Mark Horne

YouTube – END THE FED song by sleuth.

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Continuing my interaction with Boston, his second argument is as follows:
2. The nature of the covenant of works is most expressly in the New Testament brought in, propounded, and explained from the Mosaical dispensation. The commands of it from Exod. xx. by our [...]

Glorification Now? :: Desiring God.
I may be wrong, but it seems to me it would be excellent if the Reformed tradition (i.e the grammatical customs preserved by those who call themselves “Reformed”) reformed themselves to conform more closely to Pauline speech.
Right now, the term “sanctified” is only used for changes relating to sin.  I become [...]

when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you… know that your society is doomed.
Read it all at: Ayn Rand On What Dooms Societies | LILA RAJIVA: The Mind-Body Politic.

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Asked a PCA pastor friend when he became a Christian. He was raised in a relatively non-religious home and became more aware as a believer in Jesus later in life. But he was baptized as an infant and the first words from his mouth were, “Well I became a Christian when I was [...]

I finished this book awhile ago.  It was quite readable and appropriately brief.  Bach was a superior musician who knew he was superior and was usually at the mercy of people who didn’t know enough to appreciate him.  He didn’t always respond well to such circumstances, and when he was younger probably caused himself [...]

a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah. And his concubine was unfaithful to him, and she went away from him to her father’s house at Bethlehem in Judah, and was there some four months. Then her husband [...]

Looking at my archives, I want to sum up and apply some things I said here.
There was a Papal party in the Western Medieval church, in addition to the Papal office. The power and wealth of the papacy allowed the Popes to fund apologist/revisionists. But it was expensive (when you consider the Cathedrals they wanted [...]

The fundamental fact of reality is God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God could have decided not to make the world. He could have chosen to simply remain “alone.” But there is no possible world in which God does not exist as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. They are a [...]

The definition in the preface of Chrispin Sartwell’s Against the State seems surprisingly soft to me. “By anarchism I refer to the view that all forms of human association ought to be, as far as possible, voluntary.”  Wouldn’t any minarchist say the same?  Or even a social democrat?  I doubt this statement rules out [...]

OK, the rather lengthy title is there for a reason.
First an apology: I don’t mean to be sectarian.  Ideally the subject matter of these books should be grasped by every Christian, period.  But most of them are written to a certain audience and make certain assumptions about them.  So I’m trying to aim these books [...]

YouTube – Tim Hawkins – The Government Can.

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If anyone deserves to be likened to the Joker, it isn’t Obama.  It is these pseudo-right bloggers making apologies for the massive direct theft of the lower and middle classes into the pockets of millionaires and billionaires.  These apologist for Amerikan Korporate Fascism are the scourge on our nation.  Jonathan Swift wrote the same kind [...]

Evangelicals, if they are anywhere on the sliding scale of “the religious right,” believe in free market economics and that the government should provide for the national defense.  In some circles, part of the free market public policy is justified on the basis that the Bible never authorizes the state to take money from some [...]

YouTube – Tim Hawkins Delilah.

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Calvin’s Institutes (3.24.8): “there is a universal call, by which God, through the external preaching of the word, invites all men alike, even those for whom he designs the call to be a savor of death, and the ground of severer condemnation. Besides this there is a special call which, for the most part, [...]

Some time back in Norway’s history, a man of some rank named Harald asked a woman to marry him.  She said no.  Harald swore he would not wash his hair again until he had become king of all Norway.  And he succeeded, which is why he became known as King Harald Fairhair.
As you might imagine, [...]

Thinking about David Frum’s plea for the Republican Party to embrace “Big Government Conservatism” can be understood from this angle. The more a government is limited the less it can do to bribe the powerful. If follows that, the more a candidate for office truly represents a limitation of state growth (let alone [...]

From a Hans-Hoppes lecture on the Lew Rockwell podcast:
Compare two scenarios:
Say you give someone a house and estate and tell the person that it is his now. He may use it how he wants and may sell it on the market if he wishes. He may pass it on to an heir.
Say you [...]

Listening to Hans-Hoppes talk about how kings and queens were above the law and thus considered a violation of equality before the law.
But if you read the Pentateuch, much of that possibility is made less obvious–though not entirely eliminated. For example, cursing a ruler and cursing one’s own parents had the same penalty. [...]