unfolded that I am now being asked on the regular what I think of the big picture....There is an additional factor in all of this in bello discussion. Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of War, worships as part of our church...

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . One of the ways to test whether truth is a person’s absolute, as opposed to whether his tribal loyalty is, would be by seeing whether he ever acknowledges that his political opponent, the one who is against his tribe, has ever made a fair point. Or is he wrong about absolutely everything? This is how our...

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . AI is a very slick search engine. You need to be careful with this one though. When you use google to search, it gives you a column of links, and the clear implication is that you need to evaluate the claims made on your own. “These are places that talk about your question, and now you are on your own.” B...

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . If you are anything like me, you may have wondered from time to time about the precise nature of the argument between Job and his three friends. Everyone in the book speaks a lot about the greatness of God, but in all the back-and-forth, what was the nub of the issue exactly?... His three friends thought...

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . So here is what happened—in case you are not up to speed. My friend Brooks Potteiger was on a podcast with Joshua Haymes and the topic of James Talarico, a death angel from Texas, came up. Now to be fair, he doesn’t look like a death angel. As one meme put it, he looks like a walking embodiment of that CO...

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . We have already had suicides of young people guided to it by chatbots. We already have had a pastor setting up chatbot hot line, with the semblance of his voice, so that parishioners can call and get comfort and counsel from something that is no more than a souped-up answering machine. As things currently...

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . To be frank, this entire interview occurred in the middle of a rather intense fever dream, which is probably the only reason it went as well as it did. For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/  

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . So I want you to follow me closely here. A hypothetical Protestant republic, centuries from now, would be . . . chock full of Protestants. That would be the ethos of the whole place. Gaming it all out is how you test the principles of the various systems. What would still be there, and what would be long...

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . Now with this literalist hermeneutic, it was natural that dispensationalists would interpret the many passages in the Old Testament that prophesied a glorious future for Israel as being about the literal nation of physical Israel (“literal unless absurd”)...And so this is one of the central reasons why ev...

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . The theology of a slut walk, however, by its outrageous embrace of slutty dress, behavior, and thought, absolutely and definitively rejects any level of moral responsibility for anything. Now lest I be misunderstood at this point — which I understand has happened before! — let me hasten to add that I am n...

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . In the biblical worldview, the seed of the woman is justified and the seed of the serpent is not....When you read about some incident, or see some appalling footage on the tube, and you immediately start thinking in terms of approved and justified groups—congratulations, you’ve just been ejected from ever...

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . Let us begin with the death penalty. Because we refuse to execute the dangerous people who really should be executed, we wind up having to protect the general population by locking them up, and this has drifted into the practice of locking everybody up. This creates a huge apparatus of injustice. For more...

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . So it appears that events in the Middle East have, once again, overtooken us. The United States and Israel have launched a joint operation to topple the Iranian regime, and to date have successfully killed the Ayatollah and a number of other regime leaders. From a military standpoint, the early returns al...

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/  

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . So let us talk about all of this some more, shall we? It is quite apparent that we really need to. Can you believe it? Can you believe we still need to? For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/  

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . Jesse Jackson died yesterday, at the age of 84. He was hailed at his passing for being a civil rights icon, but this brings up a delicate issue. Jackson has now gone to meet his Maker, but the definition of “rights” that he fought so hard to establish——and in many ways successfully—was a truly destructive...

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . The Resurrection of Christ was not a standalone resurrection; it was a harbinger resurrection; it was a portent resurrection, a down-payment resurrection. Out of all of the people who are going to be raised from the grave, that is to say, all of us. Jesus Christ was the very first one For more from Doug,...

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/  

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . I grew up in a musical home, sort of. Neither of my parents played any instruments, but music was quite important to them. This came out primarily in their love of hymns and gospel songs. They also had what was in those days called a HiFI, and the playing of records was common—gospel, hymns, Gilbert &...

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/  

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/  

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/  

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/  

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/  

IT'S HERE! Pre-Order the 4th installment of the Ashtown Burial Series at ashtownburials.com . For more from Doug, subscribe to Canon+: https://canonplus.com/