The Warrior Priest Podcast

The tarantulas, of course, would have it otherwise. “What justice means to us is precisely that the world be filled with the storms of our revenge”—thus they speak to each other. “We shall wreak vengeance and abuse on all whose equals we are not”—thus do the tarantula-hearts vow. “And ‘will to equality’ shall henceforth be the name for virtue; and against all that has power we want to raise our clamor!” You preachers of equality, the tyrannomania of impotence clamors thus out of you for equality: your most secret ambitions to be tyrants thus shroud themselves in words of virtue.  Aggrieved conceit, repressed envy—perhaps the conceit and envy of your fathers—erupt from you as a flame and as the frenzy of revenge. Friedrich Nietzsche: On The Tarantulas On The Tarantulas: http://www.michaelhoskinson.com/nietzsche-on-the-tarantulas/

"[My father] believed that he was accountable before God, not before people. It didn't matter to him when other people didn't understand why the did the things he did. He acted in the sight of God. And you know, the Bible gave him strength because it is full of stories of the prophets and others going beyond the border of what was comprehensible or understandable to people, for the sake of obeying the Lord." - Marketa Benda

The apostle Paul writes that the goal of the Christian life is: “That by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.” That's your goal. That’s your Christian life. The resurrection of the dead, BY ANY MEANS POSSIBLE. Might that include taking certain earthly risks? Of course! Might that include giving up on temporary things so that you might be raised bodily from the dead? Of course!

Marriage and family offers three gifts that are urgently needed for believers struggling within a totalitarian order. The first is the fruitful fellowship of love... the second gift is freedom... the third gift is the dignity of the individual within family fellowship.

But, for now, we hear the Lamb’s voice in His Word: “Take, and eat. Take, and drink.” He is here. He’s brought all of heaven with Him. All the angels and archangels, and all the company of heaven. Here, in the Lord's Supper, is our heaven on earth. That’s because Jesus gives us access by his blood to Himself and to the Father who sits on the throne.

It is up to us today to take up the challenge, to live not by lies and to speak the truth that defeats evil. How do we do this in a society built on lies? By accepting a life outside the mainstream, courageously defending the truth, and being willing to endure the consequences. These challenges are daunting, but we are blessed with examples from saints who've gone before. Vaclav Havel, The Power of the Powerless: https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/wp-content/uploads/1979/01/the-power-of-the-powerless.pdf

Jesus is the true reformer, and the work of the Holy Spirit and God’s Word of forgiveness is the true Reformation, and like the Reformation of the 16th century, the work of Christ is not only a spiritual, but also a social, economic, cultural, scientific and political reformation.

We have to throw away this crippling nostalgia for the future, especially the habit we Americans, a naturally optimistic people, have of assuming that everything will ultimately work out for the best.

God's Word tells us that because we refuse to admit the truth, that we're all insane, that each of our worlds doesn't match God's reality, that our worlds don't match the reality of God and us revealed by Jesus, the truth about reality is a mystery to us.

Everybody says that they have no choice but to conform... and to accept powerlessness. But that is a lie that gives all the other lies their malign force. The ordinary man may not be able to overturn the kingdom of lies, but he can at least say that he is not going to be its loyal subject. https://www.amazon.com/Live-Not-Lies-Christian-Dissidents/dp/0593087399