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https://warhistory.org/@msw/article/mercenaries-in-the-age-of-the-crusades Mercenary armies. Acceptable in the days of the Crusaders. Acceptable today? Would your church hire a mercenary army? Would you be okay with it if it did? Would Jesus and the apostles have approved of hiring mercenaries?

“You will never please everybody. If you please God always, and your wife usually, be content.” - C.H. Spurgeon

From my X / Twitter “For you” feed - “Many believers think their daily Bible reading does little because they forget what they read by afternoon. But the Word of God does not work only through memory. It works through formation. Line by line, day after day, the Scriptures begin to reshape...

“Pacifism rarely gets taken seriously due to a widespread cultural bias: ‘everybody knows‘ that pacifism is hopelessly naive and idealistic. Meanwhile, war is accepted as normal, practical and realistic. Meanwhile, war is accepted as normal, practical and realistic. And although pacifists such...

“The Church is completely Jewish in its origins.” - Grant R. Castleberry

A friend doesn’t bear false witness against a friend and not make amends for it. I would very much like for us to be friends but what you have done stands in the way of that happening. You have the ability and the opportunity to change that. It is my hope that you will choose to do so but that’s...

I’ve stated and restated my position for your benefit on numerous times and in various ways, going to great lengths to try to make it clear to you. You haven’t understood me and that has caused you to bear false witness against me. You’ve been influenced by @Wrangler egging you on. I told you...

Will you now compound your sin and publicly accuse of being an idolator @Armour of God?

Bearing false witness against me is your sin. You’ve accused an elder, slandered him, gossiped about him, and failed to obey the instruction of the Messiah and the apostle. I offered you an easy out and you declined it. I already have. You still haven’t answered mine.